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Thanks for sharing, you've done a decent review and mentioned all the weak spots of kobra 3, but to be honest, I wouldn't say that it's a bad product. I just recently got my Kobra 3 and it's a steal. At this price point I expect some amount of jank from a 3d printer, but so far it was way better than my previous kobra 2 pro. There are many things with their printers that require you to take a deep dive into servicing and setting up 3d printers, instead of just printing your stuff. For example, from watching your video, I think your printer could use either an x-axis gantry tramming or leveling the bed. Also, print speeds are mostly marketing wank, if you are not printing a high volume of commercial stuff, go with the slow/quiet mode. The prints will be way more consistent. Multicolor prints are notoriously wasteful, which is true for most of multicolor 3d printers, since purging the hot end every time costs a lot of filament. One undeniable major pain point is the software side of things. Anycubic slicers do the job, but they are very lacking in options. You can get better results if you set up stuff properly with orca, but then you are forced to go with USB drives. The whole anycubic cloud thing kinda sucks honestly. And that's where I hope to see some improvements over the next months.

I have this printer and guess i was one of the lucky ones and didnt have any of these issues. All prints, normal and multicolor came out great.

I did the early bird special. I started with setup and leveling and tried a test print that came on it. It doesnt adhese the first layers very well and if it makes it half way printing without slinging prints around, it does a major layer shift and drags the pringt around. I didnt get my camera and I havent been able to print since day 1 and now it just sits. Contacted Anycubic and nothing.

The Kobra 3 does have an auto leveling and claibration and now they have updated the firmware which I think re-levels it before every print. You can also turn off the purge tower and set the purge lower to stop a lot of waste , but it can cause colour bleeding

thank you friend! This is a good video. I think you were able to save many people from making an early purchase.

Thanks for the video. In my experience, the Kobra 3 is amazing! It's very fast and the prints are amazing! I didn't really adjust anything. Maybe I was lucky.

this is the exact vid I was looking for. I have a Bambu A1 mini, A1, and a P1S. Placed an order for the Kobra 3 combo because it looks nicer and is cheaper than the A1 combo, on July 1st. To this day, they still hasn't ship it. I just canceled the order and got a refund. Then placed an order for another A1 combo. I don't want to have to deal with a machine where I have to calibrate and adjust stuff to get good prints. The Bambu just makes good prints on its own.

I noticed on other reviews sample prints having extremely visible layer lines, as in auora tech channels... Terrible layer lines... Have you or anycubuc fixed this? Thanks for an honest review bro!

Could you please do a video on "dialing" or tuning this thing in? I can't find anything on how to.

try enabling z hop to prevent layershifting. it works on my kobra one. i hope it will work the same with the kobra 3

Man i got mine in the box and had for a week. I now need to get this thing things setup and make sure everything works. If not i might just send it back. thanks

I think those lvling problems and stuff happened in the beginning because your printhead wasnt properly put together and you put it all up and ran it thats why it wouldnt lvl and you had a volcano inside your nozzles printhead...and why agter you cleaned it out and retightened the print head youve had little problems perhaps..you almost had me man i ordered one yesterday and saw this today...but im glad your story helps us put everything together...at least for ourselves lol.. ty

i agree with the point about the slicer. i hope you can use the printer with the cura slicer im the future. otherwise i'm going to use the orca slicer too if it's easier this way

I didn’t get my filament or camera with mine

You mentioned the camera, prepare for more disappointment. I got mine, also shipped separately from the printer and filament. It's the lens, board and cable, you have to print the enclosure. It goes underneath the left side of the x-axis bar close to where the cable and filament tubes go through on the side. You'll see the circle and rectangular holes in the metal bar there, that's where it connects.

I hope they get it all sorted out quickly. I definitely don't want to be tied to their slicer for the multicolor. They have to make it compatible with other slicer if they want to sell them. Seems like the bwmbulab a1 is just way better for the money. The kobra3 resembles a lot like the kobra2pro hardware wise. If they can get their multicolor to work on other printers, than that's a big plus. Otherwise, bwmbulab a1 is better for the money.

I just like the p1s. I put it together, turned it on and it immediately printed something which looked pretty damn good. As you know it does all of its own bed, leveling and calibrations. That's too bad about this printer but then again this is cheap and this printer is also probably rushed to market.

its kind of unfortunate because i had i wonderful experiences with their consumer service very committed

A lot of people have recieved the printers with a slightly loose nozzle, that made a big difference for me!

Aurora Leung says it's faster, it's faster.

You mentioned that the Kobra 3 doesn't come with any sort of auto leveling or auto calibration. That is false, as it states it directly on the Anycubic website that it does. I'm racking my brain on which to buy and that piece of false information almost made my decision.

Aesthetics man it's for the 80% of people that are going to use the cloud and that way there's not dust in other objects that go in there. Regardless it's nice to see that someone is being somewhat critical but putting something together is actually better so you understand a little bit more about the machine. Instead of always having to contact support.. You're layer shifting has to do with your z-axis belt being way too loose. I mean it's a turn of it now it's not rocket science. Aurora tech put it together no problem had no issues so I don't understand because you did not like that you're to put together that you're going to pick at a company that literally is the reason why Bambu is cheaper now.. home the z axis. Along with a level calibration but usually it is not many people know to just home the z-axis. It seems like you just want your viewers to applaud you for putting it together properly. Also orca slicer exactly is bambu like all you have to do is transfer your bambu profile. And that is not true because you can use and fill flush within orca to eliminate waste. You also paid 415$ no shipping

now i'm worried, i've bought this printer because of your excitment on this product, and now you have this opinion... crap...

Someone who is having a belt tension problem and then consistently accuses Z offset shouldn't ever make any reviews. Ever. If you see other Kobra 3's printing properly and yours is printing very not proper, that is a you problem or you have a dud. This whole Bambu Blower Cult just makes me want to get out of 3D printing. You see the same issues with their products but never the shame, only hand waving. It's as if you have to pay in the thousands for a 3D printer in order to not feel inferior. Bambu has really made the space such an elitist wasteland.