@@97JoMiller this is a pre production model so the development team is always using it. They don’t need a print head cover so they leave it off. They also left desiccant packets in the spool. But there are compartments for desiccant in the unit itself.

I'm also hoping that the K2 will be as good as the K1C. Love this machine!

yes of course you can use the retract and extrude feature on the printer to change filament - thats no problem. The reason we choose this way is that the nozzle cools down after you retract and then you have to wait for it to heat up again to extrude....so it takes a little longer. That's all. How do you like your SE? I have two of them and I love them - very reliable for me.

@@kevin.3D I also didn't have any big problems and it prints PLA mostly great.. exept the last layer For some reason it seems that it over extrudes on top, but weird is that the bottom mostly is well made, but on small parts you can even see that first layer isn't so tightly put together beacuse you can see small spaces between layers

He was shocked at how fast it prints compared to his Ender 3 V3 SE. Karter is my cousin's son - I'm visiting in Canada now so we are doing some printing stuff. Pretty fun!

awesome

It's the first thing he said when we printed something - it's so fast!!!

@@kevin.3D He can print some faster now too!

kzfaq.infor_yUIB10PBY here is the video i made from the front of the machine on the same print.

You had better take her for a nice dinner and break the news to her. lol

ALL K LINE SERIES

eventually it will work with all K series printers as well as the Ender 3 V3 and Ender 3 V3 Plus

no heater in the filament storage. That is simply a temperature and humidity display but there is no heater. There is a chamber heater in the printer.

@@kevin.3D well that seems very misleading and perhaps intentionally misleading to pretend to have a feature that they do not. That makes me worry that they rushed this to market and it is junk. I already know their customer support is bad even their instructions to update firmware is incorrect and will result in a non-functioning machine. I’ve solved that and since learned how to do firmware install correctly, but this is very bad for Corey. The machine looks nice, but I now suspect that it was made to look nice and not made to work well

yes, it cuts the filament then retracts one color and loads the next color automatically. Then it cleans out the nozzle and resumes printing.

@@kevin.3D where is the cutter? Is it like a Bambu or does it have a independent cutter for the nozzle? And do you know how the K1 series will be compatible with this? I have a K1C and I'm exited to make it multi-color!

The K1C has a CAMERA and can print in CARBON fiber. So maybe that is what the C is for - I'm not sure.

it's possible to have them next to each other - no problem. I won't see the CFS now until September so I'll try to measure it when i see it next.

to be perfectly honest with you, I have never used any other printer except Creality. I don't compare printers since I work at Creality, I only use our machines all of the time. I am also new to 3d printing, been doing it for just one year and the Creality machines (especially the K series) and very beginner-friendly. There is no set-up required, almost completely ready to go out of the box. The K2Plus is our newest, greatest machine and the print size is the part that I am most excited about. Also, Creality makes their machines open-source so if you are interested in the software side, this is a huge advantage.

@@kevin.3D thx for your Feedback, it' s too bad I didn' t hear about the K2 earlier, having 50/ 40% off would have been big factor in my choice, but at least I guess 20% is better than nothing :)

@@frenchmaxbuy a bambulab dude

the x1c is currently cheaper. dont hold your breath in terms of reliability. i bought the k1 max at launch and got a broken machine which they refused to fix. they then quietly made the fixes in their newer models after acting like we were crazy for talking about the bent bed, vfa issues ect ect

@@xDarthwarzx nah the x1c is 1500 € with the AMS, unfortunatly I already pre ordered, since I am one of the later ones, I hope if there is any Bug they gona have fixed them until then, or at least have learney from the mistakes on the K1 K1c and K1Max

I have never looked at the prices of Bambu, but I would like to see an animation of the K2plus eating a A1 mini - I wonder how many of those we could fit inside this one lol.

if u buy a k1c or k1 max now 2024 model they are pretty good. they were dog dodo at the start though

i like the K1C - it was never doodoo!! Yeah the K1 and K1Max needed an extruder upgrade - that sucked. But I agree, the new machines are nothing like the old ones - the new Ender 3 V3 is really good too.

@@kevin.3D no. Yhe orginal . machines needed a new gantry, new bed, and new lvling sensor.

I ended up with an x1c. I got so fed up one day with failures that I abandoned my ender3. I haven’t even turned it on since the x1c arrived. On the x1c I had 3 print failures in about a hundred prints. All 3 failures were from bed adhesion. 1 of the failures was detected by the camera as a spaghetti failure. I had some massive prints, filament runout, ams, no issues anywhere. No bed leveling, no feeding, no nozzle failures, no clogged hot ends, or extruder issues… its all solved on bambu.

They are available on store.creality.com and the price depends on the country you are in.

there is no fan built into the shroud on the K2 so it serves no function other than looks. These videos are made with a pre-production machine at the Creality head office. The machine is run by the team that developed the K2plus so they don't care what it looks like - they want to make sure it works perfectly before we ship them in October. So they almost never have the cover on.

We can only hope 🤞

That's why I'm saying. This printer checks every single box for me, except it says "Creality" on it and I've been burned 3 times now. I've got the K1 Max and the VFA is unreal, not to mention the horrible hotend design, the fact that they fixed the hotend design well after I bought mine for over $1,000 and don't even offer an upgrade kit but ship all the new machines with it. God Creality is just brutal.

That's still from the same pre-prod printer, I think. The real test for the printer is going to be after reviewers get theirs in the next couple of weeks. THEY will most likely be testing more use cases (i.e. non-PLA, engineering/composite materials, flexibles, tall prints, filter/ventilation performance, etc.) Hopefully there will be time to incorporate a little bit of feedback before the production units are shipped....if it's small tweaks. 🤞

I have some pictures of k2 plus prints that are taller than 10cm and the layer lines and shifts are horrendous

@@nurelarab Care to share a link?

they don't exist

@@JayBomb999 the link keeps getting deleted, but check r/Creality_k2 on Reddit

what files do you use for the R2D2? That's a print I would like to make also.

I’m using the MrBaddeley files. You can Google and find him. He has a lot of stuff for free, including full R2 etc. files, but with the basic Patreon subscription you get access to a lot more.

@@kevin.3D I'm using the MrBaddely files, I think most 3D printed ones use these as they are the best. You can get the full set of files for R2 etc. for free, but I've got the basic Patreon which gives you access to so much more, including mini versions and other droids, plus i beleive that the amount of effort gone into creating them for everone to use, deserves a bit of a financial reward.

@@MakinStuff I totally agree. I did a droid division pit droid and the $26 for the files was so worth it. They make a lot of effort to get everything just right. So easy to just print and assemble. The K2 plus will be even better!!

Let’s all hope not. Having the k1 series camera shut off for being too hot while printing certain filaments was annoying.

amazing - can't wait to see what everyone makes with these!

no, it does not have to be on top. We always keep one on top because we are moving it onto carts and taking it to other rooms - that's really the only reason.

we are all thinking it! lol

@@kirtandrews1859 search online for tinkercad...it is a free online 3d design software that you can use to create your own designs. It's very beginner friendly. Have you considered resin printing for making your moulds? It is something you may want to look at since the detail in the finished print is much better.

@kevin.3D Thank you so much . I shall google tinkercad now. I just need to get a foot in the door. Yes I've looked at resin but so much more money I just can't afford. Thank you anyhow

Better sell them now. They are going to DROP in value the more new machines come out. They already took a big hit when the Kobra 3 combo came out. Now that Bambus 1 trick Pony of multicolor printing is available everywhere People are getting smart

No problem 👍

yeah he is a pretty nice guy - we love him

what do you think of the size - excited?

something to do with nozzle pressure and building it up before resuming the print, I'm waiting for tool changers to come out too much wasted time and filament on these AMS systems. What people don't realize until after purchas is that a 5 hour single color print goes up to 20 hours for the same print in multicolor and you wast 1/2 the filament as well! Thats if the AMS works perfectly! Running an AMS quadruples your chances of having a print failure!

thanks!