I design 3D terrain for tabletop gaming. Been 3 weeks and I’m impressed with Bambu. Not only the quality is mind blowing, the normal speed of the printing…..I design a decently sized piece of terrain and while it’s printing, I design the next one. When I’m done…the printer is done lol. I had to wait 17hrs for the print…this thing prints the equivalent part for 3 and a half hours.
I was a Creality guy too back in the day, I kept seeing all these rave reviews of this new guy Bambu and would have sworn it was hype. Who could design a brand new printer and hit it out of the park first printer? Well last Christmas I bought one and wow, how wrong I was and so amazing how far we have come so quickly.
Thank you for this 1 year review. Very helpful in discerning which business assets to invest in! Starting up a print farm using mostly p1p's as well. I continue to view these videos you put out related to your usage of printers for your business.
Nice to see you finally pop up with a new video. I think it's been quite a while. You were the reason I got my S1 Pro, and when you got your Bambu's I used that as an excuse to get a X1C last year as well. Couldn't he happier with it. A few struggles here and there but it has been awesome!!
Get an A1 mini to start! I have both and the mini handles 90% of what I print. Didn’t think I could be blown away after owning a x1c - longer than this guy… But I am! As a matter of fact, get FOUR minis instead of one x1c. 😅😆😉
Great to see a video of you again. And it looks like you are in a very good spot. Would love to see one of your business/life "reviews" again. I found them always very insightful and inspiring.
We have also 8 units in our factory and they are indeed fantastic machines. You just have to be careful when needing strong parts to slow down the printing speed to a reasonable level. The enclosure does help prevent warpage and also make parts a bit stronger than open frame printers.
Just waiting to receive my P1S with AMS im so anxious, been going back and forth for the past month trying to decide between P1S and X1C and finally figured out that the X1C is not worth the extra money at this time, if i need more exotic materials i'll just upgrade the extruder and hotend down the road :) keep it up!
Got my P1S with AMS back in September and it now has 550 print hours on it. The print quality and speed is incredible! This is as close to plug and play as you can get with a 3D printer. I call it my Star Trek "Replicator". I design a part, slice it, send it off to the printer and after a spell I have my finished part. One thing to keep an eye on is when it extrudes the poop. Sometimes the wiper doesn't knock the poop from the nozzle. Usually on the first print as things inside are cooler than after running a few prints. No big deal though. I just pull the pooped filament off of the nozzle before it starts the nozzle cleaning cycle and let it run. A small issue really. Not sure if others have this issue but I thought I'd mention it. Also, if you're running big prints with PLA that take time, keep the door open to let the heat out. PLA doesn't print well when the enclosure gets heated up. Found that out the hard way after running a 4.5 hour job only to find the print ruined after 3 hours of printing.
Was new to 3D Printing ten months ago and the P1P has been amazing. Literally zero learning curve with very little maintenance other than 'cold creep' due to shutting the machine off too soon. Been printing mainly PLA and TPU for kids at the school where I work. LOL: Toys4Cans - It's been a blast.
I've been very leery about the Bambu Labs machines and really appreciate this video. The print volume is a tad small for my needs and I was hoping to see more upgrade paths for these. For example, I like that Wham Bam offers a bed for them. I have been wondering if Slice or other vendors would offer enhanced hot ends for these. My friends have these and overall, they really like them but they find doing work on them to be a bit challenging. At work I manage a fleet of Ultimaker S5's and those are very solid, yet not as fast (they came out in 2018). At home I have a print farm of 22 machines, mostly bed slingers with newer electronics, Slice hot ends and Bondtech extruders.
Ive been a hobbyist for a few years now, Im moving from a nearly decade old Anet A8 (with massive upgrades) to an a1 mini, Im very excited to see how it does!
You will love the A1 Mini! Exciting machine, and the best I have ever owned. Never fails, it just works. Don't think this thing ain't fast because its a bed slinger, boy does it go! :) Just got the AMS for mine, and it's even better now. Thinking of getting another. Parts are dirt cheap also.
@@scaramonga I admittedly was a bit nervous because I saw it was a bed slinger, but after seeing a few reviews, wow. So excited! As well as the recent sale, its almost the same price as a crap ender 3.
@@casualcombine One bit of advice, if I may buddy, grab the HS hot end for it, in fact, grab a couple, as they are cheap as chips, and run with that permanently, no matter what filament ;) Quality is supreme from this nozzle. SS one is fine also, but when you get the chance, swap it. Always good to have spares anyway, but go for the HS variant.
Would you be interested in making a video about how you dial in print settings for PETG? I've been having trouble finding a good profile for MatterHackers PETG, usually I decide if I'd rather get good bed adhesion at the higher bed temp or have supports that can be removed without destroying the part. I'm pretty sure I have the old style textured plate though, maybe an upgrade would let me print at slightly lower temps for better quality. Also, glad to see you made it through the rough patch you were dealing with when you were last posting videos!
Thanks for the update Joe. We've just acquired 8 P1P's and I was wondering, if you could share your thoughts on how you manage to sync and organize files across the different Bambu's? It's a pain in the ass, as the SD cards do not have a folder structure.
that settles it for me. i've been fixing to buy another 3d printer and was gonna go with prusa but started hearing more and more about bambu lab and been leaning more and more towards them and how seeing this video i've made my decision to go with bambu lab.
Curious as to how many hours to have on your hardest used Bambu. It tells you in the device settings, I’m sitting at 2,200 hours this far and still on the same print head/nozzle, cutter and wiper..
can i ask, do you see an advantage in the X1C over the P1P for your printed parts? or do you use the X1C for more specific prints that the P1Ps cannot do (like different filaments or something)?
The printed between the two are identical. I'd say the X1C's prints are about 2-5% nicer. Maybe that's just because it's temperature controlled. I'd personally just buy the enclosed P1S instead.
My only concern is the closed ecosystem. As I am prepping for my first printer purchase, I want something reliable, and fast, and every review/overview I've seen of the P1P/S and X1 have been glowing, with the exception of one reviewer who I think just got that one in a thousand dud. But the closed nature and reliance on Bambu Cloud kind of bugs me. I know they have a dedicated Lan mode, but I just feel like that closed nature of the machine is going to be a problem in the future. I keep going back and forth between getting a P1S or a Creality K1C. As the K1C just Runs Klipper and affords so much more freedom, But QC issues and the silicone brush that's essentially glued to its build plate kind of bugs me.
Funny I was thinking about the same thing the other day; not being a CZcamsr. I think I just use CZcams for my own sanity. Being alone in my shop is weird sometimes.
lets be honest (1st subbing 😁) mk3 Prusa's are over priced!!! But they do give you gummy bears to help soften the blow! (it's needed!!) there are simply to many printers that out perform it at much lower cost today!!! Prusa really needs to step up their game because most are loyalist using it or people that bite of past reputation (they are simple offering out dated machines..) my first machine was a Tevo Tornado 2018 sp-edition (CR-10 clone on steroids) honestly I still have never used it and have been buying upgrades Printing up Grades, yeah its weird its my little first printer treasure I never use but modify. over and over again, yes it's weird, I treat no other machine the same way just printed cable chains or some linear rail mods, at least I use them lol (maybe one day lol) sorry whats the point ahh yes, I don't even have the money to by a Bambulab Printer yet even though I have been watching them before they even went on Kickstarter.. proudly I plan on getting an A1 within a month or two because at least I will finally have a Bambu in my Farm! lol I took to long to get more BIQU BX now they jumped back up to 5-hondo 😬😬😬😬 an A1 is a hondo cheaper!!!!! any ways always wanted a Bambu Printer just was never at my budget is it worth it absolutely buuuut their is one problem I can Print up to 420 and my every day driver is 320! 256 is very limiting!! they need to start making larger machines Niche or not!!!
My x1c got 3000h printtime and now it starts to fuck up everything. Multicolor prints is a lucky game most time it stops because Problems with ams etc.
At about 3000 hours 10% of the machines have the belts break. 10% more fail for each 300 hours you run them forward beyond 3000 hours. Enclosed machines are more prone to belts breaking because of the elevated temperatures. Haven't seen many P1P belts go unless the machine is enclosed. Not expensive to fix. The belts are cheap, but it takes a couple of hours to disassemble the covers, toolhead and tensioners. Some of the belt ends are difficult to free from the toolhead. So in a farm it is better to turn the machines over at 3000 hours and buy again.
Running on LAN mode,. my P1P liked to occasionally drop off the radar and not talk to Orcaslicer. Nothing like being ready to print, and suddenly you cannot. And you spend 20 minutes trying to get comms back. I think it is an intentional bug to get you to put it on the cloud. Just like them disabling the camera when you use LAN mode. I just sold mine at a discount to a buddy and bought a Q1 for the heated chamber and to not deal with the totally closed ecosystem. I have other printers, but I wanted the P1P to be my utility printer. It failed because I do not want the cloud.
So I am thinking about buying the p1p over the p1s because I only need to print PLA. Or can the p1s have the enclosure taken off easy for that ? Also, does the p1p operate ok just on LAN?
After my horrible time trying to get "support" to fix my still non working camera on my A1 followed by the still unshipped heat bed (recalled due to potential fire) due last month (and unanswered question on expected release still) bambulabs will never see another dime from me.
I would not have the same impressions as you 😉 First of all, the costumer service is inexistent they will not resolve your issues ( from my point of view) and they will break like others because is not built to last but better than others 🤔 second thing is that you will not find all the parts that you need ( ex: stepper motor for A1 that are running really hot). Ex: I have raised a issue since January and didn't have anything resolved, the hot bed issues that they have with the A1 ? - they don't really care about anymore ( doesn't matter if your home catches fire 😉). Not a very good impression about bamboo lab 🤔 .....
I'm pretty sure recalling the A1 and issuing refunds / vouchers to people who bought it shows that they care about the defect. I don't even own a Bambu printer and I'm saying this.
@@threedeeprince Sure…sd super convenient 😒 also if wifi is so safe why do they offer a printer with “enhanced” network security? There is a channel that was able to decrypt what they are sending to bambu and it’s creepy…basically everything
if you're working for the pentagon you'd use a stratasys or some other commercial 3D printer anyways. It's you're right to keep living your life like everyone's interested in your tinkercad million dollar ideas though.
I design 3D terrain for tabletop gaming. Been 3 weeks and I’m impressed with Bambu. Not only the quality is mind blowing, the normal speed of the printing…..I design a decently sized piece of terrain and while it’s printing, I design the next one. When I’m done…the printer is done lol. I had to wait 17hrs for the print…this thing prints the equivalent part for 3 and a half hours.
I was a Creality guy too back in the day, I kept seeing all these rave reviews of this new guy Bambu and would have sworn it was hype. Who could design a brand new printer and hit it out of the park first printer? Well last Christmas I bought one and wow, how wrong I was and so amazing how far we have come so quickly.
Thanks for the update Joe! Good to see things are going well for you.
Thank you for this 1 year review. Very helpful in discerning which business assets to invest in! Starting up a print farm using mostly p1p's as well. I continue to view these videos you put out related to your usage of printers for your business.
Nice to see you finally pop up with a new video. I think it's been quite a while. You were the reason I got my S1 Pro, and when you got your Bambu's I used that as an excuse to get a X1C last year as well. Couldn't he happier with it. A few struggles here and there but it has been awesome!!
Awesome, glad you're liking it!
Thanks for sharing, cool to hear from someone who has put lots of hours on their machines.
Thanks for this! Looking at getting my first printer and this is exactly the type of review I like to see before making a purchase.
Get an A1 mini to start! I have both and the mini handles 90% of what I print. Didn’t think I could be blown away after owning a x1c - longer than this guy… But I am! As a matter of fact, get FOUR minis instead of one x1c. 😅😆😉
Great to see a video of you again. And it looks like you are in a very good spot. Would love to see one of your business/life "reviews" again. I found them always very insightful and inspiring.
Nice video good to watch u again
I’m so excited for another video of yours!
That is good to hear as I have just bought a P1S. Love it.
Great review, thanks for the info!
We have also 8 units in our factory and they are indeed fantastic machines. You just have to be careful when needing strong parts to slow down the printing speed to a reasonable level. The enclosure does help prevent warpage and also make parts a bit stronger than open frame printers.
Just waiting to receive my P1S with AMS im so anxious, been going back and forth for the past month trying to decide between P1S and X1C and finally figured out that the X1C is not worth the extra money at this time, if i need more exotic materials i'll just upgrade the extruder and hotend down the road :) keep it up!
Agreed. If I were to purchase again, I'd just get the P1S instead of the X1C.
Got my P1S with AMS back in September and it now has 550 print hours on it. The print quality and speed is incredible! This is as close to plug and play as you can get with a 3D printer. I call it my Star Trek "Replicator". I design a part, slice it, send it off to the printer and after a spell I have my finished part. One thing to keep an eye on is when it extrudes the poop. Sometimes the wiper doesn't knock the poop from the nozzle. Usually on the first print as things inside are cooler than after running a few prints. No big deal though. I just pull the pooped filament off of the nozzle before it starts the nozzle cleaning cycle and let it run. A small issue really. Not sure if others have this issue but I thought I'd mention it. Also, if you're running big prints with PLA that take time, keep the door open to let the heat out. PLA doesn't print well when the enclosure gets heated up. Found that out the hard way after running a 4.5 hour job only to find the print ruined after 3 hours of printing.
Its an easy, inexpesnsive upgrade...love my p1s
Was new to 3D Printing ten months ago and the P1P has been amazing. Literally zero learning curve with very little maintenance other than 'cold creep' due to shutting the machine off too soon. Been printing mainly PLA and TPU for kids at the school where I work. LOL: Toys4Cans - It's been a blast.
I've been very leery about the Bambu Labs machines and really appreciate this video. The print volume is a tad small for my needs and I was hoping to see more upgrade paths for these. For example, I like that Wham Bam offers a bed for them. I have been wondering if Slice or other vendors would offer enhanced hot ends for these. My friends have these and overall, they really like them but they find doing work on them to be a bit challenging. At work I manage a fleet of Ultimaker S5's and those are very solid, yet not as fast (they came out in 2018). At home I have a print farm of 22 machines, mostly bed slingers with newer electronics, Slice hot ends and Bondtech extruders.
This is exactly the kind of review that is worth its weight in gold. Thank you
Ive been a hobbyist for a few years now, Im moving from a nearly decade old Anet A8 (with massive upgrades) to an a1 mini, Im very excited to see how it does!
You will love the A1 Mini! Exciting machine, and the best I have ever owned. Never fails, it just works. Don't think this thing ain't fast because its a bed slinger, boy does it go! :) Just got the AMS for mine, and it's even better now. Thinking of getting another. Parts are dirt cheap also.
@@scaramonga I admittedly was a bit nervous because I saw it was a bed slinger, but after seeing a few reviews, wow. So excited! As well as the recent sale, its almost the same price as a crap ender 3.
@@casualcombine One bit of advice, if I may buddy, grab the HS hot end for it, in fact, grab a couple, as they are cheap as chips, and run with that permanently, no matter what filament ;) Quality is supreme from this nozzle. SS one is fine also, but when you get the chance, swap it. Always good to have spares anyway, but go for the HS variant.
Thanks for your thoughts. Are you aware of a bigger one coming out from them, or just hoping they do?
I’ve been on the fence about this and the Makerspace got one. I’m gonna get one.
thank you. Val
Would you be interested in making a video about how you dial in print settings for PETG? I've been having trouble finding a good profile for MatterHackers PETG, usually I decide if I'd rather get good bed adhesion at the higher bed temp or have supports that can be removed without destroying the part. I'm pretty sure I have the old style textured plate though, maybe an upgrade would let me print at slightly lower temps for better quality.
Also, glad to see you made it through the rough patch you were dealing with when you were last posting videos!
Guess who's back...Martinson's back...
Thanks for the update Joe. We've just acquired 8 P1P's and I was wondering, if you could share your thoughts on how you manage to sync and organize files across the different Bambu's? It's a pain in the ass, as the SD cards do not have a folder structure.
Thanks, very useful information. Do you use the X-1 for printing harder materials?
that settles it for me. i've been fixing to buy another 3d printer and was gonna go with prusa but started hearing more and more about bambu lab and been leaning more and more towards them and how seeing this video i've made my decision to go with bambu lab.
Alright fine, pulling the trigger 😂
Appreciate you!
Curious as to how many hours to have on your hardest used Bambu. It tells you in the device settings, I’m sitting at 2,200 hours this far and still on the same print head/nozzle, cutter and wiper..
What filaments are you mainly using for your prints? Both the material and brand would be interesting.
Overture PETG
can i ask, do you see an advantage in the X1C over the P1P for your printed parts? or do you use the X1C for more specific prints that the P1Ps cannot do (like different filaments or something)?
The printed between the two are identical. I'd say the X1C's prints are about 2-5% nicer. Maybe that's just because it's temperature controlled. I'd personally just buy the enclosed P1S instead.
Still runnin strong on my x1c, be sure to get your Kungpaoshizi Nozzle Wiper, you will thank my sleepless nights :P
Did you get 11 P1P printers or the X1-C? I am looking at the P1P.
11 P1P's, as he mentioned.
also there is the magneto X now on the market
I am curious if you would get A1s or P1Ss!
P1S
My only concern is the closed ecosystem. As I am prepping for my first printer purchase, I want something reliable, and fast, and every review/overview I've seen of the P1P/S and X1 have been glowing, with the exception of one reviewer who I think just got that one in a thousand dud. But the closed nature and reliance on Bambu Cloud kind of bugs me. I know they have a dedicated Lan mode, but I just feel like that closed nature of the machine is going to be a problem in the future. I keep going back and forth between getting a P1S or a Creality K1C. As the K1C just Runs Klipper and affords so much more freedom, But QC issues and the silicone brush that's essentially glued to its build plate kind of bugs me.
Funny I was thinking about the same thing the other day; not being a CZcamsr. I think I just use CZcams for my own sanity. Being alone in my shop is weird sometimes.
Would have been nice if you compared the P1P and the x1
I only printer PETG and I would day the X1C's prints are 2-5% better. They're basically identical though.
lets be honest (1st subbing 😁) mk3 Prusa's are over priced!!! But they do give you gummy bears to help soften the blow! (it's needed!!) there are simply to many printers that out perform it at much lower cost today!!! Prusa really needs to step up their game because most are loyalist using it or people that bite of past reputation (they are simple offering out dated machines..) my first machine was a Tevo Tornado 2018 sp-edition (CR-10 clone on steroids) honestly I still have never used it and have been buying upgrades Printing up Grades, yeah its weird its my little first printer treasure I never use but modify. over and over again, yes it's weird, I treat no other machine the same way just printed cable chains or some linear rail mods, at least I use them lol (maybe one day lol) sorry whats the point ahh yes, I don't even have the money to by a Bambulab Printer yet even though I have been watching them before they even went on Kickstarter.. proudly I plan on getting an A1 within a month or two because at least I will finally have a Bambu in my Farm! lol I took to long to get more BIQU BX now they jumped back up to 5-hondo 😬😬😬😬 an A1 is a hondo cheaper!!!!! any ways always wanted a Bambu Printer just was never at my budget is it worth it absolutely buuuut their is one problem I can Print up to 420 and my every day driver is 320! 256 is very limiting!! they need to start making larger machines Niche or not!!!
My x1c got 3000h printtime and now it starts to fuck up everything.
Multicolor prints is a lucky game most time it stops because Problems with ams etc.
The next printer that they can do it a p1p like enclosed printer with A1 print head+ that little touch screen 😉 would be nice and cost effective🤥
How many broken belts?
Never any belt issues with mine. 550 print hours so far.
At about 3000 hours 10% of the machines have the belts break. 10% more fail for each 300 hours you run them forward beyond 3000 hours. Enclosed machines are more prone to belts breaking because of the elevated temperatures. Haven't seen many P1P belts go unless the machine is enclosed. Not expensive to fix. The belts are cheap, but it takes a couple of hours to disassemble the covers, toolhead and tensioners. Some of the belt ends are difficult to free from the toolhead. So in a farm it is better to turn the machines over at 3000 hours and buy again.
Running on LAN mode,. my P1P liked to occasionally drop off the radar and not talk to Orcaslicer. Nothing like being ready to print, and suddenly you cannot. And you spend 20 minutes trying to get comms back. I think it is an intentional bug to get you to put it on the cloud. Just like them disabling the camera when you use LAN mode. I just sold mine at a discount to a buddy and bought a Q1 for the heated chamber and to not deal with the totally closed ecosystem. I have other printers, but I wanted the P1P to be my utility printer. It failed because I do not want the cloud.
So I am thinking about buying the p1p over the p1s because I only need to print PLA. Or can the p1s have the enclosure taken off easy for that ? Also, does the p1p operate ok just on LAN?
After my horrible time trying to get "support" to fix my still non working camera on my A1 followed by the still unshipped heat bed (recalled due to potential fire) due last month (and unanswered question on expected release still) bambulabs will never see another dime from me.
'promosm'
pro tip:
don't clear your throat out loud into the microphone
it makes the video unwatchable
I would not have the same impressions as you 😉
First of all, the costumer service is inexistent they will not resolve your issues ( from my point of view) and they will break like others because is not built to last but better than others 🤔 second thing is that you will not find all the parts that you need ( ex: stepper motor for A1 that are running really hot).
Ex: I have raised a issue since January and didn't have anything resolved, the hot bed issues that they have with the A1 ? - they don't really care about anymore ( doesn't matter if your home catches fire 😉).
Not a very good impression about bamboo lab 🤔 .....
I'm pretty sure recalling the A1 and issuing refunds / vouchers to people who bought it shows that they care about the defect. I don't even own a Bambu printer and I'm saying this.
They are cheap because they know everything you are printing
😑
You don’t have to use their cloud service. There’s an SD card on it and I believe you can send files over LAN
@@threedeeprince Sure…sd super convenient 😒 also if wifi is so safe why do they offer a printer with “enhanced” network security? There is a channel that was able to decrypt what they are sending to bambu and it’s creepy…basically everything
Well my dude, not everything is perfect. Do you want convenience or security?
if you're working for the pentagon you'd use a stratasys or some other commercial 3D printer anyways. It's you're right to keep living your life like everyone's interested in your tinkercad million dollar ideas though.
$1200 bucks because you cannot Z offset...