A PERFECT 3D Printer for Beginners? Let's Find out | AnkerMake M5C Review
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I just got the M5C last weekend (it was on sale). I'm a total noob when it comes to 3d printing and thought it was super easy and really got me hooked to this new hobby. I'll eventually upgrade, but for now I'm very pleased with the quality of the prints and its ease of use. Also, drove me
to look for 3d printing channels like yours!
Thank you for breaking things down for us newbies. I really appreciate your high quality videos. I recently got a Bambu Lab P1S and it's like night and day from the Anycubic
Vyper I had. I've put three kilos of various filaments through it without a single failure.
Really do wholeheartedly appreciate it. My Girlfriend has wanted a 3d printer for a while and i've been looking for one that isn't going to break the bank because money is never always the best this time of year.
Appreciate the review!
Thanks for breaking it all down and making the features and drawbacks so clear. Sounds like it could be a really good option for some users. Doesn’t seem like the direction I want to go.
For the price, I am glad I went with the Neptune 4 max, printing a green ranger helmet and it turned out beautifully. Cant wait to do much bigger prints.
We got a ender 5 pro a few years back. Our first. I would say leveling the bed was such a hassle, adding a prob hassle, but prints came out fine, once we got the hang of that. These newer self-leveling bed seem nice and one we might go for. But we don't use it much so got to think about it. Nice review on this one.
It was actually the right printer for my situation. My power supply went on my aquila, it had all the upgrades I put on it including the fact I was using Octoprint to print from my cellphone. I already wasn't using the screen, haven't missed it.
Excellent review ... Thank you
I didn't listen to you about jumping too quickly. After watching your review of the K1 Max and the cyber deals Creality was offering.
Thanks for the inspiration. I am excited to share the start of my journey on my channel.
Been looking into getting a 3D printer recently, weighed up my options, was looking at the K1 as it's available where I'm from, plus it can fit into my budget, but not sure if I want to spend that money as yet cuz of the criticism it's been receiving compared to the K1 Max, which would be preferable for the scale of prints I'm planning on doing. Hope you get good mileage out of yours though, and would love to hear your thoughts on how good it is, and whether it's meeting your expectations and requirements
My personal opinion so take with a grain of salt but i feel the creality ender 3 v3 se is the best beginner printer, price point is perfect and it removes the hassle of dealing with the Z axis and needing to level the bed by eye or tricks. Ive put well over 500 hours onto my se and have done some fairly big prints (full 1/10 scale rc shells) and it has been phenomenal since day 1. No issues at all and being direct drive also is a plus.
I would be really curious to what changes you made to the slicing software to fix the print failure issues? I recently got one of these printers and can't get any prints working from that slicer but have zero issues using the app and some gcode files from something like cura slicer or even letting the app itself slice (although i stopped letting the app slice since you get very little control and they love to print with waaaaay to much/dense supports hahaha)
Thanks for putting content for us newbs. I bought an ender v2 a couple months back to print cosplay props and recently purchased a used ender max. Im loving 3d printing, just printed a mando helment and came out super clean. Question for you, is there some trick to get prints not to fail when using slik pla. my prints keep failing mid print, however regular pla prints look clean and do not fail. Any ideas?
Hey Frank.
Happy new years from Sydney. I have STL files that I want to print as part of a lightsaber, (the chassis for the electronics) would you recommend this or the Neptune 3 pro for that? I'm using Ubuntu and have cura slicer
I really don't get the "it has no screen" arguement I see from some people, I am a 3D printing noob but pretty much every label printer or regukar printer has bad screens that no one interacts with anyways, everything these days is done via app or desktop, and you always have your phone in hand, so it makes sense to me. I did just order this printer with Anker's brand new optional status screen for it, both on discount for under $380 shipped, so I can at least see what its doing. And I got a cheap wifi camera so I can monitor it away from home as well lol
It’s steps. It’s not knowing the exact status of the printer at a glance. I use all the screens on all of my printers. It tells you immediately what’s wrong. Paused? Jammed? Error. I don’t want to have to pull my phone out. Connect. Change printers and all that just so see why a printer is having an issue. It would be like having to use your phone to monitor the speed of your car. It’s just. Silly to have gotten rid of it.
What printer would you recommend for making helmets. Specifically Star Wars helmets.
Frank is back🎉
Do you have any thoughts about Kingroon 3d printers ?
Love the video! Quick question, although this is a good option for a first timer. What other printer would be better for a first timer?
Check the video I uploaded before this :)
White dino thunder helmet please
hey frank, i emailed you a couple days ago about a good 3d printer for beginners. this helps a little
Can you share your settings for the AnkerMake? PLA? PETG? etc. This would be extremley helpful. Thank you!
I just used the stock slicer profiles
What's the best largest 3d printer you'd recommend?
Good vid
i hate when company demands that reviewer should add something.
They should have communicated this better form the start...
Can you please tell me which is better?The elegoo Neptune 4/pro or this anckermake
Neptune 4
What are your thoughts on the Creality K1 Max?
Check my k1 max review video :)
Also The a1 mini is also a beginner
Do you make people helmets? And if so how much do you charge?
Editing Frank needs to look at the audio on his section.
Is this a cloud based APP printer?
the app works with bluetooth, i haven't miss having a screen on my printer
Thanks for the content! Can't you just use a USB drive and not send the file over WiFi?
Yes, but note it is a USB C connection. You can use the "play" button to print the newest file on the drive.
what is the point in not having a screen, who's great idea was this ...I guess after Anker watched your review of the M5C, were like OH, we need a screen we are looking stupid here, & contact you about adding a monitor to the printer LOL.. this 3d printer is sketchy as heck it sounds to me you have to be experience. this is not a beginner friendly 3d printer. the best option is the the Ender 3 or even better Bambu lab A1 Mini .... if you are a beginner that is what you need to buy not an M5C .....Also great video love your channel
What are your thoughts on the A1 mini?
Recently, I’ve been having a little bit of layer shifting at the top few layers of my print on the Anker. It just started happening recently and this is even with prince that I have been doing flawlessly before. I’m not sure what’s been happening, but any advice would be appreciated! An easy example would be the retractable swords. The blades are becoming uneven, which is making it so that they are biting into each other, way too early making the blade super short. It can’t be the slicer because I was again flawlessly doing them before, so it has to be something with the printer itself?
its most likley loose belts i would try tightening them up a little bit and i would check for wobble on the print head and print bed, if theres wobble youll need to tighten the eccentric nuts on the wheels.
There are prints for belt tensioning tools in the app too
@@KevinLagan do you know of any tutorials that I can begin troubleshooting with ?
@@aarondavis156 do you know of any tutorials that I can begin troubleshooting with ?
Hey Frank! Where’d you get that axe file?
It’s in the app
@@FranklyBuilt thanks, was hoping it was an independent file I could knock out on my Neptune 3 Plus
The A1 might change this..
Probably
Does the slicing program or the phone app have a pay wall or a subscription for using?
They do not. I'm a 3D printing novice and this thing is fantastic - including the app
Hi frank hope you have a great day
Bought this to replace my old and slow Creality 3 Ender Pro, however my Ankermake M5C 's head needed replacement after two weeks, its still at the retailers repairshop in order to await replacement parts (Two months later and still waiting :') )
I got about 10-12 hrs on it, divided into 5 prints.
Ankermake thought it was nozzle clog initially, after documenting my issue and sending them my receipt they denied me further help and support since I didn't buy it from them..
(Machine was bought in the beginning of December -23, somewhat wish it was a European manufacturer, would be better service in regards to warranty claims.)
What happened to Starboost???? He is short!
Anyways yeah……. this just seems a little too similar to the new ender 3 v3’s…………. now to understand who was the first one
I want one stand of 3D printer plz will you do I will give money
anker scares me, i feel like this is just the start of big tech commercializing 3d printers back into bits of plastic garbage
Seems pricey compared to ender 3..
I was thinking the same thing. $400 is not a beginner 3D printer.
the lack of the screen is a deal breaker. Don't buy
The regular m5 is way better, I own it, and the m5c is honestly over simplified, it makes it weird imo
I have an M5 also. I've been watching lots of video reviews on it and I decided to go ahead and get it. It will be here in two more days, so I'm excited to get it going. I would prefer having a screen, and I agree with Frank that it's dumb to remove it, but it's not keeping me from buying one, since I'm so used to using the app anyway. There are other people's videos I watched (a LOT) before watching this one and I'm convinced it will be all good. Now to get rid of my Ender 3...and decide what to do with the M5.
first comment
3rd*
Only if you like giving your data away to a company that has a known history of questionable data security and multiple breaches.
Non-viable product, imo. Purchasing one of these is saying you don't want to be secure.
Ender 3 > this 😂
The ender 3 v3 se is the best one, without even debating
@@Dakon-xc3thlook at the KE
Never tried it, as far as I did the se is the best ive ever used
@@dakonx7049 it is the SE with all linear rods. No rubber wheels at all. Acheieves much higher speeds.
I just bought my SE for 185 on amazon and it is fantastic but i wish i knew the KE version existed.
@@salroth420I’m really leaning to the KE myself, or the N4+ for the larger print bed.
Don't buy this printer is trash, i got mine and got a lot of problems with it
Like what? You could send it back. Most reviews I've seen are positive...except for the no-screen issue. For some people that little smidge of a size difference is an issue, but for most folks it wouldn't really be.
Sponsored by AnkerMake! I’ve got nothing against sponsored videos generally, but wish you would show some integrity and mention it at the start of your video. 👎
CZcams always displays a “Paid Promotion” tag when a video has an exchanging of goods or services. Many people misunderstand what “sponsored” means. Yes they sent me the printer to review and a subsequent payment. For a review video. Not a promotion or endorsement. Every word was my own. They had zero say in editing and talking points. And no authority over my own choices.
If it was a promotional video they would’ve had more control over the final product. I don’t upload videos I don’t agree with. But I understand the confusion.
Please don’t question my integrity when you yourself misunderstand the product and context.
@@FranklyBuilt why not take 15 seconds at the start of the video and clear up any confusion then about whether you were paid to make the video, whether you were sent the printer for free or not, whether the sponsor was able to see the video before being released on CZcams or has put any conditions on what you can say, etc?
It’s kind of standard practice for reviewers on CZcams these days, and to me it’s a big red flag if reviewers don’t disclose these conflicts of interest. Even if you say they had no direct influence over the review, I believe that money, free stuff, and early access can have an influence on people - and knowing about a reviewer’s relationship with a company helps me to evaluate whether a review is impartial or not.
@stevenqirkle because most people aren’t confused by that and I know for a fact it didn’t influence my video or decisions. It would be a waste of time. It’s a review video. I have a review of it. You same time the video to learn about the printer and I provided that. By adding extra stuff it only confuses people more who don’t understand the difference between a sponsorship, promotion or review. I’m not going to spent time on a product review video to explain the difference in approach, contracts, editing and revisions. That’s silly.
At the end of the day I did exactly what I set out to do. The negations and terms behind the scene are my business and I provided CZcams with the proper video descriptions to ensure the content meets proper guidelines. That’s it. Nothing was hidden or fabricated.
They paid me to host this review video on my channel. They did not pay me for a good review. A bad review. Anything beyond that. I wouldn’t have it on my channel if it was bias or a paid promotion in the manner of “only saying good things”
Simple as that. And you making it through the whole video with my pros and cons shouldn’t be swayed by me saying it was a sponsored review or not. I said everything I wanted and meant it all.
@@FranklyBuilt I watched three reviews of the M5C before yours, and they all disclosed that they were sponsored by AnkerMake. I was not “confused” by any of the disclaimers. Yours was the only video I needed to scroll to the bottom of the description to find out it was sponsored by AnkerMake. All of the big tech reviewers on CZcams also include disclosures at the beginning of their videos. Are your viewers more easily confused than MKBHD’s viewers?
Why not say what you just said right now at the beginning of the video? You were payed by AnkerMake to make the review, but your opinions are your own, etc? Seems pretty clear to me. Saying that disclosures will confuse people feels like a pretty big cop out when so many other channels are able to do it without issue. As does relying on CZcams’s “Paid Promotion” flag, which only conveys the absolute bare minimum amount of information which is legally required.
I don’t think disclosing conflicts of interests is silly. It is important contextual information. You may feel that it has no bearing on how a review should be received, but I and many others disagree. By not including a disclosure at the beginning of your video, you are intentionally withholding information that some of your viewers consider valuable. Putting your own interests ahead of your viewers’, which - to put it bluntly - calls your integrity into question IMO.
Your argument basically boils down to “trust me that being payed by AnkerMake has not biased my opinion at all”. But I think that if you were more transparent about paid sponsorships, it would only help to improve your trustworthiness.
This 3d printer is a huge flop! Lack of a good slicer is a big shot in the foot. There is no offline anything with the m5c which is a joke.The app is completely useless and the files on the app are very few and arent all stl files so you cant directly print 90 percent of those files.. The slicer will tell you 10 hour print and turn into 15 hour print somehow while printing. The fact that the company's on website lies about its own features should be enough to scare anyone away from buying this. And for the price, you can get many different 3d printers that utilize more types of filaments and have some sort of upgrade so your printer can do all the things you want with 10x better slicer. And the m5 is an even bigger joke with a camera that does nothing... I wouldnt recommend this to any entry-level person either because that's just predatory to suggest a bad product to someone who doesn't know any better.
No screen. No way. Such a dumb decision.