7 months later, around 30 spools of filament....I love this printer

[Sticks]

This has been such a great experience despite some little glitches talked about here, as compared to my Ender 5 Pro, with mods, way too much $$$ in mods just to get it’s arse handed to it by this upstart X1C.

No tinkering, no babysitting, no coming home 18 hours into a 30 hour print to find it printing in air because the filament got stuck in yet another high end extruder, no 30 hour prints in general. My longest print on the X1C has been 13 hours…2 days if I had used my Ender.

Yes I have had print failures.

Yes I have had to replace the Motherboard fan in the first 2 months.

Yes I have had issues with the AMS.

Yes I have lost connection and had to re-bind.

Yes my bed is warped based on the Z axis movement during prints (not that I have noticed a bad result on a 250mm square print - sits flat and no rocking)

Yes my round holes are oval.

Yes I occasionally get bad layers (like 50) that have yet to be explained.

Yes I get VFA.

Yes it poops a lot, especially on multi color prints, so I just be smart about it and tweak the settings to minimize the number of changes, volume, and or colors.

Yes it’s loud if you don’t turn the chamber fan down to 70%.

Yes it’s still loud, but so are race cars, compared to a stock Honda Civic. Such is the price to pay for an 8 second quarter mile.

No I have not practiced what I preach and calibrated my filaments with Orca Slicer, and I know I should so I can get even better prints.

Yes, I have NEVER printed a Benchy…ever.

Yes I have submitted one service ticket. Motherboard fan - out of stock for est 30 days, so I went the Noctua(?) route and was back to less noisy printing in 2 days.

I can print prototypes, like right now, test it, modify it, print another one, finalize it, then make the in service part in less time than it used to take to print the first prototype a year ago.

Still love it.

Here is a tip for you long time 3d Print people who get pissed off at the machine about some trivial detail.

Run that print through your slicer for your old Prusa clone and then decide if the time saved is worth your getting pissed off. If not, then sell me yours since I want and need a second one. Be prepared to sell your POS for POS prices, like 20% of retail - max Less if you lost your temper and tried percussive maintenance. That is the most I will pay for other peoples junk.

Otherwise stop badmouthing the machine and the company, be civil, and the community here will be happy to help you sort your issue out.

[s.3]

3 or so months for me. The x1c is my first printer & ive had successes & failures with it. Mostly success. The failures have primarily been due to user error. I havent used it as much as id like due to time constraints. Ive got a large list of prints to make that require modelling. Its around the 300 hour mark currently.

Ive found it does require tinkering, or dialling maybe is a better term. The profiles need tweaking to get high quality results, but thats no fault of the machine. I run non bambu filament through it. Orca slicer solved that issue.

I would like to see mesh fade introduced so I can print a raft under the part that will flatten out the bed warp.

I also would like a filament motion sensor so if the filament feed rate deviates from the extruders set point, the printer will pause like it does when the filament runs out. That should eliminate print failures due to clogs or jams.

AMS components that can handle abrasive filament so I dont have to use an external drybox. Currently my AMS goes unused because I print mostly cf filament.

Otherwise its been great. My next printer will likely be a p1p.

I hope Bambu Lab experiences continued success, and can overcome their “growing pains” so to speak. Im fortunate to not have needed support at this point & maybe my perspective would not be so positive if I had been one of the unlucky customers who received a problematic printer, or have had major issues. I think its understandable some of the frustrations expressed in this forum.

[highrise955]

Well said.

Except for this part…

@Sticks

Yes, I have NEVER printed a Benchy…ever.

[Barracuda72]

I can understand almost everything. My first printer was a small Delta printer. It became a really big Delta printer with a DUET board and a 300x500mm build volume. Then I had a Voron V2.4 and now the X1C. I am so glad that I now have a printer for printing and no longer work on the Voron. It’s a quiet, fast printer but there were always mods I wanted to include so it was more of an additional hobby instead of a tool for my other hobbies (simracing, tabletop and model building).
And the misprints I had were 95% my fault.

[bix]

I have prusa farm which I’m in proces of replacing with bambu after I got my first p1p it paid itself off in two months and just bought another one as soon it’s paid for itself 3th one is coming in. These printers are amazing but like with everything you have to look after them. I regulary clean them and service them on weekly basis yes I had many failed prints but every single one was my fault which was easily solved with diferent slicer setting. For me the most important thing when printing big long prints which is what I’m specialising in is temperature. I run custom made fully enclosed printer in a “tent” and have inkbird temperature sensors probe in each of my enclosed printer to keep the temperature all the time exactly between 25 to 28 if the temperature inside wings out my double 120mm fans start extracting excess hot air from the chamber venting it throught the top out. Keep the temperature constantly under your control is absolute pinacle for perfect adhesion and successful huge long prints. These machines are so much ahead of anything out there.