Okay bye, no one cares that you couldn’t figure out how to use the easiest printer in existence. Bye.
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“All the larger ones are skipping” - the one X1 you own is, all of them? I’m convinced people don’t know how to use these engineering devices.
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Which is really odd because all you need to do is plug it in, follow the prompts and before you know it you’re printing!
I get an occasional lemon, I’ve yet to experience this in any electronic device I’ve ever purchased.
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I had a Prusa MK3S with tons of upgrades before my X1. I knew it in and out and loved the printer. But there was nothing more defeating than the moment it went from working beautifully to knowing I’d have to spend the next week troubleshooting an update, or a tweak, or a new nozzle, or the ambient temperature change in my office (winter <> summer). After a year plus I think I had 500+ hours on it, we relocated and it was destroyed.
The X1C is a different animal, I try to set it and forget it. It’s like my car, I do the very basic maintenance and just swap a part when it fails. I have all the default/stock settings for almost everything and occasionally something goes wrong and a part gets messed up (fully screwed up a AMS feeder motor once during a long print). But…I am almost two years in and have 3000+ hours into it.
OP if you are the type to even consider building a Voron, I don’t think you were ever going to be satisfied with a Bambu printer. For better or worse Bambu is the Apple if the printer works and while I don’t own a single Apple product, I do enjoy a closed ecosystem that works 90% of the time for what I want. Time will tell if I still enjoy it if 5 years though.
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I know there have been a ton of “just give it to me” posts. Bu ti recently started a non-profit for setting up STEM and maker equipment and learning to kids for free.
Id love for you to donate the printer and anything else you “done with”. Even if it doesnt work great, it would be a great teaching tool.
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My experience is the exact opposite of yours. I have over 1000 hours on my X1C with AMS and had one clog. That clog occurred using wood-impregnated PLA. I cleaned it out and returned to printing without a problem with that filament.
I am printing with the .4 nozzle using the textured PEI plate. For the most part I run with default settings, I don’t try to improve perfection.
I’m sorry you are having a bad experience; however, the law of averages means that while 99% of us have a great experience, 1% don’t. Sounds like your in the 1%.
You are not alone. The shine deceives.
Ill take it !!! Dont destroy it instead send it to me .
While Qidi answers in a FAQ with something that sounds like a guarantee
I wouldn’t bet my life savings on that, nor would I take that to the bank… They aren’t the first ones (or the last) to say things, only to take them back, or delay them until such time they’re ready or it’s convenient for them (think of BL with their announcement for the gen 2 printer launch, promised first for late summer, then postponed for late autumn, and now towards the end of Q4)… Until you see it out for sale, you never trust them.
I agree 100%. I thought my P1S had gone out to lunch a few weeks back, when, in the middle of a 6 hr print, the front cover fell off, dragging across the 1/2 done print totally destroying it. I waited a couple of hours, read some stuff on Wiki, and voila! discovered that the front cover was held on by magnets!. Apparently, the cover got hooked on something, and got ripped off. I had already ordered a new cover, because I simply did not read before jumping to repair by spending. Now, I have a spare cover. There’s nothing wrong with the one that got removed while printing.
So, I wonder why BBL did not use screws instead of magnets…But then, if the cover had not left the scene, It may have caused more damage to something else, like a belt, or one of those expensive carbon fiber rods… Maybe a front panel?
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Here’s an idea mate, if you’re so f*ckin smart then make the design changes and start your own company. Ahh couldn’t pull that off I bet…what a hero
Actually I’m fine now. That was said in frustration. Support had me fixed up in 2 days.
X-gantry replacement part broke. Was replacing due to wear and tear. Didn’t like sustained high temp anymore. New part is fine. They refunded and I got a replacement in 2 days.
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I’m done with this topic! 
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I’d love one, I’m recently 100% disabled from Cancer and I’ve been wanting to start my own small print business, I even created a GoFundMe which hasn’t gotten much because of poor exposure. Long story short I was diagnosed with stage 4 cancer after over a year and 3 months in the hospital and 8 surgeries I’m now in remission. So if you want to break it I’ll gladly accept it.
This is something I have come across too. People thinking they know better or just making lots of changes and wondering why it doesn’t work. It is especially a problem when they make a change they breaks something so then instead of reverting the change they instead go and make more changes.
It is just like the classic DIY 3D printing advice, don’t keep upgrading to solve problems, try and get the printer stable and semi reliable first.
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I would argue there may be a reason for that. Bambu likely want to go more on the side of reliability since they market it towards beginners, so they likely go slower and purge more.
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For the vast majority of filaments the defaults work very well.
If it is a Bambu filament then there is little reason to change core settings and for non Bambu filaments the generics work the majority of the time. The only time I have had to make any kind of significant change was for more exotic or unusual filaments like Varioshore or polypropylene.
This is probably Nathan Build’s Robots (NBR) an unstable, irate, irrational, insane and dangerous YouTuber who used to make 3D printer videos about all kinds of things until one day BBL didn’t kiss his foot so he destroyed an A1 in the most disturbing YouTube vid I’ve seen that I can’t believe is allowed to stay up, and even more incredulous that any sponsor would bother with him. The guy is not okay. Anywho this is probably him. 
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I think you are being unreasonable here. PLA is a low temp material, the chamber temp on any enclosed printer could potentially get hot enough to start causing issues. Ambient temp matters a lot here, for example I have no issue printing PLA with the printer fully enclosed.
You also don’t need the printer enclosed for printing PLA, the fumes, if any, are minimal and it benefits from extra cooling, so you should remove the lid or open the door. You only need an enclosure for keeping fumes or heat in, neither of which is needed for PLA.
It is basic knowledge that isn’t hard to find that you should print with the door open or lid off when using PLA.
This post showed up in my Google news feed on my phone for me so maybe that’s why there are so many people commenting on it.
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