If you’re a beginner, you don’t want to throw money at the wall and you would prefer the convenience of “it just works” then the Bambu Lab printers are a great place to look.
I own a Creality CR-6 SE and whilst it has all the bells and whistles for a Creality (like excellent automatic bed levelling) it’s no Bambu Lab.
For price, you should look at the A1 mini and A1.
They’re essentially the same printer with different build volumes. The A1 mini is 180x180x180mm and the A1 is 256x256x256mm.
If you can afford it, I would strongly recommend the AMS lite in the bundle.
Whilst you may not think you would wish to print up to four colours in the same model, you will when you try and it’s a massive convenience even if you rarely print with multiple colours.
The AMS lite means up to four colour filaments at the same time and/or having more than one identical filament at the same time that stops using one that runs out and automatically starts using the next one of the same type. Excellent for bigger prints or simply not having to handle the process yourself.
If you want to print materials that have more requirements to use them, like; hotter beds and nozzles, enclosed chambers and filters, the P range is the place to start, take that up a notch and you have the X range.
The A1 mini and A1 will happily give you access to PLA, PETG, and TPU.
In English PLA is the most common filament, PETG has some strengths like a bit more give and less likely to snap under pressure, however, newer PLA types like PLA+ mean you do t often need to venture into PETG. Finally, the flexible friend, TPU. For things that need to bend, TPU is the way to go. Those are the most common and easiest filaments to use.
If you want parts you print to work under increased pressure, higher temperatures, replacement plastic car parts under the hood then you are looking at things like ASA, Carbon Fibre (CF), ABS and many more. The P range will do most, the X range even more.
