Some of my favorite youtube channels talked them up very well. They didnt say anything about the lack of customer service, but now that I finally recieved my printer, I can agree that the printer quality and performance is very good. I am new to the 3d print world, but like all my other passions I will be devoting a considerable amount of time to learning it and am excited to see where it goes.
I spent several weeks reading up. Ended up ordering it on my brothers advice. 9 months of spinning his wheels on an Ender. He was immediately printing with the Bambu Labs. 6 months later, I couldnāt be happier. Iāve been geeking out all sorts of functional and frivolous prints since.
PS: I wish this was around when I was in school.
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I was going to get a 3D printer over 10 years agoā¦ but looking at it, it looks too much trouble.thing not working rightā¦Looking at reviews, so what, and you can only make so many whistles, lol.
So I got my first 3D printer (P1S) on November 24 and did not look back. I had a few problems and a warranty claim for the Toolhead motherboard and Toolhead fanā¦ So 563 hours of printing laterā¦
I watched a youtube video of a benchy and it blew my mind. Ordered immediately. 6 printers and 8 ams units later and I have no complaints about the hardware. -_-. I sorta snubbed bambu when I first saw the kickstarter because it seemed as though they were just copying prusa and voron. Glad I saw that benchy video
I had no issues getting good prints from old school printers or keeping them reliable, but they were slow.
I only kept the mini for 1 month before giving it away, though. Also gave away a p1p and p1s to friends, to help them get into printing. Plus I talked 2 other friends into buying a p1s. They will be bambu customers for life now. Currently have 2 x1cās, a p1s, 8 ams units and a bunch of other printers from various brands to keep the tinkerer side of me happy and allow me to enjoy the whole hobby. Happy with all of them too. Just dont buy a flsun s1 lol
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I used to have a creator max and it was fine, I put about 1200 hours on it no maintenance i wanted better a friend at my school had a x1c with a AMS and one day he brought in a multicolor print and I thought it was so cool and That is what made me get my x1c, best printer I will ever have.
I am an engineer, a woodworker, and generally just a maker. I dabble in metal fabrication and anything else I need to do to make things.
Iāve been very interested in 3D printing for years. What I am not interested in is owning machines that have to constantly be tinkered with. I donāt want to spend more time working on my equipment than using it. So, after finally hearing and reading enough about Bambu X1C to convince me that it is the solution to that issue I finally ordered a 3D printer. It should be at my house any day now, most likely while I am out of town for work. LOL
Iām very excited to get it set up and going.
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Started with the Ender 3 long time ago and learned a lot about 3d printing while using it. My friend got a Bambu X1 and showed me all the things he was able to do with it and how much easier it was and I was sold. Took me a while to save up for one and it was so worth it.
I had a terrible experience with three Creality printers, gave up for a year then saw the A1 and it seemed to just work out of the box.
Got myself an A1 and absolutely loved it, so ended up getting an X1 Carbon with the AMS so I could use additional filaments.
Ran 2 X1Cs at work constantly for over a year straight. Still print like theyre brand new with minimal maintenance. Had to buy one for myself
They were the first ones to really use the speed improvements that things like input shaper give.
Somewhat comically: Bambu had been around a year by the point I bought my X1Cs and hadnāt done anything dodgy yet so I thought it was safe to buy them 
I just got into 3d printing and all the dudes on the tech discord iām on were like āGET BAMBU! GET BAMBU!ā
To tweak prints not the printerā¦
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I was going to get a 3D printer over more than 10 years agoā¦
But it looks like too much messing to get them to printā¦
So I never got oneā¦ So retired now on medical groundsā¦
So I was bored silly, and my wife got into 1/12 dollhousesā¦
So I thought about a 3D printer, and when I was looking, Bambu came up all the time, and printing in 30 minutes, it was ready to printā¦
So I got P1S, then Ams and A1 Comboā¦ Got my p1S in November last year and have not looked backā¦
Just look at P1S, and I have done 1234 hours of printsā¦
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For the same reason I never got a 3D printer before now. I wanted a tool, not a project. It was the first time I felt confident that I could own and use a 3D printer and not have to constantly fiddle with the printer. I feel like I made a good decision. The X1C has been great. Only minor issues and almost all were user error.
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I had a Flashforge Adventurer 4 as my first printer. Prints came out okay, but I started to have a bunch of issues. Bed leveling didnāt work as advertised, I had to always print with a raft so that my prints came out at all, PETG would absolutely shred a build plate, and prints took so long as it was essentially an enclosed, closed off ecosystem, Ender 3 clone. It really turned me away from 3d printing, and a lot of my filament was wasted via failed prints.
I then decided that after using my collegeās X1 Carbon printers that I needed to upgrade, and badly. The black friday sale rolled around, and saw that I could easily afford the X1C Combo. After much deliberating, I decided to pull the trigger.
I have had minimal print failures, and it was all due to human error. I no longer need to print a raft, the auto bed leveling actually leveled the bed, I can print PETG with no problems, and the speed is second to none. My AD4 took an hour and a half to print a benchy, and my X1C can do it in 20 minutes. CoreXY is making a comeback and Iām here for it. Yes, the Bambu Lab ecosystem is closed off still, but thereās more support for it than the Adventurer 4 by the manufacturer and community.
I have no regrets, other that not getting the X1C sooner. Well worth it. For my case, I just need a printer thatās fast, reliable, can print multiple materials multi-colour, and something that just works. And the X1C fits the bill perfectly.
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