The TL:DR of this. Josh had a hour to kill before the breakfast place opened, so went on another wild tangent.
See, here’s part of the problem. You assume the product is bad and just everyone is having these problems. I haven’t had to re-engineer anything at all. I have had no issues with feed problems like you’re commenting on. I have an A1 Mini, with the AMS. I run spools through the AMS and on their own. I’ve emptied spools on that thing. I have 1k+ hours on several of the older prints I have. For as much as I use my 4 printers, I’m in the shadow of some that have more and use them more and they aren’t here talking about constant problems. I’ve seen videos of people with their whole production farm full of Bambus, and well, they keep buying them, so something me be working. You can’t just run a whole print farm on faulty printers that wont feed. And if these products are as faulty as you say they are, there’s going to be a breaking point where people realize and the whole thing collapses. That hasn’t happened though. There’s pockets of noise of people wildly complaining, but for the most part people are happily and happily buzzing along. I mean, shoot, I get comments and pictures every day of people printing my models, and they look great. So there’s tons of people successfully printing things every day.
If you’re having similar issues across both printers there’s something going on there that isn’t right, and it’s not just the printer is junk. If the printer was junk in the ways you insinuate, than people wouldn’t be buying it. You are way over conflating the problems and jumping to conclusions. You haven’t gone into depth about any of the issues you’re having, and there could be a number of reasons causing those issues, and they very much could be your fault too. You may not be banging on the thing with a wrench breaking it, but maybe you’re so use to having to do things a certain way on your older printer, that you just think it’s the same on the Bambu, but in reality it’s now causing issues. That kind of thing is not uncommon, especially amongst older school users that are use to tweaking the every loving pie out of everything.
By the way. Last night, I completed another series of prints on my Bambu printers. I’ve got some prototypes going for my current design, and I’ve been working on printing desiccant boxes for these plastic cereal box containers. Going that whole route, and lovin’ it so far. I’m printing those in transparent PETG. Point is, look, no problems at all. Different material types, 3 different types of Bambu printers. These problems you’re having aren’t normal, and it’s not just bad engineering or the printer is junk.
Furthermore, you use a lot of insulting language, especially when talking about Bambu and their engineers. It’s not becoming of one’s character. It does not make me respect you at all when you just sit there and trash on their engineers because you’re having some problem you don’t understand. You didn’t even come in here asking for help, you just launched into these bad vibes. That was your introduction, your first post. when you got the reaction you did, it was only then that you stepped back a little.
I’ve been in development environments most of my adult life now, and I know how difficult it can be, so to sit there and read that from you, your attitude. It just does not foster any sort of productive or friendly environment or relationship between us and Bambu. They may be a corporation, but that doesn’t mean we have to treat this relationship with distrust and distain, that doesn’t mean we have to treat them with such negative attitudes.
You didn’t come in here asking for help. You came in here with a bad attitude, talking trash. Also, we’re not going to solve problems by attacking Bambu or their employees. We’re not going to foster good relations that helps us work together to solve problems by attacking their employees, by disparaging them and their work. Just because Bambu is a corporation doesn’t mean they’re the enemy. Just being they’re a corporation doesn’t mean they aren’t made up of people working hard. Also, don’t give me your arm-chair engineering perspective on their job performance. You think you’re so much better, understand engineering so much more, you think everything is so simple, then go create a global corporation that disrupts the entire printer market. Go work for any of Bambu’s competitors and help them bring products to market that actually competes? Because for all of Bambu’s apparent “failures” I’m still failing to see other companies bring something to the plate that stands up to what Bambu is bringing to the market.
And we’re back into under handed insults of the engineers behind the product. You’re not here going “I have a problem, can you help me fix this?” You’re going “I have a problem and it’s bambu’s engineers, they can’t do anything right!”
I don’t see anything that’s botched. My printers run amazingly, and I see a lot of other people here too that have had an amazing time. I’ve seen a number of people that had issues that ultimately boiled down to user error, and a hand full of people that unfortunately got a lemon of some sort. Some of those people complain wildly like you do, and some people accept the reality that sometimes in life you get a lemon, and that sucks, but being a sour lemon yourself out of it isn’t going to make the situation better.
I mean, you want a real world example? I bought myself a fancy laptop once. Certainly cost more than an X1C. Loved that thing, until it started having issues. Covid hit around that time too, and it made it difficult to go to the manufacture to get it fixed. I ended up eating the cost of it, uggh. What a pain. The laptop was well reviewed and loved by many though. The issue I had wasn’t because of poor engineering, or bad design, it was just the lack of the draw.
That’s one of the bigger purchases that happened to me, where I got a dud like that, and because of everything going on in the world, I wasn’t even able to get it replaced and essentially lost my money. I had some sour feelings, for sure, but I can’t ignore the fact that millions of those things were sold, and my issue was very limited. I may have found others that had the same issue, and long forum threads talking about it, but ultimately it was a very small fraction of users. It’s easy to feel like everyone is complaining when you don’t consider how many units the company actually puts out there, and how many people aren’t having problems.
Again, been having a brilliant time with the printers. I haven’t found things to be illogical at all. I enjoy the whole system they’ve built and how it all works together. And again, you’re attacking the engineers, putting them down, and there’s no solid reasoning or anything other than you have problems so it must be the engineers fault. When I read stuff like this, it does not make me have good vibes towards you. It does not make me want to be friendly and take you serious.
The whole history of 3d printing up until Bambu started releasing printers. I mean, I guess you’re having some issues still, so haven’t escaped that, but I’m seriously telling you, that if you’re having to “re-engineer” something, then there’s other issues going on. I have not had to “re-engineer” anything on any of my Bambu printers. I don’t print little performance addons, I don’t modify my AMS, I haven’t had the need to do any of that because everything is just working. It works.
Maybe you got two lemons in a row, maybe the filament you’re using just doesn’t like Bambu, maybe it’s maybelline. I have no clue, because what information you have given is pretty sparse. You mostly just default to talking trash about Bambu’s engineers and pushing the blame on them.
I’ll bury the hatchet when you stop insulting Bambu’s engineers and show a little more respect. And I don’t mean bowing down to Bambu, I mean showing a little more respect to the other users around here that you call “shrills” but are actual users who love their printers, who are nice and helpful people if you come and ask them nicely as opposed to jumping in talking trash. There’s a lot of people here that love their printer and want you to have as great of a time too, but they aren’t gonna stand by your side and help you through it if you come in with that attitude calling people shrills, talking the trash you’ve been putting out there.
This is mildly annoying and can be confusing for new users. I had the same thing. We’ve had people pop up in random threads too, going like I need help but can’t post a topic! And tons of people jump in and help that person, talk to them, help them with their problem and also help guide them through those little signing up road blocks.
I couldn’t even sign up for the forum on my home computer because of how my computer is tied into my job’s network. I ended up using my phone to sign up, although I can sign in just fine. Still, annoying, a little bit of a pain, but nothing I can’t brush off and have mostly forgot about. In the greater scheme of the world, it is nothing to get bothered by.
You’re looking for reasons to stay made, to be frustrated, to keep that bad attitude going. Not everything in life is peaches and cream, and it’s clear that you’re dealing with it by diving into the frustrations, rather than trying to step back from them. You’re feeding your own bad time.
And we’re back to insulting Bambu. You know what it is like as a developer dealing with someone that just sits there and insults you and talks trash about you? You think that makes people like you? You think that makes anyone want to work with you? You think their employees come on here and read the things you say and think, oh no, I really screwed up! It doesn’t matter how right you think you are, when you come at someone like that, they’re not gonna listen to you, they’re not gonna respect your opinion.
Or maybe these systems come about because people like to go into communities and be jerks and troll them, or just dump spam, so people develop systems that help protect the online communities they run and maintain. You’re just looking for reasons to be mad and complain. Stuff like this isn’t that uncommon, especially now days as spam, trolling, and harassment are the norm.
What repels customers more is people making baseless claims. I’ve seen a lot of people that obviously have a chip on their shoulder against Bambu, talking trash and dissuading people away from Bambu printers for only the fact that they had some sort of grudge. It’s borderline how you’re acting here.
I recall on Reddit, there was a guy that kept creating accounts and going into threads on the Bambu sub reddit, talking trash, and pretty much trying to talk everyone out of buying anything Bambu. The dude constantly called me a shrill. He didn’t actually provide any real or justifiable reason for any of that though. Just the fact that he kept creating new accounts to come and harass people… Yeah, so there you go.
Turn off the time lapse? I see a selection for it when trying to print from the SD card, where you can toggle it on/off. I have 0 videos on the SD card for my A1 Mini, and I never run the time-lapse on it. Via Bambu studio or using the SD card and printing directly.
I believe it’s a checkbox when you go to send a print to the printer via Bambu Studio, and on the printer itself, it’s just a toggle button when you start the print.
That sounds like an issue with your computer. Maybe it’s a faulty SD card? I personally haven’t had any issues as it relates to deleting files off the SD card and functions as it does with any other SD card I use. I do a lot of photography, so, I do use the card reader a lot. I don’t much like MicroSD cards though, to be honest. I don’t think they’re as robust.
