Hi,
I was wondering about getting a P1S or a P1P with the actual sales.
I’m still using a heavily modified Anet A8 with Klipper, so it’s time to move forward.
At first I as tempted by the A1 with the AMS Lite combo, but there is one limit other than the price… Size!
The printer must fit inside an IKEA Stuva, which is 56x46x61 cm WxLxH, and the A1 requires more than 46cm. Another ption is the A1 Mini, it will fit but the print area is too small (I need at least 20 cm).
So, the cheaper option is the P1P/P1S. The printer itself is 39x39x45, but i was wondering how much distance you need for the rear and the sides to operate it.
Also, if i put the P1S inside the cabinet and close the glass door while printing (the cabinet it’s not perfectly sealed, will it harm the printer?
I guess I’m a little confused by the need to put it inside a cabinet? Is that so you can conceal it when it’s not in use? If you’re going to enclose it, the open frame P1P is probably the better option, but you’ll want to buy the auxiliary cooling fan and install that separately. Some filaments don’t like it when the chamber gets too hot and you always run the risk of heat-creep in an enclosed cabinet. The enclosed P1S would give you double the trouble.
BTW: If what you are looking for is to make the printer blend in with existing décor, the P1P has ready made plans for printing your own skins via printable modplates. Before the P1S was introduced, that was the only choice we had outside of the X1 series.
Why do you need to put it in an enclosure right from the start? The P1S is fully enclosed out of the box. Don’t make decisions based on your experience with your existing printer. It is comparing apples and oranges.
The “enclosure” is part of my house forniture. I can leave the glass door open, I’m leaving it open now with the Anet A8 so it’s not a problem. I only close the glass door while printing ABS and not fully to avoid heat-creep.
I have a P1S, bought as a combo and it sits on a table in my hobby area. Some folks have built enclosures for their printers but the enclosures were built to capture the fumes from ABS and vent it outside their residences.
Upgrading from a “Model T” to a sports car, you may want to consider some limited refurbishing.
Despite active noise control implemented in 2023, todays printers do benefit from either vibration isolation (in which case there’ll be a few more cm needed in all directions) or a big, heavy paver (and foam) under them…
If you go for an A1 (compare A1+AMS lite to P1+AMS: €160 difference atm in the EU), you should be able to upgrade the furniture as well. You’ll need the space for the higher filament in-/output anyway
~42 X 40cm, with sufficient place behind for a 5l bin for all the poop
PS: Really: don’t forget the poop! A baby is nothing compared to these!!!
My record so far is over 5000 poops in 9 days … on a single print plate! Almost lost a nozzle to about 6 (!) of these getting stuck in the chute…
Edit: Yeah, you never forget your first Mine was a dual-nozzle Tarantula. 1st gen. It was the reason why I gave up on printing … until reading about the X1 6 months after giving it away
Here is the problem I ran into. I had an Ender 3 Pro and an Ender 5 Plus. Those machines vacuumed up my money trying to find the magic parts such that I didn’t have to tinker so much.
Buy a Bambu printer and you go from buying parts to put on your printer, Now you can buy machines to print more colors and more materials more efficiently.
Be mindful of that space that may be required.
If you are familiar with Klipper, and are looking at the P1 series, you may want to look at the Elegoo Centauri Carbon. Runs a lightly-company-modified-klipper, hundreds cheaper, and the airblade-style chamber fan is REALLY impactful for filaments that love cooling. Bambu should be sweating.
Elegoo says they will have AMS setups for it later this year, but IMHO, you should always assume future-tense words that any company emits are direct lies. So treat it as it exists now, a single filament printer.
I’m still evaluating mine but am likely to sell my P1S combo used, and use the funds to purchase another 2 new ECC. The value is incredible. I think the bambu A1[reg/mini] and the ECC are my two picks for value now. A1 gives better aesthetics still IMO, but a competent coreXY enclosed for the same price is unbelievable
They’ve been around a couple years, mostly in the resin space, so I assume they will absolutely warranty for the first month, or be at risk of chargebacks and payment vendor freezes. That’s all I come to expect personally, but your mileage and research may vary.
The Elegoo Centauri is on my hit list but I am waiting for them to catch up. I will not buy anything that is in pre-order status. It tells me that if anything goes wrong, I will have to wait months for replacement parts because pre-order means they are choking their supply chain and can’t support the demand. I’ve had too many years in electronics to ever play that game again not to mention, I was the guy on the other side having to explain to my bosses why we couldn’t keep up with demand, so I know how that game gets played and the consumer is always the loser.
Agreed, I had an extra-poor pre-order time due to the tariff nonsense as well. Was expecting 45days, got 106 days lol. Did not have to pay, but did have to wait for the next boat to come in. Lesson learned-ish.
Mine was a dual-nozzle Tarantula. 1st gen. It was the reason why I gave up on printing … until reading about the X1 6 months after giving it away 
