God bless your heart. You've made a choice that I came close to and just thought "i should first try this" and got a Creality CR 10 Smart Pro. Its not a bad printer by the way but it frustrated me so much now I'm paying the price and getting the Bambu. Two is better than one for sure but this was a painful realization that my research is always right! Happy for you though! You're going to skip a LOT OF PAIN so be grateful whenever there is a problem that you are not having 70% of what EVERYONE ELSE is having :) It isn't that easy to be happy about fails so PSA :)
@@FreshPanda97 all through UA-cam. Some Chinese filament factory people. If you buy anything besides bambu you'll spend half your time levelling the bed. Especially if you're new. Just DM me or something. Id love to tell you what I've learnt so far
I just got my X1C this last weekend. I was blown away. Its really something you have to see in person to believe the speed at this thing prints at. You really want to impress put in Ludacris mode. I REALLY hope they plan on making a larger print volume because I would buy. Last thing I want to say is, I want to commend them on having parts. Lots of people concerned with "closed garden" they are offering parts for VERY reasonable prices. Hats of to the engineering team over at BambuLab they have won me over on anything they make,
I got my Bambu Lab X1 Carbon a few days ago and so far I am very happy with my purchase. I think you did a very nice presentation on this 3D printer; good lighting, video, and audio. Thanks for taking the time to post this informative video.
I had an Ender 3 Pro I heavily modified before it for years. I don't even use the Ender 3 anymore. I got the X1 Carbon with AMS when it launched on kickstarter. I absolutely love it.
I found a REALLY handy tip regarding the cool plate: instead of putting gluestick on it I simply spray a little windex (blue glass cleaner) and wipe it around with a paper towel and let it dry (you're not drying it with a paper towel, just making the coating consistent). This leaves a residue that the print adheres to well, but still comes off without damaging the surface. Way easier, less mess, cheaper, and best of all: it works better!
you just cleaned the bed, yes a clean bed sticks really well but i doubt windex left a coating because thats kind of the whole point of windex not leaving streaks and all
I wish they still had the X1 (non C) available. I have the X1C, but wanted a second printer for abrasives like CF-12/6. So the P1P isn't going to work. They had a middle ground for under 1,000 which they removed from their lineup.
Just had my X1C after about 3 weeks of using an Ender 3v2 Neo! Don’t have a lot of 3D printing knowledge but even from a novice, the printer is just phenomenal! It’s basically plug and play and has all the extras that you didn’t even know you needed! Worth the extra bit of cash just for the fact that I can spend less time tinkering and more time printing! Just need to wrap my head around bambu slicer now and get some of my own prints on the go💪🏻
I ordered mine 2 days ago and I can’t wait for it to arrive. I had a prusa mk3 before this and i cant wait to have prints done in 3-5 hours instead of 15.
Nice to see a 3d printer reviewed on your channel. I jumped really late into 3d printing last winter with a used ended 3s1pro which is really good and fast too. But man was it a learning curve once I geeked out about installing Klipper on a virtual linux box to get more advanced features. But after some weeks of intensive playing around my printer now has the ability to send me status updates via his own telegram channel, I got an webcam mounted there of course, can have it use pressure advance, input shaping and get decent speeds via that as well. Would be interesting to see if those turnkey printers are easy to operate over time as well. Recently I got into some frustration with petg and my bed being not really level. Works fine on most other filaments tho. So, now I need to get in contact with bambu pr dept. as well ;)
Yea mate it’s both very rewarding and drives you nuts. Iv been printing since 2014 and have discussed it here and there but not as much as I will be. Tbh it’s been a crazy journey and I have an S1 with Sonic pad as well and it’s a very capable printer when you get it sorted. It will damn shift with Klipper as well. The real interesting thing on the Bambu is it just works. Its iPhone of printing. It’s great to see printers finally get to this stage. I think I have had 7 printers now and they all are their own animals so me way or another. I’m also looking at a sidewinder X2 right now to.
Bought one, loved it, bought an AMS, I love it so I bought another X1C, I love both of them so much that I ended up buying a P1P and I love it too. Now I have 5 bed slingers that I no longer use.
We know that all filaments were not created equal, that being said is there less wastage using only Bambu Labs Filaments with the AMS when doing coloured prints as opposed to using different manufactured types? I suppose what I'm asking is if their own filaments are profiled more accurately?
It will be interesting to see what happens now that the warranty period has expired for more and more machines and you can't get any help locally, the risk is that you have a $2000 paperweight. I can buy the K1 series in my local computer store, which means easier handling when problems arise and not least a 3-year warranty. The fear of being stuck with a $2000 paperweight outweighs the urge to buy a Bambu.
So your willing to trust a brand new product that’s got close to zero real world reliably info yet won’t trust a product that’s been out a year. In some ways Crealty offering a 3 Year warranty could be seen as a bad thing. The K1 looks super interesting but it’s got a lot of real world use that needs to be done before we know how well it will hold up. I see zero reason to be concerned on the Bambu. This thing is like a tank and this week Bambu also listed the rails assembly as available as well for under $100. That’s more than reasonable too. Yes there will be wear and tear but there is a people with a LOT of hours with zero issues and things like fans ect are easily replaceable.
@@MadRC That's the great thing about being able to buy local, we have very strong consumer laws here, so that doesn't worry me the slightest! it's the law that gives me a 3 year warranty and has nothing to do with creality, the same thing would have been for Bambu, maybe that's why they don't want to sell their machines locally here! Friend, you should read a bit in the reddit threads about how reliable the Bambu machines are and not least how extremely variable the quality of their support team is.
I think there will always be good and bad support feedback as they have grown so much. There is no question they have had some growing pains as well but it’s not terrible. It will be interesting to see how the K1 stacks up over time that’s for sure. I’m hoping to get one soon as well.
Australia also has very strong consumer laws yet the bambu labs printers are available here locally from bambu AU I might also add - why talk about warranty when most printers have so many issues you practically need the warranty from day one? If parts fail on the bambu, spares are available and aftermarket spares too
@@Tom--Ace A very confused post, do you understand the difference between warranty repair and do it yourself repair, or what do you mean? If you want to be in the same category as Apple and other quality consumer products, you have to develop a network of authorized service workshops where you can leave the machine both during the warranty period but also get help with repairs after the warranty has expired, Bambulab has skipped the whole that thing, usually they try to get the buyer to do repairs that should be done by them. It seems that the entire 3d printer industry has reached a sort of free pass when it comes to service and repairs, the manufacturers are so used to the 3d community fixing the problem themselves, but it doesn't work if you aspire to become a highly rated consumer product, which should be plug and play for everyone!
Beautiful printer! If the volume gets bigger I'm ordering one. I'm in love with my ratrig vcore 400 but that lidar feature on the x1 looks really cool. I'm wondering if it completely takes away the tuning part.
Hi, while it's a nice feature, it can't take away all tuning. The defaults in slicer combined with lidar is pretty good, but if you want absolutely perfect results you have manual tuning to do. At least temperature tuning, then maybe fan/cooling profiles. I personally do manual calibration of temp, PA, cooling, flow multiplier and max flow rate and save it in the slicer. Then you don't have to run calibration before each print if you often use the same brand filaments ** orca slicer can create the calibration tests for you
Silica Gel will not absorb moisture from the filament, it will absorb moisture in the air within the AMS which in turn will stop that moisture from being absorbed by the filament in the AMS unit.
Surely that's not correct. By reducing humidity within the AMS, the water within the filament will be forced to evaporate out through the humidity differential. When drying filament we are not melting the filament, only reducing humidity, so it should work exactly the same The real question is whether a few silica gel packs can get the AMS humidity low enough to make a difference
@@Tom--Ace Why not try it out, I did and it does not remove moisture from wet filament. I had some Nylon that I forgot to put in one of the vacuum bags that I use and so I put some silica beads in there, the ones that change colour when they absorb moisture, they did not change colour and the Nylon was spitting and popping when printing, I thought it was not working due to being in a vacuum and so I let some air in and left it for a week, the Nylon was still wet and so into the filament dryer it went!
Nazgul Evoque F6 HD with Dji O3 incl. Goggles V2 and Commando 8 elrs radio = $ 1460 + Tpu camera mount = $ 1515 Sum = $ 2975 Expensive camera mount 🙈 But damn, that’s one hell of a printer
The K1 looks great however it’s got a lot of living up to do first and reliability is far from known. As for being late to the party I can only review something when I receive or or get it, I was holding off and going to get a P1P but Bambu reached out. It’s still very relevant today.
Printing never been easier!?!? I've gotten everything done, downloaded everything, BUT I and my friend can NOT get the slicer program to find the device. This is....as you folks say, Bollix!!! 3 days and watching every UA-cam video looking at every reddit and scanning every written document we can find, and still I can figure out why the slicer and laptop refuses to find device.
That’s odd. Have you connected the printer to your WiFi network. Once that’s done you need to link them. Have you tried connecting the App to see if that connects to the printer at all ?
@@MadRC to the best of my knowledge. The handy app on phone works, but my friend and I have no clue why it isn't connecting. We don't know what we are missing.
nice review but the part with the qualityinspection is pretty dubious. The lighting is awfull und the filament chosen does the rest. Idk of it's the normal "3d printing youtube hiding flaws"-Trick or if you just were unlucky. Next time you want to show quality: Black glossy PLA, lights perpendicular to the layers. You did chose black in your later tests. That's how you show what you got.
I really don’t know what your issue is. The quality is fine. There is no “intentional” hiding of anything. I just did not feel the need to go into crazy detail in the print quality as it’s fine. If you want to pixel peep then likely this review is not for you. Put the box the printer delivers really impressive results. That’s what matters.
@@MadRC If this isn't important, why showing it at all? I mean the purpose of a sample is to see anything at all. With the filament you chose you can't see any detail at all :P. Even in full resolution. If it wasn't intentionally it was just an unlucky decision.
Mine arrived two weeks ago. It’s my first 3D printer. I’ve found it very easy to use and I’m getting excellent results
God bless your heart. You've made a choice that I came close to and just thought "i should first try this" and got a Creality CR 10 Smart Pro. Its not a bad printer by the way but it frustrated me so much now I'm paying the price and getting the Bambu. Two is better than one for sure but this was a painful realization that my research is always right! Happy for you though! You're going to skip a LOT OF PAIN so be grateful whenever there is a problem that you are not having 70% of what EVERYONE ELSE is having :) It isn't that easy to be happy about fails so PSA :)
@@JohnyPatrick what and where did you research? i want to buy one but i am not sure, the price is pretty high...
@@FreshPanda97 all through UA-cam. Some Chinese filament factory people. If you buy anything besides bambu you'll spend half your time levelling the bed. Especially if you're new. Just DM me or something. Id love to tell you what I've learnt so far
Same here. I got mine last week and started doing my own models. It’s a learning curve but not as steep as I thought.
I just got my X1C this last weekend. I was blown away. Its really something you have to see in person to believe the speed at this thing prints at. You really want to impress put in Ludacris mode. I REALLY hope they plan on making a larger print volume because I would buy. Last thing I want to say is, I want to commend them on having parts. Lots of people concerned with "closed garden" they are offering parts for VERY reasonable prices. Hats of to the engineering team over at BambuLab they have won me over on anything they make,
I got my Bambu Lab X1 Carbon a few days ago and so far I am very happy with my purchase. I think you did a very nice presentation on this 3D printer; good lighting, video, and audio. Thanks for taking the time to post this informative video.
I had an Ender 3 Pro I heavily modified before it for years. I don't even use the Ender 3 anymore. I got the X1 Carbon with AMS when it launched on kickstarter. I absolutely love it.
I found a REALLY handy tip regarding the cool plate: instead of putting gluestick on it I simply spray a little windex (blue glass cleaner) and wipe it around with a paper towel and let it dry (you're not drying it with a paper towel, just making the coating consistent). This leaves a residue that the print adheres to well, but still comes off without damaging the surface. Way easier, less mess, cheaper, and best of all: it works better!
you just cleaned the bed, yes a clean bed sticks really well but i doubt windex left a coating because thats kind of the whole point of windex not leaving streaks and all
I got my P1P last week and I am in freakin LOVE!
I wish they still had the X1 (non C) available. I have the X1C, but wanted a second printer for abrasives like CF-12/6. So the P1P isn't going to work. They had a middle ground for under 1,000 which they removed from their lineup.
It’s interesting that in every bambu review I have seen the reviewer shows a print, says it is perfect, then immediately points out some flaws.
Just had my X1C after about 3 weeks of using an Ender 3v2 Neo! Don’t have a lot of 3D printing knowledge but even from a novice, the printer is just phenomenal! It’s basically plug and play and has all the extras that you didn’t even know you needed! Worth the extra bit of cash just for the fact that I can spend less time tinkering and more time printing! Just need to wrap my head around bambu slicer now and get some of my own prints on the go💪🏻
Congrats. It’s an amazing printer.
Thanks for video, sound is great, I bought the X1C and used your link awesome video
I ordered mine 2 days ago and I can’t wait for it to arrive. I had a prusa mk3 before this and i cant wait to have prints done in 3-5 hours instead of 15.
i have just ordered a Bambu Lab X1 Carbon with AMS been using an Ender cant wait to play with it
I have the P1P and it's amazing!!
I have a kick starter printer, still going strong
So jealous rn😢 Ordered my X1C 2 weeks ago and got a mid June delivery estimate. Can't wait to play with it
I am ordering with you link, great job. Getting the X1 Carbon for 1,499.00. Thanks
Congrats
Hidden bender has been spotted! Love Futurama!
Nice to see a 3d printer reviewed on your channel. I jumped really late into 3d printing last winter with a used ended 3s1pro which is really good and fast too. But man was it a learning curve once I geeked out about installing Klipper on a virtual linux box to get more advanced features. But after some weeks of intensive playing around my printer now has the ability to send me status updates via his own telegram channel, I got an webcam mounted there of course, can have it use pressure advance, input shaping and get decent speeds via that as well.
Would be interesting to see if those turnkey printers are easy to operate over time as well. Recently I got into some frustration with petg and my bed being not really level. Works fine on most other filaments tho.
So, now I need to get in contact with bambu pr dept. as well ;)
Yea mate it’s both very rewarding and drives you nuts. Iv been printing since 2014 and have discussed it here and there but not as much as I will be. Tbh it’s been a crazy journey and I have an S1 with Sonic pad as well and it’s a very capable printer when you get it sorted. It will damn shift with Klipper as well. The real interesting thing on the Bambu is it just works. Its iPhone of printing. It’s great to see printers finally get to this stage. I think I have had 7 printers now and they all are their own animals so me way or another. I’m also looking at a sidewinder X2 right now to.
Fantastic review man!
What 3d printer would i need to make
iFlight TPU Adjustable Mount (GoPro 5/6/7/8/9/10) the 2 colour ones
Bought one, loved it, bought an AMS, I love it so I bought another X1C, I love both of them so much that I ended up buying a P1P and I love it too. Now I have 5 bed slingers that I no longer use.
Damn. That's like abandoning your 5 oldest kids. Teasing.
@@redone823 They’re even for sale…
We know that all filaments were not created equal, that being said is there less wastage using only Bambu Labs Filaments with the AMS when doing coloured prints as opposed to using different manufactured types? I suppose what I'm asking is if their own filaments are profiled more accurately?
Fantastic review, Ian! Amazing machine indeed! 😃
Congrats!!!
Stay safe there with your family! 🖖😊
Could you do a fun side by side comparison with other printers? Like, Flashforge vs. Bambu Labs
Great Job Ian!
Thanks mate
It will be interesting to see what happens now that the warranty period has expired for more and more machines and you can't get any help locally, the risk is that you have a $2000 paperweight.
I can buy the K1 series in my local computer store, which means easier handling when problems arise and not least a 3-year warranty.
The fear of being stuck with a $2000 paperweight outweighs the urge to buy a Bambu.
So your willing to trust a brand new product that’s got close to zero real world reliably info yet won’t trust a product that’s been out a year. In some ways Crealty offering a 3 Year warranty could be seen as a bad thing. The K1 looks super interesting but it’s got a lot of real world use that needs to be done before we know how well it will hold up. I see zero reason to be concerned on the Bambu. This thing is like a tank and this week Bambu also listed the rails assembly as available as well for under $100. That’s more than reasonable too. Yes there will be wear and tear but there is a people with a LOT of hours with zero issues and things like fans ect are easily replaceable.
@@MadRC That's the great thing about being able to buy local, we have very strong consumer laws here, so that doesn't worry me the slightest!
it's the law that gives me a 3 year warranty and has nothing to do with creality, the same thing would have been for Bambu, maybe that's why they don't want to sell their machines locally here!
Friend, you should read a bit in the reddit threads about how reliable the Bambu machines are and not least how extremely variable the quality of their support team is.
I think there will always be good and bad support feedback as they have grown so much. There is no question they have had some growing pains as well but it’s not terrible. It will be interesting to see how the K1 stacks up over time that’s for sure. I’m hoping to get one soon as well.
Australia also has very strong consumer laws yet the bambu labs printers are available here locally from bambu AU
I might also add - why talk about warranty when most printers have so many issues you practically need the warranty from day one? If parts fail on the bambu, spares are available and aftermarket spares too
@@Tom--Ace A very confused post, do you understand the difference between warranty repair and do it yourself repair, or what do you mean?
If you want to be in the same category as Apple and other quality consumer products, you have to develop a network of authorized service workshops where you can leave the machine both during the warranty period but also get help with repairs after the warranty has expired, Bambulab has skipped the whole that thing, usually they try to get the buyer to do repairs that should be done by them.
It seems that the entire 3d printer industry has reached a sort of free pass when it comes to service and repairs, the manufacturers are so used to the 3d community fixing the problem themselves, but it doesn't work if you aspire to become a highly rated consumer product, which should be plug and play for everyone!
Beautiful printer! If the volume gets bigger I'm ordering one. I'm in love with my ratrig vcore 400 but that lidar feature on the x1 looks really cool. I'm wondering if it completely takes away the tuning part.
Hi, while it's a nice feature, it can't take away all tuning. The defaults in slicer combined with lidar is pretty good, but if you want absolutely perfect results you have manual tuning to do. At least temperature tuning, then maybe fan/cooling profiles. I personally do manual calibration of temp, PA, cooling, flow multiplier and max flow rate and save it in the slicer. Then you don't have to run calibration before each print if you often use the same brand filaments ** orca slicer can create the calibration tests for you
I ordered the k1 and it came destroyed so I have a X1c on order.
Silica Gel will not absorb moisture from the filament, it will absorb moisture in the air within the AMS which in turn will stop that moisture from being absorbed by the filament in the AMS unit.
Yea I badly worded that.
Surely that's not correct.
By reducing humidity within the AMS, the water within the filament will be forced to evaporate out through the humidity differential.
When drying filament we are not melting the filament, only reducing humidity, so it should work exactly the same
The real question is whether a few silica gel packs can get the AMS humidity low enough to make a difference
@@Tom--Ace Why not try it out, I did and it does not remove moisture from wet filament.
I had some Nylon that I forgot to put in one of the vacuum bags that I use and so I put some silica beads in there, the ones that change colour when they absorb moisture, they did not change colour and the Nylon was spitting and popping when printing, I thought it was not working due to being in a vacuum and so I let some air in and left it for a week, the Nylon was still wet and so into the filament dryer it went!
Lol the purging material was pronounced "poogin". Very fitting.
Where are you storing the tpu spool Ian?
It’s in a external drier.
Were all your prints printed using the 0.4mm nozzle?
Yea.
Can I print TPU via the AMS extension?
No you can print TPU but not in the AMS. Flexible filament needs to be externally fed.
Nazgul Evoque F6 HD with Dji O3 incl. Goggles V2 and Commando 8 elrs radio = $ 1460
+
Tpu camera mount = $ 1515
Sum = $ 2975
Expensive camera mount 🙈
But damn, that’s one hell of a printer
😂, that’s a hell of a mount lol. Well played.
When I have the space and money I would get one.
link to your tpu preset? (sorry if this is addressed in the video, will only have time to watch it later)
You're late to the party Mads.
I'm getting the K1.
The K1 looks great however it’s got a lot of living up to do first and reliability is far from known. As for being late to the party I can only review something when I receive or or get it, I was holding off and going to get a P1P but Bambu reached out. It’s still very relevant today.
Bambu use sunlu filaments.
Great info thanks, I just ordered one the these 🙂
Printing never been easier!?!? I've gotten everything done, downloaded everything, BUT I and my friend can NOT get the slicer program to find the device. This is....as you folks say, Bollix!!! 3 days and watching every UA-cam video looking at every reddit and scanning every written document we can find, and still I can figure out why the slicer and laptop refuses to find device.
That’s odd. Have you connected the printer to your WiFi network. Once that’s done you need to link them. Have you tried connecting the App to see if that connects to the printer at all ?
@@MadRC to the best of my knowledge. The handy app on phone works, but my friend and I have no clue why it isn't connecting. We don't know what we are missing.
@@MadRC I still can't tie the 2 together and I don't know what I'm missing.
lol it even has Dutch language setting . that is pretty uncommon for 3D printers
How do I get them to give me one too lol
You need to become a handsome people influencer, only then can you to be part of the A team. Or just be be some Karl Pilkington look alike.
@@MadRC rats, guess I’ll just have to save up
nice review but the part with the qualityinspection is pretty dubious. The lighting is awfull und the filament chosen does the rest. Idk of it's the normal "3d printing youtube hiding flaws"-Trick or if you just were unlucky. Next time you want to show quality: Black glossy PLA, lights perpendicular to the layers. You did chose black in your later tests. That's how you show what you got.
I really don’t know what your issue is. The quality is fine. There is no “intentional” hiding of anything. I just did not feel the need to go into crazy detail in the print quality as it’s fine. If you want to pixel peep then likely this review is not for you. Put the box the printer delivers really impressive results. That’s what matters.
@@MadRC If this isn't important, why showing it at all? I mean the purpose of a sample is to see anything at all. With the filament you chose you can't see any detail at all :P. Even in full resolution.
If it wasn't intentionally it was just an unlucky decision.
You are a little late to the party, bud.
Thank you for your constructive feedback.
Great overview of the Bambu labs printer. Very impressive capabilities. 👍🖨️🤓