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I have enjoyed my Ender 3v2 but my extruder and hot end are acting up and I am ready for a more reliable printer. I like the simplicity of Bambu but it seems to come at the cost of customization. Prusa seems to be more open and extendable, but at the cost of increased complexity. What would you recommend?

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[–] Zikeji@programming.dev 18 points 11 months ago (1 children)

One major con for Bambu is that the firmware is not open source (at least, last I checked). This puts you in a walled garden of sorts. It also can make you vulnerable, for example earlier this year a bug caused printers connected to Bambu's cloud to start prints that weren't request. You can imagine how bad that is.

This being said, I plan on my next printer upgrade being to a Bambu. I've gotten tired of the calibration game and Bambu does that well.

[–] grayman@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

Mk4 is amazing. Calibration is annoying. They definitely did an amazing job there. Bambu's plate is never flat... It's a manufacturing / design issue. They work around it in software. I can't imagine the other silliness in the printer if they can't even make a flat bed.