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So which budget printer to buy? (feddit.de)

submitted 8 months ago by Kuro@feddit.de to c/3dprinting@lemmy.world

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Hello there,

after a few years of being out of the hobby I am starting to get interested again after seeing that a lot of budget printers now are having all the features that my old one were missing. Direct extruder, auto bed leveling, dual z axis, stuff like that. So which one of the budget printers around 300€ would you guys suggest one should get to get started again? Elegoo Neptune 4? Creality Ender 3 V3? Anycubic Kobra 2? Sovol S06? There are so many good looking options that I am interested in your experiences and opinions. Thanks!

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[–] _haha_oh_wow_@sh.itjust.works 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Partly, time is money but partly IDK, I've spent at least $200 upgrading mine with scaffold reinforcements, BL touch, a better hot end, and a few other QOL things and I've spent more on the CR10 than I did on the MK3S+ but it still doesn't work as well as the Prusa. Granted, the print volume is bigger but I hardly ever print anything big enough to take advantage of it.

[–] Shdwdrgn@mander.xyz 2 points 8 months ago

Agreed that time is money, and I've spent a fair amount of time on mine. I think the worst time-sink was after converting to direct drive and basically having to start from scratch on all my slicer settings, and then working out cable management to reclaim my Z height. At one point I was playing with faster speeds (thus the dual-Z upgrade) but eventually I want to switch to a 0.2mm nozzle and try to dial in miniatures (HO scale trains). I would be better off switching to a resin printer for that but I don't have an option for good ventilation so that's not really a consideration right now.