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I really dont print much and don’t want to spend much money. What is a better alternative besides bambulab

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

If it works, it's a superb deal. And the print area will probably cover 80% of everything you might ever print.

Edit: Print quality is more about your ability to tune your printer, no matter the brand, then it is about the printer brand itself.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

As someone that has one, I'd say more than 80%. That might be accurate if you only print other peoples' designs, but for functional parts I've designed, 80% are a total non-issue, 10% need to be rotated 45 degrees on the build plate, 5% need minor redesign to fit, and the rest I was able to break into multiple prints without issue.

Even if you eventually need a bigger printer, I'd still buy this one. I've definitely run into situations where I need to print multiples more often than I've wanted to print something big.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

Yeah, it could be possible to only ever need the mini and 80% is perhaps conservative. But, I as much as I find my Bambu Mini can cover the majority of my printing needs these days, I still need the print volume my Prusa Mk3s has for a very good number of practical prints I design and print. The real world often demands real world size and hates pieced together part designs lack of strength. And I still often need to resort to my metal working shop with lathe, mill, drill press and welders to make serious parts because plastic just ain't it.