Best and Easiest 3D printer to start off

Easton81 said:
Honestly, if your budget is tight, I’d advise buying the P1S for just £30 more, then at a later date you can add the AMS if needed. Of the 15 prints I’ve done so far, only two have used more than one colour, and one of them was just the Bambu bed scraper (the other was a table for my daughters elf on the shelf 😂).

The P1S is a much better printer, with it’s neater looking enclosure that also enables printing of filaments that require higher temperatures, and other features like the camera that lets you watch the progress of the print on the phone app. Also the enclosure makes it much quieter, and the footprint is smaller than the A1, especially when adding the AMS.
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Jeezus theres so much to take in, different filaments, drying, glue, storing.. my heads boggled.

Thought this might be simple
 
Smudgerii said:
Jeezus theres so much to take in, different filaments, drying, glue, storing.. my heads boggled.

Thought this might be simple
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No need to worry about any complex stuff to start with, just get a printer and some PLA filament, that’s it to start with. Don’t need glue, Bambu printers come with a textured build plate that PLA sticks to perfectly.
 
Easton81 said:
No need to worry about any complex stuff to start with, just get a printer and some PLA filament, that’s it to start with. Don’t need glue, Bambu printers come with a textured build plate that PLA sticks to perfectly.
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Limited pla availability on the Bambu site, other than tough. Will that be ok for a first go?
 
Smudgerii said:
Limited pla availability on the Bambu site, other than tough. Will that be ok for a first go?
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Oh yeah, they have far less available than when I ordered, guess black friday has cleared them out. Just order some eSun PLA+ or Sunlu PLA from Amazon.

Avoid tough, it’s a mixture of plastic types that isn’t as easy as PLA.
 
Another new P1S owner here, I thought the Anycubic Kobra I'd used previously was decent for its price point, but these machines are something else.

Had to change my slicing software from Cura to Orca to get a default compliance.
 
Finished printing my new stock, very happy with how it turned out!

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As said above, I picked up a P1S a couple of weeks ago in the Black Friday sale and absolutely love it. Very easy to use but loads to learn which was exactly what I was after.

From the reading I've done, the P2S has a few "quality of life" improvements so if it's a good deal then sure but it won't actually print anything that you can't use a P1S for.
 
i got a p1s combo deal in black friday ,i used the ams the other day for my grand daughter she wanted a capybara i did the colour one for her it took over 3hrs produced a square and twice as much poop as it the pic as i put another load in my recycling pot i then did her 2 small baby ones in single colour and they were 8 minuets each with just one poop i dont think i would bother with a AMS if i brought it again
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Luap said:
i got a p1s combo deal in black friday ,i used the ams the other day for my grand daughter she wanted a capybara i did the colour one for her it took over 3hrs produced a square and twice as much poop as it the pic as i put another load in my recycling pot i then did her 2 small baby ones in single colour and they were 8 minuets each with just one poop i dont think i would bother with a AMS if i brought it again View attachment 867253View attachment 867254View attachment 867255View attachment 867256
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The print time doesn’t bother me personally, I set it going before going to bed or going to work, and the print is finished by the time i next get to the printer.

Also, there are lots of tricks to reduce print time, such as decreasing the infill percentage, and also I recommend playing with the adaptive layer height, it can actually reduce print time but improve the quality on the top surfaces like the stepped areas on the top of those Cabybaras.
 
There are a couple of other tricks you can also use in Bambu Studio to reduce waste.

The waste occurs when you swap colours, and the default is to just "poop" it as @Luap pictured. There is a "Flush to infill" setting you can turn on where it will use the colour change waste on the inside of the object where you can't see it rather than just dumping it. Or you can just add another small object to the plate and by right clicking it you can tell the printer to make as much of it as possible out of waste.

It won't help with the added time of printing multi-colour but it does stop the filament just going in the bin.
 
Gratz said:
There are a couple of other tricks you can also use in Bambu Studio to reduce waste.

The waste occurs when you swap colours, and the default is to just "poop" it as @Luap pictured. There is a "Flush to infill" setting you can turn on where it will use the colour change waste on the inside of the object where you can't see it rather than just dumping it. Or you can just add another small object to the plate and by right clicking it you can tell the printer to make as much of it as possible out of waste.

It won't help with the added time of printing multi-colour but it does stop the filament just going in the bin.
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that sounds great i could print clips to seal food bags with it and i would not mind what colour they were
 
I got an A1 Combo (with AMS Lite) for Christmas, and it's running literally nonstop. Definitely sucking all the hobby air out of the room. Weather sucks, so no shooting anyway. Some of my friends are hardcore into 3D printing, and aren't real thrilled about Bambu Labs' sort-of-closed ecosystem, but TBH as long as I can get filament from other sources I don't really GAS.
 
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