Is This Printer Too Small? Monoprice Cadet 3D Printer Review
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 14 มิ.ย. 2024
- The Monoprice Cadet 3D Printer is quite small. Though, it punches pretty well for it's size. Can it perform well enough? Here is my review!
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Lol... $150 and they have a winner... $250... I'm headed to Ender land...
$250 is more expensive than their own Select Mini and that was a solid printer for $220 ish
You can get ender 3 for 170
In the us
this is perfect for classroom education for someone who doesn't have time to put it together and enter is out of the question. This is cheap enough to wear a school could buy 3 4 5 of them and get them printing out of the box. Convenience has a price
I love tiny printers, I don't even care about anything else I must collect them all!
Cool!
Hey Angus! The cadet is actually a copy, if you search up TINA2 3d printer from Weedo company, they are the designers :), I know weedo personally so I would credit the original designers not monoprice
Welcome to send me one when you've run out of room. 😁😀
Isn't it amazing, so small, and it has build in auto bedleveling! How do they fit all that inside that small space? I can understand your addiction.
Which one would you advise for tpu printing? I need a small 3d printer but prices are over the sky for small 3d printers :(
I know Joel you’re too gracious and diplomatic, so allow me to sum up:
Should you buy this printer? No.
My personal opinion: This machine isn't for me and I wouldn't buy it :)
@@3DPrintingNerd Need to figure out how to resolve that spool issue!
Thanks!
@@3DPrintingNerd I used a similar printer, Labists X1, and have found this to be an amazing first 3D printer. I have been printing many functional prints from it. I know there is a difference in the price point between the two, but that aside I would have definitely considered this as my first printer.
@@KBoots it's a really nice first printer sure, though Monoprice has other better printers
Monoprice Cadet: "The world's best selling brand in 3D printing"
Creality Ender 3: Hold my hot end.
@@MGMutt i like prusa
{CUE Entitled Karen voice}
Anet: EXCUUUUUUUSSSSSSSSSEEEEEEEEEEEEEE MMMMMMMMMEEEEEEEEEEEEE.
Monprice: but you burn houses down
Creality: Yeah were better
Anet:..............They know i burn em down, but they still buy me
The Monoprice select mini was just as popular as the ender 3 when it came out. I still use my version 1 for small prints.
It's the same price as an ender 3, but with a twelfth of the build volume
One eighth, really incredible for such a portable size and comes fully assembled and the flexible build plate means no dangerous knife or scrapper. Not perfect for everyone but it has its niche audience.
The difference is it actually gets me a print. Every time. My ender hasn't been as to print half of the prints iv tried successfully.
I think like any printer you are sacrificing your time to get a quality print out for price. You get good prints out of this despite its ridiculously small size and it is priced high. I've spent dozens of hours fine tuning and upgrading several Ender 3's and get better prints, with comparable prints coming off at around 3 hours of tuning for the same price.
@@99salabar If you are only getting 50% of your prints from an Ender 3 then there is something not set up correctly, I have had 2 Ender 3 printers for over 2 years now and the only failed prints I have had have been due to a badly wound roll of filament that kept getting snagged and a wood filament print that blocked my nozzle because I was printing at too high a resolution for the filament
Ender 3 price
It's the lack-of-space cadet!
I SEE WHAT YOU DID THERE
@@3DPrintingNerd You're Telling me!
Joel I'm gonna need you to peel off more rafts, easily, in future videos
I look forward to doing that :)
I’m gonna need an ASMR video that’s nothing but Joel peeling off rafts.
Hahahahahhahahahah
Easily
Their description screams like a company looking to sell overpriced printers to public schools who do very little research on what's a good value.
$249!? Ender 3 V2? Come on now.
yeah and print nylon, tpu, PETG, ABS with enclosure, over double the volume, heated bed. seems like a no brainer.
Prusa Research just launched a school program, where you (as a school) fill a form on their website and they will lend you one of their printers (either i3 MK3 or MINI) for free for 3 months. If you use it during lessons and, in the 3 month time, deliver a project you've worked on together with the students, the printer is free to keep for you. The project can be as simple as a cookie cutter or a key ring.
Do you know if this is still active and available for schools outside the USA?
@@danielwyatt5089 I'm not sure if they are still offering it, but I'm pretty sure it was for Czech customers only. But I might be wrong. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
@@vit.budina I'll have another look then just in case. Thanks
Love the reviews and information you share, always count on your opinion and candid perspective 💪💪👍👍
This was on my list a few months ago when I bought the PowerSpec (Monoprice/Wanhao) Duplicator I3 Mini V2. I chose this one because of the slightly larger print volume, the heated bed and it's a lot cheaper at $140. This is my first printer, so I thought this would be the most value way to get my feet wet. The print quality is probably on par with the Cadet, but there are plenty of mods and support for the I3 Mini. Is the size small? Yes, but I figured it's enough to get by for now. Most of the projects I have in mind fit this size anyway. Thanks Joel for the great vids!
Excellent and humorous review. This can be rare to find elsewhere but it was practically descriptive enough that it would still be effective only listening to it.
I think it would be perfect for on my desk! I keep my printers in a shop detached from my house and would love a tiny printer to run some test prints on before I do the final prints!
Everyone says size doesn’t matter, but deep down, *you’ll always know it matters*
I can see this used in a children classroom where students will continue to be young and inexperienced year after year but not for beginners, the enclosed designed is ideal to keep away little hands from the hot-end. I chose the Artillery Sidewinder X1 as a beginner because it's a platform that can grow with me instead of me having to throw it away after I outgrow it.
I got mine from monoprice marked down to $70 including shipping. For that price I had to get my first 3d printer. I love this thing. I'm a retired engineer so learning the freecad software was not a big deal. I've been busily replacing broken items around the house as long as they are not more than 4 inches. Vacumm cleaner wheels to pop-up camper parts. For the most part, no problems. I got it to print with wifi but it was much slower than just copying to an SD card.
my first printer was a M3D Micro 5 years ago. 2 years ago I replaced it with a Monoprice mini delta. Both printers have a build volume comparable to the Cadet. Sometimes I wished for more, but until now I really could live with it, when the alternative was no printer at all, because of the lack of space. Now I'm going to free some space for a larger printer (Creality CR 6 SE) but I'd still recommend a small cheap printer to anyone who wants to get started. You can do a LOT with it.
Great video, I had a MP Mini Delta which had a 100 diameter x 100 height build area. Although it was an excellent value printer for £74 the tiny build area was the deal breaker, I now have a Flsun Q5 with the double area.
Hi Joel, just got into printing with a Sovol SV01, for the extra $50 and with a few other models, you get so much more than this printer. Thank you for the review. Keep up the great work! 🙏
But did the raft come off easily for the drawer pulls?
WE NEED TO KNOW!
I've worked with classroom 3d printing and I can definitely see the appeal of this. Most of the time there isn't enough time to print an object larger than 100mm. With no exposed wires, and auto bed leveling it makes it easy for inexperienced teachers to use.
As a comparison: We are a bunch of PC people looking at a mac. We want more options and more control, but the simplicity of this appeals to those less inclined to learn about the inner workings of 3d printing.
I realise this is a really old review, but my kid (also 10 years old, Joel :) has just had a 3d-printing summer-camp where they learnt Blender and printed what they designed. As part of the camp they got to bring the printer home, and it was one of these Cadet printers. My son loves it. As I speak, it's printing the Eiffel Tower (in 2 parts, this is the lower part) and has been for the last 12 hours. It looks awesome so far (it's been going all night with maybe an hour to go).
FWIW, I work at R&D in Apple, and you can do quite a bit of stuff with a Mac :) But what the little printer has done is start me looking at much better ones - the Raise3D Pro3 looks good, as do the Vision Miner 22 IDEX and the Mosaic Element HT...
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Joel, I think there is a place for printers like this. For instance I'm working on a Voron0 and Voron2.4. The Voron0 has a 120mm^3 build volume. I'm building it so I have a small printer on my desk for rapid design iteration and testing. Before sending off the full part on a full build platter to a larger printer. The other use is as a back-up printer to be able to make replacement parts for your main printer. All that being said, I think the price is a bit high for not having a heated bed, and for the lack of finished software.
I got two😂 i love them, perfect for students that moves alot, i got a little lost on the size but started cuting up model and it seems to work great
That price is about 40 dollars more than a ender 3 which had a 220 by 220 build volume. I understand that for beginners the cadet could be better, but with the huge community around the ender 3 it in my opinion has more value.
Last Ender 3 I got was $179 Ender 3 pro $220
Garth Olivier i got it for 140
Love the WRX shift knob since I have a manual Impreza...
It's SO COOL! You need one.
My roommate has an xyz davinci mini that is similar. He loves it because he mostly prints small things, and rarely functional things. I have a taz6 and a railcore ii 300zlt. I would go crazy with such a small build volume. To each their own.
Fit it with a 0.2mm or 0.15mm Nozzle and you have great secondary printer for miniatures or other small stuff. Not sure about the missing part cooling though.
It's a sort-of enclosed Bowden mini MK3 without things like Bondtech gears. At that price I'd probably get a Prusa Mini for a bit more practical build volume for the stuff I do.
Sometimes limitations are good. With basically 100^3 for build volume, given the right settings realitically a class of students say 20 kids could reasonably go through one students print per class while reviewing the one from the prior day and teaching about additive manufacturing design
👇This is how many times he said "and the raft comes off EaSily"
I got the Toybox about a month ago. I have made so many things. A number have been low poly pokemon but they spark joy😊. I've also made a couple soap holders for my bathrooms.
The app and their library is very easy to use. I've imported a several outside models and most have printed pretty good.
I am rapidly out growing it but I knew that was a risk going in. It's good at making little things. It's plug and play. I can see making toys for my niece for as long as it will print.
I'm looking at getting a bigger more capable printer in the near future. I think little printers are great for getting a taste of 3d printing. Their practicality is limited but they can just be fun.
Maybe this is more of an small apartment printer that fits nicely on a small bookshelf i have recommended the mini select for similar purposes.
We do also sells these under a different name. I discovered that they bungled up the firmware making it unhackable. Not to dwell on the open source license violation, this means they kinda threw out what would be a major selling point to me. A 3d printer that works out of the box, and also allows for a little hardware hacking later? *That* would be a 3d printer for students. Alas, that's not what this is.
But it could be. All Weedo needs to do is release the source for their firmware (which, again, they should have done from the start) and this machine would be worth the price in my opinion.
Iam getting the easy threed printer to see if I would like and benefit a 3d printer to make small models ive seen some reviews they all say its OK to start off with what are your thoughts thanks
I bought one for my class (Primary) for 180 €. 'happy with it. Great classroom printer. Easy set up- no fuzz. Noise level is ok - can run it while the kids are working on thier tasks.
How do you like Eryone filament? I haven't used any other filament so far so it's hard to compare but I was curious to hear how you feel it holds up compared to other brands like Prusament.
I have MP Select Mini V2. Bought for 180€ inc. Taxes and shipping a year and a half ago. For home practical printing (clips, holders, small storage boxes) it did ok, but I have heated bed that is deforming from heat, effectively limiting usable space. 100mm3 print volume has one benefit. It forces your maximum print time to sensible limits and lack of heat means no styrene materials. As bad as it sounds it may be somewhat a feature 🤔
I just picked one up at Microcenter for $60, can’t wait to try it!
Same lol picked up the last one in Marietta.
Joel, I am looking for a compact first printer for my nephew's dorm room. I cannot justify the price on the Cadet. Any thoughts on the Longer Cube 2 ($180-200 US)? I think he may "outgrow" it quickly. My current first choice is the Flsun Q5 - again, any thoughts? Thanks!
My first printer was an mp select mini version 2 e3d and i still have it it works well
Ahhhhh, cute. Such a tiny printer. Another great video Joel. Great to see you again.
Thanks for watching!
Seems like theres a lot of comparing price to build size of another machine. One thing you can say for this machine is that it printed out of the box. You dont always get that with the other machine. Sometimes you also dont need a larger printer and could use the space saving. I have 3 taz and 5 minis. But most the time I use the minis since it fits on there and takes less counter space.
I've done a lot of research on 3d printers to decide on which one I want to start with. I am currently waiting for a Tina 2 to arrive from amazon. It's pretty much the same printer as the Cadet. As far as functional items I looked at multiple models and it was either small enough for a tina 2/Cadet or too large for even the more expensive printers I looked at. I got the feeling that you were a bit biased about the printer before you even started looking at it. There are numerous workarounds over the spool holder. There are even extensions or replacement spool holder you can print on the tina 2/Cadet. All in all though I liked your review.
I have a customized DICE 3d printer (with build volumn = 105 x 95 x 89) sitting on my table next to my laptop. And because of its size, weight and quietness, I'd say it is actually useful, especially for home users like me who do not have a basement or a garage, need to move from time to time, and live with wife and young kids. I can carry it from place to place, I can print at night, without annoying my wife and kids. However it would be perfect to have a little bit larger build volumn like 120x120x120.
I'm curious about your opinions on the more popular monoprice printers: the mini select v2 or the mini Delta. This is the first I've heard of this unit, but it isn't versatile enough for me.
I have a monoprice voxel and it says I can’t use PETG but I want to know If I can use it anyways because I’ve seen few people using PETG. What do you recommend. The printer can reach 250c and it has a heated bed
personally, this is my first personal 3d printer (used many in the past and know how they work) and for me this printer is not bad at all. its super easy to use and print quality is better than most strictly PLA printers. Its amazing for a good first printer. So the volume is small but considering i still live with my family i cant do long prints. Overall i love it but i understand most peoples problems with it. Also, it is SUPER aesthetically pleasing its like a white mini makerbot!
Lots of hinges, hooks, mounting things, partial prints for projects, tpu seals if that was possible. The size is nice. Specially if it was up to €150 and it could print more than pla.
How do you feel about the cadet 2 years later?
Price is $150. I’ve read quite a few recommendations for it as the best budget 3D printer.
I have a Rackspace 3d printer with the same build volume but was way cheaper, im an engineering student and have access to the on campus printers but this is great to have when i need to prototype asap in my dorm. the key is how loud is it
I paid less for my Monoprice Select Mini. It ate the hot bed like so many have and the small, but bigger than the Cadet, build volume was very easy to outgrow. But while it worked, and with some repair it may live again, it was a solid little printer.
NOOOO! this printer is CRAAAAAP (for the price)! Im 14 and have an ender and I love it.
You at 14 with an Ender 3d printer is great!
@@3DPrintingNerd I think its great too!😂
What mods have you done to it?
3D Printing Nerd video I’m 10 and I am saving for the ender 3
@@ineedgoodname great! 3d printing is a great hobby and will teach allot. But don't forget, an stock ender is okay but you need to save at least double the money for upgrades
I'm looking for a 3d printer for my in-home office space. I have a 3 year old and a 1.5 year old running around the house all the time. If this printer is tough to reccomend, is there a printer with as many safety features around a similar price point?
Joel PLEASE make a tutorial on how to make the "raft peels off easily" because all my prints have a raft included problem, and not sure what settings to change in Cura, I have a CR-10 Max (highly recommend)!!!!!!
How does this compare to the CR-100 or the MP Select Mini v1/2 or any other 3d printer of similar print volume and price? I think small printers are still of value to the industry, when the price and functionality are right. But this printer makes one question it's value. Thanks for the review!
I'll always have a softspot for MonoPrice, the original Mini got me into printing years ago. That said, over the years they have consistently released cheap, stripped down, rebranded printers. This one just isn't so cheap (price) but look at that extruder...
Mine came without an AC adaptor. Can you tell me which one it uses? Thank you.
I wanted to ask which kind of thermistor an heater cartridge for Monoprice Cadet
I am a beginner, should I buy this one or are there better options? And actually this model looks the exact same as the Gembrid 3DP-GEMMA...
How easy is it to do maintenance? Look like changing nozzle is doable but belts? getting to Bowden on top of the print head?. Nice sounding that it is easy for Students to use till something goes wrong? Ender 3 I think easier to maintain, easy to step a new student thru basic maintenance.
build volume is oki if you have use 0.2mm
It would look much better if they fixed the application, spool holder and the price. My 9 year old has figured out how to use cura to slice models for our ender 3. so this would be outgrown really quickly
I am new to 3d printing and I bought the cadet. My first one failed after 2 hours and tried to position home off the build plate making it announce home failed in 3 languages and halting the printer. I also could not get it on to my network.
The replacement printer has so far been great. WiFi still not working but the printer does see the network. My cooling fan has started to make a nasty grinding noise so I am exoecting that to go south soon. It has printed a baby groot in wood, two statues in gold on two marble plyinths a yoda and a vaze. All printed really well by my un experienced standard. I love the auto bed leveller and auto feed. I altered the Gcode to push the bed further out. I am a 3D newbie but a 40 year programmer :)
To answer your question: I have reached the limit off the build size. Artillery SW on order. Just reduced in a sale.
Being wheelchair bound, I am not looking forward to putting it together!
looks like it's fairly easy to put together, I assume you did 1 month later, how hard was it?
@@satibel It really comes fully assembled. All you do is push the ptfe bowden tube in and you're done. It is still working flawlessly, with I can't say for my Artillery SW X1 that worked for 2 days and has been down since June.
@@ggkfdidi6538 I was talking about the artillery sw ^^
@@satibel My apologies. The SW went together well. It did not have any of the issues I have seen in the older install videos on youtube. I managed to print out several little items over two days. It is really quiet. Then I went to print something bigger and the could not get adhesion to the bed. Then the hot end jammed and I have been unable to it to work since. c It's been down nearly 2 months now. I have a serious spares kit including cables and motors and a whole new hot end. I have just replaced everything but I have not tried it yet... couldn't stand for it failing. I will have to work up to it.
To note I am disabled and it takes me a day to break it down and put it back together due to poor motor and agility I have. It get to eventually... my best
I recently got one of these for my birthday, however i am having issues, as when i print something it prints in the lower-left corner. Can anyone help me with this?
I just got my first printer it's a anycubic i3 mega s. I like it but I don't know much. I'm just starting out. What do you think
Do you still have your Cadet laying around? Can I ask for a picture of where the wires clip into the motherboard?
I um, pulled 1 out.
TLDR: I wouldn't suggest any printer with less than 200mm cubed build volume. This coming from a
The build volume may stil lbe good for certain things. I am actually trying to conceptualize (i.e. before build) a set of SMALL printers witharound this build vorume - x5 (i.e. one print bed or two that is 10cmX10xmX60cm (or 2x30cm) and has one independent arm for 10cm width. Likely fully independent in a Prusa Mini style setup, coming from the back. The idea being to be space efficient (also in height) and print 6 differnet small parts at the same time in a batch. So, small volume printers DO have a use case - and the price can be higher, as a lot of the components do not get cheaper when the build voumne is small. They just may not be mass market.
Yeah.... I don't know, if education centres and schools are your target, it should be cheaper, and easier to set up. Non technical educators are not going to sit and struggle to get it setup on the wifi, and tweak all the settings
I would say a beginner wanted to go with monoprice id go with the select mini
For about $200, you can get the monoprice select mini V2 with a slightly higher build volume of 120mm all around, but no WiFi. But it’s an excellent learning machine with a small footprint. But if you want volume, then creality Ender 3 is a clear winner.
If they could get the price down, I think that it would be great for school use. 3D printing takes time so larger prints couldn't really be printed in the time frame of a class (or two). Plus with a lower price a classroom could have one for each student, it would be a great extracurricular class, or like a class in a summer camp or something like that.
If you want to see a neat small printer, should take a look at the Voron Vzero, its a DIY reprap though.
I use this printer to make fasteners, and in this case to hold numerical elements on a scoreboard, using rubber bands on the back of scoreboards in archery. I can actually print faster on this machine than on larger printers, and get better results at the same speed. Strange but true.
I could see a dozen of these printers being used in a class room to get young kids into printing, tucked into a small desk/shelf, or someone battery powering one for a road trip. The small build volume actually forcing people not to try and print a car bumper replacement is a good thing for time sensitive beginners. It's probably not the safest thing for kids without an enclosure or hepa filter but it can be a fun machine for someone not looking for a diy kit. Nice review, pains me to see simps in the comments constantly recommending the ender 3 which is a good printer but far from a one size fits all machine that really misunderstands the non-hobbyist community.
I had to at least do a couple of upgrades to my ender 3...I upgraded the micro SD card to standard SD....The build plate to glass and the extruder to dual gear....I'm getting some nice prints now...that may be largely due to slowing down the print speed....Also, I had to replace the adjustment wheels and springs on the Ender 3 because the wheels kept coming off from day one....I actually, found one loose in the package and it never did stay on....Ender 3 doesn't have auto bed leveling....though I can work around that....Some of my projects require many small parts which I glue together. It would be nice to have a second printer even if it prints smaller parts....Most of my printing would fit in this print space....I'm surpried this company isn't marketing this as a supplemental printer to seasoned hobbyists.
Didn't quite get that is the raft easy to remove?
As someone no too knowledgeable on 3D printing, what I do know is 250 is fairly cheap and priced for the average consumer if they can get decent use out of it, when I think about the limited room I think "Can't I just print something in smaller pieces and epoxy it together later? I mean it's just plastic right?" not the optimal way, but I'd think it could be done.
Attach a hook to the top and stick it on the tree this Christmas. Sure it would be one expensive ornament but I would get more use and enjoyment from it that way. Not sure what the thought process was behind this. There are several smaller printers with a lower price and I feel a full featured printer would be better for a classroom so that you actually learn about the printer, parts, and functions.
I could see it used in a school since its enclosed. I think that's probably why the price is higher than you expect.
Little anecdote to show, in my opinion, where this printer fits.
A month ago my Finder finally bit the dust, and I thought that since i mainly print really small stuff, I should get a small printer. A lot of the stuff I print is dnd miniatures, small combat robots, that sort of thing. Now a lot of people I asked said "Just get a resin printer" but I am a student in a one bedroom flat, disposing and cleaning of resins is not really something I can do safely here. Mainly I wanted something about this size, tiny build volume and more focused on high quality prints, something i can put a smaller nozzle on. If I knew about this printer a month ago I probably would've bought it because for my needs this seems perfect.
I ended up buying a second hand ender 3, but I feel like I've paid for this huge build space, but i usually use maybe 5% of it. If this printer was cheaper, it would be exactly what I was after.
In addition to this, I have a friend that came to me recently wanting to buy her first printer. She's not experienced at all with this sort of thing and wanted to just print small things as she makes jewelry on etsy, again, resin was out of the question due to lack of space to safely deal with it, and also wanting to keep costs as low as possible when it comes to selling the things she makes. She ended up buying the Flashforge Finder as I've had a lot of experience with that, had one for about 4 years and it comes ready to print out of the box and filled her needs easily. This however takes up way less space and has a flexible build plate which is a win over the finder.
Technical support and ease of setup are critical for educational applications of complex machines like a 3D printer. That’s what makes Prusa Mini the superior choice over anything like this. I bet if presented with a large order for a school system that Josef would knock $50 off the $400 price (delivered) and the price/value equation would be manageable for middle schools or high schools.
I’ve had mine for two years and use it almost as much as my other printers. My range of printers goes from 250 dollars up to my 3,000 lulzbot workhorse.
You should review the Monoprice mini delta, I think you will be pleasantly surprised :D
I first thought this guy was the big youtuber markiplyer known from unnas annus. Until I took a second look
Can you do a review of the $100 printer on Amazon? It's $150 with a $50 off coupon on the site. I bought it but I know I'm going to need help making it work well
For the demographic it is aimed at, it does okay, not great...most people are saying Ender 3, but this actually has a lot of features, for a kid that the Ender does not have. For an Adult, NO, Younger teen or preteen, I say Yes. Realistically it is not that mush smaller than a MP Mini or Mini Delta, I have both, and still use both. Ender 3, Flashforge Creator X, DIY CoreXY....I still use the mini's for small prints, especially around the holidays. For ornaments, name tags,key chains, they are great little printers with a tiny footprint.
Actually, for most prints I would be fine with this volume. Only a few things I would love to have way bigger, but for those I'd buy the upcoming coreXY. :) This however, is not that good if quality of the prints is required, especially for the price of an Ender3, which with a tiny bit of tinkering can outperform this one 10x over. :)
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I feel like a printer this size would be really good for printing small parts for a larger project while a larger printer handles the main components
I just picked this up on amazon for 179. for the price and "ease of use" I hope to get a ton out of it.
I have one, Didn't have any problems connecting to my wireless network and has never failed a print. However i do admit when i purchased iit was $199 @ release ...$249 is way to much, but then again the toy box is $300+ and really no better. It takes 250g spools which you can find anywhere...Understood the build volume isn't fantastic...but it is my most reliable, low maintenance, always lvl printer.
how well does this make tpu prints
Great video, but sometimes lack of features or possibilites /options to setup does not fit into "learn" 3D print, also because you won't meet any of common parameters - choices that you meet later on another printers / bigger projects at all. If anybody asks me for a first printer P-mini (original) is my only answer. (I do have MK3s and Mini in home running almost all the time)
In my opinion printers with 220x220 are just a little to small. Usually this space is not 100% usable. Also when adding a brim to larger prints it is a pain to always fiddle the thing diagonal on the plate and the brim is eating build space. Especially when doing practical prints size matters more. Cases or repair parts can easy outsize the build volume. Real 230x230 would be perfect. That why ended up building my own printer with 300+x300+ size. No more tweaking the orientation.
i started with the xyz minimaker thats 150 x 150 x 150 for 160.00 noi heated bed but it was a good starter printer
I am very positive you can use a small printer for practical prints I have a few mp delta minis with roughly about the same build volume in my print farm the trick is you just need more of the machines but with 4 machines I was able to print a coffee table in a bunch of bolt together oieces in a week. If the machine is reliable it is very doable