The Bambu Lab A1 - The Best Thing Since Sliced Bread
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In this video we talk about Bambu Lab A1 Bambu Lab A1 Mini Bambu Lab P1P Bambu Lab X1C Bambu Lab New Printer.
Long live the bambu lab fanboy club
0:00 Intro
1:01 Print Speed
1:18 Acceleration
2:01 Build Volume
2:55 Extruder and Hotend
3:20 Dual Axis Lead Screws
3:29 Linear Rail X axis
4:09 Reviewing Printers Isn’t Easy
4:21 PEI Spring Steel Sheet
4:32 Automatic Bed Leveling
5:12 Part Cooling
5:25 Aesthetics
4:37 Cloud Functionality
5:57 Touchscreen
6:20 Motor Noise Cancellation
7:15 Proprietary Parts
7:43 Replacement Nozzles
7:54 Detachable Power Cord
8:18 You Should Buy one
8:31 Actual Review Begins Here
8:36 Print Quality
9:27 Bedslinger Pros and Cons
10:46 Serviceability and Tinkering
12:50 Different User Experience
13:53 Moddability of Other Printers
15:55 Final Verdict
16:14 Straw Man Arguments
16:56 Alternatives
17:07 vs FlashForge
18:18 vs Elegoo
18:58 vs Creality
20:31 vs Bambu Lab P1P
20:59 There are Many Great Printers
21:43 Hardware Highlights
23:54 The Apple of 3D Printers
24:56 Penultimate Verdict - วิทยาศาสตร์และเทคโนโลยี
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Teardown video of the Bambu Lab A1 from Vector 3D:
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Everyone please watch and share your thoughts!
The heated bed is very interesting, CNC kitchen posted a picture of it heating up, and the heat transfer throughout the plate seems very inconsistent, personally I would like to see if you could remove the heater's thermal fuse and use the heater to bake a pie. It does not seem like the most reliable way to heat a bed either, PCB heater would of been much better, the price difference between the two can't be that drastic, there are sub 200 dollar printers that use PCB heaters as well. And if they went with a PCB heater I'm sure they could have cut a significant amount of weight from the bed.
They aren't doing a design change for fun, there has to be a reason for switching over. In engineering, cost is king. So somehow, this has to be saving them money.
I would really like to cut the bed wire, plug it into the wall, and see what happens. Maybe do some cooking with it haha.@@kailin1496
@59:00 - Bodge required due to slight failure from the ‘cost down’ team. They must be saving at least $1 per thousand units in wire, though. That has to offset the additional 30 s per unit in production labour and also the reliability reduction, though, right?
“Cost is king” is a production maxim - however, the manufacturing is only part of the cost. Faulty returns are a big expense, so when the ‘cost down’ team want to substitute that slightly cheaper component or cut the wires so short that only an origami wizard can construct the device (God help you if you need to try to fix it), the correct response is to downsize the ‘cost down’ team.
The bed being ‘springy’ seems like a possible issue. As the printed object increases in mass this will deflect the bed, and if the mass is off-centre then it will not deflect uniformly. Someone with one of these and a dial gauge could check it.
Old-school bed-slingers with springs didn’t have big issues, so maybe it’s not something significant.
(All beds will deflect a tiny bit under load, and also flex and warp slightly through heating cycles, so maybe this is nitpicking.)
@@NathanBuildsRobots The bed design does not seem to be too thermally efficient. And with the manufacturing of the bed including: die-casting, magnets, surface grinding, the heating element, and the electronics for the bed, I do not believe that it would be that much less expensive than a pcb bed, if anything the price difference would be marginal at best, I could also see that this bed design might be more expensive than a pcb bed, but the price is compensated for by the design of the rest of the printer. I can't help to think that the the bed design was intentional, in an attempt to keep sales of their higher-end P and X class printers from being crippled.
The sarcasm in this video is so thick that you can cut it with a knife 😂
If you "dissapear" we know what happened.
They’ll make it look like an accident. Like a pile of 3D printers collapsed on me
Hi EUC Vibes. I just dropped in to Bambu is #1. Best thing since sliced bread!
@@NathanBuildsRobots Nah, they will make it look like suicide. You couldn't live with the shame and decided to stab yourself to death with a Bambu Lab filament cutter.
And then in your last moments you wrote in your own blood about how great the A1 really is.
The internet is watching, we’ll know
@@NathanBuildsRobots No need to add furtherance to being an ahole.
The RepRap approach and philosophy relies on open standards and giving full control and ownership to the user, so that’s where products like this fall down for us. But on the plus side, we are being challenged to develop improved motion with input shaping, better user interface and first-time setup, and more configurability to keep up with the proprietary offerings, so there is something to appreciate about these new products entering into our field. It’s clear that the marketplace responds to “ease of use” and “it just works” and we aspire to provide this at the open source level too. The most important thing we can do to help our industry partners compete in this field is provide a solid set of building blocks that they can combine to create the best overall product utilizing the full power of a single processor. That will continue to be our emphasis going forward.
Whatever is in the Ender 3 SE should be on every similar printer from now on. Not having to do Z-offset calibration is great.
I bought the Ender-3 S1 4 months ago because it promised all the best features - direct drive, auto bed leveling, run-out sensor - but I’ve spent so much time with bed-leveling and z-offset that I’m frustrated enough to consider moving to Bambu. They seem to get that some of us may want to tinker with the hardware & software while the rest of us just want to print cool and useful stuff.
@@NathanBuildsRobots creality is trash
Us? This doesn't "fall down" for ME, so please speak for only yourself. Nice to see Marlin still around though...I hadn't seen it on any of my machines the last 5 years, so I didn't think it actually still existed. Then I remembered Creality is still somehow around...
agree it is trash@@shyguy.654
This seems like the first non sponsored non biased review of the a1.
The trolling and the honesty is why I keep coming back here. *chef's kiss*
I bought one for the "not messing around experience".
I do like to tinker with things, but I also like designing and building robots, a printer that is no messing around and works out of the box is what I am keen on.
Should work well for you
I think it depends on what your hobby is. If your hobby is 3d printers, then yeah, it’s probably not for you. I think the market for this is the person that just wants to be able to print the thing they need.
Exactly. I'm using 3d printers for the things I can make not because I can tinker on it.
Literally all the printers he has on display in this video are plug and play
to call an ender plug and play is disingenuous. I don't have to calibrate esteps on my a1
@MasterWilliam770 Neither do Ender 3 V3 KEs dumb dumb. Get with the times.
I appreciate you spending your own money and time to bring an honest review from your own prospective.
This video and the previous about the NDA have opened my eyes. I recently got myself a P1S and I really love it. But this video made me realize just how much I ignored other 3d printers out there. You hit the nail on the head when you say we're blinded by Bambu's marketing. It's not that that I ascribe outrageously positive properties to their machines but I almost totally forgot about the competition.
So while don't think I made a mistake in getting the P1S, I do feel a little bit bad about not getting a honest overview of the market before I buy. And this is what your other video went into.. there have just been so many positive reviews.. all around the same time. It's like a bombardment. Again, I do normally take any review with a grain of salt and tend to watch many different ones before making up my mind but the sheer amount of praise across the board has worked to its intended effect.
Thank you for being a rebel and please don't stop ;-)
has anyone got a copy of the NDA?
A1 flow calibration is HUGE and makes the A1’s very tolerant of various filaments.
I’m printing PLA, TPU, and PETG and they print like a dream. I love the ease of use and have four A1 minis with two A1’s on the way with AMS. The added $160. for AMS was a no brainer and I’ll probably use them as filament storage so I can easily change colors. I mainly manufacture single color parts and AMS poop is a problem I don’t want to deal with unless it’s an occasional print for personal use.
Getting rid of a dozen Creality E3 S1 Pros that are collecting dust. I have two P1S and they put my four K1’s to shame. I’m rapidly becoming a Bambu fanboy because they make my production so much easier with quality, speed and ease of use. In my opinion Bambu is going to kick butt with the quality and value they offer.
Prusa should be worried.
I can always dust off my E3’s if Bambu becomes an issue.
Maybe I’ll keep them for a while until I have some more miles on the Bambu units.
Can you expand on why and how your two P1S put into shame four K1? As money wise they would cost the same, but you should be able to get more output with four printers instead of two.
I just hope you don't start acting like some fanboys. The atmosphere under some review videos is so toxic that you need a gas mask.
@@Cecina-
My P1S printers at this point produce smoother surface finish than my K1’s.
That’s very important to me since I sell the parts.
I use Creality print on the K1’s and Bambu studio with the P1S. Later I may be able to improve K1 print quality by improving or changing slicers?.
Also the P1S is more tolerant of various PLA material flow characteristics. The P1S has a stronger extruder than the K1.
The A1 flow calibration blows away both the K1 and P1S for tolerating filament with poor flow characteristics. Higher temperatures help on the K1 but it works marginal. I’m hoping someone designs a solid aftermarket upgrade for the K1 extruder. Also nozzle clogging on the K1 is a pain in the ass because of the frequency and difficulty clearly it and changing nozzles.
My P1S clogs infrequently but I still don’t like changing nozzles.
The quick change nozzles on the A1’s is a godsend. The engineer that designed it deserves a raise.
I have a good feeling about the A1’s for ease of use and low maintenance. Time will tell. I’m a one man show and don’t have time to babysit printers.
I agree, K1 has some surface artifacts when printing small things on small radius curves. P1Ps have way less issue in this area.
I bet the A1 will be more reliable than the Bambu COREXYs. They are so simple.
How reliable are the ‘AMS lite’ units? My AMS (on a P1S) is a PITA.
I need to do a complete teardown, clean, and rebuild. Didn’t much like long print jobs with some abrasive filament in use.
you nailed the Bambu is the Apple of printing. they control all the parts and software and ensure it just works. I prefer to tinker and control what I purchase, but see why some would want this
I use my macbook more than my laptop.
Macbook has about 4x the battery life and better UI (keyboard, trackpad, speakers, screen)
All the speed and moddability in the world won't make up for that!
But of course I prefer to have both to use each for what it's good at. Hopefully 3D printing settles down in a similar way, and doesn't go full DJI mode where there's only 1 option for buying drones.
That’s exactly what I said
@@NathanBuildsRobots100%
I think this is a good take.
I as an engineer find that I do not have time to fiddle with my printer. I want to just send files and have a working prototype. The A1 is not a good fit due to my material needs, but I totally understand wanting a push button experience.
Yes exactly. I want to create 3D models and have them printed out with minimal fuss. My goal as a designer and maker is to get the 3D object designed and printed, not to have to fix and tinker with the tools to get you there.
The ideal printer would be something that does both. A printer that offers a good out-of-the-box experience, but is open enough that you can tinker with it if you want to.
The Bambu Lab printers are not an option for me due to their closed nature, but fortunately there are still plenty of alternatives on the market. Let's hope it stays that way and doesn't end up like the drone market after DJI came along.
Yeah I'm an industrial designer
Time is money
This makes fusion 360 for kids so accessible
If your tinkering with your machine your not designing and just wasting time
I bet this bloke, becomes the next creality representative
I’ll be the next CEO.
Loved the review. I didn’t realize you’d be putting one out so quick. I’d like to see it versus the Neptune 4 printers.
Same!
I own a Neptune 4 pro and so far the only thing I think it’s got over it is the multicolor capability which is the only reason I would buy the A1. I have had great customer service with Elegoo, where recently my Neptune 3’s motherboard gave out causing some problems and they said they’d just mail me one over for free, and even pay to have it enter the country should tariffs or whatever make it cost more.
@@Finchyboi14470 oh that’s pretty sweet. Yeah I’ve been eyeing the 4 pro. Still rocking a 4 year old ender 3 pro. I just want to see comparable print times and quality from the a1 and Neptune 4 pro. What id really like to see is how often prints fail on Bambu printers vs others. I saw a review of the core xy printers vs prusa prints over 2 months and it was amazing how many more parts the guy got out of the Bambu than the prusa. And very little fails.
the 4Max is bigger and thats its only advantage ignoring how scuffed the N4s firmware was for too long
Bambu - the Apple of 3d printing
With added Tesla marketing strategy (make them buy the high priced $559 Mini before coming out with the stand alone!)
Lol a bambu lab ad played in the middle of watching 😂
Same 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Cool it with the truth man, your gonna give the fanboys a heart attack.
I'm guessing Bambu didn't send you one because they realized you have enough printers already. Think of it as a kind of intervention. haha
haha, so kind of them
It’s amusing that Bambu Lab initially proclaimed bed-slingers to be dead, yet here they are now.
meanwhile making tons of money not caring about the folks saying "but i thought you said you weren't gonna do a bed slinger?? gotcha!"
It is also nice for the guy who likes to tinker who needs to print something time sensitive while tinkering with their printer.
LMAO. THANK YOU for not being a simple propaganda shill and noting the similarities between competitors. i want to print, i don't want to be a printer repair person... but i want to be able to do it if i want to.
Guarantee this guy uses an Android and a PC, and drives a Prius. Probably even has widgets on his Home Screen.
Thanks for this review I've watched dozens at this point. This really adds realistic context to the marketing/hype and has a great analysis and comparison to the competition.
The Apple comparison is spot on. I wouldnt be surprised if in Bambus meetings they've aimed to be the Apple of 3D printing. I agree though personally, I dont like proprietary systems like Bambu (especially considering 3D printing was built off the backs of so many other open source initiatives; it goes against the ethos)
So was Apple software, making the comparison doubly apt.
I don't really agree. Other than Apple, Bambu actually provides their users with full featured WIKI's and (very) affordable spare parts for their machines. Apple on the other hand goes out of its way to discourage any kind of user-repairs. On their latest machines, you can't even swap a broken LCD of your Macbook anymore without transplanting the SMD-mounted ID chip.
So "no". Bambu is not Apple. And we should be thankful for that.
Bambu is not Apple, but it's trying to become like an Apple company
Apple is industry innovator look at the iPhone They innovative the use of USB C charging. Then they also innovated the $1,000 caster wheel that connects to the bottom of your Mac pro Tower.
@@elchavode6479 As I recall many other companies' devices were already using USB-C while Apple kept pushing and using its proprietary Lightning connectors.
For me its the ecosystem.
The app, the slicer, the ams. They just work like charm for me.
Everything just works together seamless and I missed that.
I can throw almost every Material at it and with simple calibration steps they all worked for me.
For someone who prints almost only functional parts, the ams is just perfect..
I have petg, asa, abs-cf and pla+ loaded and always ready to go!
All the other company you showed just remodeled their printers like the ender 3 several times that it got boring.
agree mate, its the tinkerers who are upset because they thought they owned 3d printing and now its a mainstream product
@@jonroth6981
Absolutely!
There are basicaly two groups.
You either have 3D printing as a hobby and like investing time in tinkering.
Or you like to design your own stuff and just want it to be printed without the need of investing time to make the printer work as you need it.
For me Bambu Lab made the first convenient desktop consumer printer.
My Printer is in the basement, no need for sd cards and stuff, no connection problems. It just works.
I have printed silly gimmicks with petg and even engine parts with PA12CF HT without any problems.
Basically the engineers dream.
I agree with having something that works out of the box like a proper tool. I am a mechanic and engineer so I love to tinker but it's also nice to be able to just print when you need to. However I don't like their ecosystem. You are basically locked in and at their mercy just like DJI. But just because I don't feel it's right for me, doesn't mean it isn't right for someone else.
@@anbu94
you cant reach this kinda functionality without a closed system.. thats a fact.
Take apple as an example. All their products communicate seamless and even the hardware with software runs smooth af just because they have it in their own hands.
In case of Creality just look at the steps for a simple firmware update. Heck even Prusa aint that simple.
I can fully controll my P1, X1 and AMS with my App alone.
But you are right. Bambu could scrap the P1 or X1 and we could do not much about it.
But thats a risk i take. The next similar printer would be maybe a Ultimaker s5 with material system.. wich costs about 5 times more than a X1 with ams.
@@chillermrq absolutely no argument there. The convenience is amazing and the products mesh very well with each other. It also pushes other companies to grow and develop to keep up. I guess for me it's a case of "you can't have your cake and eat it too". I would love a carbon X1 that I can tinker with and run klipper on... Wait that's a voron. I guess I just want a voron that I don't have to build myself. 🤣
“Our tech is smart so we get the luxury of being stupid.”- Dee brown mamba
I design and sell 3D parts, that means I want to turn on a machine, and print. I've done the modifying printer route for years (Monoprice Minis, Ender 3's) and at my current capacity of prints its about the 3D printer being a tool not a tinker gadget. Also being able to print a prototype in PLA orange then a production part in black PETG back to back is a HUGE time saver.
Nathan, you've had the printer for less than 24 hours.........
Tomorrow I will have the "long term review" ready 😂
Love this review. I like the dig at Bambu I also like how you are taking the "Best 3d printer" and going component by component and saying how those features are found in a lot of other printers.
Only on paper, doesn't mean the others have the same quality. You can't compare a creality printer with a bambu lab one.
Except you literally can because they're so similar @@shyguy.654
@@shyguy.654exactly this review was not good. Bambu Labs engineering, innovation at their price point, time to get setup, and quality blows all the other printers on this table out of the water.
@@Demeetrius exactly
Nathan" this entry level printer is the same as the others" nuff said
I think the ams deserves a highlight. I've done the manual filament changing to achieve multi color prints and it's tedious.
Also the active flow rate compensation is a pretty big deal!
You seem to have forgotten the whole selling point of the a1 series. "Colorful 3d printing for everyone." There's really no multicolor printer for $600
Maybe I would know that if they sent me a press pack like the rest of the TH-camrs. I have to make this shit up as I go along!
For a multicolour printer of such high quality it’s by far the best value for the size. That’s it’s usp
When even the salty guy who got left out has mostly good things to say about it, you know it's a good product. But, to be honest, he's not wrong. Too much hype for a middle sized bed slinger. Especially since almost everybody who bought the A1mini wishes they knew about this sooner. Sure, it's a very good value but it's not for everybody. I love the ability to customize and upgrade and i wouldn't want to be locked down by an ecosystem that can control or even ban me at any point. That being said, bamboo's products are great for beginers and the price is among the best for the performance they offert.
"The Best Thing Since Sliced Bread"...Someone must have signed an agreement lol
But it really is. It's the best printer ever!
You are one of the only honest bloggers
good review, thanks
It's got a swivel screen. Best innovation on this machine. Gonna make one for my Neptune 4 Max.
It's pretty neat.
Nailed it!!! Keep uo the great work. I dont care what that company says about you. I'll follow. Cant wait to see you build robots and learn something useful.
You don't disappoint! Great review and very honest. I hope you'll share any hot-end swapping you do to your Ender 3 V3 KE because I love that printer but I want to switch it to use a 1mm nozzle (or larger) for a specific production pipeline. Thanks also for an amazingly entertaining livestream obtaining the A1!
Always enjoy your honesty
Well since you asked. Lets see A1 vs MK4 in the fight club
I disagree that the A1 is for people who aren't tinkerers, if you want a tool that works, can do multi material prints all for comparable money than the competition it's a good fit. What I'm trying to say is not everyone who makes things wants to be worrying about there tools being inconsistent.
For me I stopped Overclocking my PC because at the end of the day I want a stable platform to use.. I ended up tinkering more than doing actually using my PC. I got a Flashforge AP and and A1 and I like modeling something and just worrying about the basic settings and just printing.. I just can't be bothered about tinkering with the printer. For me its just a tool.
If your hobby is getting a printer to do what it should this is not the printer for you, if you hobby is 3D design and you just need a way to get them from the digital to the real world with the least hassle oh man is this your printer.
I don't want to tell my printer its Z offset every damn time because somehow it doesn't remember, even tho it clearly says it does. I don't want to mess with some firmware update that bricked the printer again. I don't want to optimize my slicer settings for a week to get some decent results, because instead of just giving some well dialed in profiles all we get is ten year old cura version with a funky skin. I don't want to pay twice of what it's worth because it's orange and takes two months to get here. I just want to print my designs. If any other product gets there and is open source on top of that, cool I'll look at it. But I won't buy a product that works half the time but hey, it's open source and everyone copies it, so it must be great, mustn't it?
There obviously aren’t enough 3d printers in that room… you can still move in and out… so goal not yet achieved 😂
The rest of them are in a pile in the backyard lol
Do I sense a hint of title sarcasm?
Edit after watching the first 90 seconds: well, it wasn't limited to the title lmao ❤
A tad!
With a bit of salt 🤣
Can't wait for the fight club slinger edition
Love it! Don't know how you can keep a straight face the whole time like that. 😂
Teaching Tech’s take is that the A1 doesn’t print quite as well as the A1 Mini:
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Makes perfect sense. The smaller the bed and mass, the cleaner the prints.
@@reasonablebeing5392
I would have expected them to tune for that, though. Perhaps it will be improved with newer firmware.
@@boggisthecatI’m sure they will work to improve but you can’t conquer physics with firmware. It’s the old “need three but you only get to pick two” argument for speed vs. quality vs. bed size for bed slingers.
I'm going call it, the name of next bambu printer the A1 XL
I think you might be right... Making a large coreXY machine is hugely expensive due to shipping the cube. You can only fit 2 printers on a pallet.
Even though I'm an electronics engineer, I just want a tool that works out of the box. I dont have time to fiddle around in my private time, when I just want parts for table top gaming etc. And in a professional setting, just NO.
When I want to tinker I have printers to tinker with. When I just want it to work, I use my X1 Carbon. All of these other printers you list all require tinkering. I have 3 creality printers that it is impossible to print using the entire bed, they are all so warped and their leveling system doesnt work properly. Prusa just work but they are overpriced old tech
Excellent video. We all have to keep the 3dprinting open and do not allow DJI happening in 3dprinting world.
Best review i have seen of any bambu machines
Finally, I was waiting for the video.
Very nice video, well narrated, very knowledgeable, very detailed. Information I am really looking for. Thank you
Great review Sir. Thanks.
For me it is the easy nozzle replacement setup of this Bambu Lab A1 that got me excited :-) Yep, I know, I am easy to please.
#JusticeForNBR #Bambuzled #ItsCalledASenseOfHumor #HaveAGummyBearAndChill
Well done
Great video. I had issues with my V3 SE and had to return it. I ordered the KE and was wondering if I should just go A1. I just want a printer that’s reliable with minimal tinkering. I would appreciate your recommendation. Thanks
I’ve had the ke for almost a week now. Its pretty much plug and play.
You forgot to mention it is the only printer there that can print multi color!
True, it has the AMS system
Thanks for your review
This one or Ender 3 V3 KE? What is better to buy now from your experience?
just get this cus its good, plus it has support and will do unlike the ke
It is not black. 😂 many of us who have been part of the rep rap process are seeing 3d printers become simple appliances. I appreciate your point of this video. Cheers
Thanks for the comparison review in this video. Makes me wonder hard about if I want to go with a K1 Max for ABS plastic usage... or go with this cheap but stable multi-PLA filament machine.
Garrrr. Gonna be tough for me to decide. Maybe I think about it a couple more weeks. :)
I've had my k1 max for almost a month it's my first and only printer and I really do like it print quality is great haven't test it on huge prints jsut lots of smaller prints but I do love my printer I really want to be able to do multi color with the ams
Time is your friend. Just think, a year ago the P1P was the best and only cheap Corexy machine.
I really enjoyed this review, it's very rare that I watch 26 minutes. It will even be difficult to get 2 minutes from me for a bed slinger, so very well done. It's actually very surprising that so many people even take ther time to make a video for a bed slinger but everyone has to decide that for themselves.. It`s there time so they can spend it however they want... But the comparisons here were very interesting. I even watched it 3 times.
Since I don't have a print farm, a new printer also has to solve a new problem - So I'm looking forward to the FLsun and ChromaPad and the printers that then fit best the ChromaPad. Good guides, especially in size and possibly even with a partially heatable print plate on the big ones (if my wishes come true ;-).... So it's more a question of how you get the small parts on the big cheaper ones. Maybe even a printer version without a print head since Chromapad comes anyway... and becomes very interesting with TPU, where the printing speeds collapse anyway.
If I spend 150 USD more and get more, I'll think about it - but if I add. another 150 USD ones more (so 300USD) and have a complete set of spare parts... there's a trend allover, Printers become in general a "littel more complex " or let my say a littel more expensive to mantaine and so on geting stuck faster in the "final round box" anyway. Well, if you get the printers for free and will get a quick support line - If not, two printers are better than one. It's just good to have the first spare parts on a second printer next too in order to get a rough root direction on spare parts..... So 150 USD more become 300 USD and than you already will ask yourself if you want spend a 1000 or 600 USD...... Especially when the 1000 USD (2 x 500 USD) Version will be obsolete in 6 months anyway.....
there are people out there that just need printer to work like their inkjet already does. While I dont think 3d printing is there yet, Bambu seems to be trying to go for that
Truth. But who is excited about their 2D printer? The ultimate goal is to make 3D printing boring.
@@NathanBuildsRobotsexactly, why is 3d printing even a hobby? it was always meant to be a means to an end!
@@NathanBuildsRobots I spend so much time dicking with my ender 5 and ender 3 when I could be diving into fusion. Main reason I'm even debating a1. It's tough, because I don't necessarily like the way The operate. Heckuva price point with that 4 color printing too
Pmsl ; I love it ; I think we shall have to get out the burn kit for Bamboo!
Lol I got a bambu A1 commercial interrupting your video. That means bambu indirectly still pays you for this 😂
Now they only have to pay me $0.005 per impression. Smart company, keep an eye on them 😅
I come from an anet a8 and an ender 3, it is true that I like to improve the things I have. But at a certain point you get burnt out. I spend more time adding and fixing things than printing. I've gone over to the other side. Now I want to print as I have more of a hobby and I want something that is reliable, I hit the button and wait x hours and I have a thing.
For this reason I bought the a1, and if I want print quality I use the resin. For me, Corexy in hobby doesn't make sense, maybe for exotic materials, but realistically, 99% of people use PLA.
Love the complete honesty. This “review” makes me realise that the A1 is very average.
Love the bed head, you rock😂 dude!
Excellent review
Nathan trolling bambú hard 🤣
For someone who just wants to print in PLA with good detail and surface quality - which you you recommend between the A1 and the Flashforge Adventurer 5M (the non pro one)?
From what I’ve seen the 5M is faster and produces higher quality prints
Slow Frame rate of the camera that points and nothing... Is this a plus
Yeah, dumb. How much more would it cost to have a decent camera? Maybe they'll sell an upgrade camera?
Where is Nathan?
This is F’ing hilarious
Feels like the typical iOS/Android discussion…
My bet is Nathan doesn't own an iPhone. ;)
I've got my k1 max for a almost a month now and I definitely do like it. Seeing this really is tempting I'm wanting the a1 or a1 mini with the ams lite. Should I wait for the k1 max to get a reliable ams system on them, or should I get the a1 or a1 mini combos?
I believe Creality will have something in the first half of next year. Depends on how bad you need multicolor 😋
@NathanBuildsRobots well I got into 3d printing so I can start my own 3d printing business to sell, so I'm not the person that's patient with new technology but it's not like a ASAP situation. But I'm jsut curious on how much a ams will cost because looking at co print for $400 imo I think spending a little more for the a1 series combo would be a better deal since I would have two printers. And considering if the a1 series would go on a sale for Christmas or not.
The A1 won't go on sale for at least 6 months. It just launched and the price is very competitive
@NathanBuildsRobots Very competitive so that's why I was wondering if I should wait until creality comes out with a ams or experience a bambu lab printer like the a1 series and see how bambu lab printers really are compared to creality.
Damn Bambu. You dont send this guy machines for HONEST reviews so he will buy one and give the only unbiased review on youtube. Ill stick with creality for now. They might not be the best(up for debate) but atleast they go open source and are ALWAYS doing promotional sales.
Also good on you Nathan for not being a shill
I just want Creality to give us a multicolor option from factory(i know they have a dual but I want 4 color or more)! I cannot believe they arent developing something and honestly cant believe they havent brough one to market yet
Honestly I think it's a marketing strategy. They are working on a multi system but they are also utilising inventory & excess stock of parts to build new printers to lock in the beginner & Hobbyist market and expand Globally so they can then have a larger profit margin to allow for expansion of R&D and there online support and HQ locations globally. From all the research I have done it's seems this way by there expansions, There new machines utilising parts from other machines 2022-2023 inventory and build a larger platform for expansion and annual return to redesign new platforms.
This review is probably the best I've seen on a 3D Printer. It truly sums up the state of the 3D Printer market. Innovation has become stagnant. It all comes down to which brand an individual likes, how much you can afford and how skilled you are in 3D Printing. Thanks for your honesty!
Nathan review style is the best
I'd like to see a speed test and a tolerance test vs the Neptune 4 Plus.
The AMS is the feature that has me sold at this point. For the price what other printer can print in four colors?
My HP-Ecotank Printer!
Ahahahah I’m just into 5 minutes of this video and I’m loving it.
I wasn't subscribed to your channel? OMG... now I am
I had several printers mostly creality they were all garbage. The bambu a1 is the only one that worked perfectly out of the box and has printed almost perfectly every time. I just want to print and it has not disappointed me yet.
The reason I am drawn to the A1 is out-of-the-box multimaterial without spending almost $1000 or more. No one else is offering that under $600 like the A1. Most upgrading and tweaking I do to printers is solving issues that came from the factory. If there aren't issues, I don't really care about modding. However, the lack of modability combined with the 80c bed temp limit is a problem. I thermoform my parts by putting them on a 100c bed (on my Anycubic i3). The A1 wouldn't be able to do that and I wouldn't be able to make it do that.
The bed can go up to 100c!
Hot Hot Hot
The bed goes to 100C
Design queues from DJI, same colors same plastics.
Yeah… they are sharing manufacturing resources with DJI.
If DJI launched a printer brand, they would be HEAVILY scrutinized by the US government.
But spin off a company named “Bambu Lab”, and poof, nobody notices.
I'd like to see the A1 "fight" the other quad-color printers in a $560 price range. That would be an interesting video.
Not really, Bambu Lab is the only one currently. Now, in 6 months from now, we might have some good competition
@@NathanBuildsRobots Hmmmm, ya don't say ;-)
The AMS and claimed plug and print were what got me tempted, but the floods of excessively enthusiastic reviews is making me uneasy.
I'm thinking of waiting a while to see what "real users" experiences are like when the "Bambu sent me this but I swear I'm going to be objective wink wink" push is over.
You didn't seem to mention the hotend management system, but is good review.
A lot of the other reviews say the part cooling isnt great. I wont be buying an A1 but am looking forward to what the community comes up with for tweaks to make it perform a little better. That goes for all of BL printers
I'd be surprised if there is much community support for the Bambu Lab A1, despite the volume of printers they'll sell, for two reasons. Bambu makes it more difficult to mod their walled garden printers, but more significantly, most of the people buying Bambu Lab printers aren't inclined to mod them in the same way that people don't buy Apple products to upgrade. These products are purchased for out-of-the-box user experience. It wouldn't be much more difficult to glom on a better cooling fan, particularly with Bambu providing the accelerometer to calibrate input shaping rather than the budget Klipper printers that calibrate the prototype and use that calibration for all production units, but I don't see most Bambu Lab owners hanging ugly home brew parts onto their pretty Bambu printers. Bambu is targeting the larger market of consumer 3D printer owners and not hardware hackers.
It has to fight the MK4 we all know it MUST because of the price difference maybe include the AMS
What printer would you recommend that’s pretty easy to use? Still a novice and I thought Bambu Labs A1 was going to be a nice upgrade to my Ender 3 v2 but now I’m not sure anymore.
Its Night and Day! Have a Ender 3 v2 + Vyper and now a A1. The Ender is Trash compared to the A1!
mk4 vs A1 , thank you so much
I love the beige 1990s medical device aesthetic of these new bambu printers.
Reminds me of the furniture they had in the psychiatric hospital
Really been considering the P1s just because it’s enclosed with the ams to keep dust and moisture out my prints as I live in an older house. This has really thrown a spanner in the works now at that price. Not a clue what to go for now
If you can enclose the system - e.g. by putting it in a cabinet or similar space - then the cost is lower. The AMS on the P1S is not super-reliable. Mine has been playing up quite a lot the past couple of weeks as I have put through four-colour prints that have been pushing it pretty hard. The ‘AMS Lite’ may be better in that regard.
Boggistgecat how dare you speak about your AMS being unreliable. This is a Bambu Lab criticism free zone, I’ll let you off with a warning this time
If you don’t have an enclosed printer, you don’t really need an enclosed AMS.
I never fry my filaments and I’m able to print PLA and PETG just fine. Even when I lived in a relatively high humidity area I didn’t have issues. If you’re in the humid south it might be an issue.
@@NathanBuildsRobots thank you so much. Hopefully I’ll print more and dust won’t be an issue either. I think I might got for the A1 as I have had enough of fixing my Ender 3 for 4 years haha and put the extra savings over the P1S towards spares and filament etc. thank you so much for taking the time to reply to me.
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I’m sure it’s because I’m not using Bambu Lab filament. It’s the special pixie dust coating on their filament that makes the AMS work reliably.
I am interested in knowing if the ‘AMS Lite’ design is more reliable. It is less complicated, so should be.
I'm a creator - I want to create without hassle, that means I want a simple experience that just works without having to tinker. for me the fun is in the creative process not the engineering.