ANET ET4 3D Printer Review vs Ender 3 Pro
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- Is the ANET ET4 3D Printer a solid competitor for the classic Creality 3 Pro? In this video, I review the ANET ET4 and compare it to other Ender 3 class printers. Included in this review is a feature by feature comparison and a custom Cura Slicer profile for the relatively new ANET ET4.
If you are looking for a new 3d printer for less than $250 this is a must-see review.
**** Please note this is a review of the ET4, the ET4 Pro is a significant upgrade with a dedicated auto bed leveling system and an upgraded print bed attachments.
The ANET ET4 was provided by ANET at no charge. The unit I used for the review had been opened and returned to Amazon.
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this dude has a smile on his face all the time! love it
Thanks for the review, links and custom CURA profile for this printer
great comparison! I love the way you explain and the good energy you have.
I appreciate that!
P.S. I have started a new discussion forum at forum.drvax.com where we can all have more elaborate discussions and share pictures on our prints and printers. Check it out. Irv
You have good energy!
Good and natural comparation.
Another informative review! Well done!
Loved your review. Thank you!
Awesome review and I feel the enthusiasm. Thank you!
Thank you very much for your great video! You give all important informations that I need as a beginner with 3D printers - and this always with a friendly smile in your face👍🏼what I like! All the best to you, Boris, Switzerland🇨🇭
hey! congratulations, very easy content to digest! I think I will go wit the ANET ET4 !! Thank you so much.
This, was the best "real-life" review of a 3D Printer, I have came across on the Web. Thank you, VERY much...
Great unbiased review
Thanks for sharing :-)
Once again, a spot on video.
Thanks.
Love to see your videos Dr.! Question about the anet et4; Did you already try to print nylon with it? I'm very curious if it would handle printing nylon, because of it's properties.
Thank you soo much dr vax, I used that profile for the et4 on the most recent edition of cura, and the print was absolutely perfect. Much, much better than the et4 profile that cura supplies
Thanks for the review, I have ordered the Anet ET4 Pro, that has the, silent stepper drivers, that you mentioned,
that looks to have a slightly different bed.
fckkkk u!!! this review sucks!!!! it is sponsored!!! a lot of people having issues with autoleveling and the bed and filament heating
@@xienjougao3131 chill dude
lovely content
Great video overall. I just want to clear something up for anyone wondering why they are having bed adhesion issues.
5:23 - Glass beds can most definitely be uneven. CR10 glass beds are notorious for being uneven due to the clamping pressure from the clips on a potentially uneven aluminium bed.
Good point.
thanks Irv fantastic fair review, full of helpful info from start to the very end not a minute wasted, hope that you can do something like this with the fusion 360 slicing capabillities (or how they call it additive manufacturing), who better than you could generates an easy "how to" and a fair valoration ? personally where i see potencial advantages in this is in "direct print" no need to export and other software.
Great video great information thank you!
excellent review
Thx 4 excellent review
Best review of the Et4. Love the comparison with the Ender 3 Pro.
Thanks.
P.S. I have started a new discussion forum at forum.drvax.com where we can all have more elaborate discussions and share pictures on our prints and printers. Check it out. Irv
Maybe because others think differently about the printer
Great review. Also, my boys love playing with 3D printed butterflies
a lot of people having issues with autoleveling that motor keeps going go beyond the limit switches and causing damage to whole printer and what an expensive replacement!! same with heating, and you cannot change or mod the firmware the only choice is to throw it away!! believe me! dont buy this printer, one of my colleague bought it and was NOT SATISFIED!!!
google it yourself to see the truth!
Yes. Sammy is my son. I did not ask him to post this and I print things for my grandchildren. Their was no intent to deceive anyone.
@Popoi Pugito I just reread your comment and noticed that I did not properly address your comment. I DO NOT user auto leveling on the ANET A4. First I think auto leveling that requires a manual step and cannot be done automatically at the beginning of each print is ineffective. Second, it did not work when I tried.
I do not see this as a significant issue. Other printers in this price range, including the Creality printers do not have auto leveling. I found manually leveling the A4 very straightforward and I have not had issues with the print going out of leveling between prints. In general for my printer with manual leveling I check the leveling about every 8-10 prints.
Great video 👌 thanks
very good review
I own one myself and can tell you that the autobedlevel with the sensor does work. When you go in to the menu you hit the autolevel button twice, once to select, once to confirm. The nozzle with sensor attached will then probe the bed on 16 different points. It will then show in the display how much your bed is off or on the 0.00 positions. You can use the wheels to adjust the corners and run autolevel again until everything is at 0.00 in the display or really close to that.. Then you don't have to tune it anymore and it will turn out great prints, print after print.
I will try the double tap.
@@MakeWithTech "I will try the double tap” That’s hard core!
great spirit sir!!
That was a very informative and well presented review. I just received my Anet ET4X (purchased for $189) and was wondering how it compares with the Ender. Now I have a better understanding of the capabilities and also no need to worry if I will have buyer's remorse. Thank you!
how's your anet NOW!?
@@xienjougao3131 Well, the hot end terminal connector burned up on the PCB connector board next to the Z axis lead screw. I sent it back and got a refund. I did get another ANET and so far it's doing OK. But if it craps out I will just replace the controller board and motor drivers with something like BigTreeTech SKR V1.4. The hardware is decent but the controller seemed to be having issues. But the second unit is doing OK so far.
@@gulfsurfco I knew it, mine doesnt last a week. really regret buying this, it is holy!!
Really informative episode. Many thanks. When I decided to buy a 3D printer it was a toss-up between this and the Ender 3 Pro. The E3 won out and i'm really pleased with it, but it sounds like this too would have been fine. Finally, if I had one of these, I'd be really tempted to see if I could compile Marlin for it :-)
Thanks for your comment. I do not have sufficient information about the controller board to determine if it could run Marlin 2.0?
I would recommend the wires for the hot end being cable tied to the plate to stop the wires been pulled out there is two holes in the plate for cable ties
Great initial quality review! I got an Anet ET4+ as a Christmas gift. I've upgraded the bed to a magnetic one, as I was having adhesion problems with the glass bed, despite repeated releveling. I am still having a variety of problems like elephant's foot, warping, and just plain losing adhesion even after the print is 75% or more done. I've done some testing with a non-contact thermometer and have found uneven bed temperatures, even after preheating for over 10 minutes. Setting the bed for 60C will yield temps close to 60C on the left and front edges to 25C along the back edge of the bed, with a hodgepodge of temperature ranges at random spots. I can only imagine that's what's causing my adhesion/print issues. I was also disappointed to learn that Anet uses 3.8mm OD Bowden tube so unless I want to replace the hotend, I can't use Capricorn.
Thank you really nice video. May I ask you a question about ET4+? Transport filament system enters filament to fast and gear with filament jump back. As result printer only imitate printing. Is there any way to tun speed of the transport filament system?
Looking at getting into 3D printing , I am RC plane builder and flier and I am weighting the Ender3 and this one, slicing programs with Anet is a concern
I changed the z axis homing on a friend s ender3 to home to the top/z max. It wears out the leadscrew and the pom wheels more evenly. You wont be surprised with artifacts on higher prints, when you don't often print tall. Although it might be simpler to ask it to go to zmax when a print is finished, if you don't want to mess your firmware
Interesting observation. Thanks for sharing.
I am looking to buy my first 3D printer. Your review of the ET4 was impressive, but when I look online for prices/sources (Amazon, etc), I see that there are several variants - "X", "Pro", etc, not to mention wild variations in price for what looks like the same model. I suspect there are upgrades buried in there.
How do I tell which is the latest/best/updated model? Anet's own site is useless - it barely works. Please, Dr VAX, can you include this kind of information in you excellent videos, or can your channel do a model+variants comparison chart?
Keep up the great work!
which version of cura are u using? have you tried cura 4.5 profiles for this machine?
Hello sir, I'd like to know does the printer affects the tolerance in a model. I tried to print several fidget cubes on my Anet et4 and the joints never came out clean, they literally broke out into different pieces. But, with the ender 3 they came out perfectly fine with smooth angular movements. What could be the potential solution here?
At 10:27 your ribbon cable plug needs to be plugged in further until the side levers can clip in place behind it.
Yep. I caught that before I started printing. Thanks for commenting.
Hello. I have been learning a lot through your videos and I am so graceful for that, Now recently I upgrade my ender 3 pro mother's board from stock to silent V 1.1.5. after that I upgrade firmware to marlin 2.0.1. Everything was good. Since three days ago the 3d printer is printing just an one speed to slow, I mean even though I set up in Cura slicer speed 60mm/s the printer is running at 10mm/s. I noticed that the extruder was fast in the motion LCD command and now is to slow. Could you help me? What was my mistake? Ender 3 pro, Motherboard silent V1.1.5, Cura Slicer 4.5 Firmware uploaded with Visual Code. Thanks.
Thanks for good video. I am confused between et4 pro (not et4)and ender v2.ET4 pro is only 18.5k and ender v2 is 28k .Does octoprint will work with et4 pro?
Did you have problems after printing something else? when I try to print something new it does not print anything and says that the print is done. Did you face this?
My Anet et4 was good for spare parts lol. Great video though!
Have you tried printing TPU or other flexible materials?
Great video. I started out with the Anet A8 and learned a lot with it. I use a Artillery Genius now and are very happy with it. Where is that vase fiel you used? Is it a good one for testing quality? Looking for a great test vase. Thanx in advance for your time and support.
Thanks for your video.
Actually I did not want another printer (already have about 20), but as I searched on AliExpress, I was stunned. There seem to be 3 versions:
ET4, ET4-X, ET4-Pro. All seem to share the same mechanic, but the ET4-X has no ABL and only A4988, the ET4 has ABL and A4988 and the ET4-Pro has TMC2208 and ABL. The difference in price, shipping from European warehouse is quite a lot:
- ET4 (not available shipped from european warehouse)
- ET4-X 167€ (actually about the same as the Ender 3 without pro at the moment)
- ET4-pro 232€
This is about 65€ (about 71$) difference between X and pro. 167€ is so cheep, I could not avoid to buy it. As the ABL is a foil switch to put on the nozzle (about $2), only thing to do is changing the board to an SKR e3 mini (and maybe the display). This way not only you get the TMC for much less money (even if you may need another display), you also overcome the closed source / no full gcode-set issue.
I will report as soon as I have the printer and did the modification. It might become the best printer under 200€ this way. Quite happy about your video, as many people who want begin with 3d printing ask me for a low cost but powerful printer for beginners. The ET4-X might be the new answer.
From your video about capricorn published today Iknow the bowden being shorter than on Ender 3. This also is a plus, so this may be one of the few i3-style printers I do not need to change to direct extruder (but might change it to an Creality hotend to use capricorn or simular with inside diameter of 1.9mm).
Thanks for the detailed comment. I agree the very short Bowden tube is a real plus.
P.S. I have started a new discussion forum at forum.drvax.com where we can all have more elaborate discussions and share pictures on our prints and printers. Check it out. Irv
Does this printer comes with eccentric nuts?
And thanks to your excellent video on this, the price of the Anet Et4 3D - Doubled in price overnight, basically almost everywhere. I searched for it on google, every place said 160-170$, But when clicking on it, and ordering it (despite it said having 200+ in stock) magically said "Out of stock error" on EVERY site, and magically changed into "try again" which revealed a price of 320-340$.
I doubt it was the review. It would be nice if my subscriber base was that influential. It may have something to due with manufacturing in China due to the virus. I expect over time prices will restabilize.
I bought it during black friday (on AE official Anet store) and it came 135€ delivered (from EU to EU). price might be relater with different drivers options, TMC 2209 is significant pricier..
Amazing👍
hi i have a ender-3 .my problem is vibration.my printer vibrate so hard i can hear and feel the floor chaking.how can i get rid off this? thank you.
Hi what retraction speed u recommend for et4+
16:44 thats a really nice material!!!
Do those printers use the exact same kind of hotend?
Hi great review thanks, just looking at getting my 1st printer, would you say the Original Prusa i3 MK3S kit would be worth the extra money over the ANET ? Look forward to your comment ?
hey man, please dont believe in this man!! THIS IS SPONSORED! a lot of people having issues with autoleveling that motor keeps going go beyond the limit switches and causing damage to whole printer and what an expensive replacement!! same with heating, and you cannot change or mod the firmware the only choice is to throw it away!! believe me dont buy this printer, one of my colleague bought it and was NOT SATISFIED!!!
@@xienjougao3131 thanks for the heads up. i was tempted to buy this over the ender 3 since it was ridiculously cheap for what essentially is an ender 3 clone.
No comparison! The Anet is pure junk. The Prusa is pure gold. Check out unsponsored reviews of the Anet and you'll get a better idea of just what a disaster it is.
hello i just found your chanel today and i love your videos. i bought my 3d printer 3 days ago (ender 5) and i have a problem. the autohome (0/0/0) is every time at the top left corner and every print will be printed on the left side. i dont get it. i tried to get in touch with creality but they haven‘t responded yet. maybe it is supposed to be there i dont know im new to this. thanks for you help!
You should change slicer's options regarding "what to consider as the center". E.g. in Cura go to "Preferences / Configure Cura / Printers" then select your printer. Next select Machine Settings. Check your build plate has the proper size. Make sure "Origin at Center" is NOT CHECKED. 99% this option is checked for you and that's the reason you have your prints crowded in the left corner.
Did you discover why the fuse was blown on the first printer and what was wrong with the second one?
The glass on the bed is almost certainly borosilicate so that it doesn't crack from thermal shock.
O yeah, like comonn glass (yuo only need to go down to ambient tem) , i have used glass in my ender 3 for a year..., printig even abs with an diy enclousure and only need hair spray for pla, bar glue for abs(abs its trycky..but i buy thats new creality black glass ultrabase..
What's the link to that vase?
Loved your review.Why do you think the fuse blew on the printer?
The power supply was probably set to 220 instead of 110 volts.
Not sure. There was a big 110 sticker on the outside. But after changing the fuse it worked fine without any problems.
Do you think I'll have any luck with TPU?
That's a strange way to home the Z!!
what if you change the bed thickness / hot end assembly / etc. assisted levelling won't help either if the nozzle has dug into the bed? is there really no Min Z end stop?
If you change the bed thickness you have to relevel the bed.
In addition I do not use auto leveling on the ANET A4.
If you start the auto leveling with the start button it goes to the top and just smacks the top and keeps going but if you hit the auto button again it asks you to make sure it it cool you put on the little boot and plug it in and click yes and it works
I have got the same problem, z axis keeps going up to collide with top beam.
I understand the first part. What do mean by the second part???
@@chirots Im talking about the little white boot doughnut thing that you put on the nozzle and just go to leveling and press auto till a prompt pops up and tap yes
Based on the photos on amazon it looks like they replaced that sensor with a capacitive sensor. The same sensor that comes with the labists ET4 (which is just a rebranding of this anet et4).
The capacitive sensor is horrible because it's sensitivity changes based on the humidity and temperature. It's right next to the hot end so you can guess this is rarely reliable.
I replaced the 12mm capacitive sensor with an 18mm inductive sensor so that it can sense the metal bed under the glass.
I went up to 18mm because a 12mm sensor cannot read the metal through the depth of the glass.
I had to design a different mount for it given the diameter differences.
Also the cover of the filament sensor is abs not 3d printed now
Nice review though I wish you could have opened the bottom and showed us inside the base. I am curious about the control board quality and the power supply.
I may try and upgrade the control board to the version with the TMC22XX drivers and if I can get the parts I will do a video about it.
@@MakeWithTech Great, thanks for the reply.
th-cam.com/video/wzhjyUGtKXM/w-d-xo.html You can see it there.
Still my biggest question about the ET4 is with the way the cables are done, could you still add external MOSFETS for heating? Without seeing a better look at it, I can't tell. Also for as long as I've been researching printers, which is about a month so far, the version with the 2208 stepper drivers has not been available in the US as a direct order from Anet.
Is the auto bed leveling fixed in March 2021?
Great vid btw! :)
Not in the Et4. It works great in the Et5 with a real proximity sensor. There may be new Et4 models with a real sensor.
here in philippines the anet e4 has an upgrade version with a proximity sensor for only $180, is it good to buy? rather than ender 3 for $170, i can’t decide which one to buy. i’m planning to use abs what 3d printer i can buy under $250 thankyouu
The latest Cura has an excellent profile for this printer.
Also, the automatic bed levelling works great. I did it after doing the manual one. All my prints are very good to my expectations.
Mine was ordered in France and sent from the Czech Republic. It was delivered with the glass plate as well as with a black self adhesive material. I use both together. In summary an excellent printer for that price.
BTW do not use the sample filament; it realy is bad quality.
I think autobed level works or does not work depending on your version of the firmware. I will look into it.
Would it be possible to swap out the control board to something better while retaining all the functionality including the touch screen?
It would but it would be a lot of work to connect the ribbon cable from the hot end, which is not standard, to the new control board.
Which is best company in 3D printer Anet or criality Ender 3 V2 tell me what your thoughts
Can you add a BL Touch to this printer?
What laptop do you use?
has someone tried to upgrade the et4 with a prusa controller? could that work?
The new Cura 4.5 has an ANET ET4 profile
Really. I missed it then. I updated during my work on this video and did not go back to look. I only saw the A6 profile not an Et4 profile. Thanks for sharing I will have to go back and look.
Just got my et4, all went well, W en the 2 files off the card printed.
But now I have the dreaded extruded clicking.... and it’s bad.
I have not been able to print anything else at all.
Also let me just say I’m no noob, I e printed with my old CR10 flawlessly for over 4 years.
I have also tried all the usual steps, but it will not stop clicking , I also can’t seem to find any adjustment features for the extruded cog.
I have loosened the silver wheel, hasn’t helped.
So please can someone give me some idea what is going wrong or how do I fix the clicking.
Few other things I’ve tried.
Move the extruded cog up and down a few mill, nope.
Old pulled, all blocks clean.
Tried shorter ptft tube.
I have contemplated removing the run out sensor, I just don’t like them and don’t need them.
So guys please give me some idea, it’s not my only printer, and I just want to go back to printing flawlessly.
Thanks
J
The homing switch for zed has been changed to z -0. The firmware update allows program recognition without restarting. Also, the zed axis homing location of z +250 (+~-) is a derivative of cnc machine homing.
Just a brief addon from Dec 2020: Creality now ships Ender 3 Pro with quiet 4.2.7 board( which is STM32 32 bits board) instead of old crappy 8 bits board. Although, chances exist if you are buying from some 3rd party stores that you will get old revision with 8 bits controller from their warehouse. Unlucky you are. :)
P.S. And it's still with Meanwell PSU. :)
bed levelling would work even better with 3 points rather than 4 points - 3 points define a plane, 4 points define a potatochip
Good point.
Where r u drvax r u safe ?
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Irv where are ya?
After watching this video would you recommend purchasing Monoprice Maker Ultimate 2 3D Printer ?
I am a fan of the ultimate 2. But it is in a different price range than the ET4 and it has a smaller price volume.
DrVax - I took the plunge and ordered the Monoprice Maker Ultimate 2. Hope I have the same suggest that you did with it.
You might find this article helpful.
forum.drvax.com/forum/3d-printer-reviews/498-monoprice-ultimate-2-comments-and-bed-leveling
The link in the article is a detailed tutorial on leveling the Ultimate 2 print bed.
now im curious how it compares to the ender 3 v2
The Ender 3 V2 has a completely new 32 bit control board just like the ET4. A major difference is that the Creality uses standard Marlin firmware builds that are based on open source industry standards. I have not seen an Ender 3 V2 yet so I have no personal experience with it but the specifications are excellent. Without seeing it I cannot directly compare to the ET4.
I just went to purchase one on the main Creality site so I could do a review and they are currently sold out.
** I found one on the US store site and order for $260. Scheduled to ship June 30th. Keep checking this channel for a full review.
@@MakeWithTech I have the v2. Two months working with this monster already. Among the new features, it has two manual tensors for the Y and X axis, so the belts are supposed to last longer. There is a recovery function in case of accidental shut down which actually works great. The knob for manual extrusion still has the problem of becoming loose after a couple of prints, however you can always print a new one if such problem presents itself. No automatic bed leveling. Cables are still a mess. Easy to mount and Has a drawer to store tools. Though, it is still very hackable and modeable like the other versions of ender 3. Out of the box is not "THAT" special (retail version won't detect if there is no filament extruding); Its real Power shrines through its versatility and potential, in both changeable parts and software.
I like your presentation, but to make it perfect, please refer to a single axis as the x-axis, y-axis, or z-axis, but not x-access, etc. If you want to mention the plural of one axis, it's axes (sounds like, axeees), as in the x and y axes. Thanks for all your hard work. And, sorry, but I don't mean to correct you only, but just giving some constructive commenting.
Great advice. Thanks for taking the time to provide helpful advice.
Looking for a cheap printer to enter the world of 3d printing. Due to the fact that the anet a4 costs approx 140€ and the ender 3 pro around 220€ i think i'm going to give the anet a4 a try :)
Jan Heimer If you order from Anet’s official Aliexpress store and use their coupons, it will be around €150. Yesterday I ordered mine for 149
@@Hablainfo ordered my et4 via an ebay shop with a local warehouse (germany) for 130€ and received the parcel two days later :) And i'm really satisfied with my first printing results.
Go for the ender. .Anet its too bad
What is a M117 area?
On some printers, such as the Creality printers and the Prusa printers, there is a area on the fornt panel LCD reserved for messages included in the gcode you are print. ANET printers do not support sending messages from gcode to the front touch screen menu.
I have started a new discussion forum at forum.drvax.com where we can all have more elaborate discussions and share pictures on our prints and printers. Check it out.
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Sincerely,
David A.W.
@Electric Boogaloo Just looked at his Twttter... he's not in NYC. He's in Illinois about 10 miles from Chicago (another place with a high infection rate, but substantially lower than New York City. I don't know if my uncle would be useful as a result, but perhaps he would be. Northwestern University & University of Chicago are extremely close and my uncle likely knows other physicists, biochemists, biomechanics and Fluid Dynamics professors there.. so just maybe I can provide him some useful information for which MD's to use to care for him to help him survive the virus if he unfortunately catches it. Perhaps a little much from me as I am one of the absolute most at risk of death if I acquire the virus. I'm a Type 1 Diabetic (DM1) which means I am severely immunocompromised as a result of Massachusetts changing insulin pump supplies providers (Diabetes who have higher blood sugars are more and more immunocompromised with every single increase in blood sugar immune function is substantially reduced & even more so the higher blood sugars rise - I really have to have my insulin pump back immediately to have any chance of Survival but MA rule & law changes have made them impossible for me to regain access to). So for me the virus will hit far more severely. In addition and to just about ensure my death, I am also physically handicapped by a breathing issue called "[Severe] Tracheobronchomalacia" which means I am completely unable to cough. Upon attempting to cough my posterior (rear) trachea (which isn't attached to my internal body) flops forward onto my anterior (front) trachea, blocking 100% of my airway. So a body which can't properly start fighting the infection followed by a complete inability to expel the fluid which builds in the alveoli of the lungs means without question, certain death. I haven't left my house in over a month except to go to CVS which will deliver to every single home around me, except my own (they claim it's a business but there has never been a business here and never could be due to it's size and minuscule parking). In addition no supermarkets will deliver here (12 miles from Whole Foods which claims to deliver within 15 miles... but not to me). It's sad to say, but I am almost certain to die myself (and I always believed I would die of colon or Pancreatic cancer as every single other family member has in the 70's to their 80's and absolutely no one in my family has even had a heart attack, nevermind dying from one). I really wanted to hit 73 but 31 years is a longshot with this virus about and everyone stealing every single N95 mask and all gloves so that those like myself with a medical conditions who cannot survive without them, can't get them. Darn panic buying!
@@coryfamilyhome5237 Hopefully he is okay and/or provides me with a response here or on Twitter. I believe we all want him to be okay.
David thank you. Unfortunately I came down with Covid 19 at the beginning of March and was on a ventilator for 8 days. Now continuing my recovery at home and hope to have the strength to start making videos in a few more days or at the latest next week.
cogitations.com/my-covid-experience/
Here is a link to my personal website where you can learn a bit more about my Covid story. Thank you again for asking.
Irv
@@MakeWithTech I am extraordinarily happy to hear you survived the ventilator as it is used during the time at which you are most at risk. I am very pleased to hear you're recovering and do please take whatever time you need to recover before filming any new content. It's such such a relief to have you respond. Thank you!
So you made clear, surviving the ventilator is the major concern in your web link provided. Happy you have survived. Please take the time you need to recover before producing a new video. We your followers & viewers will wait patiently.
,may be anet then...
I think this is a 220 X 220 X 250
Yep. Thanks for the correction. Sometimes my mouth gets ahead of my head. That is why it is best to learn together.
I think the customer who returned it added those test files to the SD. The original test files are of a cat and a money piggy bank. They are on mine anyway
Interesting. The all had ANET in the name. Either way. Thanks for sharing.
@@MakeWithTech your review is great. I've just gotten in to 3d printing and your videos have been immensely helpful. This is the 3d printer I got so an expert such as yourself giving it a run down and giving me some direction helps so much
Thanks for sharing.
man, that is a very, very long commercial
a lot of people having issues with autoleveling that motor keeps going go beyond the limit switches and causing damage to whole printer and what an expensive replacement!! same with heating, and you cannot change or mod the firmware the only choice is to throw it away!! believe me dont buy this printer, one of my colleague bought it and was NOT SATISFIED!!!
I stated right at the beginning of the video that ANET sent me two printers returned to Amazon so I could use the parts and assemble a printer for testing. This is the only thing I received. In fact I only used one of the printers and it had a bad fuse which I replaced. This may have been why it was returned.
@@MakeWithTech I am sorry Sir, its just 2 people I know bought this kind of printer because they saw your review, however in the long run, a week or daily usage, the printer malfunctioned the autoleveling , especially in continuious printing. and me i already ordered it! even though it is not arriving yet I am regretting already as i have googled it same with almost all users, having a board that is not open is a really pain in the ass, u cannot use laser to clip magnet or engraving pwm is not open.
I value your input. That adds to our community of makers. I have 9 different 3D printers. All of the manufacturers ship defective printers from time to time. I believe many manufacturers make good machines for the right person. I have no problem with you preferring Creality over ANET. Both companies have fans and I see advantages to each depending on the user. I own 2 Creality printers and have purchased 2 for my grandchildren. This is my first experience with ANET. So far I am enjoying using the printer. Thanks again for participating.
Trust an Anet at your own risk I’ll do a great review for free printers see others reviews before buying sorry allowed an opinion
Great content. Keep it up! Would you like to be TH-cam friends? :]
You gave this a food review despite it not having a decent slicer profile and using its own proprietary firmware that does not recognise some gcode?
Really.
Surely the basic fir any printer has to be it recognises gcode and it comes with a decent profile.
I assume they tested it.
A lot to see if it worked so why not provide the profile, there must be one.
Unless they slapped it together and never tested it.
I’ve seen other reviews and I’m sorry I totally disagree with your review.
I think it’s very poor and you’d be much better to get something else, an Ender 3 for example.
It’s very poor.
Many 3d printers in this price range do not support a full set of gcode commands and come with out of date versions of Cura. The Ender 3 V2, which I have reviewed and is a great printer, has incomplete firmware and does not support a number of current gcode commands.
In my case I updated my Ender 3 V2 to Smith3d's version of Marlin 2.0 and added a BLTouch. I will also be updating my ANET ET4/5 to Marlin and you can expect a video about this in the future.
P.S. I have started a new discussion forum at forum.drvax.com where we can all have more elaborate discussions and share pictures on our prints and printers. Check it out. Irv
It is absurd, the Anet ET4 or any of the ET family cannot be compared to a Creality for the simple fact that it is not open source, it is closed firmware and this makes it a printer of too basic use, it cannot be modified or improve, you cannot change extruder, change motor steps, modify PID, etc. An ET family printer soon falls short, for what it's worth, better to buy an open source Creality perfectly.
While I understand your point of view we all use closed products everyday. Products protected by patents, products protected by trade secrets, products closed to modification. There is a place for both approaches and each of us has the option to chose which products we purchase. I do not believe one class of products, closed vs open is superior or inferior.
@@MakeWithTech
in this case I totally disagree, in the case of 3d printers, a closed and open product has a lot to do with it, an open source printer is more likely to go a thousand times better than a closed source one, if you understand both printers You should not even discuss this, there are no different points of view, the reality is that.
I have multiple Ender 3 and an Ender 5 printers and I have recommended both to friends and viewers. I have replaced the firmware and significantly modified my Ender 5 which I enjoyed. That worked out great for me but other people just want a printer that is more like an appliance.
At some level this becomes like a discussion of organic vs non-organic foods. People will have very strong opinions. This is healthy. But the debate will continue forever.
Thank you for sharing your thoughts. They enrich the dialogue. Irv
@@MakeWithTech For me it is a pleasure to give my opinion and my point of view, that's why I told you, because in the video I do not see that you are sincere, you do not talk much about this topic, which I think is the most important thing to value when buying a printer 3D, depends on the use to be made of it, is it worth it or not to buy one with the firmware closed? What use can be made of a printer with the firmware closed? ? These are the strengths, you will see that there are more negatives than positives when it comes to closed firmware, best to buy an open source printer and if you want to improve in the future you can improve and will never be small in that regard without However, a closed firmware ... don't ask for much, it won't give it to you.
@@MakeWithTech Maybe a better word instead of "protected" would be "restricted".
no thanks
Yet another i3.
True. But well executed.