Hey, just wanted to add from a K1 SE owner: I chose the K1 SE as a print almost exclusively in PLA. If you print PLA with the doors and top closed on the K1C, you run the risk of nozzle clogs due to heat creep. That's not an issue at all on the K1 SE. Since I almost exclusively print PLA, I didn't want to have the door open and top open all the time on the K1C, and I figured the $140 savings was worth it for otherwise the exact same printer. Although, I did add the K1 camera for $25, so I guess, $115 savings. Bed is almost exactly like yours, slanting to one side. Haven't had too bad of issues with 1st layer, so haven't shimmed or gear skipped it yet. Added moonraker and fluidd to it; big upgrade over Creality OS. And it's overall a million times better than my old Ender 3 V2 bedslinger I upgraded from. Thanks for the video.
They do and all the creality printers I’ve owned have had mehhh bed meshes that’s my biggest complaint with them. Other than that I get good print quality just hit or miss first layers
The current k1s do have the unicorn nozzle,so for the price difference the Se is probably worth it to most people who primarily print PLA. However I just sold a K1C for $300 so there are options.
Weird so other than no camera? Is the extruder different? I see k1 and k1 max on market place all the time especially with new printers coming out all the time
@@TwoMooseToo the camera is normally absent from the K1 and the current versions have the newer extruder apparent by the white locking ring vs the blue(older) version. I added the camera to my K1 for $20
The K1 SE is my first 3D printer and I'm very happy with it (except the fact that mine came with the X and Y axis flipped 😅, easy fix). As you stated the bed could be better but overall I'm happy with the ease of use.
For $20 more you can get a Qidi Q1 Pro with coupon and I'd definitely go with that over the K1 SE. It looks like a decent printer for the money, but the Creality printers have a poor extruder design currently. On a deep sale it could make sense.
I like my Q1 pro as well. Along with the flash forge, its a pretty competitive market in that $400-600 price range! I personally am not one to buy a printer to build it, I would much rather it be turn key and just pretty pretty good with minimal tweaks.
@@TheJacklwilliams They are good printers to print stuff and I'm def not knocking any individual for buying. It also comes down to price and situation of course. It's only when you get down to really low level comparison of quality or long term goals that the differences become clearer. I'm def glad it's working well for ya!
@@802Garage Thanks man. As an IT Engineer that’s lived in the virtual world for too many years I get a major kick out of bringing what’s on screen too life. As such, hooked… The thing that kicked my ass about this generation of printers (Bambu included) is actually pretty simple and I couldn’t understand why it took so long to come to fruition. Booting up, and accessing the machine from my phone (yeah I don’t do this, screens too damn small), tablet, laptop, that’s the way it should be. Follow that with auto bed mesh/leveling, calibration, etc…. and well we’ve arrived. This thing is consistently spot on and the prints show such a signifcant increase in quality vs using a piece of paper and adjustment wheels to get a decent first layer. Waiting for the right price point was important to me and even if (no if, I will) I upgrade it completely and enclose it, etc…. I can spend that money when I want to. The open source nature and community of modders is fun and motivational considering the great stuff people come up with as well.
@@TheJacklwilliams Yeah the open source community has also been the source of a lot of those upgrades you were waiting for. :) I will say having the option to tram the bed instead of just relying on mesh compensation is still a good thing to me. A lot of the K1 series come with a very off level bed, but the compensation does work well. Like I said, super glad it's working for you. I think the most important thing is for the owner to enjoy 3D printing!
I haven’t used the non pro but I have the pro and I think it’s a great printer. I’d personally probably buy the adventurer. I think both printers are great for the price point I just feel the 5m pro requires less tinkering and I like the quick swap nozzles.
i think that its a smart move from creality and lets face it 95% of ppl print with PLA and the prints size are under 220x220 i have a k1 and some times i do need to take the cover off my opinion
I just find it weird that it’s pretty much the same price as the original k1 but I 100% agree most people are printing out of pla maybe petg which neither need an enclosure.
Why anyone would buy a Creality printer rather than a Bambu one is a mystery to me! . I wouldn't even buy the K2 which they say is actually pretty good for a change.
Do you consider this k1 se printer a reliable printer? I could get k1 SE for like 315 usd vs the bambu a1 for 375 (im from mexico, those are the current prices) i decided to go for the k1SE. I do like a lot more the idea of a core xy printer for even cheaper but im worried cuz this is would be my first printer and i've heard creality has a lot of quality control issues while bambulab is just easy printing. I do like tinkering and learning from fixing things since im in the custom built pcs hobby i just dont want something that makes me not wanting to use it cuz everytime there is something going wrong, i do consider i learn really fast and i have a decent amount of hardware and electronics knowledge cuz the pc hobby i mentioned before but i dont know anything about 3d printing ant this is my journey start. What are your thoughts on these, would you consider i should be fine with the k1 SE?
I'm curious on peoples thoughts on the latest K1 not the K1C but the original. Is the K1C extruder and nozzle that much better? I personally haven't used one and I'm curious if that justifies the SE being so close in price as the original K1?
The SE is like a modern Ender 3 in that you get it to tinker with. For the price it's great (I bought one and loving it lol) but the K1 SE is cannibalizing the most expensive Ender 3 v3. Why get the regular Ender 3 v3, when the K1 SE is cheaper on Amazon as of the time of this comment? That's more of a criticism of the creality, not the product.
creality and buick are in competition to see who the fck can make the same product at similar price points with slight name variations. i prayed the k line would be the end of the ender 3 comparison sheets but we're back to 2021 now
i just returned mine as I am new to 3D printing because this printer has been kind of irritating. the printer started out fine but after a few days I started running into issues. the wifi would disconnect here and there not often but id have to turn the printer off the back on when the printer started doing the first layer of print it would do a little level and extrude some PLA but that little bit of PLA would stick to the extruder then get stuck on the first layer. today I started the printer and started doing a print and I noticed my printer had stopped so I checked the screen and found an Error: Leveling sensor chip abnormality, sensor damage or environmental impact I was able to get the Error to go away for alittle awhile after doing a full bed level and factory reset but it came back later on. I know im new to 3D printing so I could have been doing things wrong but I decided to just never print again so I returned it
The wifi issues are caused by your network trying to enforce WPA3 if you have WPA2+3 enabled. I solved this by temporarily downgrading my wifi to WPA2, connecting the printer's wifi, then changing the wifi settings back to WPA2+3. That seems to have solved my connection issues. Other than that, sounds like you got a dud, sorry. My K1 SE has been solid 40+ prints in so far.
It’s the same as the k1c so there is some VFA. I’ve had decent luck tuning it whether it’s printer faster or slower. You can do calibrations, you can still see it but it’s definitely better
Creality sucks, not an original thought in their brains. Had Bambu not come along, this would be the Ender 7 sxe5732.. and fan boys just keep on buying it.
That’s why competition is good, it forces companies (not just creality but ALL of them) to actually be competitive and innovate. There’s absolutely nothing wrong with what they’re doing because they’re doing it cheaper and being competitive, you know…the way it should be.
@@CtrlAltPrint its not really "competition" if you are just copying tech. Its copyism. Its what Creality is known for. Also, had great help and feedback from Bambu, and also from Sovol, Creality? Stopped contacting me after severe problems with a 3 month old printer from them. I will NEVER do business with them again. And try to educate others on their lack of morals and published warranty terms. And that is not even getting into their history of stolen IP. Good Luck.
@ yeah that’s what happens when it’s an open source space though, literally everyone copied prusa and so on, and unlike Bambu who came in and sure innovated the scene thankfully, they still have issues such as them taking open source products slapping their name on it then making it closed source. There’s nothing wrong with liking either company they’re for two different types of hobbiest
@ I get it, I have just seen Creality take and take and take, and not innovate.. what a CR touch? Then Bambu comes out (of course after Voron) and just literally blow them out of the water. If it was up to them, we would be on the 99th Ender by now.. they would be happy giving us bare minimum and taking everyone’s money. 2 yrs ago everyone was screaming Muh Tinker.. now everyone just gets to enjoy printing. Cheers dude.
Hey, just wanted to add from a K1 SE owner: I chose the K1 SE as a print almost exclusively in PLA. If you print PLA with the doors and top closed on the K1C, you run the risk of nozzle clogs due to heat creep. That's not an issue at all on the K1 SE. Since I almost exclusively print PLA, I didn't want to have the door open and top open all the time on the K1C, and I figured the $140 savings was worth it for otherwise the exact same printer. Although, I did add the K1 camera for $25, so I guess, $115 savings. Bed is almost exactly like yours, slanting to one side. Haven't had too bad of issues with 1st layer, so haven't shimmed or gear skipped it yet.
Added moonraker and fluidd to it; big upgrade over Creality OS. And it's overall a million times better than my old Ender 3 V2 bedslinger I upgraded from. Thanks for the video.
Nice! That’s awesome, yeah mines been fine with limited tweaks. Glad you like it! Happy printing 😁
Clicked because of the Doggo on the thumbnail. By far the best outdoor 3d printer.
Thanks for watching!
It's all about the bed mesh and the first layer. It's a deal killer for me when Bambu and Prusa does such a good job of it.
They do and all the creality printers I’ve owned have had mehhh bed meshes that’s my biggest complaint with them. Other than that I get good print quality just hit or miss first layers
The current k1s do have the unicorn nozzle,so for the price difference the Se is probably worth it to most people who primarily print PLA. However I just sold a K1C for $300 so there are options.
Weird so other than no camera? Is the extruder different? I see k1 and k1 max on market place all the time especially with new printers coming out all the time
@@TwoMooseToo the camera is normally absent from the K1 and the current versions have the newer extruder apparent by the white locking ring vs the blue(older) version. I added the camera to my K1 for $20
Is the k1 SE stiffer than the k1c with these 4 brackets and side bar?
If you root it and use orcaslicer with them you will like it try it just the option to print direct from the slicer is a gamechanger nice video
I do run orca I didn’t root them though I just drop it though the IP klipper screen in a web browser
Do you know how it is with VFA?
The K1 SE is my first 3D printer and I'm very happy with it (except the fact that mine came with the X and Y axis flipped 😅, easy fix). As you stated the bed could be better but overall I'm happy with the ease of use.
Oh weird 😆 glad it was a simple fix!
For $20 more you can get a Qidi Q1 Pro with coupon and I'd definitely go with that over the K1 SE. It looks like a decent printer for the money, but the Creality printers have a poor extruder design currently. On a deep sale it could make sense.
I like my Q1 pro as well. Along with the flash forge, its a pretty competitive market in that $400-600 price range! I personally am not one to buy a printer to build it, I would much rather it be turn key and just pretty pretty good with minimal tweaks.
The Qidi is awesome no doubt. Got the SE 2 weeks ago and frankly it rocks!
@@TheJacklwilliams They are good printers to print stuff and I'm def not knocking any individual for buying. It also comes down to price and situation of course. It's only when you get down to really low level comparison of quality or long term goals that the differences become clearer. I'm def glad it's working well for ya!
@@802Garage Thanks man. As an IT Engineer that’s lived in the virtual world for too many years I get a major kick out of bringing what’s on screen too life. As such, hooked… The thing that kicked my ass about this generation of printers (Bambu included) is actually pretty simple and I couldn’t understand why it took so long to come to fruition. Booting up, and accessing the machine from my phone (yeah I don’t do this, screens too damn small), tablet, laptop, that’s the way it should be. Follow that with auto bed mesh/leveling, calibration, etc…. and well we’ve arrived. This thing is consistently spot on and the prints show such a signifcant increase in quality vs using a piece of paper and adjustment wheels to get a decent first layer. Waiting for the right price point was important to me and even if (no if, I will) I upgrade it completely and enclose it, etc…. I can spend that money when I want to. The open source nature and community of modders is fun and motivational considering the great stuff people come up with as well.
@@TheJacklwilliams Yeah the open source community has also been the source of a lot of those upgrades you were waiting for. :) I will say having the option to tram the bed instead of just relying on mesh compensation is still a good thing to me. A lot of the K1 series come with a very off level bed, but the compensation does work well. Like I said, super glad it's working for you. I think the most important thing is for the owner to enjoy 3D printing!
Which would you recommend: The K1 SE for $329 or the Flashforge adventurer 5M (not the pro) for $299?
I haven’t used the non pro but I have the pro and I think it’s a great printer. I’d personally probably buy the adventurer. I think both printers are great for the price point I just feel the 5m pro requires less tinkering and I like the quick swap nozzles.
What do you guys thing of the new K1 SE?
i think that its a smart move from creality and lets face it 95% of ppl print with PLA and the prints size are under 220x220 i have a k1 and some times i do need to take the cover off my opinion
I just find it weird that it’s pretty much the same price as the original k1 but I 100% agree most people are printing out of pla maybe petg which neither need an enclosure.
absolutely love mine… waited for quite some time for the bugs to be worked out.
Why anyone would buy a Creality printer rather than a Bambu one is a mystery to me! . I wouldn't even buy the K2 which they say is actually pretty good for a change.
Do you consider this k1 se printer a reliable printer? I could get k1 SE for like 315 usd vs the bambu a1 for 375 (im from mexico, those are the current prices) i decided to go for the k1SE. I do like a lot more the idea of a core xy printer for even cheaper but im worried cuz this is would be my first printer and i've heard creality has a lot of quality control issues while bambulab is just easy printing. I do like tinkering and learning from fixing things since im in the custom built pcs hobby i just dont want something that makes me not wanting to use it cuz everytime there is something going wrong, i do consider i learn really fast and i have a decent amount of hardware and electronics knowledge cuz the pc hobby i mentioned before but i dont know anything about 3d printing ant this is my journey start. What are your thoughts on these, would you consider i should be fine with the k1 SE?
I'm curious on peoples thoughts on the latest K1 not the K1C but the original. Is the K1C extruder and nozzle that much better? I personally haven't used one and I'm curious if that justifies the SE being so close in price as the original K1?
The SE is like a modern Ender 3 in that you get it to tinker with. For the price it's great (I bought one and loving it lol) but the K1 SE is cannibalizing the most expensive Ender 3 v3. Why get the regular Ender 3 v3, when the K1 SE is cheaper on Amazon as of the time of this comment? That's more of a criticism of the creality, not the product.
creality and buick are in competition to see who the fck can make the same product at similar price points with slight name variations. i prayed the k line would be the end of the ender 3 comparison sheets but we're back to 2021 now
Flood the market lol I feel they shoulda just went with the k1c and ended the k1? Maybe that’s the plan they just have a ton of stock of them.
i just returned mine as I am new to 3D printing because this printer has been kind of irritating.
the printer started out fine but after a few days I started running into issues.
the wifi would disconnect here and there not often but id have to turn the printer off the back on
when the printer started doing the first layer of print it would do a little level and extrude some PLA but that little bit of PLA would stick to the extruder then get stuck on the first layer.
today I started the printer and started doing a print and I noticed my printer had stopped so I checked the screen and found an Error: Leveling sensor chip abnormality, sensor damage or environmental impact
I was able to get the Error to go away for alittle awhile after doing a full bed level and factory reset but it came back later on. I know im new to 3D printing so I could have been doing things wrong but I decided to just never print again so I returned it
Yeah sounds like you might of got a dud if it’s throwing error codes!
The wifi issues are caused by your network trying to enforce WPA3 if you have WPA2+3 enabled. I solved this by temporarily downgrading my wifi to WPA2, connecting the printer's wifi, then changing the wifi settings back to WPA2+3. That seems to have solved my connection issues. Other than that, sounds like you got a dud, sorry. My K1 SE has been solid 40+ prints in so far.
😅 you where a little too quick on that k2 video ha. Was the embargo not lifted yet? 😂
It wasn’t meant to post 😆 I’ll start showing it on my short socials soon here
I'm sorry Flashfirge is holding it down in the cheap core XY machines, not the pro that is way over priced............
I have a flashforge and thinks it’s great. Love the quick swap nozzle
What about VFA this time?
It’s the same as the k1c so there is some VFA. I’ve had decent luck tuning it whether it’s printer faster or slower. You can do calibrations, you can still see it but it’s definitely better
@@TwoMooseToo Thanks, I'll go check some K1 C prints.
Creality sucks, not an original thought in their brains. Had Bambu not come along, this would be the Ender 7 sxe5732.. and fan boys just keep on buying it.
Bambu definitely changed the game. I have 3 and they print great
That’s why competition is good, it forces companies (not just creality but ALL of them) to actually be competitive and innovate. There’s absolutely nothing wrong with what they’re doing because they’re doing it cheaper and being competitive, you know…the way it should be.
@@CtrlAltPrint its not really "competition" if you are just copying tech. Its copyism. Its what Creality is known for. Also, had great help and feedback from Bambu, and also from Sovol, Creality? Stopped contacting me after severe problems with a 3 month old printer from them. I will NEVER do business with them again. And try to educate others on their lack of morals and published warranty terms. And that is not even getting into their history of stolen IP.
Good Luck.
@ yeah that’s what happens when it’s an open source space though, literally everyone copied prusa and so on, and unlike Bambu who came in and sure innovated the scene thankfully, they still have issues such as them taking open source products slapping their name on it then making it closed source. There’s nothing wrong with liking either company they’re for two different types of hobbiest
@ I get it, I have just seen Creality take and take and take, and not innovate.. what a CR touch? Then Bambu comes out (of course after Voron) and just literally blow them out of the water. If it was up to them, we would be on the 99th Ender by now.. they would be happy giving us bare minimum and taking everyone’s money. 2 yrs ago everyone was screaming Muh Tinker.. now everyone just gets to enjoy printing. Cheers dude.