Comment by sarchertech
17 hours ago
It’s not better in every way. For long term reliability and ability to repair and upgrade, Prusa is far superior.
17 hours ago
It’s not better in every way. For long term reliability and ability to repair and upgrade, Prusa is far superior.
If your hobby is 3d printERS sure (and more power to you), but for many people (me included) the hobby is 3d printING
The point is not that Prusas need constant repair. The point is that they are reliable workhorses and repairable and usually also long-term-upgradeable.
But you get better results from the Bambu. I care about the product of the manufacturing more than I care about the tools.
That depends on what you’re doing. For many things Prusa printers produce higher quality prints.
> For many things Prusa printers produce higher quality prints.
I have yet to have this happen, despite a lot of trying. The Bambu just works and the results are better. The Prusa requires constant recalibration and tuning, and still produces an inferior looking product. I'd love to be proven wrong here.
It's probably the case that somebody with a ton of experience can squeeze better results out of a Prusa ... but that kind of proves my point.
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Cool, but that's not why people buy things. I don't buy a bike for the pleasure of getting to repair it when I inevitably eat shit on a gravel road.
While you're busy ordering parts for your Prusa and taking it apart, people just buy another A1 or P1P for basically nothing. While you're spending 5 hours trying to stabilise your printing plate and ensuring your nozzle isn't vomiting out super melted <weird filament you got>, the bambulabs go haha printing goes brrr thanks for feeding me shale oil it'll work great. If you're 3d printing enough that your printer breaks, you are 100% making enough money to just eat the costs of another printer.
Prusa isn't like that. It just works. I've been printing years without any issue or repair.
You don't care how expensive and complicated it is to repair and maintain your mountain bike (especially if you plan to eat gravel a lot)? And your take on machines is that you better throw away a bunch of working 3D printers and replace them instead of upgrading the old ones and adding new ones as needed? Hope you have a lot of money to burn in your personal and business life. ;)
> You don't care how expensive and complicated it is to repair and maintain your mountain bike (especially if you plan to eat gravel a lot)?
I have 3 bicycles at the moment and use one as my main way of buying groceries.
My ideal bicycle ownership experience is: I change the brake fluid every few years, I spray the chain whenever I remember to, I change tires and brake pads when they wear out, and I never, ever have to do any other maintenance.
I don't care about the bicycle itself, I care about what the bicycle lets me do.
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Another user made the point: maybe you care about 3D printERS. The vast majority of people care about the printed end result, and buying more printers in the case of massive failure (which is already rare) makes more sense. If you're 3D printing for fun at home, a Bambu will basically never break.
Spending 3 days tracking down the parts for a Prusa, taking it apart, fixing it, realising some settings have gone to shit, fixing it? I hope you have a lot of time to burn in your personal and business life :)
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