3DPrinting
3DPrinting is a place where makers of all skill levels and walks of life can learn about and discuss 3D printing and development of 3D printed parts and devices.
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Other cheap chinese printers are often great, both value and quality. It's creality problem, I've had ender 3 before and it was a nighmare to make work but after that it printed alright as long as you didn't change anything. Here it will print okay one day and won't be able to finish first layer next day with same gcode
Costs can be cut in a variety of ways and each manufacturer has different approaches that affect their end product differently. The main areas that are affected by cost-cutting measures first would typically be quality control (QC), research & development (R&D), and customer support.
In contrast to Creality, some budget manufacturers skimp on R&D instead of QC. They do this by taking existing designs developed by the open-source community (e.g. RepRap, Voron, etc.) and finding cheaper ways to produce them, rather than designing new machines in-house. For example, the Sovol SV08 is pretty obviously a Voron v2 with some custom parts to make it visually distinct.
So Creality doesn't skimp on R&D? I couldn't tell tbh, it uses some kind of klipper pretty old-school technology overall and can't print.
I'm not familiar with Creality's R&D program and cannot really speak to their efforts in that department. They could very well not be pursuing much R&D in addition to cutting QC and having nonexistent customer support, but I didn't want to make claims in an area I'm uninformed.
Sorry, it wasn't an attack on you or anyone in particular, I just feel dumb about buying a big pile of alluminium.
You're good, I didn't take it as an attack. I totally understand where you're coming from, I used to manage a fleet of 12 ender 3 printers with varying degrees of modifications from the previous lab manager and hated every minute of it.