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  • CypherPsycho@lemmy.worldto3DPrinting@lemmy.world•Is there a clone worth getting?English
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    1 year ago

    I’d rather have an ender 3 CLONE than a prusa. $100 of upgrades and it’s already better than a prusa. I don’t give a fuck if the parts are tested, I don’t care if their extruder is a little better stock, or that they come with PEI bed out of box. And I don’t need support. Google has infinite resources, and paying 10x more for a printer so I can email some schmuck and have him send me a $20 replacement part is not worth it. I’d rather just order it online and get it in 2 days regardless, most of the time.

    I’ve never had to have a single part replaced. I’ve upgraded things, but in my 5 years of printing I’ve never had anything fail. I had creality send me another bed because I dropped it on tile and the corner got fucked up.

    Actually, I lie. I had to buy a replacement z axis bar because it was slightly bent… cheap easy and quick fix.

    I never actually suggested anything to OP btw, I just don’t suggest a prusa. There is nothing that can convince me a prusa is anything but overpriced garbo.

  • CypherPsycho@lemmy.worldto3DPrinting@lemmy.world•Is there a clone worth getting?English
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    1 year ago

    Klipper literally took me 15 minutes to set up wtf are you even on? I’ve used prusas and many other printers with klipper or marlin and honestly I like Prusa the least. The price makes no difference to me, and I don’t need “support”. I’m not some moron buying something I don’t know how to use. So maybe for someone who has no clue what they’re doing and wants to set something up quick / have every answer spoonfed to them, Prusa is the way to go. But frankly, the only good thing about Prusa is their slicer. And the forks are better than the stock slicer anyways.

    Prusa is not as good as it used to be. I can get prusa clones for 1/5 the price that perform exactly the same.

    Even configuring klipper firmwares for my custom voron builds doesn’t take too long…