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Hello. I am beginner in 3d printing. looking forward to buy my first 3d printer. I made a list regarding my budget and made a list I need help in choosing one from.( I am from Asia and my country doesn't have any 3d printer shop at all so I am planning on importing from china). My priorities are

 

1. Print bed 200mm

 

2. Beginners Friendly

 

3. Have gd experience ( as I don't think I can fix any problem so easily as theres no repair option)

 

4. Budget friendly.

 

5. Good build quality.

Printers I have taken in mind are:

 

1. Creality ender 3 v3 se

 

2. Elegoo Neptune 4

 

3. Anycubic Kobra 3 ( non combo)

 

4.Creality K1A(its kinda out of budget)

 

5.Flashforge AD5M

6. Elegoo Neptune 3 pro 

 

Feel free to suggest me anything under 1800yuan and taobao app link will be helpful. Thank u -

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Is 1 yuan still roughly 1/6 USD so roughly 300 USD. That could be enough for a BambuLab A1 without AMS.

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On 1/26/2025 at 1:08 PM, Noise360 said:

1. Creality ender 3 v3 se

This is a great printer but only if you want "tinkering with  3d printers" to be your hobby as well. Out of the box this device is okay-ish especially for the money but it can be vastly improved if you invest some time and money. 

 

As for the other Creality you've mentioned I'm not sure K1A exists (maybe some local model?) but there are K1 and K1C - I'd suggest to avoid the non-C version as it had lots of flaws fixed later in C version. K1C is a cool piece of machinery and can be improved as well, but should be great even out of the box if you stretch your budget.

 

Take a look at Sovols. Bambu A1 mini is great as well but there has been a recent controversy about Bambu making moves to close their ecosystem, if they won't backtrack on the latest decisions you might get limited to using only one slicer app, (and not a great one) and required to be logged in to their cloud to work. Overall the company acts a bit scummy so your call to support them or not. Hardware wise their stuff is superb and works wonders out of the box, but unlike Creality and other devices there's not much you can do to mod or improve it.

 

Edit: forgot to add on this one

On 1/26/2025 at 1:08 PM, Noise360 said:

( as I don't think I can fix any problem so easily as theres no repair option)

3D printer hardware is surprisingly user-repairable and spare parts should be really easy and cheap to source, so I won't worry too much about it. Especially if you have access to Aliexpress or some other Chinese marketplace, they stock every spare part imaginable. In absolute most cases if something goes wrong you won't need some advanced electronics or engineering skills to apply a fix or replace a part.

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On 1/26/2025 at 1:46 PM, FlyingPotato_is_taken said:

Is 1 yuan still roughly 1/6 USD so roughly 300 USD. That could be enough for a BambuLab A1 without AMS.

That one.

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