Well I’ve got two new printers, one still is waiting to ship the other is here and printing.
I backed the CR-6 SE on kickstarter and now I’m just waiting for it to ship along with the add-ons I selected.
The other printer is an Ender 3 V2 which I’ve been hearing lots of good things about, especially that it’s a 32 bit board with silent stepper drivers. It arrived yesterday and went together in less than an hour and here’s my first impressions of it.
The instruction manual seems to be much better than the original ender 3, much less confusing on how to put things together so that was very welcome.
Typical excellent packing, nothing was damaged or missing.
First test print was perfect, very encouraging.
I love the color screen, and the menu system is laid out very well.
Don’t like the fact that the creality slicer is Windows only.
But using Cura with the default ender 3 profile is printing absolutely gorgeous prints, so that’s REALLY nice.
Some people have complained about the weak bed springs, but so far I’ve not had any issues.
Hooking up Octoprint had one issue, the temp readouts are all wonky, but someone in the octoprint community has already posted a fix for it and it worked great.
Looking forward to really putting this printer through its paces.
This may be a printer that I don’t upgrade. The only possible upgrades I can think of would be a BLTouch, which it has a connector already in the board but right now I’m not having any leveling issues.
The other is something that I probably will install and that’s the filament runout sensor. I’ve found that to be very convenient in a couple of different ways.