After hearing from an acquaintance that creality is good now (he specifically said that this model prints flawlessly, and he bought 10 of them), I’ve obtained one as well. It’s shit, like, actually bad, no other words. Print quality is average at best; it can’t heat the bed evenly. I needed to level it manually, and it still prints worse than an average bedslinger from 3 years ago. Print bed coating is very sensitive to dirt and dust and already breaks off. Even when it prints (and every second print fails), I can’t leave it alone because it’s just that unreliable. I don’t think that I had such a frustrating experience with a printer after anet a8. Sadly I can’t give it back. Should have gone with Sovol.
// Person that recommended it to me finally showed how it ‘flawlessly’ prints yesterday, essentially it’s no different.
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.