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M**L
Don't buy this printer
I NEVER LEAVE BAD REVIEWS UNLESS A PRODUCT HAS SINCERELY EARNED IT!First of all ... the reviews on this page are NOT for this printer ... I dont know what these reviews are for but they arent for a 3d printer, so the star rating on this printer is misleading.Let me start out by saying that I've been in IT professionally for over 25 years and Ive been learning computers since 1982 ... Im a certified electronic technician, and I have a bachelor degree in computer science ... so I'm no slouch in the technical department ... and I have experience with 3D printers in general...First MAJOR problem with this printer is I could NOT get it to read an SD card to save my life. I tried cards that I had formatted and have been using on other printers ... I tried formatting with FAT, FAT32 and even NTFS.... I used DISKPART as well as the Microsoft GUI disk utility to format the cards and they simply would not read... so I did connect the printer to my Macbook Pro directly and I was able to get a print from the Makerbot Print software, but the quality was horrid and the raft did not even break clean off the print ... I tried both OctoPrint and Astroprint with my raspberry Pi but neither OS would see the printer over the USB connection and supposedly this thing is just a Makerbot 2 but I've had no luck with this thing getting it to print beyond that first crappy print that I managed to make.There is a small fan mounted by the stepper drivers, but its cockeyed and its noisy as all heck I had to dampen the vibration with some strategically placed hot glue - which I chose for its rubbery quality once it cools.I am ordering the Flashforge Finder to replace this one cause its only like $40 more and the reviews are stellar ... and I have experience with that brand and their slicer software is really nice ...So back to Amazon with this crappy printer ... its a bummer because I was really hoping this printer would perform Ive tried contacting the company through their web site, and they never got back to me ... its been two weeks now.ALSO, I did not get a manual nor did I get an SD card ... they did send a CD ... but I havent owned a CD drive in 7 years now ... so Im not sure what they expected me to do with that CD ... and their web site is horribly organized with no clear understanding of which PDF file pertained to this printer, so I just downloaded all of the ones that looked close and then figured it out, but they have no software to install and no instructions in the manual or on their web site indicating which software would be best to use for this printer ...All in all ... if I could give this a negative star, id be all over it!
D**N
Missing parts, poorly assembled
It was missing the SD card and screws to attach the extruder. Most of the screws holding it together needed tightening. The filament sent with it was crap. The extruders themselves were not level with each other and needed adjusting. The USB cable supplied was wrong. The firmware needed an upgrade. Puts off an acrid smell idle, worse when printing. Expect to spend 3-4 hours getting missing parts, fixing manufacturing defects, and updating firmware. Prepare to print, buy and install many upgrades before having decent print quality. This should be priced more in the $150-$200 range for what you get.
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