3DPrinting
3DPrinting is a place where makers of all skill levels and walks of life can learn about and discuss 3D printing and development of 3D printed parts and devices.
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I would advocate Creality and tinkering for one very good reason... If you buy a fancy printer and it breaks, how will you know how to fix it?
At work we got a $2500 printer years ago. It has the sensors to self-adjust before every print, you pretty much don't need to do anything except send your print jobs to it. Sounds great, right? Until it started failing... Around the same time things started to go wrong, I got my Ender 3 printer, and I spent a lot of time learning how to make adjustments, how to correct things in the slicer for better quality prints, and so on. Meanwhile the expensive printer at work sat idle for about 2 years because nobody knew anything about "fixing" it. I finally decided to take a crack at it and immediately recognized that even though this printer has auto bed leveling it was quite obvious the first layer was too close to the bed. Turns out the sensors had gotten dirty over time, I cleaned them and boom, we're up and running again.
I have tinkered with my printer to the point of printing all kinds of custom parts for it including a direct-drive head. I can upgrade the firmware any time I want and set the defaults to match my custom hardware, but most importantly I know what everything does and can troubleshoot a variety of problems. Tinkering isn't a bad thing, and you only have to get into it as far as you want to because the printer will work just fine out of the box if you take the time to set it up properly, but it does provide options if you want 'better'.
You can learn by building a printer from a kit, without getting something as unreliable.
Are you suggesting the Ender 3 is unreliable? That's pretty funny.
Compared to prusa it's a dumpster fire.
Considering it costs four times as much, it's easy to see the sunk cost fallacy coming into play.