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3D printing for beginners (eu.store.bambulab.com)
submitted 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) by to c/3dprinting@lemmy.world
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Hey everyone My sister wants to get into 3D printing. She has her birthday soon and we are thinking of gifting here a printer. What models wold you recommend?

What do you think of Bambu Lab X2D. What would you get for a beginer?

Edit: thank you all for the responses. I certainly did not expect so much engagement and such high quality answers. Will have a look at all the options you recommended. Hopefully our budget has enough room for a comparable morally righ choice.

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[–] 1 point 3 days ago (2 children)

But at least they cost a fraction. You can't (or at least shouldn't) sell a premium priced product with underwhelming performance.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 days ago (1 child)

    They cost a fraction due to Bambu being propped up by Venture Capitalists and the usual bad-faith attempts at dominating the market, trying to undercut competitors. Look at how Uber did it for cabs in the US, nobody wants that shit happening. The moment you let them they'd jack up the prices, introduce subscription nonsense and whatnot. They already fuck over customers for christ sake, buying something you know will fuck you over just to save a few bucks is madness.

    I genuinely don't know what the hell you're talking about regarding underwhelming performance either. We got Prusa's in our hackspace, they're great reliable pieces of hardware that you can trust and last for many years even with upgrade paths available. Other than Bambu.

    My god, I sound like a Prusa chill… but I'm pissed how people can seriously still recommend Bambu. How much shit does a company have to do so the majority finally stops looking only on the price tag?

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  • [–] -1 points 3 days ago

    I'm not talking specifically about bambu labs here, there's a boatload of other manufacturers that are less nefarious and still deliver printers with feature and performance parity to prusa at less than half. I bought a Qidi Xmax3 brand spanking new for €470, it does the same as the Core One+ L (without the INDX) which costs more than €1900 (I add filtration because the Qidi has that).

    I'm aware mine is not as easily repaired (although the full CAD of the gantry is released) but at almost €1500 savings that's kind of OK.

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