Creality K1 Max 3D Printer Official, 600mm/s Max High-Speed 3D Printers Large Printing Size 300x300x300mm with Auto Leveling, Dual Cooling, Smart AI Function, 32mm³/s Flow Hotend and Out-of-The-Box

Rarely gets to it's full speed, few fast printers do. But it definitely races along at a fair whack and makes a bed slinging ender 3 look and feel ancient. 8 hair prints on an ender 3 are down to around an hour. Stuff I would never print on an ender 3 is within reach on the k1 max. Good print quality, built in bed levelling via a lidar, inbuilt camera is OK, not stellar but usable. Filament runout sensor built in. It does timelapse on every print, though I haven't worked out how to delete them. Prints over local WiFi, so a bit octoprint like as you can send your files over WiFi instead of using a USB stick, though that USB option is still there if required. Using a USB stick you can also pull timelapse videos direct to the USB stick. Biggest downsides of the k1? No cura profiles at the time of purchase so stuck with creality slicer. Creality slicer works fine but is limited with only 3 profiles, basically high quality slow, medium still slow, and average quality fast. Options are intuitive in creality slicer. Considering it is basically cura they make things difficult when they shouldn't be. You can monitor prints over WiFi, but for me it can't be done from the program itself on the pc, I have to copy the ip address (there is a copy ip option on the print screen so they obviously planned for this issue) to then paste in a browser window which then works fine. If you use a trackball or mouse without a scroll wheel you are in for a miserable time adding custom supports as I cannot find an option to zoom in on the model without that wheel. The only thing to truly HATE with this printer? The phone app. It is full of ads. Ads on ads, ads everywhere. The app is basically an ad app with the printer options you want to access hidden in amongst all the ad misery. Simply put, do not use the phone app if you value your sanity.

Great Printer, this is the 3rd I've owned in the last 11 years(makerbot clone and ender S1were owned previously). This is by far the best. Fast, fully enclosed, a built in camera and touchscreen! What's not to like! Being able to print CF materials out of the box is also a huge plus. I've since had it teamed up with a CFS and I've got to say it's fantastic. The build volume is pretty good, I've made some large models on it and its really accurate right up to the maximum sizes.It's really easy to use with the creality print software and IMHO it's worth every penny, creality are making some good stuff :)

Well, this printer gets mostly good reviews so maybe I got a "Friday afternoon special" my failure modes were all centred on the CFS/extruder/filament handling side.After a reasonably painless setup I printed a "benchy" from the built in test file menu. All good - 21 minutes - not flying but a solid enough time. I then went to print one of my own designs... "blockage in extruder" --- I followed the online guide, pop off the magnetic cover, undo three screws and there it is - one geared extruder... with no blockage - maybe it was a sensor error - reassemble - retry print "blocked extruder". WTF.Digging through the forums I saw a suggestion that dropping the hot end and looking for a blockage there might be the issue? Nope - the issue was that little slug of PLA in picture - how the hell did that get in front of the hot end tube??? Cleared that printed another benchy - all good - 30 minutes into my print and "retraction error" --- strip down the head, drop hot end... no - the issue this time was the filament buffer had locked out. The filament buffer isn't intended to come apart - it's clipped together. You know this isn't a new issue when Creality has a fix to resolve issues with a unit that shouldn't be opened. In one weekend I had another random bit of plastic blockage, two hot end blockages, random Y-axis overload errors... I had more errors in TWO days than my Bambu has given me in a year...by a MULTIPLE.This crappy piece of tech is going back this week. Note to self: be suspicious of ANY piece of tech which comes with a box of spare parts that a user should never need to replace - this is just a shoddy rip of the Bambu - the CFS is unreliable and the extruder head is awful - save up your pennies and buy a Bambu. - life's too short to put up with this crepe.

Not having to manually retract or load the filament and having some where to correctly store up to 4 filament reels could be reason enough to buy one of these. The ability of the unit to identify via RFID the colour and other properties of each reel is amazing in itself. But the magic really starts when you start producing multicolour prints, or even just the knowledge that you can :-)The fact that the unit can switch over to another reel (if it is the same material and colour) automatically when a reel runs out, allows the print to complete without user intervention and is a definite plus.The internal temperature and humidity display is clear and big enough that I don't need spectacles to read it.Unfortunately I don't have sufficient time to regale you with all of its many attributes, but lets just say "You won't regret having one :-)"

Having previously read some negative reviews I was reluctant to purchase but I'm soo glad I did. I've had 3d printers for 7 years now and can honestly say with experience this is a great machine. Incredibly easy to set up and get started. Print quality is amazing coupled with incredible speed and accuracy. I would highly recommend to both experienced and novices alike.

Great printer with quick print speeds and high quality prints. My only complaint is I had a filament feeding issue after only a handful of prints with their own recommended filament and it required taking apart to fix.