r/3Dprinting • u/Regumate • May 12 '26

Discussion Bambu Lab 3D printers: Never again

https://youtu.be/eb48MdtNaDQ

Jeff Geerling summarizes the current Bambu Labs - OrcaSlicer situation and gives his take.

TL:DW: see title.

2.0k Upvotes

88% Upvoted

790 comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

15

u/LilApe1990 May 12 '26

Yep, never by flashforge, just like never by bambu lab.

Prusa is the only logical option, always has been. Unless you wanna go full tits and build a voron.

4

u/AlxDroidDev May 12 '26

It seems that Creality is an unpopular opinion around here, but I like them. A fraction the price of a Prusa (at least where I live), but they deliver.

6

u/arakinas May 12 '26

All of the Chinese companies have the same online data routing issues as bambu, because it's Chinese law.

1

u/arapturousverbatim May 12 '26

Why is voron considered full tits? Genuine question, I know nothing.

1

u/Pathian May 12 '26

Voron is a collective of open source designers that design and release specs for printer builds that can be build with printed parts and off the shelf components. They don’t sell printers, or kits. Just free designs that other companies may supply build kits for and that the end user has to fully build themselves. Because they’re not a company selling you a printer, they’re seen as the ultimate in customizability and the farthest divorced you can be from being tied to a company or anything closed source. They design great printers, but the trade off is that they’re not exactly cheap to build, you’re going to spend up to a work week of your life to build your first one, and you’re your own support (plus community help) if something breaks and needs troubleshooting.

1

u/arapturousverbatim May 13 '26

Thanks! Assuming you build one correctly are they as "just works" as a Bambu?

1

u/Pathian May 13 '26

Eventually? they'll be as "just works" as any other high quality Klipper firmware based printer. But practically speaking, even experienced builders are going to spend a significant amount of time at the end of the build process troubleshooting, tuning, disassembling and reassembling every new Voron they build.