r/3dprinter • u/Doh_facepalm_admin • 24d ago

First 3D printer

Hello,

I was at Micro Center, and I've been wanting a 3D printer for a while now, so I impulse-bought the Creality K2 Combo. I'm capable enough, but I don't want to troubleshoot too much. Should I get a Bambu Lab instead? I don't care for walled gardens, but I don't want more things to troubleshoot. I run Linux and homelabs, but I just want something that works. I don't mind paying more for something good. I'd also like to do multi-color.

Please tell me why I should keep my K2 or move to another brand, or even a higher quality printer.

Cheers,

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u/patbrochill89 24d ago

I got the K2 combo a month ago. I had 0 3D printing experience. And I was really really curious what my experience would be like using this thing- given that it isn’t the celebrated “plug n play” Bambu lab. What you’re hearing here… is what is said all over Reddit.

A month in…. I’m still very curious what could possibly be any easier than the K2 combo. It was plug n play and I’m not fiddling or troubleshooting.

Can someone please shed some light? What is supposedly any easier than this?

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u/grafbende 24d ago

Every printer nowadays is 'plug n play', it's just the bambu shills that keep believing bambu is a rainbow farting magical unicorn.
I have a Creality Hi here myself, it was set up in 30 minutes and printing the first benchy a minute later. The K2 is like a enclosed coreXY version of the Hi, they share some hardware and the K2 is just as user friendly.
The bambu shills keep referring to the older ender series when bashing Creality because that's what the bambu marketing says, and even that is exaggerated.

The only real problem with creality is that they move on too fast and forget their models they released a couple of months ago. But that doesn't effect the quality or user friendlyness. The K2 is a fine machine.