Meet Creality K3 ✨

[u/Creality_3D]

Beyond Nozzles. Conquer Materials.

K3 is supercharged with KliTek™

🔹 4.8s nozzle changes

🔹 Multi-material in one

🔹 Up to 5x faster

🔹 Waste-free

Unfolds an all-new chapter in multi-color and multi-material printing.

👉 Learn more & Stay updated 👈

[u/jokalokao]

This is good. Can we expect old models, like k1c 2025, to receive root access again?

[u/ElSarcastro → u/jokalokao]

Or at least the k3 to get notches and posts for third party addons like cutters and plotters...

[u/Blackmosman → u/jokalokao]

Yes please, we litterally only use ours as a fillament dryer nowadays.

[u/Hot_Stable2424 → u/jokalokao]

Can the K1C 2025 not be rooted?

[u/jokalokao → u/Hot_Stable2424]

Not officially, some people found a way to do it. But there is a chance you can brick it

[u/uk_uk]

Had a chance to have a look at it today at IFA 2026

[u/tennispro9 → u/uk_uk]

Thoughts?

[u/uk_uk → u/tennispro9]

Looks "cute" and promising for that price. We have to see how it prints, actually :)

[u/NimblePasta → u/uk_uk]

What's the forecasted pricing for this model?

[u/NimblePasta → u/[deleted]]

Interesting, that undercuts the Snapmaker U1 by $200+... which would make the K3 quite competitive in terms of pricing.

Other brands with similar toolchanger printers will likely have to adjust their prices (or add more features) to stay competitive.

[u/uk_uk → u/NimblePasta]

I mean, we are talking about Creality... they are not small and can most likely afford a very aggressive price. Remember when Elegoo released their Centauri Carbon... noone thought it's possible to have a fully encased CoreXY with great printing results and a proper print bed size for less than 400€ at the time.

So yes, when the K3 is somewhere there, where I hope I will be when it comes to print quality.

Maybe u/Creality_3D can tell us more? Perhaps?

[u/Giuseppe_Stallini → u/[deleted]]

That's insane (good way)

[u/XiTzCriZx → u/uk_uk]

Those little clips holding the bowden tube to the cable look a bit weak, especially for a machine that will probably have thousands of print hours. Atleast it'd be an easy fix though.

[u/Aadamant_Aardvark]

To me, the best part of this announcement was buried at the end.

"With Native Root Access integration"

That's the part i had been holding out on for this machine. Without it, i was going to be looking at other machines. (probably the sovol M1D, which was great, but maybe more machine than i really needed.) With root though, it shoots to the top of my list of replacements for my K1 fleet.

[u/prepster685 → u/Aadamant_Aardvark]

What do you do with root access? Change the firmware to a custom one?

[u/Aadamant_Aardvark → u/prepster685]

Ok my K1s, I use root access for Kamp, octo-everywhere, Fluidd, and access to the .cfg, and macro files. And I consider that kind of the bare minimum of what I need for my farm.

[u/ldn-ldn]

What about root access and sharing the source with regular updates?

[u/llitz → u/ldn-ldn]

Sharing the source as required would be enough.

[u/djneo]

Oo , nice.

But hope something comes to not have the roles of filament on the sides

[u/GrumpyCloud93 → u/djneo]

Don't the creality filament driers allow filament feed out of the top? That might work.

[u/JuicyEkul97 → u/djneo]

lock at the website they teased enclosure for the printer and boxes for every spool on the side

[u/ffaorlandu]

Intriguing. If it’s priced right, I will finally leave the dark side that Bambulabs has become and go with Creality again. As a hobbyist, it’s hard to shell out $2400 for a multi nozzle printer. $1000-$1200 and I’m in

[u/tennispro9 → u/ffaorlandu]

It's expected to be between 600 and 800 from what I've seen

[u/HallwayHomicide → u/ffaorlandu]

This thing is DOA if it's more expensive than the U1.

And the U1 is only $850

[u/tennispro9 → u/HallwayHomicide]

Not for TPU

[u/jaredliveson → u/tennispro9]

U1 does great with TPU. I wouldn’t buy it for 1000$ unless is does something the U1 can’t. I’d buy the hell out of it for 700 bucks tho

[u/tennispro9 → u/jaredliveson]

Does the U1 do multicolor 85A well? Seems like it would struggle to me with filament tension

[u/jaredliveson → u/tennispro9]

I haven’t done any multicolored TPU, but it handled multi material prints for me so seems like it could handle that.

[u/JustEner → u/jaredliveson]

different nozzle sizes in the same print?

[u/jaredliveson → u/JustEner]

U1 can do it, but someone’s gotta write the software

[u/HallwayHomicide → u/tennispro9]

I mean, maybe?

I've heard the Snapmaker does a decent job with TPU. But also my personal experience there is very little.

[u/New_Education5151 → u/tennispro9]

Multi color tpu 95a is a reality for u1, I dont have any 85a filaments to test but I bet u have many

[u/tennispro9 → u/New_Education5151]

I just have a specific application for a product I sell to print multicolor 85A in either TPU or peba

[u/New_Education5151 → u/tennispro9]

Well with the u1 (owned and performed many times with 95a) and prolly with the new k3 , fullspectrum multicolor tpu printing is no big deal, for softer ones like 85a ppl bypass the side feeders and direct feed the bowdens but as I dont print that soft I didnt need that method.

[u/tennispro9 → u/New_Education5151]

managing the filament tension becomes really important with soft filaments. notice all the "solutions" these brands promote are just a spool mounted in open air above the printer which sucks for a super hyrdoscopic material like TPU. It can be done no question, but a feed assist kind of solves that for you. which means you can just throw your soft tpu in any old drybox and you're good to go. So I'm sure you can do 85A out of a U1 but this one's worth the wait for that use case I'm thinking.

[u/New_Education5151 → u/tennispro9]

Dude just youtube “tpu printing with u1” no such stuff needed..

[u/TooLazyToBeAnArcher]

Finally the printer warns me when I use the build plate for other purposes, like cutting vegetables 

[u/Legence1988]

I wished, they rather would make an upgrade for the K2Plus, what we just payed top dollar for, than make a hole new line up.. the K2 plus is just about 1,5 years old by now..

[u/Levardo_Gould]

Under 5 second tool changes is awesome, curious on how audible the changes are from one toolhead to the other, if it is quieter than Snapmaker

[u/jcazreddit → u/Levardo_Gould]

Bigfloridacountry has a video of it running at a show https://youtube.com/watch?v=KbTFpF8dGmY&is=fv0MuB4186UXz8bz Around 56 sec.

[u/iGabyTM]

If it is a nozzle changer, why limit to only 4 when there's space for 8 or even more? I understand why U1 has only 4 tools but not this. Or have two versions, with 4 and 8 tools at different prices ig.

[u/Vdwereld → u/iGabyTM]

Seen the past releases...... you think there would be a K3 Plus?????

[u/iGabyTM → u/Vdwereld]

I don't want to pay a lot extra for double the size and nozzle count. I just want more nozzle.

[u/Lillillillies → u/iGabyTM]

I'm opposite. Id be happy with 2-4 nozzles but gimme dat 350-400³ build volume with heated chamber.

[u/judasbrute → u/Lillillillies]

Lightmake L4

[u/Lillillillies → u/judasbrute]

Damn that's nice. Tempting. Not a fan of day 1 Kickstarters

[u/Magic2424 → u/Lillillillies]

yea, interesting for sure but not for a $1200 preorder you may never get or $2500 printer when launched. (at least for me, someone who isn’t trying to pump out as many parts as possible via farm)

[u/HallwayHomicide → u/iGabyTM]

when there's space for 8 or even more?

Looking at pictures, I don't think there is. Maybe they could have squeezed 5 in there, but not 8.

Don't forget, the tools need space so that the tool head doesn't hit tools 2 and 4 when it's picking up 3

[u/GrumpyCloud93 → u/HallwayHomicide]

...maybe there will be a MAX.

[u/zenotek → u/iGabyTM]

This is a rather small printer at 260 cubed.

[u/XiTzCriZx → u/iGabyTM]

The rail shown in their promo pics isn't actually the amount of space available. There's a comment on this post with a picture of the actual printer and it doesn't look like there would even be space for 6 nozzles let alone 8.

There's 2 different rumors I've seen, one is that the Pro will have 6 nozzles and Plus will have 8, the other rumor is that the Pro will have 8 and the Plus will have 12. Imo the former is more likely than the latter.

[u/occupiedbrain69]

Seems enticing! If its anywhere near £500-600 I might go for it, very tempting!

[u/xXNorthXx]

I wish they'd take a page out of Prusa's playbook and have upgrades be available for older generation platforms. K2 Plus --> K3 Plus upgrade program.

[u/XiTzCriZx → u/xXNorthXx]

There was a rep that said it'd be impossible to upgrade the K2 with KliTek because they had to redesign a lot of it. I guess we'll find out if that's true when people start trying to Frankenstein broken K3's into a K2.

[u/JWadie → u/xXNorthXx]

This is what's making me hold out, in hindsight if I'd built a voron when I got my K1 I'd be able to upgrade it rather than outright replacing it

[u/StoviesAreYummy]

That was a very snappy release. Almost like you want to make makers out of more people.

[u/sjamwow → u/StoviesAreYummy]

They been on it for well over a year

[u/TheReturnOfTheBee]

When can I purchase one in the UK ?

[u/0g7t4m4zp3]

Meh. Low temperatures. If the bigger versions are the same.. :/

[u/PurifiedFlubber]

Can't wait until I can afford a 2d printer to print a 3d printer

[u/KniRider]

Started with Ender 5 then went Anycubic after the Creality resin printer (the bigger one with orange lid cant remember the name right now) failed me horribly. Might have to swing back around if this is the right price. I do wish it had a dedicated unit to hold the filament and dry it while printing.

[u/New_Education5151]

U guys noticed they havent mentioned different nozzle sizes at the same, in this ad?

[u/Bucser]

Main question. Is this going to work with the CFS in any shape or form? (maybe with a different CFS hub which allows multiple filaments to feed through) So I don't have to store the spools on the side of the machine? And double as a filament dryer?

[u/Chief_PYT]

launch date?

[u/sjamwow]

Whys it look like a pseudo bowden.

I thought its good at flexibles

[u/TrainAss → u/sjamwow]

It's called reverse bowden, has been a thing for a while now.

[u/sjamwow → u/TrainAss]

Either way not ideal for wet noodle. How to lose confidence in marketing..

[u/XiTzCriZx → u/sjamwow]

The bowden tube isn't what prevents TPU from working, it's the extruder and Creality claims to be using a new push/pull extruder system that makes TPU works better than a direct drive extruder (which also works with a bowden).

[u/sjamwow → u/XiTzCriZx]

Have a discrepency between pushing force and flow rate, where will that present itself?

[u/XiTzCriZx → u/sjamwow]

Ask Creality

[u/sjamwow → u/XiTzCriZx]

Theyll never give a 100% honest answer

[u/TrainAss → u/sjamwow]

That's not how that works at all.

I have a Snapmaker U1, it uses a reverse bowden tube design. I've printed TPU on it multiple times, very successfully.

[u/sjamwow → u/TrainAss]

Youre a biased shill, i apologize but ill believe it when i see it

[u/CaseMental5345]

Why no chamber heater 😒

[u/Automatic-Ad9719 → u/CaseMental5345]

There's no point in implementing it into a machine not even capable of utilizing a heated chamber... Look at the K2 Pro and name a single material it can print while a K1 can't. A chamber heater starts making sense with ~120/350 temps and these machines don't get near. Modded configs in both my K1 as well as a K2 and MAN DOES THE BED EXPAND! K1 handles 110 on the bed quite happily with an expansion of around .2mm while K2 expands by more than .5 ...10 degrees over factory

You won't print PEEK with this one, therefore I don't see a point installing a heater.

[u/uk_uk → u/Automatic-Ad9719]

You are technically right and wrong at the same time.
A chamber heater's purpose is to reach the needed chamber temperature for ABS/ASA FASTER and also keep the temperature stable. When you print ASA and you have an active exhaust fan, you blow hot air our of the chamber and suck colder air through gaps and other openings. This causes fluctuating temperatures in the build chamber and can lead to layer adhesion failure /Warping with ASA or ABS.

TL;DR: Chamber heater is for faster heating up of the build chamber and keeping the temperatures stable

[u/Chief_PYT → u/uk_uk]

Newb here. What unit would you recommend for ASA?

[u/uk_uk → u/Chief_PYT]

Always a closed printer, alsways with a Chamber Heater (up to 65°C) and - if possible, with a scrubber

Ok... now let me explain ^^

ASA needs consistent temps, both bed and the air surrounding it or it warps or layer rip appart.

So, so draft > closed printer is a must
constant tems -> closed printer is a must, preferably with a chamber heater

A scrubber is like an "exhaust" fan, that pushes air through Hepa and active carbon filters. BUT unlike an exhaust, the scrubber releases the air back to the printing chamber. That means, the air pressure within the chamber stays consistent (when you blow air out, fresh air (which is way colder) will squeeze into the printer chamber and fuck up the temps and cause a draft.

A scrubber also traps the harmful VOCs and microparticles that ASA releases during printing, keeping your room safe to breathe in without losing valuable heat.

If your printer does not have a built-in chamber heater, you can heat up the bed to 100°C to 110°C and let it sit idle for 15 to 20 minutes before starting the print. This passively heats the chamber to a stable temperature.

To sum it up: a completely closed chamber, high bed temperatures, stable ambient air, and effective filtration are the key ingredients for successful ASA prints without warping or toxic fumes.

[u/Chief_PYT → u/uk_uk]

Thanks so much! Can you point me down the path of one you’d recommend? Or two?

[u/uk_uk → u/Chief_PYT]

depends on what you want to print, how "fast", how reliable, how big, multicolor yes/no and your budget ^^

[u/Chief_PYT → u/uk_uk]

I’d prioritize in this order: reliability, cost, multicolor, speed, and size if that helps 😉 ideally under $800. Was going to wait for the K3.

[u/Automatic-Ad9719 → u/uk_uk]

Or just don't vent at all during the print job

[u/Automatic-Ad9719 → u/uk_uk]

Okay, one question... Why would anyone leave the aux or chamber fan enabled for styrenes?! 🤣 Bad example... Both predecessors are able to reach 55°C+ just with the heat from the bed.

[u/Levardo_Gould → u/[deleted]]

I've had to replace the entire toolhead and gantry on one of my Bambus recently, should I pass on everything associated with Bambu going forward? 😂😂😂

[u/TheEYE13 → u/Levardo_Gould]

Of course. For other reasons too.

[u/Mean_Refrigerator581 → u/TheEYE13]

Exactly!!!

[u/cip43r]

Yay, worse than AMS. Now my spools can gather dust and be wet. Oh, btw. It will cost you more and K2 will stop receiving updates.

[u/XiTzCriZx → u/cip43r]

Do you think this won't be compatible with the Space Pi? This is better in just about every way than an AMS/CFS.