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I'm glad you found it helpful. Thanks for your feedback.

Thank you; he really appreciates that😊

It's my "surround sound" approach to computer monitors, which I find very useful. Thanks for your comment.

Yes, that should be the case. I imagine Qidi can confirm with each person's order if the new SSR board has been installed.

lol, yes that’s true. Thanks for your comment.

I was following Qidi's video on the steps to replace the chamber heater. I did notice that the Qidi-produced video did not have the two screws in the bottom of the frame holding the chamber heater. There may be an easier way to replace the chamber heater now, but I documented how I did it by following Qidi's instructions. Thanks for your comment.

Thanks for your comment.

Thanks for sharing your experience with the Plus 4 power loss experience.

I hope you enjoy the Plus 4. Thanks for your comment.

I struggle with answering that question. The spaghetti detection feature has helped me in the past, but I find it hard to quantify the benefit of Lidar.

The LiDAR is useless for build plate detection and auto flow calibration if you want to use textured build plates. The spaghetti detection is a nice feature but if you properly calibrate and dry your filament and use the correct build plate settings you will not have enough failed prints to justify the increase in price for the feature. I have a P1S and after calibrating and drying all of my filaments my prints come out immaculate. I am just in awe at how clean they come out each time.

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Great! Welcome to the family! Thanks for subscribing and for your comment😊

lol, what are you concerned about protecting me from?

Thank you for your comment. I really like the Bambu Studio, Handy App, and AMS as well.

Are you referring to adding an actively heated chamber heater and fan to a non-Qidi printer or are you referring to something else?

@@ristinnovations yes sir. That's correct. But I've since gone to their website and found that they don't sell the boards to the public. It's only offered to those that purchased faulty printers. I was going to make my own chamber heater for an older printer and hoped to just usje this board as a ready-made solution

It depends on the firmware version. Pre-release versions with the older firmware limited the temperature. The release versions with release firmware do support 370C. The printer.cfg file even lists a maximum of 380C before Klipper will step in and shut the hotend down.

@stew675 oh thank you for that clarification! I wonder who will make the first 500° printer to the consumer market so we can actually use these Phaetus Dragons to the max?

@@stew675 Thank you for your reply

How so? Not everyone has $1k+ to blow on a 3D printer and aside from the AMS, the Plus 4 is the better option for people not wanting to spend nearly double the price.

False rumors spread by Prusa Stans. Nobody that owns a Bambu needs customer support because the machines just work.... /s

@ Thank you for the reply.

According to my own experience, it takes a while to wait for Bambu to reply to tickets and send new parts. Qidi's after-sales response is faster.

@@Kimberlie1 Thank you.

It sounds like now Bambu Lab is now including a Micro SD card; that’s good news. When I bought my X1C 1.5 years ago, they didn’t include it. Thanks for letting me know.

@@ristinnovations that is true, i didn´t know that😀

Thanks for your comment

Thanks for your feedback.

Which printer do you have?

lol, Several people have suggested that😊

I would say they are similar in noise when they are running. The Plus 4 has a noisier fan for the electronics that runs continuously, even when you aren't printing. Thanks for the question.

@@ristinnovations there an easy mod, as easy as editing the printer.cfg file, that allows you to reduce the noise of the mainboard fan when the printer is idle.

I'm fairly certain that I had the door open for my PLA Benchy printing, but there is no harm in me running the print again just to be 100% certain. Thanks for the comment.

​@ristinnovations for what it's worth, with top panel removed and door opened, my plus 4 had the same exact print issue on the same exact corner on benchy, and ive seen other reviewers with the exact same artifact. It's entirely possible given the widespread consistent results that it's a file issue in the pre loaded file? I didn't try loading a different benchy to print tho as my next print was the top lid standoff and it printed with zero artifacts and I just never thought about it again.

@@SweetLou0523Thanks for sharing your experience as well as your suggestions.

I specifically said that QIDI Tech was catching up; not that they had caught up and were even with Bambu Lab. I also combined product features with product quality, which I think I could have done a better job explaining the differences between the two subjects. I also stated what QIDI's CEO said in his letter that Qidi needs to improve their robustness of their product testing before they launch their products.

Qidi plus 4 in many aspects is a better printer than bambu X1C. higher temperatures of the nozzle, build plate and chamber will let you print more engineering materials, bigger build volume, and lower price. Yes, qidi have quality control issues, but also much better support than Bambu Lab. I received the printer in the same time as new SSR board, I replaced it in 20min, treating it as a part of my initial setup and since taht time this printer works like a charm. I don’t have direct comparison with bambu lab print quality, but there is another youtube video made by 3DPrintSOS, with the conclusion that qidi is slightly better than bambu. Yes, bambu have AMS, if you need it, that’s a pros, but Qidi should have quite soon similar functionality as well.

Try to print ABS/ASA with a large scale. Or nylon PA6/PA12. And, finally, something close to PEEK. Compare then, I mean not only exterior but toughness test and so on. QIDI is for engineers, Bambu is for PLA/PETG and other homemade hobbies. Or something small made of ABS, not more. For instance, I print different technical items, I don't even think about Bambu - it is a toy for my purposes. But if I need some Nyear dragons for my kids - sure I'm gonna buy Bambu.

Sorry, but this is bs. Have you ever checked the parts under the hood of your car? It's Polyamide ("Nylon") to a huge extent. Nylon is a high perfomarnce engineering thermoplastic material, so why should anything "desintegrate"? But I am pretty sure you are a specialist in material science and the material used by Bambu is the one and only that works.

@etwkoelle6487 because the parts in the original x max 3 had to much glass fibre mixed in with the nylon, meaning there was not enough nylon to bond the fibres together. Then they started to break and crack. So how about you calm down and get off your high horse buddy. Jesus, what a shill

I am interested to see what Bambu Lab launches during Q12025.

Couldn't care less about what iBambu does tbh.

@@chublez couldn’t care less what you think tbh 😄

@@storemerlose Obviously you did to reply lol

My observations are that both printers are built using a solid frame. Mechanically, they look similar to me. I'm not an expert in electronics, so I can't offer any input there. If I had to rate the two machines, I would still list the X1C on top, followed by the Plus 4. I'm not sure if I provided you with enough information to answer your question, but thank you for your question.

Thanks for sharing your experience with both printers. I also love my AMS and I agree with your other comments. Thanks for taking the time to provide your comments.

Ironically, I just published a new video today, comparing the QIDI Plus4 to the Bambu Lab X1C. Please check it out and let me know what you think. Thanks for your comment.

@@ristinnovations Thanks, I did view it, and I agree with your review. However, as I mentioned, QIDI's customer service is excellent. I've heard Bambu's is not so good. Tech Support is high on my list. Thanks again for all your hard work.

@@WLDORPFELDThanks for your comment. I agree with Qidi’s quick customer support. I don’t have any firsthand experience with Bambu Lab technical support so I can’t comment on that. Thanks for your feedback

I have both machines and both work great. Qidi support has always responded promptly, while bambu support tickets may take 1-2 weeks to get a response. The A1 problem is not an immediate recall, and users are given the option to replace it themselves.QIDI also supports customers who do not want to replace the parts themselves to return the printer. Why hate a brand and over-praise a brand? We just need better products.

If the printer is not working right out of the box as you say, they will repair it or return it for a refund as long as you provide reasonable evidence. If you can't get your money back, you need to consider whether you are hiding something. It's sad that the Internet is always full of these half-truths.

@@Kimberlie1 They absolutely would not take it back and after three months they only gave me a 50% refund, where as legally in the UK they should have given me 100% refund. I wasted weeks on this crap product. I HAVE ALL THE EMAILS TO PROVE IT. Do more research you will find many people like me and examples of people using the shell as cat home - make you're own choice. These are the facts. Factually I have a PhD and worked on very high tech equipment all my life, for over 25 years I serviced and repaired high tech medical devices in hospitals, renal dialysis machines, and anaesthetic machines, and complex monitoring equipment - look up images of 'VG ZAB mass spectrometers' or look up my academic work K.R. Haylett. I was an engineer installing these and a 3d printer is trivial to me. Nobody would ever try repairing a washing machine or cooker and start trying to fix it if it did not work - if you want to do that then that's for you :)

@@mohistschool1003 Because one brand wasted weeks of my life and the other did not. One brand is high quality the other is not - it's not 'hate'. This is my experience, if you don't want to know people's experiences don't read the comments. It's your choice. And if you do research you will soon find that many people have had my experience - and many of my criticisms are simply deleted as are many peoples. The internet, especially youtube gives control of comments to the channel. If you just see positive comments go and look at channels where people's critical comments are not deleted. When the company gives me back the remaining 50% of the price of the product that never worked and they would not taker a return then I'll reconsider my views - until then, I wouldn't touch the company with barge pole....

I had two issues with my Qidi Tech Q1 Pro and both times I got an immediate response from support followed by several boxes on my front porch containing replacements for all possible affected parts. I've had my printer 8 months and it prints amazingly and even when there was an issue, it got solved quickly, properly, and for free.

I did take into consideration all three dimensions. I calculated the X1C volume to be 16,800 cubic cm and the Plus 4 to be 26,100 cubic cm; however I found an error in my calculations and you are correct; the Plus 4 has 55% more print volume. Thank you for pointing out my mistake.

@@tek9058 You're still comparing it to an almost three year old model. Sure, they may be a bit ahead now, but think of what leap the next proper bambu model could be.

3 years and still marketing at 1099usd😂

were, they haven't released anything new/better than their 3 year old printer

​@@NaveicationI think you're over estimating how 'revolutionary' Bambu was. They're solid printers but the most significant advancement IMO is a polished ecosystem that's friendly to less experienced users and a reliable multi-material system at a competitive price point. The rest is simply a well-tuned CoreXY printer in an enclosure running closed-source software. It can produce great prints out of the box but where they did have to trim costs makes it difficult to repair the inevitable issues that pop up after a year or two of heavy use. As someone who has made custom printers, they're not interesting to me but I respect how they pushed the industry to step it up. I'm not a fan of forced data collection but my main concern is their popularity has led to other printers (like QIDI) also being assembled in ways that make long-term maintenance about as practical as repairing a big name ink-jet printer.

@@tek9058 Are you basing this on direct experience of a paid-for, off-the-shelf K2 plus? Or the golden samples that the influencers undoubtedly received, and their resulting videos *gushing* about how amazing it is? Don't get me wrong; if the K2 plus is as good as I'd like it to be, I'll grab one. I just don't trust creality with new product launches.

To prawda. Kupujesz X1 i drukujesz. Cieszysz się, że nie musisz niczego poprawiać.

Thanks for sharing your experience with the X1C, as well as your years of experience with other printers.

If you haven't realized yet, you can silence the X1

Seeing as everyone including myself seems to have the exact same issue on the exact same corner, it's extremely likely we are all using the onboard file and there's some issue with the file. I could probably load a different than benchy but all of mu subsequent prints have been flawless so it didn't seem to be a priority.

The Plus4 uses Qidi Studio as stock, not Qidi Slicer (which was for their 3-series models). Plenty of people on the Qidi Discord using Qidi Studio as their everyday slicer with the Plus4 without issues. While true that the first batch models of the Plus4 had some teething issues with profiles and earlier firmware versions, the newer firmware versions release by Qidi have resolved most of those issues, and updated profiles that the community have developed produce even better quality than what is shown here. A lot of the reviews you're referring to were made 3 months ago. Things have improved. What is shown here reflects the largely untuned performance of the Plus4 out of the box. With tuning it gets even better. This is the benefit of the Qidi printers. They don't lock you into what the manufacturer provides for you, and the community around the Plus4 has embraced that, and many of the user prints frequently shown on the Qidi Community Discord server are absolutely flawless.

@@stew675 To jest pocieszające bardzo. To jest źle, że jeden Bambu przejmuje rynek. Zdrowa konkurencja jest bardzo dobra. Życzę powodzenia Qidi i działającego bez usterek zmieniacza filamentu, który wyprodukują na wiosnę.

I reported on my personal experience with both printers. Qidi Studio is what I used, not Qidi Slicer. I did point out problems with my Plus 4 as well as the issue with the SSR board. I think your suggested score is close to what I would choose.

Od dwóch miesięcy używam Qidi studio i Qidi plus 4. Śmiało można powiedzieć, że drukarka chodzi średnio 10-12h dziennie. Do tej pory miałem jeden problem z oprogramowaniem (ale to po części moja wina, bo trochę za bardzo namieszałem w profilach). Natomiast sama drukarka jest rewelacyjna, działa bez zarzutu, a jakość wydruku bardzo pozytywnie mnie zaskoczyła. Rozumiem miłość do Bambu, która jest prosta w obsłudze i bezproblemową drukarką, ale możesz podrzucić jakieś przykłady filmów gdzie Bambu wypada znacznie lepiej niż Qidi? Większość filmów które ja oglądałem pokazuje, że oprócz wspomnianych problemów z przekaźnikiem i ewentualnie zapychającą się dyszą (oba poprawione elementy Qidi wysyła za darmo). Te drukarki są bardzo porównywalne, a w wielu aspektach Qidi wygrywa. Dla mnie np. Ważna była możliwość drukowania większej ilości materiałów, dzięki wyższym temperaturom i grzałce a przede wszystkim większy obszar wydruku.

Thank you for sharing your experience with the X1C. I have had a similar excellent experience my X1C. I’m also very interested in seeing what Bambu Lab will be launching during the first Quarter. Thank you for taking the time to provide your detailed comment.

Thanks for sharing your experience with the Plus3.

I have had a multitude of 3D Printers in the last 11 years, I can say with certainty that the Bambu Lab X1C Combo is the best machine I have purchased, but I have probably said the same for many of my machines. I have been thinking of buying a second one and a second AMS, however, I have been hoping that Bambu would release a larger machine with a toolchanger, a toolchanger would create a lot less wastage with multi colour and multi material prints. The Qidi plus 3 was on my radar also when I decided it was time for one of the super fast machines, I think it was the AMS capability that made my decision.

Thank you very much. I’m glad you enjoyed it!

Are you saying that new units are NOT being shipped with the upgraded SSR board? Or do you have a pre upgrade unit. I was thinking of buying this but I want it fixed from the factory.

@erich1159 Nie jest naprawione. Musisz to sam zrobić. To jak w dżungli w Amazonii. Kup i sobie sam dawaj radę. Nie podoba mi się to, bo ta drukarka nie kosztuje 200$

@erich1159 Currently, the Plus4 in the US already comes with the new SSR.

@@Kimberlie1 That is good to know. My contact at Qidi told me they were introducing the new SSR board into their production, but at the time they didn't know the status of inventory in the US warehouse(s). Thank you for the information.