If you want to know more, if you have any questions at all, please comment below. Also, if you bought a printer because of me either now or in the past, please let me know the type because I'm very curious!
What were your print settings? Were there any other smaller tweaks you made that got your reliability up, or did you basically just chuck it on a table and call it good?
A nice balanced review. Personally I own a P1S and I love it. Ive owned a Creality CR-6 Max, an Anycubic Kobra Max and Kobra Plus but the P1s is the only unit to just work without hours upon hours of fine tuning. However this is all anecdotal, if you have had no issues with Creality then good for you. For me the CR-6 was a major headache and really put me off ever using a Creality machine again. That extra bed size is really nice though. I hope Bambu will make a larger model at some point in the future.
I used a CR-6 Max with work, I liked it, and it printed well, but the Z-offset was always a drama with it. Every print I had to manually dial it in after bed levelling.
It's good to see 3d terrain prints on this printer as I wanted to see the quality before purchasing a FDM. There aren't enough videos of them on RUclips. Much appreciated 👏
I see that now Creality has said their new 4 spool filiment feeder will work on the K1Max as well. They are hard at work making this implementation right now so It is coming. Just 1 more point in Creality K1's Corner Great Review and testimonial. Thanks
Tried the k1 after using a bambu lab a1 and never could make it print as well as the a1, tried rooting and doing all the mods people suggest, gave up eventually as the z level would drift and had to babysit it half the time for first layers. Swapped to a p1s and haven’t looked back 🤷♂️. Just my opinion mind
@TheOuterCircle so that gpu being so advanced is actually the problem. the last nvidia cards to ship with a driver that actively supported opengl was the 2080ti. the only thing you have to do is install an opengl specific driver alongside your gpu's normal driver and it should work fine. thoug honestly just using orca is a better option anyway as their proprietary slicer is ass anyway
I find the people who complain about creality are people who bought an ender from one of the many other manufacturers that build them and don’t actually own an actual creality built machine OR they’ve never owned a creality machine or clone, paid wayyy too much for a Bambu Lab printer and are just looking to justify their impulse buy that isn’t as impressive as they wanted to believe it would be… ALL printers break eventually. The K1 Max is far easier to work on than a Bambu Lab printer, has a far larger build volume and cost half as much and works just as well out of the box. If I wanted anything else out of my K1 Max it would be an extra inch of height to get the glass off the Bowden tube by that much and change the loading process a bit. AMS breaks filament off inside of itself and have fun getting it out. I print ASA like butter straight out of the box on the stock plate, no glue on the K1 Max. Bambu X1C is lucky to print ASA at all no matter what you do… No contest for my needs.
Creality and k1 max are trash. Mine almost lasted 3 months and creality doesn't know how to fix it and refuses to honor their warranty. Creality seriously lacks integrity. Stay away!
If you want to know more, if you have any questions at all, please comment below. Also, if you bought a printer because of me either now or in the past, please let me know the type because I'm very curious!
What were your print settings? Were there any other smaller tweaks you made that got your reliability up, or did you basically just chuck it on a table and call it good?
I bought the Halot Mage Pro and it was a great decision
Macca must be the only viewer alive to 3d model a component just to show a rare malfunction and its greatly appreciated.
A nice balanced review. Personally I own a P1S and I love it. Ive owned a Creality CR-6 Max, an Anycubic Kobra Max and Kobra Plus but the P1s is the only unit to just work without hours upon hours of fine tuning.
However this is all anecdotal, if you have had no issues with Creality then good for you. For me the CR-6 was a major headache and really put me off ever using a Creality machine again.
That extra bed size is really nice though. I hope Bambu will make a larger model at some point in the future.
I used a CR-6 Max with work, I liked it, and it printed well, but the Z-offset was always a drama with it. Every print I had to manually dial it in after bed levelling.
Dude these videos are hella helpful to me. Thank you
It's good to see 3d terrain prints on this printer as I wanted to see the quality before purchasing a FDM. There aren't enough videos of them on RUclips.
Much appreciated 👏
Glad I could help
I see that now Creality has said their new 4 spool filiment feeder will work on the K1Max as well. They are hard at work making this implementation right now so It is coming. Just 1 more point in Creality K1's Corner Great Review and testimonial. Thanks
It is going to be a big retrofit to make that happen, so honestly, I wouldn't count on it being implemented too soon, and if it is, too well.
Nice work! Very helpful.
Nice thorough review, thanks Macca.
My pleasure!
Tried the k1 after using a bambu lab a1 and never could make it print as well as the a1, tried rooting and doing all the mods people suggest, gave up eventually as the z level would drift and had to babysit it half the time for first layers. Swapped to a p1s and haven’t looked back 🤷♂️. Just my opinion mind
HELLO, THANKS FOR THE VIDEO, IS THERE ANY WAY YOU COULD SHARE THE LINK TO THE LID RISER FOR THE K1 MAX
@TheOuterCircle so that gpu being so advanced is actually the problem. the last nvidia cards to ship with a driver that actively supported opengl was the 2080ti. the only thing you have to do is install an opengl specific driver alongside your gpu's normal driver and it should work fine. thoug honestly just using orca is a better option anyway as their proprietary slicer is ass anyway
I find the people who complain about creality are people who bought an ender from one of the many other manufacturers that build them and don’t actually own an actual creality built machine OR they’ve never owned a creality machine or clone, paid wayyy too much for a Bambu Lab printer and are just looking to justify their impulse buy that isn’t as impressive as they wanted to believe it would be… ALL printers break eventually. The K1 Max is far easier to work on than a Bambu Lab printer, has a far larger build volume and cost half as much and works just as well out of the box. If I wanted anything else out of my K1 Max it would be an extra inch of height to get the glass off the Bowden tube by that much and change the loading process a bit. AMS breaks filament off inside of itself and have fun getting it out. I print ASA like butter straight out of the box on the stock plate, no glue on the K1 Max. Bambu X1C is lucky to print ASA at all no matter what you do… No contest for my needs.
I'll never buy another Creality. Had my Ender 3 Pro fail within a couple of days. Also, the Creality software is classified as malware by my Mac.
Ooh, that’s suboptimal news for the Ender 3 my friend just gifted me
Creality and k1 max are trash. Mine almost lasted 3 months and creality doesn't know how to fix it and refuses to honor their warranty. Creality seriously lacks integrity. Stay away!