I loved my printer when i got it... up until the print head fan cables stripped and caused the board to short. Customer service is fantastic tho, and they're sending a new one. To anyone who buys one, very carefully take off the magnetic print head cover and snip the little zip tie holding the cables to the head. For me, when the cover came off the cables stripped and ended up touching and shorting the print head board.
the Bambu alternatives become valid as soon as they get something like an AMS. If you need to change filaments often, It’s just so very convenient to be able to just select a filament in the slicer and hit print without having to spend time to do it manually. I don’t use multi color prints a lot, but that’s a bonus too.
With coupons floating around I got the Q1 Pro for $385, The P1S was going to run me almost $670. This was a no brainer Q1 Pro purchase being it's a more open ecosystem running klipper. You obviously miss out on an AMS but I was okay with that. The first things I printed was a stronger spool holder (PETG) and a carbon filter box (ABS). I love this thing.
@@SirTodd That code expired. They sent me a similar one around Black Friday. You can search online or sign up for their emails to see if they issue any in the future.
Over the kast three years its become obvious that the small filters included or even bento boxes added to printers are too small to be effective. External large volume filters can work Farley effectively. But nothing beats extraction.
The door needs to be closed for higher temperature filaments such as ABS, ASA, etc. to keep the heat in which helps with reducing part warping. I hope this helps and thanks for the question.
Thank you for pointing that out. I wasn’t aware they have a stl file of a carbon filter box available. I still think QIDI should have included the printed box along with Carbon media in the printer shipment, but at least there is a after-purchase option. Thanks for your feedback.
@@ristinnovations yeah true but they had to cut corners to get that super low price somewhere and I'd rather print a box and buy some charcoal pellets so I can pay the price I want
Thanks for a great review video sir! Your video was 11 days old before it came up on my RUclips feed and I just purchased TWO Q1 Pros but the affiliate link was not working. (I believe it was due to me being on my company server at the time.) I would be happy to inform Qidi Tech today to let them know the situation so you may get your commission! But im not sure what information i need to give Qidi tech. Please lmk how I can do this. Side note: I am using 2 Prusa MK3S+ machines & an X-Max3 that I brought last month & I loved my X-Max3 so much that these 2 Q1 Pros will be replacing the Prusas! Great channel & thank you for your efforts in the community! *The Hillbilly Engineer*
Thanks for your positive feedback. That is very kind of you regarding wanting to use my affiliate link. I did check it and it appears to work, but please don’t worry if you weren’t able to use it while at work. The important thing is that you were able to order the Q1 Pro so I really hope you like your printer as much as I do. Thanks again.-Ken
I have one question on the design of the printer and that is, would the runout sensor on the print head ever get used? The anti-tangle sensor (a movement sensor) will always stop counting movement first for any break or filament runout.
That’s a great question. I think the way the tangle sensor works is that it detects resistance of the filament to pass through it. If there is no resistance, then I don’t think it will be triggered, but once the last of the filament reaches the runout sensor, that’s when the runout sensor will be triggered. I will have to do a small experiment to prove my theory. Thanks for your great question!
@@ristinnovations Interesting. I would think it'd be a movement sensor, lets say a stationary old ball mouse (quadrature encoder wheel against the filament). Detecting a jam (tangle) would have to read that the filament has stopped. Love to know what it actually is.
I hate the nozzle wiper on my X1 Carbon, the one on the Q1 Pro looks much better. I add a skirt 20mm away from the print and if the blob of plastic on the side of the nozzle doesn't get caught in the purge it usually gets trapped in the skirt, before that the blob nearly always got trapped in the outer layer of the part. I have tried a few 3rd party designs to solve the wiper issue but they are not good, I do have a another solution in the works but am waiting for some silicone to arrive. Did you make any mods regarding the nozzle wiper on your X1 carbon?
Nice review, I just don't understand why get a printer that can do materials that need drying and not plan to hook a drier directly to it. The junky spool holder is nearly useless, but again a drier needed for the materials this printer is for, otherwise get an A1 or an ender. The door handle on the bottom right seems to work fine for me and I have big fat fingers. FYI I love my Q1 Pro.
I agree that for the higher temperature materials a filament drier hooked directly to the Q1 Pro is the thing to do. When I was printing nylon that’s what I did and it worked great. You are right that the door can be opened by pulling on the lower right corner, but if they added a slight dimple to that spot it would be that much easier to open. It’s a small “nit” that I bought up. I’m with you; I also really like the Q1Pro. Thanks very much for your comment!
Overall similar, but larger build area, heated chamber, and Qidi has amazing customer service. Plus the Qidi is about $30 cheaper all current discounts considered. $419 vs $449.
@@802Garage Thanks for the info, I saw Qidi has already made some changes to the Q1P in a reddit post. Just wondering; how's the overall print quality? In reviews I've seen people say its slightly worse than the P1S and A5M.
@@LuckyyyStarXCIX I don't personally have one yet, though I have multiple friends who have the Q1 Pro and the X-Plus 3 or X-Max 3. I've seen a lot of close up print quality comparisons. Generally I think quality is going to come down to how well you tune the slicer settings for a given filament. I know people won't love that answer since Bambu Lab is all about set it and forget it, but even with their printers if you don't use their brand of filament and settings it will need tuning. Overall I have seen phenomenal print quality on par with any other consumer printers from the Q1 Pro, and many reviews demonstrate the same. I think there will be slightly more VFA on average than with some Bambu Lab models, but barely noticeable, and other than that generally similar. I have a friend who runs the 5M Pro in their print farm with good luck and the quality is quite solid, but I can't say I've seen it's better than the Q1 Pro. Overall, I'd say Bambu Lab may have a very slight advantage in the last 1-5% of surface quality, with Qidi and Flashforge being just barely below in the VFA or surface pattern department. It's really a close game, especially with the right slicer settings. Each can produce fantastic results by slowing down a little too, and the Q1 Pro is plenty fast. It can also more easily print high temperature and warp prone filaments than the competition by a good margin. That plus the price and customer service really just put it a notch above for me.
I didn’t see where I provided any of those numbers in my video. In my table @11:43, I list the chamber temp of 60C, bed temp of 120C, and hot end temp of 350C. Can you help clarify your question? Thanks
I didn’t see where I provided any of those numbers in my video. In my table @11:43, I list the chamber temp of 60C, bed temp of 120C, and hot end temp of 350C. Can you help clarify your question? Thanks
@@fdsgdfhfdgf9275 Most likely a user error and skill issue, if they can't even figure out a claim they are making needs something attached to be meaningful to anyone making a decision or else it's just useless words ... TL;DR - they are bad with the details
It looks interesting, but unlike the Max its build volume is only Benchy-sized, an instant exclusion criteria and it doesn't seem like they have an upgrade path for multi-material printing either.
I’m not sure what you mean by it being a benchy size, but it is smaller than a number of printers. I do agree it’s not clear if QIDI will be coming out with a multi-color upgrade or not. Thanks for your comment.
@@ristinnovations Basically, anything below a 300 mm cube volume often makes it neccessary to split certain projects into multiple parts and deal with parts alignment.
I loved my printer when i got it... up until the print head fan cables stripped and caused the board to short. Customer service is fantastic tho, and they're sending a new one. To anyone who buys one, very carefully take off the magnetic print head cover and snip the little zip tie holding the cables to the head. For me, when the cover came off the cables stripped and ended up touching and shorting the print head board.
Thanks for sharing your experience.
the Bambu alternatives become valid as soon as they get something like an AMS. If you need to change filaments often, It’s just so very convenient to be able to just select a filament in the slicer and hit print without having to spend time to do it manually. I don’t use multi color prints a lot, but that’s a bonus too.
What is ams ?
Qidi Box is coming soon ™. Tho there are multi color systems like the KSM set from Co Print that sould work here as well
Didnt know Christopher Walken did printer reviews
LOL, yes Christopher Walken has an acting career as well as a RUclips channel focused on 3D printing 😊
PPS-CF, I can't wait!
Fantastic printer so far.. love it. Hard to complain for $500. Able to print ABS an ASA with the heated chamber.
I’m glad you are enjoying it! I’m happy with mine as well. Thanks for your comment 😊
I picked mine up for 299
With coupons floating around I got the Q1 Pro for $385, The P1S was going to run me almost $670. This was a no brainer Q1 Pro purchase being it's a more open ecosystem running klipper. You obviously miss out on an AMS but I was okay with that. The first things I printed was a stronger spool holder (PETG) and a carbon filter box (ABS). I love this thing.
I’m glad you are enjoying the Q1 Pro. Thanks for your comment.
Mine's arriving tomorrow. I found a $30 off coupon and got it for $369.
@@rezalbbwhat was code?
@@SirTodd That code expired. They sent me a similar one around Black Friday. You can search online or sign up for their emails to see if they issue any in the future.
you can also make an MMU unit
Over the kast three years its become obvious that the small filters included or even bento boxes added to printers are too small to be effective. External large volume filters can work Farley effectively. But nothing beats extraction.
I agree with you that nothing beats exhaust extraction. Thanks for your comment
Does the glass door have to b closed? I have limited room and so I could not open and close it.
The door needs to be closed for higher temperature filaments such as ABS, ASA, etc. to keep the heat in which helps with reducing part warping. I hope this helps and thanks for the question.
needs to be open for PLA
@thelettermrepeated You can make do with just keeping the lid off for PLA
Qidi provides a carbon filter upgrade file to add if u want
Thank you for pointing that out. I wasn’t aware they have a stl file of a carbon filter box available. I still think QIDI should have included the printed box along with Carbon media in the printer shipment, but at least there is a after-purchase option. Thanks for your feedback.
@@ristinnovations yeah true but they had to cut corners to get that super low price somewhere and I'd rather print a box and buy some charcoal pellets so I can pay the price I want
@NoMercyFtw is there an stl out there for this filter box mod? Thanks for any links!
@@helixxharpell yeah you just go to their wiki
Thanks for a great review video sir! Your video was 11 days old before it came up on my RUclips feed and I just purchased TWO Q1 Pros but the affiliate link was not working. (I believe it was due to me being on my company server at the time.)
I would be happy to inform Qidi Tech today to let them know the situation so you may get your commission! But im not sure what information i need to give Qidi tech. Please lmk how I can do this.
Side note:
I am using 2 Prusa MK3S+ machines & an X-Max3 that I brought last month &
I loved my X-Max3 so much that these 2 Q1 Pros will be replacing the Prusas!
Great channel & thank you for your efforts in the community!
*The Hillbilly Engineer*
Thanks for your positive feedback. That is very kind of you regarding wanting to use my affiliate link. I did check it and it appears to work, but please don’t worry if you weren’t able to use it while at work. The important thing is that you were able to order the Q1 Pro so I really hope you like your printer as much as I do. Thanks again.-Ken
@ristinnovations Hi Ken, I contacted Qidi & they are looking into it. I'll keep you updated. Keep doin what you're doing!
I have one question on the design of the printer and that is, would the runout sensor on the print head ever get used? The anti-tangle sensor (a movement sensor) will always stop counting movement first for any break or filament runout.
That’s a great question. I think the way the tangle sensor works is that it detects resistance of the filament to pass through it. If there is no resistance, then I don’t think it will be triggered, but once the last of the filament reaches the runout sensor, that’s when the runout sensor will be triggered. I will have to do a small experiment to prove my theory. Thanks for your great question!
@@ristinnovations Interesting. I would think it'd be a movement sensor, lets say a stationary old ball mouse (quadrature encoder wheel against the filament). Detecting a jam (tangle) would have to read that the filament has stopped. Love to know what it actually is.
I hate the nozzle wiper on my X1 Carbon, the one on the Q1 Pro looks much better.
I add a skirt 20mm away from the print and if the blob of plastic on the side of the nozzle doesn't get caught in the purge it usually gets trapped in the skirt, before that the blob nearly always got trapped in the outer layer of the part.
I have tried a few 3rd party designs to solve the wiper issue but they are not good, I do have a another solution in the works but am waiting for some silicone to arrive.
Did you make any mods regarding the nozzle wiper on your X1 carbon?
Thanks for your comment. No, I haven’t made any mods on my X1C regarding the nozzle wiper. I haven’t had any noticeable issues with mine.
Nice review, I just don't understand why get a printer that can do materials that need drying and not plan to hook a drier directly to it. The junky spool holder is nearly useless, but again a drier needed for the materials this printer is for, otherwise get an A1 or an ender. The door handle on the bottom right seems to work fine for me and I have big fat fingers. FYI I love my Q1 Pro.
I agree that for the higher temperature materials a filament drier hooked directly to the Q1 Pro is the thing to do. When I was printing nylon that’s what I did and it worked great. You are right that the door can be opened by pulling on the lower right corner, but if they added a slight dimple to that spot it would be that much easier to open. It’s a small “nit” that I bought up. I’m with you; I also really like the Q1Pro. Thanks very much for your comment!
Great video! how do you feel it compares to the flashforge 5m pro?
Thanks for your comment. Unfortunately, I don’t have any experience with the Flashforge 5m pro so I can’t offer any advice comparing that to to Qidi.
Overall similar, but larger build area, heated chamber, and Qidi has amazing customer service. Plus the Qidi is about $30 cheaper all current discounts considered. $419 vs $449.
@@802Garage Thanks for the info, I saw Qidi has already made some changes to the Q1P in a reddit post. Just wondering; how's the overall print quality? In reviews I've seen people say its slightly worse than the P1S and A5M.
@@LuckyyyStarXCIX I don't personally have one yet, though I have multiple friends who have the Q1 Pro and the X-Plus 3 or X-Max 3. I've seen a lot of close up print quality comparisons. Generally I think quality is going to come down to how well you tune the slicer settings for a given filament. I know people won't love that answer since Bambu Lab is all about set it and forget it, but even with their printers if you don't use their brand of filament and settings it will need tuning.
Overall I have seen phenomenal print quality on par with any other consumer printers from the Q1 Pro, and many reviews demonstrate the same. I think there will be slightly more VFA on average than with some Bambu Lab models, but barely noticeable, and other than that generally similar. I have a friend who runs the 5M Pro in their print farm with good luck and the quality is quite solid, but I can't say I've seen it's better than the Q1 Pro.
Overall, I'd say Bambu Lab may have a very slight advantage in the last 1-5% of surface quality, with Qidi and Flashforge being just barely below in the VFA or surface pattern department. It's really a close game, especially with the right slicer settings. Each can produce fantastic results by slowing down a little too, and the Q1 Pro is plenty fast. It can also more easily print high temperature and warp prone filaments than the competition by a good margin. That plus the price and customer service really just put it a notch above for me.
@@802Garage How can you get it down to $419?
So is the max3 bad
I wouldn’t say the XMax3 is bad; it just has some shortcomings that they have improved on in the Q1 Pro.
How do you get the chamber to 90C, the bed to 200C and the nozzle to 400C?
I didn’t see where I provided any of those numbers in my video. In my table @11:43, I list the chamber temp of 60C, bed temp of 120C, and hot end temp of 350C. Can you help clarify your question? Thanks
I didn’t see where I provided any of those numbers in my video. In my table @11:43, I list the chamber temp of 60C, bed temp of 120C, and hot end temp of 350C. Can you help clarify your question? Thanks
You buy a printer with these features
You’ll want to look at a professional grade printer. The Qidi Q1 Pro is a really good printer, but for the hobbyist market.
I regret getting this should have got a bambulab machine
why ?
@@fdsgdfhfdgf9275 Most likely a user error and skill issue, if they can't even figure out a claim they are making needs something attached to be meaningful to anyone making a decision or else it's just useless words ...
TL;DR - they are bad with the details
It looks interesting, but unlike the Max its build volume is only Benchy-sized, an instant exclusion criteria and it doesn't seem like they have an upgrade path for multi-material printing either.
I’m not sure what you mean by it being a benchy size, but it is smaller than a number of printers. I do agree it’s not clear if QIDI will be coming out with a multi-color upgrade or not. Thanks for your comment.
@@ristinnovations Basically, anything below a 300 mm cube volume often makes it neccessary to split certain projects into multiple parts and deal with parts alignment.
@@IskelderonYes, I do agree that depending on the size of your prints, a volume of less than 300 mm does have some limitations. Thanks for your reply
@@Iskelderonif you want a bigger printer then buy a bigger printer
people who want to print big stuff wont buy a smaller printer
@@Iskelderon Talk about hyperbole ...