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Newbie printer suggestions. (lemmy.world)

submitted 6 months ago by iconic_admin@lemmy.world to c/3dprinting@lemmy.world

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Would be so kind as to suggest a printer for me? I have no experience at all with 3D printers or 3D modeling. But I am super interested and have electronics and coding knowledge. I would like to print things like brackets, enclosures for custom circuit boards, organizers, keyboard plates, etc. Ideally I would like to spend around $300USD, but I am open to going as high as $500USD if it would save me headaches and make the experience more enjoyable and streamlined.

Please suggest something for me and let me know if I didn’t provide enough information. One final note, I live in range of a microcenter if that is a factor.

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[–] nickwitha_k@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 6 months ago

I don't have any experience with resin printers yet but have been poking around at FDM for the better part of a decade. In that price range (for FDM), I'd likely suggest a Creality K1C. It is not going to likely match the BambuLab printers but it's a great departure from previous by Creality, requiring little to no tinkering to make it work. If you can spare around $1k, and don't care about proprietary stuff, BambuLab X1 series is about the most turnkey that I know of. But, again, the Creality is (surprisingly) right there too with the K1C.

Note: It is probably possible to get similar results with mods to a K1 or K1Max - the nozzle brush seems to be critical to the K1C's reliability.