If you “just care about printing stuff” then why would you go with the walled garden that relies on userlocks, proprietary formats, and forced network connectivity to function? Not to mention the fire risk and rug pulling…
Anycubic and Creality are cheap Prusa knockoffs that need a lot of tuning to perform well.
My kobra prints fine. .16mm layer height by default (in OrcaSlicer), but it can go down to .08mm just with the default .4mm nozzle. I haven’t experimented with anything smaller, but so far I’ve had no issues. The precision and speed is remarkable, and I can calibrate, print, and do everything I need to do entirely offline.
There was no manual tuning or upgrades required, it showed up, assembled easily, and has been plug-and-play since. Yes, there’s an option to upgrade because of it’s modular design but that by no means means that it’s required. I can retrofit it to print with 16 different filaments, but I’m fine with the default of 4.
And regarding the slicer I really don’t care which slicer I use. It just has to do its job.
If you don’t care which slicer you use, then why would you go with the only one with a proprietary format that locks you into a walled garden? That’s some really weird logic…
If you “just care about printing stuff” then why would you go with the walled garden that relies on userlocks, proprietary formats, and forced network connectivity to function? Not to mention the fire risk and rug pulling…
Because I don’t care about the walled garden. The only thing I would mind is locking down filament but they don’t do that. So these things aren’t a negative to me. Not a positive either, just a neutral.
That Kobra looks nice, all the Anycubics I’ve seen in our makerspace are all the old ones that are basically Prusa Mk3 knockoffs. And it’s affordable, it looks basically like an A1 but with 4 colour printing without the ams. Nice! I’d consider that for my next printer.
If you “just care about printing stuff” then why would you go with the walled garden that relies on userlocks, proprietary formats, and forced network connectivity to function? Not to mention the fire risk and rug pulling…
My kobra prints fine. .16mm layer height by default (in OrcaSlicer), but it can go down to .08mm just with the default .4mm nozzle. I haven’t experimented with anything smaller, but so far I’ve had no issues. The precision and speed is remarkable, and I can calibrate, print, and do everything I need to do entirely offline.
There was no manual tuning or upgrades required, it showed up, assembled easily, and has been plug-and-play since. Yes, there’s an option to upgrade because of it’s modular design but that by no means means that it’s required. I can retrofit it to print with 16 different filaments, but I’m fine with the default of 4.
If you don’t care which slicer you use, then why would you go with the only one with a proprietary format that locks you into a walled garden? That’s some really weird logic…
Because I don’t care about the walled garden. The only thing I would mind is locking down filament but they don’t do that. So these things aren’t a negative to me. Not a positive either, just a neutral.
That Kobra looks nice, all the Anycubics I’ve seen in our makerspace are all the old ones that are basically Prusa Mk3 knockoffs. And it’s affordable, it looks basically like an A1 but with 4 colour printing without the ams. Nice! I’d consider that for my next printer.