I tried to get the Cetus3D 3D printer running recently so that I could flash up a bearing shroud to cover the thrust bearing I decided to fit to the Paramo #3 vise I've just overhauled.
- Bambu Labs P1S £340
- Qiqi Q2 £560
- Creality K2 £469
- Prusa Core One £919
- Elegoo Centaur Carbon £259
The Bambu is the market leader at the low cost end of the market. The Qiqi and Elegoo seem to be sort of clones of the Bambu. The Creality is sort of trying to be there too but seems to be expensive and not a wonderful success. Prusa seems to be trading on its early market presence and the pricing seems to have got away from them without any obvious advantage in terms of quality or technology.
Some offer multi colour printing but that ties you to an expensive machine and it appears that the colour changing process is very wasteful of filament. Elegoo seems to have pissed off many of their early adoptors by promising a multi colour option - then abandoning it.
But at £260 delivered (within 36 hours of ordering) and with generally pretty good reviews, the Elegoo it is. It's sitting in its box awaiting opening tomorrow (Xmas Day). After ~30 mins of assembly, it is good to go, almost right out of the box.
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