I have a cheap bedslinger at the moment, it prints well enough and with decent speed, but it’s a little finicky whenever I need to start a new print and I sometimes have to stop and restart 2-3 times in the beginning to get the first layer good. I’m also having some issues with ASA warping (especially on overhangs) it’s enclosed and heated to ~45°C.
I was thinking of building a voron, but I don’t really have the time to have a printer project, so I wanted something that’s close to what Bambu labs deliver, but ideally with the accessibility of klipper+mainsail.
I thought of getting the Prusa core one, but seeing reviews of it has really put me off it.
The printing speed is slow AF…a 37min benchy on a coreXY in 2025, WTF!? My bedslinger does it in less than 30min. The ecosystem Prusa delivers seems half baked at best, with no LAN access to the full printer interface? I’m used to klipper+mainsail which is amazing and offers full local control of every aspect of the printer settings/config, print jobs/queue printing progress and actual live video feed (Prusa is 0.1fps!?). At a 1350€ price tag, plus another 100€ for camera and accelerometer, it just seems like I’m not getting much for my money.
Is there anything out there either already running klipper, or can be flashed with it, that’s close to Bambu labs?
I don’t necessarily insist on klipper, but I would like to have the same functionality with whatever printer I end up with.
The Bambu printers are quite locked down. So you are only getting the functionality they want you to have. So the Core One, (Marlin) or Qidi, (Mainsail and klipper), might be your best choice. Crealty seems to be improving with their new models. But their past history makes me very leery yet. I lean to Prusa because I’ve owned one for 5 years now and they still support it. Customer support is valuable to me and worth the extra cost in the purchase price.