3 English reviews written for Creality K1
17 customer reviews in all languages
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| 4 stars | | 5 | (14%) |
| 3 stars | | 1 | (2%) |
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Doug
06 August 2024
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F GARCIA
07 September 2023
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Rated with 1 out of 5 stars.
Machine has defintely some potential. It is a priced down copy of the BambuLab vut development is not complete, extruder is stopping for no reason, hot end is not dimensionned for fast flow. So if you are willing to spend some time optimizing, go for it. Again it is a good platform if you are printing PLA at decent speeds. They are a few tutorial to unlock the installed Klipper and bring it to its full potential. I had to return it and get a PS1P and what a machine. As I write it must be on its 4th day of non stop printing ABS and not one failed part. I am astonished.
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Siggy101
14 July 2023
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Rated with 1 out of 5 stars.
BUYER BEWARE! DO NOT BUY THIS PRINTER IN ITS CURRENT FORM!
I pre-ordered my K1 from 3DJake and it arrived 10 days ago.
The design of the bowden routing causes it to pinch the filament, thereby causing horrible underextrusion. There is also a huge design issue in the extruder, meaning there is no positive tension pressing the rollers together. Mine printed ok for 2 days, then underextruded for 4 days, before the extruded finally completely failed after 6 days. I cannot print anything now. The door hinges are utter rubbish, meaning the door rattles around uncontrollably, is dreadfully misaligned and so crashes into the top of the screen when you open or close it. There are constant random errors on the screen. The web interface does allow you to send commands to the printer 80% of the time (throws indecipherable Chinese errors). The app is so buggy and laggy that it is impossible to use. Simple tasks like lowering the build plate 100mm results in the build plate moving down 100mm, back up 30mm, then down 50mm.
The printer could be amazing, but it is let down by a rubbish extruder and cheap fittings throughout, as well as a lack of quality control. I so badly wanted this printer to be as incredible as the hype suggested, but it really is not.
I see that they are reducing the price of this printer everywhere, presumably because of the number of dissatisfied customers, and terrible YouTube reviews, specifically about the extruder.
3DJake support have been good and proposed a bunch of replacement parts, but they need to be shipped from China and will take weeks, all with no guarantee that they are any better than the junk currently installed in my printer.
I am returning mine for a refund and will wait for a new version to be released with some design changes.Was this rating helpful? (50) (8)
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Rated with 4 out of 5 stars.
Coming from a KP3S and an Ender3 this is world's above what I am used / to for printing speeds.
A print that would take 38 hours on the ender3 says 16 hours on the k1 with the same layer height and infill.
-- it's loud when it's fast! But that is the price you pay. But if it's a bit too loud there are always "modes" for "silent" printing. While I don't know specific percentages of what the base speed of your prints are, silent and stable do make it tolerable to be around.
--- When printing fast it can shake an ikea Alex draw and those aren't exactly light, which speaks volumes to how much weight is being thrown around in that printer, so keep those fingers away from moving parts.
Print quality is great out of the box! And accurate to boot. I'm using this printer for printing a bulk of PrintABlok at the moment, and I'm happy with how the bloks are coming out and how nicely they are snapping together.
- I wish that klipper/moonraker hadn't been knee capped, there are options for gaining root access but I'm a tinkerer and that's the reason I want to do so. Do you need to tweak this to have a usable printer? Not at all.
- camera felt sketchy when installing because of the cable clip they'd used but is a welcome addition to the printer for checking up on things.
- bit annoyed that the cable chain was broken in shipping... Not the end of the world but initial impressions count. It was an easy print to do to fix it.
- I can't seem to send to the printer from orcaslicer for some reason, but then it is not a supported config by creality so what am I to expect.
Do I currently want another?
Yes! I certainly do! Parallelized prints are amazing! Especially at this kind of speed.
Do I want to make any changes to the printer?
I want to swap to a Revo set up so I can do 0.6 or 0.8mm nozzle prints which would speed up gigantablok prints a lot!
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