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I have had my Creality Ender 3 Pro for a while now and I have upgraded it quite a lot. Lately I have been thinking about wether I should put in some more money (better hotend, maybe new steppers, maybe enclosure, maybe part cooling fan) or if I should buy a new printer that is a more of complete package. A bit more build volume would be nice as well.

I am intrigued by the Bambu Labs printers but I don't like their somewhat proprietary approach. So I have been looking around for competitors and I saw that Creality has shown their new K2 Plus with an AMS. I wonder if it's worth waiting for that. The specs sound good. Is the K1 good now? I heard it had some problems in the beginning.

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[–] VinS 7 points 3 months ago (8 children)

Two printers will always beat one printer. Upgrading your ender 3 will be a money pit if you want something that does same as last generations printers.

An designed enclosed printer will let you use ABS that is to my mind one of the best plastics I use.

I don't know for Creality K1/K2 though.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago (7 children)

I don't have the space for two printers. But I think too that at some point upgrading makes sense. The Ender 3 is nice to tinker but I want something that just works.

[–] VinS 3 points 3 months ago

Start to spread into your friends/parents/kids place and send them virtual files to print :p

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