Not Perfect But The Best 3D Printer On The Market - Bambu Lab X1 Carbon

this is the bamboo lab X1 Carbon and this is the 3D printer that single-handedly started the speed Wars in consumer grade 3D printers and for a good reason this comes right out of the box printing extremely fast in multiple colors or materials and a table to make some really high quality prints and bamboo lab was nice enough to send this unit over to me with an absolute ton of filament to use and all they ask for in return is a video about their printer with no strings attached but first let's check out the unboxing and setup process of this printer and it all comes in this one box which is nicely packed and just under the top packing materials you'll see that the entire printer is inside of a bag with two of the ends taped to the Box just take these off and pull up and it takes the entire printer out and at the bottom of the box there are some filament rolls and here's everything out of the box with the back off of the printer but there's still some unpacking to do because the inside of the printer is packed with more stuff so you're going to have to remove the glass top and open up the front glass door to remove some bolts so you can pull out the AMS unit but before I can do that I need to take this foam off and remove this box that has tools and parts for the printer in it because there is a little assembly required and with a little bit of wiggling the AMS just slides right out and with that out I need to remove this black piece of plastic now and there's red stickers pointing to all the bolt locations and now I can get to these two giant stickers which are bed adhesion stickers so if you damage the material on your build plate you can just switch it out for these and underneath that is the actual magnetic build plate and this is double sided so this is the cool plate for only PLA and you do need to use glue stick on this or your pla might fuse to it and the other side is the engineering plate for just about all the other materials and there are three more red stickers pointing to screws that I need to remove this does have a full touchscreen display that attaches by a ribbon Cable in the front and just kind of snaps onto the machine and it does have a small hinge to it so you can adjust your viewing angle which is pretty nice and if we take a look on the inside of the printer you'll see the print head which is a pretty nice compact little setup that even has a lidar sensor on the side of it and the front cover is held on by magnets so you can get to everything on the inside of this relatively easily but anyways let's get this thing powered on and set up and this will warn you again about the screws that I removed earlier so make sure you do that after that going to have to calibrate itself which is going to take a few minutes and it's going to be very noisy because how fast this printer moves around it has to compensate for the vibrations so it's going to go through a bunch of them and trying to figure out what would work best to keep it from shaking too much and don't worry you don't have to really do anything for this it's all automated so it figures all this out for the input shaping and when it's doing this I think this sound is very interesting so here it is foreign this is pretty much ready to print and it has a bunch of pre-sliced files already on it so I'm printing a basic benchy as my first print for this and in total this took a little over 20 minutes and that's because it takes a few minutes for the printer to actually get set up and ready to print like all of the lines you see at the front of the build plate it prints a couple lines and then scans it with the lidar so it can figure out what settings would be best for the first layer and just to put things into perspective a little bit before this printer was released most consumer printers would take about an hour to an hour and 40 minutes to print this same boat and for the most part the only way you can achieve these speeds before this came out is to build your own custom printer and you'd have to make sure everything was really dialed in and tuned and if you want to see how this entire process goes down check out my friend Fetter over on his YouTube channel 3D print SOS and he did an entire live stream series just on this one build and the live streams themselves add up to about 45 hours but with this printer I was able to get this up and running and have my first print within an hour and overall it looks like it came out really nice besides the noticeable texture difference on the bottom where it's a bit shinier and the rest of its matte but this is a pre-sliced file and I might be using the wrong pla for this and this isn't the only pre-size file that's on here there's a ton of them actually and it's nice to see that they have pictures print time and how much material they need all just in their thumbnails and like I talked about before this does have an AMS or automatic material system so you can load it up with different filaments and be able to print something in multiple materials all at once that being said it does have some limitations because some materials just do not work in it and it also says not to use it with cardboard spools so this one for matter hackers should work fine but I have seen people have success using the cardboard spools from polymaker so it's going to be a bit of trial and error this printer does have its own slicing software which is pretty easy to use and I thought I'd start out by printing something in multi-color like this little Axolotl and the entire black part of this is going to be printed in carbon fiber pla because this printer comes with a hardened steel nozzle you can print filled materials like carbon fiber fiberglass and glow in the dark without risking destroying your nozzle and this came out way better than I thought it would to be honest with no color bleeding whatsoever but I didn't mean to print it with a brim so let me clean that off real quick and show you one downside to printing in multi-color and that's all the waste that it makes every time it needs to change color every layer seeing that the Axolotl was only 19 grams in total and had 60 grams of waste but if all of your color changes at one layer height you're not going to have that much waste it's just one changeover so stuff like this has almost no waste so even the multi-color lid on this was only three color changeovers with very little waste and those changeovers do take time as well because that Axolotl that I printed should have took about an hour but because it had a change over so many times it took over five hours but when it came to making this hard case I was able to print it in different pieces and different colors all at once and with just a few screws I was able to assemble it and have a functional box because you can tell to print each object one at a time and it can change colors all on its own so you don't have to do anything so if you wanted to make a bunch of the same part but different colors you can do that and I was able to print these different color ring displays in about half an hour and I was able to make a few other displays as well relatively quick and this all probably cost me under two dollars in material cost and for some reason if you need more than four materials or colors you can always add another AMS to this actually you can add three more on top of this so you could have up to 16 different materials but if you are looking to do that each AMS unit is 350 and you'll also need the AMS Hub which is another fifty dollars but you can definitely make some pretty cool things with just the four color setup but there is another feature to the AMS that I really like which is if you run out of filament it will switch it for you to the next roll and then just continue your print like normal and if you do a lot of printing like I do you always end up with spools with not enough filament on them to do anything this way I can actually use all of those up and if you are worried about not being able to use certain materials or spools there is a spool holder on the back of this that you can hook up and print with you just can't use it at the same time as AMS and since I've been talking about different materials this isn't limited to just PLA and it can print much higher temperature materials and because this machine is fully enclosed it keeps all the heat in and it keeps your part from warping and I was able to print all the pieces for this in ASA and you might have noticed this has some different textures to it like the carbon fiber look and this is due to a different build plate that I'm using because you can swap those out and there are some aftermarket ones that are really cool and this is the textured Pei build plate from bamboo lab but both of these carbon fiber ones are just aftermarket ones that you can buy and on the other side of them there is a textured Pi sheet as well and if you're looking to get anything that I showed in this video I'll have links to everything in the description below and as I've already shown in this video there's a lot that you can print with a 3D printer instead of just printing toys or knickknacks and I find myself printing a lot of tools or making completely new products just keep in mind it will take some 3D design skills to actually make your own stuff but at least in my experience it's been totally worth it and don't worry you don't have to learn how to do with everyday design work to be able to 3D print there's plenty of people that upload free files for anyone to use or others will charge a small fee for you to print it as many times as you want and most of the time you can just search for what you're looking for and there'll be something like how I was looking for a tissue box holder for an interesting gift and I found this cool looking textured one that I printed in a rainbow pastel matte PLA and I know in this video I've been really talking up this printer and saying just pretty much good things about it but as we all know nothing is perfect I have seen people having problems in the Facebook groups with defective parts and from what I've seen bamboo lab is pretty good about fixing these problems but their response times can be pretty slow at times which will feel even longer when you have a broken machine also those machines are pretty loud so if you have limited space and plan on sleeping in the same room as one of these just know that it's not quiet there is a silent mode that you can turn on which will slow it down but it'll also dramatically increase your print time and keeping it shot does muffle it a little bit but not by much overall I really do think this is one of the best printers on the market right now especially seeing that other companies are trying so hard to make a competitor to this but sadly a lot of these are coming out and not living up to expectation or being faulty directly out of the box or after a very small amount of time of printing and with all that said this printer isn't exactly cheap either but it's also not the most expensive I've seen coming in at a thousand four hundred fifty dollars before tax and delivery and you can save about 250 dollars if you don't get it with the AMS unit and I really suggest not doing that and just getting the full combo because if you do want to get it later on it's going to cost you an extra hundred dollars either way it's still a decent chunk of money for these printers but they do have another option and that's the bamboo lab p1p and it's actually a stripped down version of the X1 they basically took away the enclosure the extra cooling fan and really dumbed down the display on this and it also doesn't have the lidar function but the overall print quality and speed of one of these is on par with the X1 and I can back that up because I own one of these and I have for about seven months now and I've been Printing With It Non-Stop and I even printed an entire enclosure for it and you can get one of these for 599 dollars and as I was recording everything for this video they actually came out with a new version of the Pomp and it's a p1s and this is basically the pomp with an enclosure for only a hundred dollars more or you can get it with an AMS unit as well for an extra 250 dollars so definitely some really good options depending on your budget and what you need to make well I think that sums up just about all my thoughts on the bamboo lab printers so let me know what you think of these and if you have any questions leave a comment and I'll try to get back to every single one of them well thanks for watching and I'll see you guys next time bye

Channel: Randy May

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Length: 9min 48sec (588 seconds)

Published: Wed Jul 19 2023