I Bought the 5 Cheapest 3D Printers on Amazon

No comments on how amazing the set is!? With color changing to match the filament!!

This is scary when I picked up an ender 3 pro for 100 bucks at microcenter brand new lol

Thank you so much for making a fun, high resolution video of these. I'm always so tempted to try tiny machines for fun and talk myself out of it because it's, as you noted, half of a much better printer, or 1.5-2x ultra durable nozzles, a decent UPS on sale, etc. But they're so dang adorable, making it quite enjoyable to get to see them. :)

Seeing the Mini's botched attempts made me laugh so much. poor little thing really tried it's hardest xD For anyone actually looking to get a budget 3d printer to get started, just go for an Ender 3 I don't know about the states but they run about 150 - 170 GBP and honestly the extra 50-70 is so worth it from a quality, build volume and lifespan perspective

Nils! I bought two K1 printers a few months ago. They both lasted a week. The Y axis stepper motor bushing wore out from the belt tension. Can you test longevity? I found the K1 prints good enough for the price. If you read this, look where the Y axis belt meets the Y axis pulley wheel... You'll notice the shaft and wheel are slightly leaning towards the front of the machine. FYI, a replacement motor is hard to find online and if I recall correctly it cost $28 and ships from China. If you have to buy a $28 motor every week it defeats the purpose of buying a cheap printer.

They're not really "copying" each other, I'd call it "sharing of development and production resources and leveraging economies of scale".

Even if they weren't Chinese clones, there's not really copywright infringement because they're based on open source designs from the reprap project. With a few modernisations.

Dude! We are impressed with your delivery and apparent fairness and hope you are an instructor somewhere as you are so good. Best of luck!

3D printers is definitely a product you don't want to go cheap into it. 3D printer filament is not the cheapest thing and I don't want to have to trundle shoot all the time. My first printer was cheap but going to a better printer made 3D printing fun again.

I still have and occasionally use X1. It was my introduction into 3d printing. Mine is still alive, well and kicking after more than 2 years. I don't get any layer shift issues. Only time I had layer shift problems were when I tried to use it with raspberry pi print server and direct control over COM, but that happened most likely due to some communication issue. When printing directly, I never had any layer shift. Prints are pretty OK with 25-28 print speed (though, much less for the walls). Quality PLA with 220 temp and down to 0.06 layer height can make some pretty good prints with its limitations in mind. It also came from factory with the part cooling installed, which looks like it was actually the factory QA print for mine that they just installed. I don't have a hot bed, but the magnetic plate is quite adhesive, though I use stick glue and narrow brim for adhesion, which was so far my goto on it. I think quite high of X1. Nice to see a review.

Thanks for taking your time to review these budget "alternatives" Nils, hopefully you'll save some folks their pennies 🤝

Nice, thanks, I had been curious about the clones.. Layer shift on x1 seems to be from tension on the head.. the double gantry on K1 seems to make a difference

Bought 2 printers from Goodwill for $40 each, they thought they were rotisserie ovens lol. Both work great, one needed an extruder but was cheap to replace. Eventually will buy one with a large print bed or the creality model with the rolling bed for larger prints but getting started with these was a bonus.

I kinda wanna see how far you can modify these small printers. I would never replace my ender 3 with these but if I want (for example) a kid to learn how to tinker and make their own improvements, I'd probably buy them one of these

I started with the K1 and K7, I prefer the K1 with the bars having a bit more stability. I just got a creality ender 3 v2 and still trying to get the hang of a bigger more precise printer lol

I just went to a daily deals and found that Anbull 3D printer brand new with no defects for $8 but can’t find enough on it. Thank you for this video man! 🙏🏽

I right now own a Lulzbot Taz 6 and a BambuLab X1 Carbon, great printers! I think if I had to buy one of these though I would go for the k1

I love mini 3dprinters, as a speaker about industry 4.0 or society 5.0 here in Brazil I do have to travel quite a lot for conferences, and having a small 3D printer with me is just perfect for bettet illustrate what I am saying. For many people it is still their first contact with a 3D Printer. So I bought almost all possible small 3D printers starting with a makerbot CNC cupcake, a MakerBot Mini, a CR-100 from Creality and a Minnie easythreed, that was for 2 years my favorite, so small and light and yet capable of doing all the small prints that I showed off... great video. Thanks for making it and please, keep a log about the longevit os this models.

Ohh man! The production value of these videos is mindblowing!

It's funny, you went out to buy the cheapest of the cheap, and I'm jealous of a feature. Really wish my Vyper had some posts and recesses to make centering the magnetic plate less tedious