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I don’t really think Prusa is floundering, but I just don’t get their go-to-market strategy or technology roadmap. Klipper is now taking the low-end Chinese pri
by rcarmo 3y ago
I don’t really think Prusa is floundering, but I just don’t get their go-to-market strategy or technology roadmap. Klipper is now taking the low-end Chinese printer segment by storm, Vorons are a _way_ better value for money if you value maintainability (although assembly won’t be everyone’s wheelhouse), and the MK4 wasn’t really that innovative.
Bambu is just catering to a different market—they just went and added dozens of little creature comforts and tweaks to their hardware and software to the point where it’s literally point and click, and even the offshoots are good. I’m in the process of switching from SuperSlicer-which caters better to non-Prusa printers-to OrcaSlicer, which is full of nice touches and productivity enhancements like multi-plate projets, and that’s a Bambu Studio clone.
What I’m afraid of with Bambu is long-term maintainability of their printers. I can replace belts, gears, extruders, etc., the works for most of my printers (I just re-printed a broken X-axis assembly for my 8-year-old Prusa clone), but am really unsure I’d be able to maintain a Bambu four years down the road.