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Had to choose between a Prusa and a Bambu Labs for a school 3D printer. Bambu never got back to us when we reached out about tax exemption. That on top of their
by themingus 2y ago
Had to choose between a Prusa and a Bambu Labs for a school 3D printer. Bambu never got back to us when we reached out about tax exemption. That on top of their proprietary aspects sealed the deal for me.
Prusa MK4+MMU3 has been more than satisfactory, even with the abuse of high schoolers and their optimistic print aspirations.
- amelius 2y agoWhat are the proprietary aspects?
- kobalsky 2y agoas far as I know, you can't flash a different firmware on the printer
- blutack 2y agoMandatory cloud connection for the initial setup (although you can use it in LAN mode afterwards).
- GuB-42 2y agoBambuLab has a proprietary firmware. So far, full open source and standard parts have been the standard for consumer-level 3D printer since the RepRap project, and especially for Prusa. But it is not the case for BambuLab, except for its slicer, but I suspect that's only because it is a derivative of... PrusaSlicer, which is AGPL. Because BambuLab makes great 3D printers and is therefore very successful, the community worries that it will set a precedent and that 3D printing will become more and more locked down.
- plagiarist 2y ago2D printing is an abomination because everything is proprietary, trash-tier drivers and HP begging for ink subscriptions. I have decided to commit to open source 3D printing. I was thinking of Voron as a next machine but this Prusa looks pretty nice.