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Great little project. It's my first 3d printer and with only a bit of reading and research I jumped right in. Arrived in good time with all parts included with a few extra nuts and bolts in case you lose one. Be careful to follow all instructions and watch both the videos and the .pdf before attempting. One limit switch had to be put on with some crazy glue as the pre drilled holes were too large for the self tapping screws included. Minor really. So does it make nice prints? It sure does but it takes a little tweaking. The biggest tip I have to give is to level the bed before each printing. The biggest problem I had was the tip too far the starting surface. This causes adhesion problems and causes poor layering. Set it just right and it's pretty amazing what this device can do. Highly recommended.One more thing, I had a small issue that was handled by email on a Saturday night with a response in less than 30 min. Excellent service from 3d Workbench, thanks.

PLEASE READ .If you are going to start 3d printing and want this as an entry level printer don't do it. go with the cr-10 mini or similar . Please read . On with my review and why. Took me about 3 hours to get it all together. Not too bad of a build. I've been 3d printing for a long time and I know 100 percent this thing will not print well on first assembly. Axis rods are way too sloppy. Can move the bed almost 3/16 of an inch up and down . No big deal tie strap the axis rod to the thread rod right below it. The belt angle on the hot bed is horrible. A 5mm spacer to bring it down level would be so simple to add on and make a huge difference. When the hot bed reaches the limit switch the angle of the belt causes the bed to pull down and the servo motor strains to hit the limit. Also easy upgrade and fix. The bad part of the design is the hotbed doesn't travel straight due to the sloppy axis and overall design of the printer. Mount the printer to a piece of wood and you will be ok. Overall its not a horrible design . No Bowden tube to guide the filament really limits the position of the spool. . The printer always pulls power when it's plugged in. I got a half way decent first print but HERE IS THE BIG PROBLEM... the thermistor fell out of the hot end half way through the second print. The control board then cranked up the power to get the temp to reach 200 but the thermistor hanging out read 120 degrees . It almost caught fire and smoked out my whole room before I had a chance to unplug it. When it cooled down I went to remove the hot end and noticed the 40mm tube is bent really bad straight from the factory. THIS PRINTER DOES NOT HAVE OVERRUN PROTECTION ENABLED IN THE FIRMWARE?? Then add the fact that the hot end has no set screws like every other printer I've used to hold in the thermistor. It is going to burn someone's house down. I'm very torn however.I like this printer and it looks nice but the thermistor falling out, the bent hot end I didn't notice right out of the box. The upgrades and time needed to get it stable seriously are leaving me with buyers remorse and have me honestly wishing I'd bought another solid ready to print printer. I'm considering sending it back.Wanted to ad to my review. I decided to keep the printer. Here is what is needed to make it safe and print well .Fused ac plug adapter with power switch $13 . Change the hot end ASAP $19 with one that has a set screw to hold in thermistor. Changed the firmware and add extruder over run THIS IS A MUST.please read up on it for safety's sake. I changed the 8mm bed rods to hardened chrome plated rods ($11 on amazon stock werent true and hotbed was binding) . Took out the cheap rough bearings and put in derlyn bushings on the bed only $18. 2 external mosfets $22. The onboard ones are ok (until 220c or over 70c on the bed) Unnecessary upgrades found on thingiverse I did that made it print better were new cooling fan nozzle , z rod buttons and a really nice y belt bracket to bring the belt level on the bed , power supply cover to hold ac fuse ad adapter. I mounted the printer to a piece of wood and it prints as nice as my cr10 mini finally. (I'm in it the same price now). I am bummed though that now the display screen has a solid line of dead pixels that just quit out of nowhere during a print. Seems I can't win with this thing. It prints nice after upgrades and I feel it is safe finally but if you don't have another printer to make the parts to get it printing right then I would look for a different printer. If you want to buy a $220 printer and spend the money you saved buying a nicer one on parts needed to make it nice then this is your machine. Hopefully they will warranty the screen because I have hours and good money in upgrades so I'm stuck with it.

Bought mine from Rekpro. Customer support Rep Tucker worked with me to make my holiday perfect. The A6 is a fine little printer, a little tweaking and it does a great job. I have been printing all day and it makes things that have joints so well that they have no problems moving. It is not for the timid though, you do need to have some machanical abilities to assemble this and continue to print. It is a little touchy, needs to be leveled frequently. Bed temp needs to be at 70 degrees to work best but it had no problem getting there. All works right out of the box!

I have used many different 3D printers from industrial additives to SLA. This printer is more like the possesed skeleton of an Ultimaker quality printer. Some enthusiats would probably argue with me and say that the components are nowhere near that level of quality, but this is my review and I will tell you want my experience has been.The package came and from reading a few reviews I was a little nervous that the box would contain missing and broken items. This was not the case. In fact the printer was packaged so well that I doubt, aside from a middle man messing with the product before it arrived at your door, the printer would ever be messed up or damaged from the company.Building the machine took 2 hours and 37 minutes. Before the build I inspected each part for probable defects or future problems. Reminding myself that I spent $240.00 on this product I knew that there must be cheap and defective parts and was ready to accept that challenge. Here is what I noted:1. The linear bearings came pickled. It makes sense, the production company doesn't know how long the product may stay shelved. Easy fix, I used solvent to clean the preservitive out of the bearings and medium air blasted them dry. After they dried I hand packed them with synthetic grease. The instruction video did not mention this as a requirment, but... I couldn't help myself.2. In the installation of the Y stepper one of the mounting holes was, what I thought was stripped. Under further investigation, it was not threaded to begin with. Honestly, this has happened to me before when I built a CNC mill. I ordered a NEMA 24 dual shaft from an American company and one of the mounting holes was not threaded. Simple fix, used a tap and cut a new thread. Honestly, it could have been left and the motor would have been perfectly stable without that mounting screw. (The other three where great)3. The X-Axis belt mount was shared by the nozzle thermo wiring... This may have been just the way they secured it for packing, but this is a no-no. Simple fix, re-routed wires in different direction.After the completed build, the machine was quite simple to calibrate. After about 30 minutes of configuration I was printing a test peice. I did not know what the pre-loaded gcode was but I thought it would be fun to see what happened. After a 45 minute print a bust of Shia LeBouff appeared. Although the print was not mind blowing... It was impressive. After making a few temp changes and cutting the speed by 10 percent... The next print my brain exploded out of my eyeballs. It was one of the best prints I have seen!Long story short, this was a great purchase. As with all low budget priducts I am sure that as time goes on that components will fail. But the fact is, it's an opportunity to make a small investment better step by step. And it's completely upgradable.You cannot beat what you get for the price... Speaking of price, I chose to pay a little more just for the Amazon backing and the ability to return it. Thanks!

I love this printer and it was easy to assemble. There are many upgrades on thingiverse and there is a fantastic facebook page dedicated to these printers. You can find these cheaper direct from China but I did't mind paying a premium for "Prime" shipping.

Buen producto para gente que apenas está iniciando en el hobby, sin embargo, es un producto muy DIY, es todo lo contrario un plug and play, de salida, recomendaría agregar un MOSFET y una cama de vidrio como las primeras mejoras, acabados buenos, pero es MUY ruidosa.Si quieres una impresora que sea fácil de usar, está no es la opción, está impresora es barata, grande pero es difícil de usar bien

Muy buen producto fácil de ensamblar y utilizar