Monoprice Delta PRO 3D Printer with (270 x 300 mm) Heated Glass Build Plate, Auto Leveling, Triple Fan, PID Tuning, Fully Assembled

Very happy so far. Ordered from Monoprice through Amazon here and the printer arrived the next day.It's not perfect, but you can't beat it for the price!There's a Reddit mpminidelta group, and a Wiki at mpminidelta.com which have good resources. There's an active FB group apparently but I have not looked at that.Printed a couple cats perfectly. I put blue painter's tape on the bed to keep the bed clean and make removing the print easier. Have not needed glue-stick or anything else for PLA. I did have one cat fail when I forgot to heat the bed and it came loose from the bed about halfway through the print, so a little glue would probably have prevented that but keeping the bed warm seems to generally do it too.I have now set up Cura and successfully printed a "Low poly fox" model from Thingiverse. It takes some fiddling around to get Cura configured properly. I used the Start and End Gcode from the Cat sample file. Cura by default wanted to print at 150mm/s which is ridiculously fast and just didn't stick to the bed. Changing the speed to something around 40mm/s in Cura made it about the same as the Cat print and I was successful getting the fox to print on the first try after that. I used Cura 3.2.1 along with the device profile available on the mpminidelta wiki.I have been sticking with relatively small objects so far. Problems with using the full bed seem common with this printer due to flatness issues, so I have not wanted to push it yet. Even at full size this printer is relatively limited with the circular bed so rectangular models especially will be size limited. But it's great for small figures and items that fit naturally into a cylindrical volume.I have only tried printing with PLA so far. People report difficulty getting the heated bed to go above 60C or so making ABS printing problematic. The printer claims in its specs it can go to 100C on the bed, but that doesn't currently seem to be the case. People are experimenting with custom firmware as a possible solution for this.My printer shipped from Monoprice on 6/25/18 was version v44.160.3I have been impressed at how quiet this printer has been so far after hearing how noisy it is supposed to be. So far it has not been loud at all.It comes with an odd 161MB micro SD card which Windows claimed was "damaged" (though it read and worked fine in the printer). I let windows "repair" the card and it's happy now. I have been printing by saving Cura files to a laptop then copying them to the micro SD card using an SD adapter I already had (the printer does not come with a standard SD adapter for the microSD card), then loading the microSD card into the printer. I plan to try setting up Octoprint on a Raspberry Pi to remotely control and monitor the printer.Getting started is really easy. You pull the printer out of the box, remove the packing tape and plastic, plug it in, put in the miniSD card, Home the print carriage from the menu to remove the big packing foam piece, then pre-heat, load your filament, and print as described in the manual (which isn't included in printed form so you have to get it off the SD card or just off the wiki or the Monoprice site).The only issue I had initially was getting the filament through the printer. It seemed to stop before it actually got all the way in and just needed a bit more pushing to get past a restriction. You need to cut an angle/point at the end of the filament to help get it in. Using the Move->Extruder menu option to push the filament through (use the down button to load rather than up as indicated incorrectly in the manual). I pushed the filament a bit while clicking the down button until melted filament started coming out the extruder nozzle.There are some places where the printer does not currently live up to its specs (bed heat limits, etc.) and it can be fiddly and requires some internet research to figure out, but so far for me it's making some great prints and I'm super happy with the performance for the price.It's small, poorly documented, and has some issues, but still at the price how can I not give it five stars?G.P.S. added an image of a few things printed using Amazon Basics PLA in Gold and Perl White. The cats are the sample gcode file that comes with the printer, and the white fox is "Low Poly Fox" on Thingiverse and the articulated dinosaur is "Flexi-Rex Improved" also on Thingiverse (scaled down to 75% to fit comfortably on the bed). The dinosaur worked great and all the links between body segments are loose and he flops around like a length of chain.

The media could not be loaded. This is going to be a long one.Packaging:This printer comes in an ok box, with minimal protection. The box arrived damaged, so I was worried that the printer wouldn’t work. The printer was wrapped in bubble wrap, and came out of the box assembled. It includes an SD card, micro USB cable, (awful!) 3D printed spatula, and some Allen keys. Keep in mind that this printer doesn’t come with any filament, so make sure to buy a spool at time of purchase.Setup:Setup was easy. All you had to do was remove some packaging, attach the spool holder, and plug it in. The instructions weren’t the best, but they gave some general tips. You loaded the filament, and pressed a button. The printer would then automatically print a test file. While you do that, you install the latest version of Cura, and import the profiles for the printer. It really wasn’t that hard. From there it gets more complicated. The bed is self leveled, but you need to change the offset values in the firmware (reasonably easy) to test and get it just right. I would definitely say that this printer is not as beginner friendly as it suggests.Design:This printer is well designed, and made out of aluminum. It is lightweight, but it is pretty sturdy. The interface is a full color screen, and 3 buttons. Don’t be fooled, it IS NOT a touchscreen. It looks so much like one that I kept pressing it expecting it to work. The buttons are a bit clumsy. The printer uses a build-tak like surface, but you may still need to use some glue to make prints adhere. The print head uses a Bowden setup, which is ok, and works pretty well. So far, I have no had any jams with this printer.Overall Review:This printer is NOT very beginner friendly. Sure, it was so easy to setup, but dialing in settings and firmware issues are a hard sell for an absolute beginner. There is an amazing wiki and I would suggest you look there for any problems. There is also a thingiverse collection with upgrades. The print quality blew me away for the price of this machine. It is on par with even an Ultimaker, a $2000+ machine. There were some hiccups in getting the bed level right, and it sometimes has glitches and jams the print head into the build plate. The main upgrade I did was replacing the bed with a piece of glass for better first layers. Again, the Wiki was an excellent help for this. As you can see but the pictures, I got some amazing prints with this machine. I was overall very impressed by this machine, especially for its price. It has features usually on found on $1000+ machines. I have to appreciate all the work that has gone into this machine. I would recommend this printer for anyone, but if you’re an absolute beginner you may find it tedious/time consuming to get this completely up and running.

The touch screen is simple but maybe too simple. I was really hoping to change the steps per mm one of the axis as the calibration cube was slightly out of dimension. It does print and is very quiet comparing to other printers. If we need to change the z axis g code offset flat off the bat, i question why this isnt done in the first place when uploading the firmware at the factory. Either way it prints and does a decent job doing so for miniatures and trinkets but since the steps per mm has to be changed with a a splicer and not on board firmware i have to give printer a small wrap on the wrist.

Pros: Amazing print quality, Fast prints, Large print area, Great UI, Great finish, Solid constructionCons: No wireless printing, Finding a Cura profile is tricky, Pricey, Non removable print bed.Setting up this printer was seamless, I loved the USB stick option which is located beside the screen. The power button is also very conveniently located. The auto leveling probe works great. I have no real complaints

Excelente calidad y precio. Es una buena elección para principiantes o para iniciar a un niño en el mu. Do de la impresión 3D. Se necesita un poco de tiempo para configurarla ya que es open source y la version de Cura que viene incluida es antigua.Las instrucciones incluidas son muy limitadas pero en línea existen muchos Foros y Wikis que pueden ayudar.Igualmente la impresión por WiFi es poco confiable pero imprimir por MicroSD es facil y rápido.Y hablando de la MicroSD, esta es un formato especial. El lector no es compatible con las nuevas generaciones (HC, XD, etc.) deberás de utilizar una MicroSD de primera generación las cuales son algo costosas, $1000 por 1GB. Pero la MicroSD que está incluida es de 128MB y me ha sido suficiente.Como extras les sugiero comprar un base de cristal (con pegamento de barra) o usar masking tape, esto hace más facil remover las impresiones sin necesidad de usar un Raft en el objeto.

Requiere una curva de aprendizaje pero funciona bien por el precio que tiene

Update: I'd like to update my review. It is still a genuinely terrible machine. I think what gets me most, in hindsight, is the deceptive marketing. The ad says, "Auto calibration: the delta design style continuously self-calibrates, so you will never have to struggle with bed leveling." Not only is this completely inaccurate, as calibration is probably the biggest struggle with this machine, it is fundamentally deceptive and predatory to people new to the hobby who think, "Oh, neato, a printer that won't require much fiddling..." Talk about a bait and switch.First of all you don't even know what version of the printer you are buying. Some come with different actual hardware (step controllers). The print bed is loose from the factory with no way to keep it still during printing without additional hardware.The auto bed leveling feature is a gimmick and does not function, as sometimes the print head will just randomly dive into the build plate, causing damage to both.With about 1kg of filament through the machine, the LCD screen is failing. The printer is unreliable to an extreme, with many more failed prints than successes. Even with the great support group on facebook, I hugely regret wasting the money on this beta test that was advertised as a finished project.Monoprice customer service is worthless as well, offering no help or answers to the endless problems.