This is my first experience with 3D printing, so I really don't have anything to compare it with. TBH, I didn't have that much interest to get into 3D printing. My son wanted to do it because he saw his friends some to school with some prints they were starting to do at their homes, so, I thought this would be a fun thing to explore with my kid. Bambu Lab seems to have the lowest and easiest threshold to enter this hobby. Even if you're just starting out with this hobby, very strong recommendation to skip the open gantries and non-ams2 systems. Both you and your kid are going to very quickly want to move onto more advanced materials than PLA or PETG AND you're going to need to keep ALL your filaments dry and your ams2 will make that easy. So, at minimum P2S + AMS2. The setup is easy as there are multiple youtube videos that will tell you how to do it. The new P2S units have good internal filters, so for your initial PLA prints things won't get too stinky. Get an extra HEPA unit to run near the printer when you move onto your PETG and ABS and more advanced materials. You'll start with a .4 hardened hotend. If you plan on doing some minifigs you'll want to get a .2 stainless right away. If you want to do more structural things a .6 or a .8 hardened or tungsten, but the .4 will work for almost everything you'll want to do early on. A lot of folks will not speak kindly about the lack of control the Bambu Lab interface gives you or they will call it the "apple of 3d printers." You can so some simple work a rounds for that. Like, the lettering tool is generally pretty amazing in the tool, but if you want to put circular lettering on something, you have to get creative. Some people will place things letter-by-letter, others like me will just create the image in a document like work then use a free online site to convert the image to an svg file then import the svg into the Bambu Lab tool, so it's not that bad. Like all things, it's a little quirky, but it works better than most and there are a ton of designs ready to go in the library, so it's not like you need to be a professional designer to get started with this. If your kid is pushing you to get a printer, make sure you get some of that silk pla filament and pre-dry everything before printing. When filaments are not in the AMS2, store them in those plastic cereal boxes with desiccant. Watch a ton of youtube videos to get an idea of what the hobby is about, but don't get intimidated, the Bambu Lab printers really are about getting people into the hobby, not about making people suffer through the hobby. So far I have not had to contact customer support for anything. The only printing issues I had were due to a modeler who made a mistake and left a .10 mm variance between the printface and the plate that lead to spagettifacation. It was a good learning moment for me to always check to make sure the base layers were printing in the right places to get good adhesion. In 3 weeks I've ran the printer about 120 hours with no performance issues. I'll perform some recommended maintenance at the end of the month and will be back at it again. The P2S with the AMS2 is a great first setup that I could see keeping me and my son satisfied for a few years as we get to know 3D printing and what some of these basic and advanced materials can do.
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