Bambu Lab A1 vs Creality Ender 3 V3

THE MOST popular 3D printer comparison requested by you, this is the @BambuLab A1 versus the @Creality3D Ender 3 V3 - This was a fun one to make, has a little Daft Punk music, some awesome prints and the results will absolutely surprise you! Which printer would you choose?

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Bambu Lab A1

Creality Ender 3 V3

Polymaker 3D Printing Filament

RJ Design Model

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[streamylc]

Very much liking your videos man.... recently got into 3d printing... your videos helped me choose my printer... yoir channel is gonna do really well.

[HeyItsRich]

Creality gets a lot of hate, but they pretty much made 3d printing affordable for anyone.

[t.g.]

No matter what anyone says, this ender 3 v3 is a perfect entry-level machine. I bought it about half a year ago and I'm already well over 1000 operating hours. I've printed figures, helmets, and even full cosplay armors with it, and I use it exclusively with pet-g, which requires much higher heat dissipation. Repairs or component replacements have not been justified or necessary so far. The only thing I regret is that I didn't buy the PLUS version, which is larger.

[Happydprinting]

This shows exactly the huge transformation in 3d printing.

Creality have been in the game a long time but it took a company like Bambu lab to shake up the whole industry so people can get into 3d printing without the learning curve of flow calcs, bed levelling, retraction settings, stepper motor tuning and slicing settings that we all had to understand to tune our printers for great results.

It’s great that other manufacturers as you have shown and stated in your videos are able to match the experience that you could only enjoy if you had a Bambu printer.

If anything today Bambu lab will need to play a bit of catch up in the area of larger format printers, fingers crossed we will see something in the next few weeks.

what the next evolutionary step will be and who brings it to the 3d printing community is going to be very exciting.

[NWGR]

Bambu A1 by a long shot. Bigger build volume, multi-color capability, quick swap nozzles, dynamic flow calibration, etc. It's just amazing. The ender 3 V3 is commendable, it's just outclassed here. It's more of a $250 machine.

[Drayonis]

Bought myself the A1 and love it. Turned around and bought Ender 3 for an employee who won year-end award and was wondering if we shorted her, glad to hear they are similar, and she can have fun building with it.

[XerotoLabs]

I got an A1 last week . It has been much better than I expected . I did not get the AMS as i dont really need multi color prints, but I have since learned AMS can be used to keep feeding filaments if your current spool runs out . Only thing i found lacking was by default the A1 build plate is textured PEI on both sides . My CRUX 1 was textured and smooth on the other side.
So I orderd the textured and smooth extra build plate. It's needed for printing stuff when needing smooth mating surfaces.
The flow calibration has even let me print with some old low quality filament that changes dia. quite a bit.
It printed many print-in-palce parts using that bad stuff witout under or over extruding, I found that amazing.
I plan to keep feeding it all my old problem filaments, just to see how it does.

[CharisPapas]

With the same money that you can buy the A1 without ams you can buy the ender v3 plus that has 300x300x330 print volume that you can print helmets and large prints. I would go with the V3 plus that is also the most compact printer with a 300x300 bed size in the market. A1 is fine but bigger volume is better.

[andrewholland]

One thing that the Bambu lab A1 has withe the AMS lite is AMS refill. If you are printing something with a color and you put two spools of that color on the AMS lite, the Bambu will swap spools when one is done without missing a beat.

[Lantern_Lore]

I started with a creality printer, and switched to resin putting my bed slinger in storage. Got the Bambu x1c, and now I design and print for both resin and fdm. Love the Bambu printers for the ease of use and detail. Not sure if I would veer away from Bambu at this point.

[astrumrocket]

So it that's $350 of my hard earned cash you're holding there...could I have it back please?

[shaftr]

Finished first few prints on my brand new A1. Coming from wornout, borrowed Ender 3v2 it's like changing Fiat for Ferrari :)

[bnolsen]

The music while printing is ABNOXIOUS.

[shawnhicks]

I’ll just chime in here and add my experience with the A1. I had one for about 6 months. Overall I’d say for a bed slinger it was the easiest to assemble and get printing straight out of the box. Print quality was as good as my fleet of X1c, P1P, P1S, and various Rat rig printers, when it was successful. The multi color option works almost as good as the core xy Bambu printers and auto spool change when you run out worked as intended. Also I did like that you virtually could use any spool with the AMS lite though some spools required an insert to properly fit on a spool holder that is easily printed. The quick change modules work very good, and is a very nice feature.

With all that said the A1 is no longer a part of my print farm. I had multiple issues with mine knocking prints off the build plate, which in my opinion is the major downfall of any bedslinger. The failure rate on the A1 was abysmal at nearly 50%. Maybe it was the one I had but I tried adjusting x hop, switching from Bambu studio to Orca slicer, glue stick on the bed, to no avail. It was hard having this machine, the only bed slinger in my shop, in with multiple core xy printers. Had the failure rate not been so bad I’d likely still have it in my shop, but instead it only reinforced my opinion that for me I should stick with core xy printers.

And finally I want to touch on some of the comments about “security” with Bambu. The comments always seem to creep into nearly every video about Bambu. First I have to ask what exactly is it you are printing that your that worried someone at Bambu is going to steal, and in regards to camera privacy, the A1 has a cover, and it’s not difficult to place an item to block outside view of the printer. You can even use the printer in lab only mode or not connect it to WiFi at all and use the SD card if your that worried about “security”. Also if someone wants to copy your secret files so bad it’s not that hard to simply copy the design. I’d worry more about your cell phone, computer, tablet and alexia equipped devices prying into your privacy then a 3D printer.

[daxsharman]

Bambu A1 all day long for me I have 10 bambu labs now not all A1 but I have a couple and I also have a couple of k1 Max's but the bambu labs print the best quality and with least fails and clogs etc

[elliottsmith]

I just ordered the E3V3, with the duel spool dryer, and 4 rolls of PLA from creality all for $350. Versus the A1 only from Bambu for $323. No brainer. The only thing that the A1 has I wish the V3 had was the ability for multi color prints. But even then, I wouldn't spend the money for the AMS at the moment.

[roundcheesewheel]

For those with Micro Center near by the Ender 3 v3 is currently $279.00

[DIYDharma]

Just ordered an Ender 3 V3 off ebay refurb using their current promo. The A1 does not have a hardened steel nozzle so it is not recommended to use PETG-CF or other CF w/o swapping the nozzle. The E3V3 comes with a hardened steel nozzle. I'm not sure if/when I'll use CF filaments - buts just sharing info about the nozzle. Not sure if I made the right choice, given the smaller build volume, but cost was under $200 w/ 2 year warranty for E3V3. Both printers are on sale for $300 on their respective websites as of now. Great video, BTW. Thank you.

[AdrenalStorm]

Snatched the A1 mini for $199 on black friday and have printed so much already. Don't regret it one bit. But got to give Creality3D credit - A1 improved what Creality3D started, which is affordable 3d printing for the general public.

[mattlberge]

I'd love to see you compare some larger format printers like sovol sv08 and k1 max.