Bambu Lab X1 Carbon: What NOBODY Is Talking About...

Soo... it finally happened. Bambu Lab, after seeing my evil plan video, decided that they wanted me to experience their flagship product firsthand, and they generously sent me an X1 Carbon Combo 3D Printer... Which most would say is the absolute BEST 3D Printer of 2023. They only had ONE condition: Despite the fact that I generally don't like to say negative things on my channel, and I prefer to share my feedback as constructive rather than outwardly critical, they absolutely insisted that I give my raw, unfiltered feedback both about them and their product.

Well, I've been playing around with the Bambu Lab X1-Carbon Combo for a little while now, and I have to say, there have been some surprises. I thought that I would know everything that there is to know about this printer, and yet there were a lot of things that really did surprise me. Things that I couldn't believe nobody is talking about... (Or, at least, nobody was talking about when I recorded it...but there are SO many videos coming out about Bambu Lab and the X1 Carbon, that some other great content creators beat me to it!)

And in this video, I'm going to share them with all of you. Who knows? Maybe even those of you who own a Bambu Lab product like this didn't notice these things. Let's find out.

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00:00 Introduction
01:38 Let's Talk Texture
04:34 The Software is Deeply Integrated
07:41 There's a Learning Curve
09:26 It Does Most Things For You
12:09 It Poops. A Lot.
14:31 It Doesn't Mess With Trees
15:33 They've Fixed It!
17:39 What's Next

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[thenextlayer]

THANK YOU FOR WATCHING! Yes, something weird happened with my camera / lights / I don't know what, and it messed up the video and made it like, slow motion. I apologize. I really need a studio. I hope you guys are still able to enjoy the video :(

[roysigurdkarlsbakk]

If you reduce multiplier under "Flushing volumes" from 1.0 to 0.3, it works just as well, you just save a lot of plastic.

[AustinShockSS]

I ordered a P1P in January. Worked flawless and so fast. I ended up buying an X1C with ams a couple weeks ago. And it prints perfectly too. Amazing printers. I used glue on the first print on the cool plate, haven’t needed it since.

I use it as a tool for prototyping and prints are dimensionally accurate within a few thousandths using PLA. I don’t have time to tweak and adjust stuff and this printer delivers.

[robdel]

Thanks, this is a great video of the X1C. Having mine since end of December, I can tell that it’s a really great machine and ecosystem. One often overlooked feature of the AMS is the automatic capability of switching to a new spool when you finishes one. Having two spools of the same material in it will ensure that your print will complete without any manual intervention! No more trying to figure out if you have enough filament to do a print…. Genius!

[StephanBieker]

Someone, who got the printer for free, recomends to sell it for a higher price. Exactly my kind of humour.

[watermanna]

The thing they don't tell you: customer service is horrible if you aren't an influencer. I've had one for months and it's literally been a brick taking up space and wasting my time fixing it, troubleshooting and repairing. I'm going to give them one more chance and if it doesn't work, I'm going to recreate the office space printer scene.

[treaustin]

It’s really impressive to me that they are investing hard into getting critical reviews. Much more impressive than paying out for everyone to put out suspiciously positive reviews at the same time like others do.

[UncleJessy]

Great video… I’ve fallen in love with the filament cutter and now always having clean spools ready to be reused. Also… 🤯🤯 why didn’t I think of loading up the ams with my 4 most used filaments and just choosing from them when slicing when not multi color printing 🤘

[shadman]

I like your idea of choosing a textured plate at checkout. I think they didn't include the textured plate on the X1 because it messes with the lidar. Since the P1P doesn't have lidar, the textured plate isn't an issue.

[AlexConstantinou]

when I read that line about 'negative feedback' from their email I instantly trust them 100%. Great touch.

[Jwmbike]

Repetier Host had a live printer UI with Solidoodle 10+ years ago. It would track machine motion in 3 dime signs (way beyond octoprint in 2d), with a full suite of control for speed, temps, temp monitoring, z axis offsets, etc.

That said, 10 years of casual printing under my belt. Tons of Creality machines, a couple Prusa, and now an X1C, and I am BLOWN away. This is the future. Coming from an engineering and manufacturing background, I don't even know how Bambu is making money with this product at this price. Absolutely blown away and would purchase 10/10. It's still 3d printing and still has some 3d printing quirks, but light years ahead of Prusa and everyone else....

[jamesjusick]

I have been running one for 7 months commercially 8-10 hrs a day. Awesome machine! I can get prints as good with my finely tuned Enders, but with 10X the effort and 10X slower. Now I have a hard time going back home to my 4 personally owned Ender hobby machines.

[MRMO]

As they say in the textured PEI plate product page, the texture itself will create problems to the lidar when trying to read the print surface and do calibrations, that's why is not included.

[olafb.]

It is fascinating how fast Bambu is reacting and improving their products.
Oh, and your garden looks great!

[faeranne]

That "Walled garden" is the one thing I fear in the near future. We already saw a first gen wave of "We gotta stop the physical piracy" back during the first generation hobbyist printers. We saw it again when the "printable object for ejecting plastic at a high speed" (not sure where youtube puts that, so I'm not gonna use exact terms here) was released, and I guarantee we'll see it again when access to systems that wall off options become the mainstream. The thing is, each time before we've had the advantage of simply... ignoring it. Custom parts are relatively easy to make, and there are things like Printables, Thangs, and Thing-a-verse. And they all use a single, accessible format, STL. STLs aren't encrypted, they aren't licensed, and if a slicer accepts an STL, you can put in *anything*. But with this walled garden approach, it takes a single update to simply... take that all away. Perhaps they move to requiring using their own model site, where they can take down anything they want. Or they start requiring a license for each part. The thing is, all that will fail... for now. And that's because we can quickly and easily just jump back to something like the Prusa line. But if proprietary "walled garden" printers knock out existing market forces, if Prusa, Ender, and the like are made obsolete, then so goes our defense against this walled apocalypse.

So does this mean I recommend boycotting Bambo Labs? No... not really. If it fits your system perfectly, then it fits. But I keep seeing this touted as the "Prusa Killer" and the like. Don't make this a fight. Don't put it on a pedestal to supersede Prusa. When we do that, we spell our own doom. It's a great example of a well integrated system, and *certainly* good for market pressure. But if we encourage people to belittle Prusa, and throw these more open systems away, we throw away any hope of clawing back when these companies (and *many* other companies who would rather license a part than let you make it yourself, ) decide to push out the rest of the open systems.

ADDITIONAL (as I finished the video I noticed this): that RFID spool sensing is scary. On an open system where the choices and firmware are up to me, that's an amazing feature. And if all it was ever used for was to help automate filament types *when present*, that would be a good feature. But combine that with the above walled garden, and am no longer comfy with this feature, because it would take a flip of a switch to turn this "feature" into a blockade.

I guess the point in all this is, if your focus is exclusively using parts that you bought from a company to print, then none of this matters. But if you use it to make your own things, this wave of walled garden printers should be scary, and you should *not* be considering an exclusive focus on such printers. You're just begging to be thrown under the bus. Instead, make the market work for us. Let's take what we learn from these new systems, and try and open them up. The filament loader is amazing, and I'm certain we can learn a thing or two from it. Prusa, if your out there, it's time for a MMU MK3. The rest of you, I think the Voron 3 has a new level to stand up to. Lets keep the 3d printer revolution open. Make Bambo a tool, but don't let it turn you into one at the same time.

[rollindreams]

I recently got the flashforge 5M pro and love it. My only "dislike" is that I can only use one color. I'm not super skilled at painting and I use the printer mainly for decorative items around the house. How would you compare the quality of the 5M pro to this printer? The quality of the 5M pro is really good, and I don't want to "downgrade" just for colors.

[mrtoelicker]

Hey bud, I have a mini at this point and was wondering about upgrading to the X1 carbon. What are your thoughts? Is the upgrade worth it? With the price I could get four minis for the price of an next one.

[JeffreyMartin]

I love your video but what is the matter with your frame rate?

[Kineticau]

I got a textured plate with mine included, I think its random... but after you spend $1, 500 on a printer, whats another $35 to get two plates useful plates?

[timothywaterworth]

What would it look like printed in multi color but no purges. Just keep printing with smeared colors. Might give good intel. Start color 1 inch sooner?