Bambu Lab 1 Year Review P1P X1C

I've had my 12 Bambu Lab machines for over a year now. They have been running constantly for the past 14 months with great results.

[OldManJimmy]

I was a Creality guy too back in the day, I kept seeing all these rave reviews of this new guy Bambu and would have sworn it was hype. Who could design a brand new printer and hit it out of the park first printer? Well last Christmas I bought one and wow, how wrong I was and so amazing how far we have come so quickly.

[Slurgical_D_Terrain_Channel]

I design 3D terrain for tabletop gaming. Been 3 weeks and I’m impressed with Bambu. Not only the quality is mind blowing, the normal speed of the printing…..I design a decently sized piece of terrain and while it’s printing, I design the next one. When I’m done…the printer is done lol. I had to wait 17hrs for the print…this thing prints the equivalent part for 3 and a half hours.

[Legendary_D]

Thank you for this 1 year review. Very helpful in discerning which business assets to invest in! Starting up a print farm using mostly p1p's as well. I continue to view these videos you put out related to your usage of printers for your business.

[Verminator]

Nice to see you finally pop up with a new video. I think it's been quite a while. You were the reason I got my S1 Pro, and when you got your Bambu's I used that as an excuse to get a X1C last year as well. Couldn't he happier with it. A few struggles here and there but it has been awesome!!

[KI-nisw]

Great to see a video of you again. And it looks like you are in a very good spot. Would love to see one of your business/life "reviews" again. I found them always very insightful and inspiring.

[burthoovis]

Thanks for this! Looking at getting my first printer and this is exactly the type of review I like to see before making a purchase.

[gman]

Thanks for the update Joe! Good to see things are going well for you.

[DThird]

We have also 8 units in our factory and they are indeed fantastic machines. You just have to be careful when needing strong parts to slow down the printing speed to a reasonable level. The enclosure does help prevent warpage and also make parts a bit stronger than open frame printers.

[sirjacobthe]

I’m so excited for another video of yours!

[EPeltzer]

Price. Just to put this in perspective, the P1S is about the same price as the color inkjet printer from Epson that I bought a few months ago. Now this Epson has a scanner and is a bit larger than letter size, but still we're talking about something that prints on paper. And it's not just the Bambu. The fact that you can get a 3D printer of this kind of sophistication for that kind of money is pretty astonishing.

[DPrintStuff]

Thanks for sharing, cool to hear from someone who has put lots of hours on their machines.

[casualcombine]

Ive been a hobbyist for a few years now, Im moving from a nearly decade old Anet A8 (with massive upgrades) to an a1 mini, Im very excited to see how it does!

[TheRealRoGueMS]

Just waiting to receive my P1S with AMS im so anxious, been going back and forth for the past month trying to decide between P1S and X1C and finally figured out that the X1C is not worth the extra money at this time, if i need more exotic materials i'll just upgrade the extruder and hotend down the road :) keep it up!

[geoffreyhowells]

Was new to 3D Printing ten months ago and the P1P has been amazing. Literally zero learning curve with very little maintenance other than 'cold creep' due to shutting the machine off too soon. Been printing mainly PLA and TPU for kids at the school where I work. LOL: Toys4Cans - It's been a blast.

[davidapp]

That is good to hear as I have just bought a P1S. Love it.

[WhereNerdyisCool]

I've been very leery about the Bambu Labs machines and really appreciate this video. The print volume is a tad small for my needs and I was hoping to see more upgrade paths for these. For example, I like that Wham Bam offers a bed for them. I have been wondering if Slice or other vendors would offer enhanced hot ends for these. My friends have these and overall, they really like them but they find doing work on them to be a bit challenging. At work I manage a fleet of Ultimaker S5's and those are very solid, yet not as fast (they came out in 2018). At home I have a print farm of 22 machines, mostly bed slingers with newer electronics, Slice hot ends and Bondtech extruders.

[thenextension]

This is exactly the kind of review that is worth its weight in gold. Thank you

[dronefootage]

that settles it for me. i've been fixing to buy another 3d printer and was gonna go with prusa but started hearing more and more about bambu lab and been leaning more and more towards them and how seeing this video i've made my decision to go with bambu lab.

[ausgeknipst]

Thanks for the update Joe. We've just acquired 8 P1P's and I was wondering, if you could share your thoughts on how you manage to sync and organize files across the different Bambu's? It's a pain in the ass, as the SD cards do not have a folder structure.

[decreasinglynumberless]

Would you be interested in making a video about how you dial in print settings for PETG? I've been having trouble finding a good profile for MatterHackers PETG, usually I decide if I'd rather get good bed adhesion at the higher bed temp or have supports that can be removed without destroying the part. I'm pretty sure I have the old style textured plate though, maybe an upgrade would let me print at slightly lower temps for better quality.

Also, glad to see you made it through the rough patch you were dealing with when you were last posting videos!