QIDI TECH i-mates (3D Printer) - Tests - Pros & Cons - Full Review

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[hood]

@ruiraptor Which mid range (£800 avg), core xy, enclosed printer do u recommend?

[jllinem]

Maybe you can help, I love my i-mate but technical support is so so. After I send desired print to the print the temp of the hotend doesn't heat. Just shows temp 40/0. I have to manually set it on the printer. And then its fine. Not a big issue but would be nice to send and forget.

[NexGen-D]

Good printers, this is an excellent starter printer, great out of box experience, and even better with some after market mods like the Icarus 2 extruder with LGX Lite and a Dragon hot-end.

[D_Printing_Guy]

Do you know how to factory reset this printer?

[robertkosulic]

I consider tinning wire to be a better solution than crimping, provided that it is tinned properly and fully.

[awidesigns]

I flashed klipper on this printer with a Bigtreetexh pad7 running it. After tuning this thing is faster then my other printers.

[aqhan]

Wouldn't it be possible to change the hot end on the spare one to all-metal for abrasive filament capability? Also, does someone kmow if this work with Octoprint?

[kharmastreams]

It looks like a chitu based board?
Is this correct?

[jstro-hobbytech]

Rui I believe the second extruder is a high temp one. At least as of a few weeks ago anyway. I confirmed this with their Canadian agents the other day. I'm going to get one of the higher-end models. The reviews for their customer service are glowing as well. Great video my man as always

[aranyigabor]

I got one of these, just over 1 year old and hasn't printed more than about 60 hours, to be honest not a big fan, its making a horrible noise on the Y-axis like a sqealing vibrating noise, tried everything, even had it to bits as I am a mechanical engineer, designer and CNC machinist, stepper seems fine, tested it with a seperate controller and under load, bearings are all good, no screws loose.
TBH i will salvage it for parts and buy a more expensive and decent 3D printer, this is typical cheap chinese parts and assembled rubbish in my opinion, and not as simple to level as they say, mine always gave an uneven print, even when I used a dial indicator to level it, maybe I got a Friday build, but from now on I am staying as far away from any i-mates printers as possible.
One last moan, I have also experienced a lot of failed prints due to the code the slicer spits out, especially if you set the print thickness to 0.1mm, it inserts bad code and the print errors out at any time before it finishes, I do understand the code as I am also a CNC programmer, my STL files from the CAD are watertight, this is a bug in the Quidi software.

[carlmorton]

Hi watched your video and decided to purchase excited at its arrival and unpacked to find that qiditech now only supply the heat rake and hot end no fans board or extruder gisgusting practices of a company trying to save money charge the same price and omit parts with no notification buyers be aware as it’s not a simple job swapping for the 0.2 print plus you have no spares anymore and things need to cool now not impressed sending it back

[chloechloe]

J ai la QIDI X plus elle es top juste peut être deux 3 chose pas pratique mais je l'adore