Finally Bambu-Lab Competitor!?!?!? - Qidi Tech X-Plus 3 Review (3 Month's later)

Well! Colour me surprised! This is the first time in my career as a 3D printer reviewer that a company has actually amazed me this much. After the downright abysmal offering of the X-Plus 3, this new revision is like a completely different printer. But does that mean it's any good now? Well, that's the point of the video of course...

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00:00 - Intro

[HarrySatchelWhatsThatSmell]

It is admirable that Qidi pulled the unit and improved it. Well-done! It's the sort of thing that builds brand loyalty.

[S.A.S.H.]

Pulling the product to fix it is definitely impressive. And as others have pointed out $699 makes it super tempting. And as always, thanks for the review, Ross!

[digiscream]

Well, that's useful - I've just bought a P1S because my Neptune 4 broke its extruder and I'm _still_ waiting for Elegoo to accept that (they keep insisting it's an electronics problem and sending me pointless component replacements). While I'm generally happy with the operation of the P1S, it's got a few annoyances that would be solved by _not_ having a closed ecosystem; Klipper is the one advantage the Neptune 4 had over the P1S.

QIDI Tech have just gone from being "meh, low-quality generic crap" to "genuine contender", so next time I'm in the market for a printer...they're going to be up there on the list. Great video!

[aberodriguez]

Great review and like you said when a company listens and then comes back with a better built unit they deserve much respect. As for that filament spool being placed in the rear that's a killer. But you placing it in that Eibos filament dryer was a great alternate solution. Happy printing.

[BlissWheelerMyProfile]

Thanks for the good reviews.. Your review to the QIDI Tech X-Plus 3, along with several others has sold me on the printer and QIDI's excellent service. Good review my friend. Thanks again.

[TunneLVisioN]

Good on you for having the integrity to pull the old video to avoid accidental misinformation even though you had to spend hours editing it and such im sure. I don't completely agree with your take on ACF based on my own testing but your integrity cannot be denied good sir.

[getfastfish]

I've bought the qidi xplus 1 xmax 1 xplus 2 and now the xmax 3 and will stand behind their customer service. You have a problem and they fix it, no bs, no fees, no shipping charges etc.

[johnson]

Thank you so much for this review. I think I'm going to buy the latest Qidi printer now, especially because of their support.

[xXKisskerXx]

Good on them as a company. Honestly. I love seeing companies take feedback seriously and try to make it up to the first backers, reviewers, and just the community as a whole. If more did this -we'd have less crappy clones and much better hardware all around.

[dkev]

I got mine a few days ago. It's been running non stop since. Printing a Mecha King Kong at 200%. Cause I can. lol.

[Garage]

Their current printer lineup seems awesome. The X-Smart3 being only $300 for the features is crazy! Totally slept on.

[borisjulinuv]

i have 2 X-MAX 3 i print PAHT-CF, TPU95, PET-CF, PET-GA
and PLA all qidi filament and these just always work really a great printing company beign overshadowed

[saddle]

Lots of PLA filaments fail by becoming brittle over time and this concerns me with this style of printer filament holder to hotend path. The older filament doesn't break straight away as it comes off the reel. It takes up to an hour of being straightened before it snaps. We have seen this behaviour on many filament brands. As you print, this isn't an issue as it moves through the tube quick enough but after the print concludes, it breaks into sections within the tube as it sits there. Clearing all of the broken bits in the tube becomes a real hassle as you can't just print hoping the filament will push the broken parts through it as each broken end bit curls and jams occur in the tube.
The filament handling (especially mounting the reel on the back of a very heavy printer) seems to be an after thought. Many people are moving the filament holder to the side or top, but that just increases the length of the delivery tube as the runout sensor is still on the back. I have two of these printers arriving soon and am already thinking about how to move the filament holder, the runout sensor and the usb plug to around or near the front.

[tr]

I have an x-plus 2 and I'm really impressed by qidi support. They even provided an stl to print a cooling fan for my high temp hotend. So I dont have to remove it from the regular one when i switch hotends.

[paulnolastname]

Mine came in yesterday, and I've thrown some test prints at it and compared to my Lulzbot Taz5 from 2014, and this has been a very pleasant experience. I didn't get reasonable prints off my Taz5 until I threw out the factory hotend and extruder (almost a year after purchase). It feels much better today, getting a printer that can be as close to plug-and-play as you can get in this hobby. Great update.

[crossmr]

I started 3D printing on the qiditech shadow pro 6.0 (resin). Great printer for getting started on. Got a ton of great prints on it.

[MauryXman]

The best review ever seen, above all for the honesty in describing the real problems found in this printer which at first glance really seems like a very valid competitor of Bambu Labs, but which reviewers often do not specify fully. I discovered this printer and for 700 euros it seems really impressive, above all the seriousness of the manufacturing company is important, ready to correct defects and malfunctions. The fact that they replaced the slicer with a customized version of Prusa Slicer (I have been using it for some time and consider it the best ABSOLUTE) demonstrates a truly rare attention towards the end customer, congratulations for the way of reviewing, I hope it will always be like this. Registration successful.

[MoMarinePrepper]

A huge thank you for the review, finally a company whom decides to take action in order to improve their product + deliver what claim. Great review, I’m going to look into this one some more as it has pretty much all I’m looking for. Bambu has been doing great and all, but damn, the amount of waste for multi color is significant. Thx again!

[theVariedLife]

Good review and worth considering. One thing that bothers me for every electronic device I have has the power switch on the front. I noticed the power switch with the X plus 3 is on the back. They need to put it on the front or someone needs to do a DIY fix to remotely locate the power switch on the front. thanks for posting

[AndrewAHayes]

I agree it is a fine printer and were Bamboo's multi colour/material features not available then I would be pulling the trigger on this, however, I am not buying an AMS equipped Bamboo Lab printer because I am hoping that Bamboo Lab will release a toolchanger printer to compete with the XL.
I was thinking the other day how awesome twin AMS units would be with an IDEX printer as this could reduce the wastage of multi colour prints.