My son bought this printer after we did a lot of research on the best beginner printer for his price point.I myself own several different printers, by different brands, but they cost substantially more.The auto-leveling works really well, and it only has to be ran when things get shifted a little too much (like moving the printer).It wipes the nozzle on the end of the bed, the UI for the touchscreen is super simple and intuitive, a little too simple at times, especially when you want to make adjustments when it’s running, but I feel the limitations are part of the point in making it “simple”.The extra speed is nice, but so far it seems to be heavily material and model dependent on if you can take advantage. Pretty soon I see this as being the baseline for lower end printers as more and more companies release 250mm+ speeds for more $$$.Overall, the starting slicer profiles for Cura are a good place to start, and the performance of the machine is pretty good and smooth once you get the settings figured out.Biggest complaint is the “figuring it out” part, turns out it’s pretty common for the Anycubic printers to run “hot” aka, PETG typically runs 230C to 260C, well our tool for instance runs PETG at 195C to 205C, the thermistor does not accurately report/gauge temperature.We didn’t figure this out until we stumbled onto some YouTube videos explaining it, and until then we had wasted quite a bit of filament on benchies trying everything under the Sun to get rid of stringing and blobbing.This same video also pointed us to an upgrade for the fan shroud, that improved cooling on the hotend and cooling for the models.It runs much better with the printer upgrades, and compensating for the heat issues, has solved the stringing, blobbing is still present a little, but we should be able to figure that out now in the retraction settings.
