Summary
3D printers have long been the purview of enthusiasts working in a relatively small niche.
The other major claim to fame is a maximum speed of 600mm/s and 20,000mm/s2 acceleration.
Which also makes this one of the fastest printers you could buy.
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position the head on the X and Y planes.
The standard nozzle is 0.4mm, though this can be upgraded, and the thinnest layer height is 0.1mm.
It does this by printing a test pattern and then scanning it.
The Creality K1 Max is a large volume consumer 3D printer with a high-speed Core XY design, and advanced AI-based automation systems.
You’ll also notice there are no manual leveling knobs.
The frame is solid, and the entire gadget is all rigid.
From the point where your model is sliced and ready to go, things could not be easier.
The Creality K1 Max is a large volume consumer 3D printer with a high-speed Core XY design, and advanced AI-based automation systems.
I tried a huge variety of shapes, sizes, details, and textures.
Printing nearly 100 models before writing this review.
The success rate was just over 95% for the prints I attempted.
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It’s quite something to behold as the print head becomes a blur while slinging out a small boat.
In reality, I only used the standard and high quality presets which print at a comparatively sedate pace.
A twelve-hour print on the Ender 5 would be a six-hour print on the Max.
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I think, after watching it for a few cumulative hours, that it’s all about that acceleration.
For example, a five-hour print at standard quality would become a six-hour print at the highest quality.
A fair tradeoff, though again the specifics of the print will impact this.
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Prepping models and slicing them is a breeze.
For example, here I grabbedArticulated Lizard v2 by McGybeer.
This saved me hours when printing plates full of models!
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Anyone who’s operated a touch-screen phone should be up and running in very little time.
Creality Print is also intuitive, making the phases of print preparation clear.
if you’ve never touched 3D printing software before, then its Prepare/Preview/machine tabbed design makes it easy.
The most serious was an extruder blockage that required taking the hot end apart and clearing it manually.
Then I was back in business.
Another more trifling issue has to do with the angle of the filament tube leading into the hot end.
The solution is fairly simple.
When I did need to use it, it worked brilliantly but added cleanup after the print.
Should You Buy the Creality K1 Max?
TheCreality K1 Maxis the most refined, complete, and hands-off printer I have ever used.
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