Creality K2 SE: The Cheap Way Into 500 mm/s CoreXY
What CoreXY is doing at this price Keeping the bed off the fast axes, which is what lets a machine hold its…
Category: Upgrade & buy
Which printer, which upgrade, and whether it is worth it: one-to-one comparisons and narrow buying questions. Never a generic best-of list.
LONGER LK10 and LK10 Plus: Direct Drive CoreXY on a Budget
Why direct drive matters here On a Bowden machine the extruder pushes filament down a metre of tube before it reaches the…
Anycubic Photon Mono M7 Max: A 13.6-Inch Resin Plate, and the Pixel Trade
The pixel arithmetic Resolution on an MSLA machine is screen width divided by pixel count, and the K number on its own…
Anycubic Kobra X: Native Four-Colour at the Budget End
What “native” changes On most multi-colour setups the feeder is a separate unit that sits beside or on top of the printer,…
Creality K2 Pro Combo: Multi-Colour With a Filament System, and the Purge Question
What “Combo” means Creality sells the machine on its own and bundled with the filament system that feeds several spools into the…
Anycubic Kobra S1 Max: A 350 mm Enclosed Machine With Multi-Colour Attached
Warping scales with footprint, so a large open-frame machine is effectively a PLA machine. Size and enclosure are worth buying together rather…
ERYONE Thinker X400: A 400 mm Cube, and What That Envelope Costs You
What the envelope genuinely buys Parts that do not need splitting. Anything you would otherwise print in sections and glue comes out…
Creality Ender 5 Max: The Cube Frame Approach to a Large Envelope
Why the layout is the feature On the familiar bed slinger, the Y axis drags the part and the plate back and…
Snapmaker U1: A Four-Toolhead Printer at a Price Toolchangers Never Reached
What the toolchanger changes On a single-nozzle multi-colour printer, every colour change flushes the old material out of the melt zone. The…
Flashforge Creator 5 and Creator 5 Pro: Four Heads, and What the Pro Adds
The toolchanger part Four complete hotends, docked on the frame, picked up as the job needs them. The benefit is the same…