Bambu Lab P1S

There is no requirement to send prints through their servers. My P1S has never been logged into their cloud service in the year I've owned it.

Without looking it up I’m guessing I’ve had my P1S for 3 or more years and I’ve never had a single issue with it, to the point where I wonder what issues your friends have?

[...] I say this as someone who started printing many years ago with an i3 clone and has replaced nearly every piece of multiple printers (control board, bearings, hotend, extruder, etc!) over the years for better performance. I moved away from wanting to tinker with the printers and haven't touched them since getting a P1S years ago.

I had an Ender 3 Pro, and it was also very finicky, 18 months ago I replaced it with a Bambu P1S and that thing is just a (nearly) fire and forget machine. [...] In the 18 months I've had it, I've probably gone through 10-20 rolls of filament, in the 4 years I had the Ender I went through maybe 3-4 (because every time I wanted to print something I knew I'd have to spend an hour fiddling with it). [...]

Every time there's an article on HN about 3D printing you have a flock of people who have obviously not looked at a 3D printer in 10 years come and spout absolute nonsense. As you're saying, modern printers are simply click and forget. I haven't had any maintenance or fix to do on my P1S in 2 years.

[...] I ended up getting the P1S with the multi-filament printing on sale on Father's Day and I've used the heck out of it. [...] I don't know the hours, but it's been printing the vast majority of the time since I got it, last Father's Day, and it's been super reliable. This weekend I designed and printed out a routing template for routing out door hinges onto door jambs. [...]

[...] they're more expensive but they are absolutely unmatched when it comes to the out of the box experience. [...] finally broke down last year and bought a Bambu P1S with the AMS for multi-material printing and it's been a revelation. [...]

Snuck in my Bambu P1S. Won't be upgrading that firmware hahaha! I've had it for a few months now and it's a good consumer-grade easy-to-use 3d printer.

I used to have a lot of 3d printer problems in the distant past. Last year, I bought the Bambu Lab P1S, and it is surprisingly easy to work.

I've had a Bambu Lab P1S for about 1.5 years, fully enclosed Core XY it's a workhorse and they just came out with the new version so the P1S has dropped significantly.

[...] Anyway, I bought a Bambu Lab P1S and AMS 18 months ago. [...]

This one's a Bambu Labs P1S. Probably a little more printer than I needed, but future proofs me against myself, and in the five years since I bought the last one, they've improved SO much. [...]

I'm an open-source advocate (some would say zealot?) but I ended up buying a Bambu P1S a few months back because my research indicated that there were ways use it normally without creating a Bambu account, or using their slicer, or having to send all of your prints through their servers. [...] IIRC, you only had to change one setting on the printer itself, and optionally block the printer from Internet access via the firewall to prevent automatic firmware updates and telemetry. [...] So other than Bambu getting all heavy-handed with a legitimate open-source fork of their slicer software (which is definitely not okay), I'm not sure I'm clear on what the kerfuffle is about. [...]

Sweet spot when I bought mine last year was the Bambu Lab P1S. Enclosed for compatibility with a lot of filaments but simple to use. Bambu is doing walled garden stuff with their software though, it’s worth looking into.

I traded a Prusa MK3S for a secondhand Bambu P1S and it was night and day. I believe the prusa could have gotten to a place where it printed well and consistently, but the P1S just works. [...]

I run this on the home server w/ caddy-tailscale, and I can slice/print from anywhere with a nice easily rememberable domain name. I run a P1S in LAN mode and have it firewalled from actual internet access.

I have a Prusa i3 Mk3 and a Bambu P1S and I have to disagree. [...]

As someone with both an Insta360 camera and a Bambu printer, I feel it, would love to buy GoPro and Prusa, but the value just isn't there. For one, I had a GoPro whose sensor broke after about 20 minutes of recorded. I ended up getting 3 different replacements, all of which also broke. [...] I got an Insta360 with better picture quality that's also been more reliable for a similar cost. And I would have loved to buy a Prusa printer but I got a Bambu P1S combo for $600, an equivalent Prusa plus the $300 shipping to Canada would have been $2500 CAD. For making trinkets for my 3 year old son plus the few random other things I'd make it's not worth it to pay 4x the money. Maybe it'll forever be this way due to the differences in cost of living but I do feel as though there's a million barriers to entry to building a business in North America, at least a business that's not fully online.

I have a Bambu P1S and using it has been some kind of normie-friendly experience. I recall in the long past before I got this machine, my friend's early model Prusa would semi-bootstrap itself by printing some of its parts but the thing I ended up getting was a fully formed unit that just does the whole thing with a minimum of fuss. We use the 3d printer explicitly for the one-off object scenario.

California is just a population that tries to solve problems with maximal regulation and selective enforcement. So you get to see the effects. Here are some laws that I think the HN community would be hugely in favour of: Yeah, I'd prefer to have an offline 3d printer but it seems I've made a mistake with my Bambu P1S.

Yeah. I just bought a new p1s last week and today hooked it up, never connected it to anything but power. Printing from the SD card worked first try, zero issues.

"you only had to change one setting on the printer itself, and optionally block the printer from Internet access via the firewall to prevent automatic firmware updates and telemetry" - "only" is doing a lot of work here. [...] I have a P1S myself, and I find Bambu to be a strange company. [...]

I have a P1S. [...] If money weren’t a problem, which Prusa printer comes closest (assuming we’d want something like the Bambu AMS2)?

Aside from orca slicers issues Bambus p2s and their ams2 pro have had more hardware reliability issues in 1 month than is normal Wayyyy more than my p1s and ams combo I think there’s also some issue in their firmware that needs to be rolled back or perhaps properly tested Gonna sound harsh : This isn’t a printer anymore … it’s AI slop

[...] If you wanted a printer of similar quality, you would have had to build your own Voron for $1000 with the obvious caveat that you have to order the parts yourself and then assemble it. Then Bambu Lab releases the P1S, which is comparable to a Voron but cheaper and you don't have to assemble it. [...] They've started building a printer that is cheaper than an Ender 3, but has the same print quality as the higher end Bambu Lab printers and despite being a gantry design, much faster print speeds with low setup and maintenance. [...] Prusa had good printers that were relatively expensive. [...] Basically, the entire 3D printing community centered itself around a terrible overpriced 3D printer from a company that still produces garbage to this day. Meanwhile if you bought a rather expensive Bambu Labs printer you never had any issues to begin with. [...]

I believe I gave two options, one for more in-depth learning and one for appliance style use. As for the P1S: it is not nearly as well engineered as the A1s, and the firmware absolutely sucks. It also takes forever to get started on a print.

Yes, you can use the P1S offline, but they've done everything possible to make it hard: crappy micro sd interface without the ability to use folders, USB plug absolutely inaccessible (see if you can even find it) and then, once you've found it it turns out that there is absolutely no way to use it to print with. [...] There is absolutely no way I'm going to run a Chinese built piece of software that I can not inspect on my desktop. [...]

My wife and I bought a Bambu P1S and I think the machine has had a duty cycle of 30% (excluding when we weren’t in town). [...] I wish there were better AI tools for interacting with modeling software. [...] The Bambu P1S I have is quite low friction to set up. [...]

I picked up a P1S for Black Friday. [...]

I just got a Bambu P1S (they are / were on sale since the P2S came out) and the difference to my Ender 3 is truly night and day. I almost never used the Ender, since it always resulted endless tinkering and even then, the prints never came out well. The Bambu worked flawlessly out of the box.

I've extensively used Prusa MK3/MK3+, Creality K1, Bambu A1 and Bambu P1S. [...] The Bambu A1 is much better engineered than the Prusa, but the software sucks and the company behind it sucks even more they work, until they break and then they are as often as not complete write offs but it can take a considerable time before they break. The P1S is a better version of the K1 hardware wise but the software and user interface are absolutely terrible, there is no USB port that is normally accessible the one that is there doesn't work and it does not support folders. They are essentially forcing you to use their closed-source cloud based software. [...]

[...] I love my Bambu P1S for the flexibility it gives us in our house. The 3d printing community is also only matched by the software community in terms of the open-source ecosystem. [...] I've only ever made one tiny item and I don't think it's of much use to most people because I just used an LLM to build it: a mount for my Eufy E21 baby camera. [...]

The learning curve was steep, but FreeCAD has allowed me to start playing with 3d printing gears and other things on my Bambu Lab P1S. I'm largely self taught with electronics and programming, so just starting and making small experiments got me going. For inspiration, there are lots of sites that share 3d print designs.

I know they get a lot of hate in the HN community but my Bambu Labs P1S is mind blowing. It’s so easy to use I print 100x more than with my old Ender. It’s motivated me to learn Fusion360 … i’m actually printing droids for my kids to color this very minute.

I wish Prusa weren't asleep at the wheel, then we would have bought a core one (that is, the hypothetical variant with large build volume and same quality as bambulab). Instead, we bought a P1S, which is, technically speaking, a fantastic machine.

(I have several Bambu Lab machines, including the P1S) Prusa machines are quality, and open source, but very pricey compared to Bambu Lab. I recently got a Creality K2 Plus, which approaches Bambu quality, but it's still not 100% there. So far I'd give it an 8/10 though.

[...] They have three interesting models: P1S: enclosed printer which can print most types of plastic and is extremely fast. [...] Controls via buttons and old style LCD display (3rd party touch panels are available). [...] It's slightly slower than the P1S due to the bed moving but is still very fast. [...] Priced at 300 EUR base, 450 EUR with AMS Lite A1 mini: small version of the A1. Main attraction is the price of 200 EUR base, 350 EUR with AMS Lite (+20 EUR postage). Now the AMS (for the P1S) and AMS Lite (for the A1/A1M). [...] Prices in the US are lower as EU prices include 21% sales tax. [...] If you can stretch to the P1S then I'd highly recommend it. [...]

I got my Bambu Lab P1S and I got the AMS for it later, I love it. Defiantly a bit tinkery tho, coz to keep compatibility with OrcaSlicer (by far the best slicer) you have to downgrade the firmware, but Bambu doesn't stop you from doing that.

I got the Bambu Lab P1S and have the AMS for it. My brother got it for me!

I got the Bambu P1S with AMS I watched several review videos and also talked to a few friends and this was a standout brand, especially if you're less into tinkering with the printer. Among other things, I wanted a full enclosure and ease of use and this one checked those boxes.

Have been really enjoying my Bambu Lab P1S 3D printers. [...] Glad I bought them before the prices went up! 3dprinting bambulab p1s maker

On Black Friday I got a Bambu Lab P1S. [...]

I bought my first 3d printer Last week. A Bambu Lab P1S with AMS. [...]

Currently, I own two 3D printers, neither of which work at this time: Artillery Sidewinder X4 Plus Bambu Lab P1S Combo I do my 3D CAD using Alibre Design Professional.

[...] I got a new Bambu Lab P1S recently, and man... [...]

I bought a Bambu Lab P1S. IMO 3D Printers are definitely an optional part of a homelab, so I’m counting it! 😂

So I got a Bambu Lab P1S, and I am.. [...] A friend gave me a pc case, (NZXT H2) PERFECT for my home server I'm trying to build. [...]

Unless Canadian prices are much much higher than US, the only Prusa that costs that much is a Core One L or a Prusa XL. Neither one of those are equivalent to a P1S. [...] Equivalent Bambu printers sell for about the same price. [...]

[...] I bought my P1S before the whole LAN mode debacle and even then it was all or nothing on the cloud. I just went with the cloud because they were using some IGMP stuff for the local connection, but I had the printer on a separate VLAN and pfsense IGMP proxying was broken. [...]

[...] Being hard to repair isn't really a problem, it's that it broke at all. [...] We also have a couple of P1Ss that are very solid, the one H2D has all the problems.