Thinking about getting my first printer to print some organization stuff around the house, some nerf parts, as well as some small toys and fidget for friends/kids. The Bambu Lab A1 seems to be notable for being beginner friendly without a lot of fiddling.
Read recently about the lawsuit and I’m wondering if I should wait until that’s resolved before pulling the trigger. I’m worried that some outcome there will eliminate important features or worst case make it obsolete entirely. Any thoughts?
@RacerX For $339 for an A1, I wouldn’t consider it a major risk at all. I have an X1C and I love it. If they lose a lawsuit and have to remove features, I figure I just won’t update the firmware and hope that does the trick. And if so, that potentially another reason to pull the trigger now.
This is a good point. Like someone else said here, it’ll probably take a while to resolve the lawsuit and if I get as much use as I think I will between now and then, then the money spent will be worth it. Thanks!
@RacerX Good luck and enjoy!.. I imagine it will be like my X1C, in that firmware updates are strictly a manual thing that the user has to trigger, so if they do have to cripple something in the future, hopefully you can just keep your printer working as it had before.
Just make sure it never connects to the Internet ever
I thought it needed to be connected to the internet in order to send prints to it? Does it work fine if never connected?