ANYCUBIC Kobra S1 3D Printer,600mm/s High Speed Multicolor 3D Printers with Auto Leveling, 320℃ Full-Metal Hotend, Enclosed CoreXY Structure for Novices & Experts Smart Choice,Print Size 250*250*250mm

I bought this printer on a lightning deal priced at £123.65 and at that price it’s a steal. It’s my second FDM printer, replacing a much loved Flashforge Finder. I’ve now had it a number of months and feel comfortable that I know it’s ups and downs. Although “basic” it ticks all the really important boxes for me: a large print area, flexible build plate (very important), and heated bed. The filament path made me nervous (given the long bowden tube between the extruder head and the stepper motor driving the filament) but actually works very reliably in practice. I’ve used a wide variety of PLA including some rather tricky wood filament that clogged my old printer, and it munches through it all with no problems. I’ve also just started using TPU based flexible filament which has a reputation for being difficult to print and it worked straight from the first print. I was also a little concerned by the fact that the Z axis lead screw is unsupported at he top, which is not ideal, but again, it works well in practice and whilst it is a little more vulnerable to being whacked and bent as a result, it’s quite close to the frame so should be ok. Print quality is great, and my son has quite a side business in print services to his school mates. I have had a number of failed prints, as is normal. Several have been due to running it in an ungrateful garage in winter and bringing it inside resolves them. Other have been due to a roll of filament that is poorly and very tightly wound (not the printers fault) and occasionally jams if you don’t free it up with your hands. The flexible magnetic built plate is superb, making it so much easier to remove prints. The surface has peeled slightly (about a 1mm x 2mm area) at one point due to repeated prints of the same model in the same position. I’d budget to replace that about once a year of heavy printing (they cost about the same as a roll of filament). It certainly seems to cope better than my old flashforge finder did as I frequently needed to buy new build surfaces for that as it was easy to damage when struggling to remove prints from its rigid base. The control panel is basic, but workable. Some of the menus are a bit counterintuitive (for instance manual control of each axis is not found on the menu labelled Control, but under the Prepare menu), but you quickly learn where stuff is and it’s pretty workable. I do wish the selected menu item was shown as reversed colour though rather than with a line above and below, as several times I’ve managed to pick the wrong menu item without realising. Mostly that just means cancelling and going back again, but when it is selecting the file to print and you don’t notice until after the print starts it is super annoying. Also that brings me to my main criticism of the user interface which is that the main Information screen that shows when printing does not include the file name being printed, nor the expected time to completion. The latter you can work out from the percentage complete and the print time so far, but why should you have to do the math yourself? I’m summary, this is a ridiculously good printer for the money I paid, and would be pretty good value even at full price. Sure it’s basic, but what it lacks (auto levelling, dual extrusion, out of filament sensing) are nice to haves not major ommisions. I don’t feel like it’s a printer I will outgrow or become too annoyed with. So for my needs at least, it’s a bargain, neat, and capable printer. UPDATE June 2024 (2 years in): Still working beautifully and reliably, printing several prints a week (mostly fairly small ones admittedly). Can’t recommend this enough!

After buying a Voxelab Aquilla 2 I had no end of issues with blockages and constant bed levelling. So I bought tge Kobra S1 I have had this printer for 2 weeks and been modling almost non stop! I have had no issues with it so far! It's quick has Auto Leveling AI support via the camera detects warping and errors with the print. Easy to load the filament. Touch screen display, WiFi. Great heat transfer and base adhesion Easy to use I'm a complete novice! I would have bought the combo addition if I had the money for it! Great quality!

I've only had this printer setup for three days. purchased via Amazon. (of which it only worked for 2 days and 6 prints) At first, everything was printing fine and smooth. Then yesterday after completing a print (I'm roughly 6 prints in now since setting up), I loaded another file (which I have printed previously and perfectly I might add (and yes from the same Gcode that was on the flash drive). the printer started making a noise, the nozzle was hitting the print surface and grinding over the print. I manually adjusted the Z hight during print.and i kept adjusting until the nozzle stopped scraping on the print. Then once the scraping finally stopped, the nozzle was then too hight to form a print on the surface. and gave stringy/gaps etc. I aborted the print. i then preformed two bed levels. i then tried to print again and the same thing happened. I manually adjusted until the print collision stopped and then it was too high to print.... I redid the bed levelling twice, i homed the axis and i did auto Z calibration. This gave me a hight of -1.31z When I tried to print with this, the print was loose and stringy, and shortly after starting, detached itself and failed. again i completed the bed levelling serval times below is the Z result of each tries this is what i got from auto bed levelling bed level #1 Z=1.37 bed level #2 Z=1.36 bed level #3 Z=1.35 bed level #4 Z=1.36 bed level #5 Z=1.31 whatever i do, the printer scrapes over the print. even the boat which printed perfectly for testing on first start-up is having massive issues. I cant print anything. I have lost count on home many times I have auto calibrated Z and auto levelled the bed, Homed all etc. I have checked for play in the bed and made sure it is not loose. I have checked the tension of the X and Y belt pulleys. I have checked the extruder, to make sure not loose. and I have checked for play in the wheels to make sure they are not slipping on any axis. day 1 of setup through to day 3 the printer has always printed best at -1.51z and has not made or scraped until yesterday afternoon. now every print is scraping over the printed surface. I either have scraping, or nothing adhering and stringy due to then being to high I have attached videos, you can hear the nozzle scraping. I know the fan is loud but believe me, its very loud in person. It went from all ok to terrible in one print. Tried reaching out to anycubic customer services. They won't acknowledge it has a problem. Just telling me to constantly adjust the z hight.. Auto level, random z heights. Home, test print, ajust the z hight on the fly, get a good first layer. After a layer or two print nozzle starts dragging across the print. Adjust to make it higher, nozzle continues to drag getting worse and worse until it beds in to the model.. or I ajust it too high and it dosnt even print. I've followed the troubleshooting wiki page Checked the belts are tentioned checked the rollers are correct tension Checked belts are adjusted as per the manual Checked print head optimum torque Checked sensor is correct distance as per guide Checked bed is the correct torque New fillement roll It's not even my slices, I'm using the anycubic ones. This is the worst printer I have ever owned. 6 prints over a few days and it's junked. It is not user friendly at all, their customer service takes forever to respond and even then, with sending them videos of something wrong they just respond "adjust the z hight" Please please please avoid this printer at all costs. Product model: FDM printer/Kobra 2 Neo

This was my first 3d printer and I was worried about how easy it would be to setup and use. Comes well packaged so as to prevent any damage in transit. Instructions to assemble are clear and understandable. All my concerns were erased by how simple this was to get operational and printing my first print. All easy to setup and link to software using companion apps, you can easily print from your phone if necessary but it really shines when you print from a desktop. Interface is easy to use and print downloaded files, it still trying to find how to make your own files! Lots of assistance via the Anycubic online community for assistance in tweaking as there’s a few things to adjust if you stray into different print materials. The HIGE capacity of this means you can print things like Disney/superhero masks for the kids easily and in one go, rather than printing in prices and assembling like on smaller capacity models. I would recommend this as a decent entry level printer for an adult. Really good quality and easy to use

Gute Druckergebnisse, einfache Bedienung und zuverlässige Leistung. Schon nach kurzer Zeit tolle Ergebnisse erzielt – ideal für Einsteiger, wie wir es sind. Haben nur die Größe der Fillamentbox unterschätzt

Setup was as easy as described, leveling took some patience but it wasn't difficult by any stretch. The Owl_Pair demo model it prints came out flawlessly with 0 configuration. The printer itself feels quality, nothing looks or feels cheap, and the spare parts you are given was a pleasant surprise! I've had a few issues printing various items but that is *NOT* the printers failings, it's all a matter of finding the right settings for the job and I have chosen difficult prints off the start(28mm D&D Mini). So far after two days using this printer I am *very* satisfied, the support team seems willing and eager to engage you with any issues you may have(I haven't yet)... The only minor gripe I have is that the 1KG spool of filament I got with it ended up being White(yuck) and seems to be of a lesser quality, it seems to be brittle and snap very easily and has had some adhesion issues. Not a huge deal in the end as I have a couple other spools of a different brand, just a small black spot on what is otherwise so far a fnatastic product.

Anycubic Kobra 2 Max : Bin selber ein Neuling was das 3D-Drucken betrifft. Der Drucker war leicht zum Aufbauen , bin aber auch Techniker vom Beruf. Was man noch sagen sollte , ist das der Drucker viel Platz benötigt. Die Unterlage/Tisch worauf der Drucker dann sitzt muss sehr stabil sein. Durch die grösse des Druckers fängt jeder Tisch / Unterlage leicht zum wackeln an sobald der Drucker loslegt , falls man keine super stabile Fester unterlage hat , erhält man versetzte ausdrücke , und mann kann dann wieder von Vorne anfangen. Man könnte dann auch von Standard Druck Modus auf den Stabilen Druckmodus umschalten , dann dauert aber das Drucken 3 mal so lange. Ich kontte den Tisch auf den Drucker sitzt mit der Wand verkeilen.

Venant d'une imprimante Geetech Prusia I3Pro W, que j'avais dû assemblé moi-même , je suis extrêmement content après 2 jours d'essais. Le réglage du plateau nettement + facile et prend nettement moins de temps. La machine est nettement + stable et l'impression + fine, mais cela est peut-être dû au logiciel Cura qui a tendance a faire imprimer moins vite et en couche + fine. Pour moi le plus gros inconvénient c'est le bruit de la ventilation qui elle est nettement plus bruyante que la Geetech (2 a 3 fois plus) mais les déplacement de la tête elle est moins bruyante. Concernant le graveur Lazer ,c'est très lent, et l'image ou le texte doit être en VRAI NOIR pas du grisé noir, sinon on ne grave rien.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Zuverlässiger High-Speed-Drucker mit durchdachten Features Ich bin mit dem Anycubic Kobra 3 sehr zufrieden! Die WLAN-Anbindung klappt schnell und unkompliziert – so ist der Druckstart direkt vom PC oder Smartphone aus kein Problem. Besonders begeistert bin ich vom haus­eigenen Slicer, der intuitiv zu bedienen ist und super mit dem Gerät harmoniert. Das Auto-Leveling funktioniert zuverlässig, auch wenn der Drucker mal einige Zeit nicht genutzt wurde. Insgesamt wirkt der Kobra 3 sehr präzise und stabil, und auch der schnelle Druck mit bis zu 600 mm/s liefert sehr gute Ergebnisse. Fazit: Ein durchdachter und leistungsstarker 3D-Drucker mit vielen praktischen Features – klare Kaufempfehlung für alle, die zuverlässige Ergebnisse wollen.