• korn@feddit.org
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    3 days ago

    I get your take, the A1 Mini is smaller, but in the end, it’s a printer with crazy good value.

    I guess I will also buy a Prusa next time. My P1S has internet blocked in my firewall, and I’ll use it in LAN mode until it dies.

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      3 days ago

      It’s not just smaller, it also has limitations in materials it can print because it’s not an enclosed printer. The core one can print ABS/ASA much more reliably, PC, Nylon and other fancy stuff the A1 just can’t. Their motion systems are also completely different as the core one uses coreXY and the A1 is coreXZ (aka. bedslinger).

      A decent bedslinger is easy to come by these days, if that’s all you need there are many others to go with, e.g. Sovol which is using open source klipper.