To me, this seems to be the most capable printer overall for the money given the current market. It's a great bang for buck. It's at the top of my list for consideration if I decide to get a new printer. The only other contenders are the Flashforge 5M Pro, and possibly the new FL Sun T1.
My Qidi Q1 Pro just arrived few days ago. What I noticed is that cam is a bit better and also running at 10-11 FSP compared to 5-6 FPS at your video. Maybe they did software or hw upgrade?
I don't think it's SW upgrade, it could be hardware. But, some viewers also mentioned that they had issues with camera and it was replaced in warranty. I somehow always forget about it.
Great video, thanks for sharing! I agree with you that the size of the "box" vs the print volume seems excessive. How is the filtration (I'm thinking about printing with ABS and associated fumes for example)? For a fully enclosed printer that doesn't require any cloud accounts, I think the price seems correct
It doesn't have any out of box filter, just plain vent that you can use to vent fumes out. But there is STL on Qidi wiki web site that you can print to add active-carbon filter and additional external filter. wiki.qidi3d.com/en/Q1-Pro/Other/Components
Pre-ordered trough your affialiate link. I can live with the current flaws (which are not for me), but the big plus for replacing my old ender 3 is the heated chamber. My printer is in the basement and it struggle in winter when temps are around 16/17°C even with PLA. Added speed will be a bonus.
Thank you very much! I'm also considering to move it to basement - it's currently outside and printing on outside temps ranging from 0 to 28 was not an issue so far - included heater makes it much easier for those cases. Remembering how I had to make cardboard box around my Ender 3 to print some parts and protect from draught
regarding the very big size of the printer, i believe this is so that it holds heat much better to save energy, if it was thinner it would lose more heat to its enviroment and use more power to hold the right chamber temp
My thoughts exactly, but it also depends on the material of the case. Though, I think it's still loosing a lot of heat through lid. That's the only reason I see for such big case!
Cloud comments made me laugh especially the recall bankrupt thing. We all know who you are thinking about ;) Actually that company has done a good job with recall (and can pay for it with it's filament sales I suspect!) I think and I run in local mode only :) I also do not like the cloud. Nice video, very exhaustive testing which is not a common thing on youtube these days. Very nice looking printer but have to say I don't like the footprint, far too big for the print bed size
Yeah, I'm not a big fan of that other company due to IP issues and abusing Open Source licenses, but that's just my opinion on the company. Printers are on the other hand very good, can't find anything crucial or very negative in terms of them. And I agree, footprint is really big and that's a shame. But if you look at other models, they all follow the same "style"
I've been considering replacing my old Ender 5 printer, mainly because I am now at a stage in life where I don't want to just fiddle around "modifying" a printer to make it work. I want one that just works out of the box now. I'd been looking at Qidi and Banbu labs, but honestly not sure I could justify the cost of Bambulabs given the amount of printing I do. I like the flexibility of the enclosued printer and the Qidi Q1 looks like it would be a great option for the type of printing I would do.
It's been really great experience so far with this one. Bambu is also good, although, I would not buy it personally as I don't like their attitude, how they used Open Source of printer and thank decided to close the code etc. (but that's just my opinion - it's still good printer).
It's pretty awful with TPU - very easy to clog up the hot-end. That said, I think a lot of that is down to software - the nozzle cleaning procedure exactly what you'd do if you wanted to clog the extruder with a soft filament! That said - I printed a couple of great TPU benchies before having problems so I think the potential is there!
@@Jakdaw Thanks, I have a Dremel 3D45 that prints TPU fine but at wall speeds no greater than 30 mm/s. I generally limit the speed to 20mm/s. What speeds did you use.
@@stevebissonnette760 default profile is bottlenecked on volumetric flow @ 4mm^3/sec - which was giving something like 40mm/s but causing failures. Touch wood it's doing better at 25% slower - so similar to your Dremel. Main problem seems to be that it's Klipper configuration seems to want to let the hot-end cool whilst it does nozzle clean, bed-levelling etc and whilst it'll start printing freshly-loaded TPU it's very hit and miss as to whether it'll manage to extrude TPU in a hotend that's cooled down and then been heated up again.
@@Jakdaw From what I have seen in other reviews, the path from the extruder grip wheels to the hot end is long, and a loose fit to the filament which allows flexible TPU to bend and bind if pushed too hard. Increasing temp and reducing speed? is needed.
