"Now if you don't mind, id like to be alone with this thing for a little while". Ah yes Dan, the words of every tech geek right after we open a shiny new gadget.
@@zybch luckily buying a Prusa printer means you gonna have a lot of years with that thing. they are reliable work horses and if something goes wrong you can easily get replacement parts. you can even still get parts for the old Prusa i3 MK2 which came out in 2016
I love my bambu printer, I printed in paper a portion of the anti ccp copy pasta and put it where the camera can somewhat view it (need large font, camera is low quality) so if ccp wants to spy, they can see anti-ccp propaganda. As for the models I print, its pretty much hobby stuff, a lot directly from their makerworld site, so they already have the files
Amazing, i would love a full-sized LLT main video on the Prusa XL! No one buys and should buy the single tool head version. The only reason to do so is financial reasons and even then you should get atleast the two-head version in my opinion. I personaly got the two-head version because i wasnt sure about the investment for the additional ones and because of the hickups they had in the beginning. I can confirm, got my printer a week ago, that i didnt have any of the issues aswell and i never saw parts coming out so beautifully that you dont even really see the layer lines its amazing Usually i just print "casual" smaller parts which i design myself so honestly its fully overkill for my usecases. But i like to have the option of multi-color and multi-material prints. Just some examples: - Print with 1-4x Filaments + water solveable(?) for supports - Print with 1-4x Filamets + TPU to rubberize the feet/ground area of the part to make it none-slippery - Multicolorprint with 5x Colors - Configure backup toolheads so if Head1 runs out of filament Head2 can continou if you have loaded the same filament - Use different materials for support so its easier to remove - Use TPU together with some filament to print "in-built membranes" (the button of a remote out of TPU so its flexible and you can press it "thrue") And probably even more things i cant even think about yet, i love it! :D. Please full LTT Video! Good to show the new stuff from 3D Printers to the masses
The layer lines are very obvious in this video and all videos i have seen of the XL, far better single head printers than this. For $4k not impressed...
Ypu forget the biggest point. Less waste than other multi material solutions like Bambu‘s printer with the AMS. In the end a necessary step for Prusa since they have been massively outperformed by other manufacturers in the last two to three years.
@mariospanna8389 the first video I saw was Teaching Tech's, every video I've seen over time has improved quality. You're just blind or not even watching the videos lol.
You printed on a VERY wobbly table, didn't ya? At least looked like it in the footage ( 9:53 ). My company recently added a Prusa XL to it's 3 prusa mk3s . While there are certainly other printers which print faster and even with better results, the benefit of the Prusas is that the result will be the same every single time. Run them for thousands of hours, some maintenance once a year and that's it. While expensive it's really the only feasible option available at this point in time for the print size. We got it with 3 heads. 2 are filled with different colours regular PETGs and one Carbon fiber PETG. So far it has been a reliable workhorse and while one shouldnt buy a product because of promises of updates, we only expect it to get better with improved software in the future.
Worth noting is that at least several months ago, quite a few creators have highlighted issues they've had with the Prusa XL. A lot of updates have happened since then so it's hard to say what the current state of the printer is. Even in Dan's example I can see some ugly layer lines and yeah, some color blending- but it also finished, which at least a couple of months ago wasn't even guaranteed. I really want this printer to succeed, because the toolchanger concept beats out the bambulabs AMS if you're into multicolor/multimaterial printing by being way faster and with significantly less waste (also, some people paid literally $5K+ for their printers and it's unacceptable for those folks to not get the performance they've been expecting). I've also seen some mods for Voron 2.4s from the 3DP community that also look very promising, so in a few years we might have quite a few options out there.
I wouldn't worry, everything will get better and better with each next update, as is usual with the Prusa. Compared to Bambu, it is really a significantly better piece, prints faster, prints with less waste material and is able to combine different materials. It's an obvious choice for me, the $5K is back for a few large prints. (filament consumption and, in the case of a shorter print, also electricity consumption)
@@zdenekcerny9019 "I wouldn't worry" is probably not the phrase I'd use. If I dropped $5K on one of these machines I'd replace "worry" with "expect" that they would fix the problems, because guaranteed I'd never buy anything from the company again if they don't stand behind it. They released it in a half-assed state when they didn't have to and damaged their reputation, so it's on them to fix it.
@uto You're probably looking at a Voron 2.4 250mm with tapchanger. But at that size it's usually more common to find an IDEX printer from any number of vendors (or building your own).
The "direct drive" misnomer is my biggest pet peeve in the 3D print community. A direct drive extruder is one where the extruder gear is attached directly to the extruder motor output shaft. The alternative to a direct drive extruder is a geared extruder. Ironically, direct drive extruders are common in bowden printers, and direct extrusion print heads usually have geared extruders.
Easy fix to the crushing. In the slicer postprocessor just make it so that it always thrown in at the start of the program that the axis is all the way back at the tool change then the z goes all the way up to 0.2mm above the build plate and then the move to the opposite side ( makeing sure that if there is any print on the printer it gets pushed off automatically when it starts a print ) P.s. I really really wish that printers would also start useing G02. G03. R values. I values. J values and A values for doing round features ( perfect/even in both ends ) and where it starts or end at a different mouth compared to the opposite end as well as a set angle instead of all those micro steps ( I did open up a print file and could understand most of it since it's just normal Gcode witch is used on cnc's. So why not use all the movement commands instead of only some of them ? )
Hi Dan I'm new to the channel great job in the overview of the XL but when you showed the product it printed I was not impressed. I've also seen a few others for comparison on the XL and this seems to be the quality of this system. For the price one would think it would have less artifacts in the print. The XL looks like a solid printer anyway and would not mind having one but not sure if I could sell anything from it the way that the demo looked. Just my two cents
dan is such a good and natural host, this is my first time seeing him since I stsrted my WAN binge and he plays a much more supportive role in that, its so exciting to see him shine in something as the main attraction, and lovely to see him so passionate about this beautiful piece of tech!!
Always love seeing some 3d printing content from you guys! Even more of a bonus that Dan is presenting it! Hope to see more 3d printing content coming out!!
That is _not_ the "semi-assembled," since the entire frame is already put together. That is the "fully assembled," which still required the individual nextruder heads to be installed.
Feels like this thing would be great for batching multiple print jobs as a single huge one, especially with how it has _five_ nozzles which would give you huge options for color and material without having to manually be there to switch out each time.
Twas a bit of a silly one given you can run the bambu offline and no cloud service is neceserry either.... (and yes, it is completely offline, I'm one of the people with firmware access via X1Plus, it makes no attempt at connecting when in lan mode)
@@steelcuts Might wanna look into that. They got caught sending Gcode back to China even on printers in LAN only mode on printers with "share logs" option turned off. Keep drinking the kool aid, I hope it tastes good. You might want to look into flashing your Bambu with open source firmware so it stops phoning home and sending photos of you in your underwear back to china. :)
It's great to see Dan hosting a video without constantly trying to be funny. He has great insights and good presentation style, no need to try being a stand-up comedian all the time.
10:22 noticed an audio sync issue for one or two clips, and earlier a few out-of-focus closeups (focused on Dan arms, not the product) all that said, I will watch most any video with Dan
$2,000 is a lot, but that's also what I paid for my Makerbot 2 in 2012, and this is INCREDIBLE by comparison, not to mention that those are smaller dollars now. Very reasonable for what you're getting here.
It reminds me of those CAD plotters with multiple pens it would use to make multicolor drawings. This was in the mid 90s when I got to tinker with one.
Does printing TPU inserts in other materials work easily? This is the sort of thing I'm considering Prusa XL, just two tools would probably be enough for me.
@@Qwarzz It does work easily once you set the volumetric speeds correctly. This guy's video explains it in better detail. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-oUXeIEUS68I.html
dooooh....getting a head is great but getting five is greaterer....dooh.....although the risc of chafing and blisters..... lets say three is optimal number than getting some R & R and keep them coming
I do have to say it's a cool machine. In CAD though I can't possibly fathom its price. I guess you can argue that no other printer has 5 toolheads on it. Unless it's fully custom. Bringing that to the public at $5k is not bad.
"The instructions tell you how many gummy bears to eat and when." That is the single most German thing I've ever heard; and I'm familiar with Rammstein. Are we sure that Prusa are actually Czech?
If I am not mistaken Prusa said an enclosure was going to be made available that had a place for a camera to oversee the printing and other tricks, like LED lights... What happened to their planned enclosure (saw it reported from a trade show by Prusa rep) for this great printer?
Will be interesting to see if other tool changer printers start coming to market this year as well. There are a few options for multimaterial but not in this way.
