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Kev will get right onto that!

thanks! Giving the people what they want - including some door slams.

Thanks Kevin 👍

Ender 3 V# is awesome - I have one too

thanks for watching and commenting - i appreciate it

i really hope so too. I'm excited about all the new things this printer brings to our lineup for sure.

okay I will see what I can do. I am not allowed on the floor where they are testing them but I will give it a try

@@kevin.3D you go Kev!!!!!

awesome, we can't wait to see what you build with it.

let us know how that beta testing goes!

it has over a thousand views in the first 12 hours - how many of those were you Charisse? What a great channel supporter!

Yeh can't wait to get mine also. 🎉

Hi Christine! Thanks for watching (as always). Have a good time at Sharefest!

Cardboard spools suck. They fall to bits when you dry them at high temps.

@@mackinsvii9022I don't think so. 1 roll of filament only last me a day or 2 so I've never had that problem before

@@ChristineRamirezCr You're printing PLA I bet? If you're using anything hygroscopic, you have to dry it first.

@@ChristineRamirezCr print fast and live in the desert! Good plan. It's so dry in AZ you must never worry about drying filament.

Okay, I''ll keep making more then

It does! It does not disappoint. Seeing it beside me shows the true size too!

@@kevin.3D yes this machine is not only sleek and full of technology. It is massively big with all state of the art components it’s been upgraded components, compared to the K1 max, even though the K-1 series printers are still an outstanding device. The K2 with CFS will be a step above other printing companies, make a new standard to what printing technology should be

they said with the K1 series, there are 3 lead screws but they are all on the same motor. This has 2 and they are on 2 independent motors so it should be better. And there are four linear rods on the z axis too...

3 lead screws on independent steppers would be better. When it's only 2, the bed tends to drop gradually over time. I'm sure we can mod it in though. Maybe even use 4 leadscrews.

people with K1's love to see me slam the door. I'm also nervous to do it - i feel your pain.

That's awesome. You should get it in October - seems like a long time but the summer will go by fast.

I hope you are thrilled with it. I think you will be

I'm jealous... I only got 20 percent off. Wife would kill me if she knew. I just didn't knew about it didn't the 50% days

During, not didn't

of course he cant......

thanks for watching

Definitely agree! It's seems like they don't in rush to release it... They want to do something that actually can be relevant for the future competition that gunna come..

thanks Charisse!

hey buddy, thanks for watching - i messaged you yesterday!

Better sell them now. They are going to DROP in value the more new machines come out. They already took a big hit when the Kobra 3 combo came out. Now that Bambus 1 trick Pony of multicolor printing is available everywhere People are getting smart

you and me both - hearing it run warms my heart

I have never looked at the prices of Bambu, but I would like to see an animation of the K2plus eating a A1 mini - I wonder how many of those we could fit inside this one lol.

its a demo not finial stage. I think a lot will change.

1. That poor print quality right there has to be a MAJOR alarm sign! I don't buy the excuses this is just an early prototype, and therefore OK at this stage. That's a weak excuse this far into pre-production. This is an experienced company, showing off their flagship model, and trying to finally convince the many sceptics they have what it takes to knock BambuLabs out the quality-of-print park with their own game. 2. The other thing that really irks me about Creality is the inability to address the MANY criticisms of the poor placement of the Poop-Chute, Filament Entry Points, and Mains Power Switch at the BACK of this large and heavy unit, when it is immediately obvious to any USER-CENTRIC designer, that ALL THREE of these facilities SHOULD be placed on the FRONT of the machine. Having a bank of these machines on a bench against a wall is an obvious customer placement. An Engineer / Designer that persists in thinking its OK to stuff important operating access at the BACK of a heavy, awkward to move machine in a row of similar machines against the wall ... needs his pay stopped until he fixes this mistake! (And I would still continue to be worried where else such a designer is taking short-cuts at the expense of the end-user). This is a sales-feature mistake that needs the intervention-balls of a Steve Jobs / Elon Musk type CEO character to throw his toys out the cot, and pull the plug on the design team, and DEMAND they fix it. Pronto! Middle-management AIN'T gonna take that decision. It's the ethos of the man at the top that separates out a great design company, from the merely good.

He says "printed for it", not "printed on it", there are several different printers there, and this one isn't even plugged in, so it is possible they printed that part on another printer. The prints they showed during live streams seemed to be better quality. Lets hope this is not it, because my 250usd v3 ke prints look better than this @500mm/s

@@ntopee with his answer he confirmed that it was printed on the K2 Plus

Thanks for the info. I hope the printer they printed this on was just not calibrated, I don't think they will do any major hw changes until release at this stage. Looking at the specs it should definitely do better than one of the cheapest klipper bedslinger, or else I don't see the point of coreXY, closed loop motors and anything that makes this printer expensive besides the sheer size and the mms. Guess we will see, I will be in the first round of public beta testing (first day 50% sale), ill be excited to see what they manage to deliver.

i think that sounds like a good idea - using magnets on the back would prevent you from cutting any holes in it. Put an exhaust fan on the back and run your hose out the window - sounds like a really good idea. I have not tried printing with ASA - what do you use that for, what are the benefits of ASA over ABS?

I definitely wouldn't want to be drilling into the K2, or anything that'd be a permanent modification. The adapter for the K1 Max just clicks into place on the back, so it's not a permanent modification either, and I kept all the fan pieces so I can return it to stock if I decide to sell it after receiving the K2. But as to the filaments ASA was originally designed as a replacement for ABS. ASA has the benefits of ABS but with UV resistance. As someone who has printed with both, ASA is easier to print with. It's nowhere near as prone to warping as ABS. ASA is suppoosed to be produce less VOCs while printing, I definitely got headaches printing with ASA before I made the vent-to-outside system though, so I'd still recommend venting. IMO nothing that involves burning/melting plastic should be breathed in. ASA isn't available in as many colors as ABS though, so that's a drawback. ASA is typically a bit more expensive than its ABS counterpart. Like ABS, ASA can be post-processed the same ways including acetone smoothing. But generally if it's something I'm making that will be outside in the sun, or something inside the printer enclosure where it's going to get hot, I typically go with ASA.

i will ask him this one too - you have good questions! For your other question about filament going into those CFS holes on the back - that won't work. The filament box loads and unloads each color so if you put just a roll into the back to try to get 5 colors (love the independent thinking) it would get pushed out when ejected and have no way to get fed back in. There is a single spool holder available for it if you don't want to use the CFS - or you can buy 2 CFS and have 8 rolls. Doesn't have to be 8 colors, can do two or three spots of the same color that is commonly used so that when it runs out it will automatically use the new roll of filament in the same color.

@@kevin.3D The previous question was about single colour, not multi-colour printing from an external spool. CFS does not support TPU, I mount the TPU spool on an external holder and what next? How do I connect this to the printer, I have seen that Bambu Lab users print splitters to not have to unplug the AMS from the printer every time they want to use the external spool. Hopefully this will be solved better here

I bear the shame as well, I have a P1P with AMS....So wish I wouldnt have bought it. It has been the most troublesome machine I own.

for me, the print size is the most exciting part too.

thanks for watching Laurie - they have promised shipping to begin at the end of September so I'm hoping to have a factory tour during production eventually too.

Great! I can't wait either!

yes i can't wait for you to get one too - exciting year!

yes two lead screws but on independent motors.

thanks for watching! I appreciate it.

it said 360 and I was like...what?!? The guys said to me, "oops that was just a printing error" and then he scratched it off haha

ooh I can't wait to see them!

did you see the new videos? I hope you got your answers...

They probably copied it off the same ones Bambu copied from.

good question - i will ask today!

My guess would be no as the CFS unit is what would pull the filament back out of the extruder but I will be watching for the answer to this question as well.

ru-vid.comnjIYBdA-t1g?si=YY1HMjj9tVEB3W_9 the official creality page never deletes the live videos. there are lots there. The printer is running in this livestream right from the start. We are doing a livestream so we don't have a mic on the actual printer for you to hear it - but you can see it working here.

from a selling out perspective haha

Cant wait to be a beta tester!

thanks Charisse

i didn't know they sent emails confirming these things. We all get a build plate, that's for sure! Now looking forward to Dryer box too!

we had one printing beside us in the live stream one day - maybe that was the 50% sale of pre-orders. Search the official Creality channel and look at the livestream. I was sitting right beside it while it printed and pooped. It's nice and quiet. I'm not allowed to just plug this in and start printing - we had it in the studio for some shots on the official store website.

@@kevin.3D There are NO live streams. All Deleted.

They have sold out every pre order unit

The price in Australia is released for the combo together - but we have no word yet on the price for each part. Seems like they will have to fill all the pre-orders before we need to worry about that. Is the NZ dollar and the AUS dollar pretty close in value still?

i'm excited for you too!

yes, the CFS will eventually work with the K series printers and also the Ender 3 Vs and Ender 3 V3 Plus. It's all in the plan - but it will be a while before that can all be done. No time announced yet.

Creality software

At 1:05 where Kevin is pointing are the ports for the other 3 CFS & they run from just the 1 USB connection

Am I just missing something altogether? I can see the ports for the tubes from each additional unit but not the power or usb sockets or is it that it's not the final production one and the extra USB ports not added yet or are do they use WiFi? I can see me wanting an extra unit, hopefully! 😁😁

@@simonbehnke4756 the first CFS connect to printer usb and the first CFS powers the others. i will look for vid i saw this on and post a link

@@simonbehnke4756 The first CFS unit supplies power to the additional units. check out the vid link above

yeah it's not for everyone at that price.

But let me guess you didnt have any issues throwing away $1500 on a Bambu X1C when it came out right?

@@anthonylong5870 that is wrong, i bought my 5 Bambus all at the last 4 weeks, no one on release date or earlier!

yes

crap trap!! That's the words I was looking for! You should do my writing for me ;)

Can you imagine? You would have to buy this combo and then 3 more CFS units - and it would take a fair size space in the garage, but it's possible

The nozzle/feeding system is completely different. The Bambu have big issues with the funnels getting worn because of the bad angle of the filament. The CFS seems to have fixed that. Also the CFS has a built in temperature gauge

yeah i will stick with my K1C for now. This thing is too big for my house anyway.

Yup.... and thats the creality we all know and love! Cant wait to be a beta tester for this one!

if you got a pre-order one and want to change your mind i for sure know people who would take it from you. Let me know and I will help you with it.

It was a stupid design that never worked right on Bambu printers. All it was supposed to do was detect a bad first layer...Thats it, nothing more. And it often failed at that

it has two fans at the back so you can keep the temperature down if you want. No need to turn on the chamber heat for PLA.

the plan is to make that happen eventually - yes!

yeah, this is Creality behind the scenes. Printers are going to be on carts and I'm gonna film them while everyone else eats lunch. I had 11 minutes alone with the printer but I guess you are right, I should have wrestled it onto a table, set up some spotlights, plugged it in and started a print. I'll work on that for my next video. The poop chute container was to demonstrate how magnets will work on the back, something we have not shown before - you are under no obligation to print this tiny container for your printer.

I totally get being in a busy work space, so the cart thing isn't a big deal. No need for spotlights though (your being a little over dramatic there yea? but then again I was in my response so touche). Personally I would at least plug it in and power it up for people to see, a big missed opportunity there and to go over so much information, which didn't happen. It seemed like your first day doing a review on youtube (not prepared, just winging it). I would have taken about 30 seconds to think about what should have been presented and it would have made a world of difference. Onto my concerns... First, yes poop container is optional, but at least admit its the smallest poop container on the market. If you have done or seen any multi-material printing you know that container will fill up in mere minutes and then spill over = not good. Please suggest a poop shoot like other printers have; maybe even one which has the shoot which would empty out and down the back under a desk or counter into a trash can. Even one that has a larger container on the side (like some other big name printer company has done). Just a thought. Second, my concern was the lack of information in the video. I look at it from a perspective if someone who is looking at 3d printers, this video should have included a ton of information to persuade them; 'the K2+ brings lot to the table because it does X, y and Z... lets go over them..." But that didn't happen. I mean I can rattle off a lot of details of the K2+ off the top of my head but the viewers here got next to nothing. I don't know if you work at Creality or was just given limited access but missed a great opportunity to really persuade people that this is going to be a great machine. Third, no showing off of prints. I didn't expect to have the machine actually printing, well... yea I did a little, but at least show some items it printed and show off the capabilities. Another lost opportunity. Fourth, the lack of information on the nozzle, extruder, safety features (2 fuses for heated bed, etc) should have been mentioned (safety is important). Never addressed if the nozzle can be changed quickly or what size it was, or if Creality is going to offer different sizes, no mention of flow rate, etc. Does it have a carbon filter? Then what about print times? Will the machine have RFID for spool? Can the CFS use third party spools? Does this machine have WIFI, ethernet or a USB port (where is the USB port located?) to transfer items to the machine to print? I know it does but most newbies don't know that so its another opportunity to sell this machine. So much info was not brought to the table, I mean to the cart, with this video. What I did come away with was you said the CFS weighed less than 4 kg (impossible), you liked the door and wanted more logos on the machine, as if those were THE big selling points but thats not what is going to sell this printer to people. Please understand I'm not being mean and I don't know you from Adam; you could have just had an off day and I get that. However if I was new and this one video was all that I saw, I would be hesitant to check into it further because of the lack of important details in this video. Lesson learned I hope. Also if this is still in development as you said, please suggest that the exhaust fans have screws holes for ventilation port attachments like on other machines, especially when printing indoors (homes, offices, etc) to vacate harmful VOCs. As it stands people will have to drill holes into the machine to attach exhausts adapters to vent this thing and that shouldn't be something people should have to do, especially with such a machine. Oh yea, and make a much bigger poop shoot/container. Please know I'm not a fanboi of any company and I'm in the market for a large build area printer and thats why I made videos discussing the K2+ as an option for me. I have researched, checked out the Creality website, forums, etc to get up to speed on this machine (btw I have a background in electronics so I know what to look for) but not everyone has that experience, so you have to sell this ever chance you get, but that didn't happen here. Anyway, I would love to see another video where you actually go over the specs and things I mentioned in detail, with the machine plugged in, show the lights, display, menu options, etc. etc. Leave it on the cart but plug it in and really discuss the important selling points and hit a home run with it.

@@theVariedLife wow thanks for the comments. Yes i work at Creality and to be honest we have been doing livestreams about the K2Plus a lot - so there are plenty of videos with all of this information in them (including videos with the printer running). This video was to show the printer up close to those who have bought it as many people want more looks at it. Good input tho - thanks!

@@kevin.3D I will definitely check those videos out. Looking forward to seeing more about the K2+ in the future and especially reviews. With that said, the K2+ is still on my list for a large build area FDM printer. :)

lol

ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-njIYBdA-t1g.html livestream we did had the K2Plus printing beside us in color.

my wife said the same thing

yeah that will fill up fast - i agree!

It's better.It's the correct size.😊

@@gametimegg7315 Yep. At over 2.5x the print volume of a P1S it's in an entirely different league.

i wonder how many A1 mini's we can fit inside. Paint a toothy grin on the door and make it look like it is chewing them up :)

@@gametimegg7315 with the typical creality quality I guess. At least judging by the video the inside is still the usual crappy stuff. Had three Crea printers, switched to Bambu. Never going back.

Except for the massive size increase, Better screen, faster printing, heated chamber, better ventilation......But yeah sure. COMPLETE TWIN TO IT...FFS!

you don't have to watch. Creality has been making printers for ten years so i don't think it's very fair to claim they are copying a company celebrating their second anniversary. They are different companies competing with each other - this is not new, it's good for you, the consumer. I love Toyota cars but I don't go to Ford websites and accuse them of copying Toyota. Ford makes cars and that makes Toyota better and cheaper for us.

ROFL say you dont know ANYTHING about 3D printers. Bambu stole everything from Prusa and Voron..EVERYTHING. Creality has been in business for a decade and Bambu only 3 years and guess what? other than their original launch printers they have done ZERO innovation. They have only released a crappy bedslinger since then and it has been recalled TWICE LOL