2015 Upgraded Full Acrylic Quality High Precision Reprap i3 DIY 3D Printer Kit with 2 KG Filament +SD Card for Free

I have had this printer for several weeks now. In the box was a bag, in the bag was a burned DVD with files, parts, and assembly videos. For assembly I just setup my laptop on the table, and started from video number 1. It was fairly straight forward although they do miss a few small details. I got mine assembled anyways without any problems. I was not missing any pieces and had various screws and pieces left over (likely from previous versions). For those familiar with 3D printers, after assembled, everything else like leveling and getting both Z steppers at the same level should be straight forward. For those not familiar, well this model will definitely try your patience as will ANY printer kit that you need to assemble yourself.After a few days I ran into the first problem. I was noticing that even with bed level at the 4 corners, prints at the center seemed to start way too close and wasn't extruding right (was thinking under-extruding). I tried for several days to adjust and try different things, only way to fix it was level at bed center instead of the corners, but this meant trying to do larger prints was out of the question (more than 100mm from center). This lead me to look underneath, and sure enough it took just 2 days and the heat from the bed had warped the acrylic bed support so the outsides were sagging down and center was pushing up. This lead me to my first upgrade, a proper aluminum bed support. I had to print out a new belt holder but after that the bed was perfectly level and has been great, and done several larger prints without a problem. Printed mods include a better fan on the fins of the extruder, LCD case, and making use of a 80mm PC fan blowing on the bed to help cool the PLA faster.Then the next issue appeared, the LCD would not work with the 8GB SD card they sent. The card worked everywhere else except this printer. So I contacted them and they sent me a replacement LCD (took around 5 business days, DHL from China to Florida). After further digging it seems these LCDs do not work with 8GB SDHC cards, only 4GB and smaller capacity cards. Luckily I have a few laying around unused from 128MB to 4GB that I use with this printer.I have checked around, it seems this model is essentially the "Sunhokey" but with a Bowden E3D clone based on the E3D v5 (these extruders can be had for $5-10). Because of this, many of the printable parts and mods found on sites like thingiverse can be used from the sunhokey (and the E3D v4 or 5 extruder). It has been over a week now with the much better aluminum bed support ($20 here on amazon), and I am around 90% through the "gift" PLA spool they sent me with this printer (I received black PLA and white ABS). I have not touched the ABS yet, but also have another spool of white PLA sitting here (I ordered it at the same time as the bed support) ready for when I use up the gift spool.The key that people need to remember is at this price point, even once they get everything dialed in perfectly, you will still not be able to print seamless prints, all prints will have small minor flaws that may need some touchup (like sanding, filler, etc). But for this price point, this is still a good baseline model, and the customer support resolves issues fairly quickly (provided you know the questions to ask and let them know the tests you've run on a bad part).Because the acrylic bed support being a major design flaw, I cannot give this 5 stars. Otherwise this is a good entry level printer.

This is my first experience with a 3D printer. The kit is well designed and packaged well for shipment. Assembly went very well. There are a few steps that are omitted in the videos for assembly, but this was not a major problem. After a couple weeks printing, I am getting good results with PLA. There was was a failure of the heater on the bed and the hot end will not maintain temperature for ABS printing. They are sending new parts under warranty. (only problem is they have to ship parts from China even though they shipped the printer from the USA.)They are now showing the Prusa i4 printer (mine is an i3) which has several improvements. Kinda wish I had waited a few more weeks but I am enjoying printing in 3D.

i got my printer about a month or two ago and it assembled fine everything went together like it was sappose to but it would have been nice to have a paper copy of the instruction instead. After the assemble the printer started up fine and everything worked. Might i mention packaging was great. But the first prints were not printing off beautifully. there was time when the extruder would clogg up and i would have to forcefully shove the fillament into the extruder while it was heated to inorder to unclogg it. then the soddering on the heat bed continued to break and i continuesly had to resoder the cable back on the the bottom of the heat bed. after just two weeks of printing the extruder stopped extruding all together and that is when everything went south. NOT only did the extruder stop working but the computer board stopped working and the only thing that would happen is the lcd would come on. then the power supply fried out and stopped working as well. and since then i have been trying to buy parts for this printer to work and it still wont do anything. i am pissed off with this printer and the company because i e-mail them and they wont email me back on this issue. If i where you save up you money and dont buy this big huge peice of crap and go with a makerbot of any other high end printer oof else you are going to get this big huge peice of CRAP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

3D Printer Kit. If you are not willing to spend the time, setting it up it could get frustrating. But if you apply the effort and attention to details you will end up with a serviceable tool. I also have a higher end manufacture built, self contained scanner printer. The unit is a Sunhokey Prusa i3.It has a heated aluminum bead, will print ABS and PLA, but PLA appears to have better results. It is extremely quite for a 3D printer. I am always checking to see if it's actually running. Hints: 1. Build the unit on a solid surface. 2. Locktite the screws. 3. DO NOT over tighten the hardware. 4. Use the proper screws for the power supply. (they are in their own bag) 5. Calibrate the build platform. (several times) before you start to get frustrated. 6. Read the online info on thingiverse dot com. 7. Use good quality filament. This requires some effort to program and produce results, think of it as a learning experience. (or therapy?)

This printer came with NO instructions. The SD card that was supposed to have the instructions was blank. I put most of it together by guess. I did find videos online that filled in some of the blanks. Then, when I tried to make something with it, the heated base plate turned out to be warped - it's low in the middle. After adjusting the four corners for clearance to the nozzle, the clearance in the center was MUCH too wide. I'm trying to find another plate I can clamp on top of the heated base plate. The base plate has the heater attached to the bottom, so one can't "lean on it" to straighten it.On the plus side, everything fit very well. The pieces were made accurately and were well indexed. There are some minor design issues that could use improvement, but nothing critical (except for the warped base plate).