- The new kids on the block have bestowed upon us
a brand new printer.
Thanks to Bambu Lab for sponsoring today's video,
and sending us their brand new P1P.
This one, is a new version, a stripped down version
of their X1 and X1 Carbon, at over half the price
of their X1 Carbon.
Let's see if they cut the corners in the right places.
Compared to the X1 Carbon, and the X1,
this has no side panels.
It really is a skeletonized version.
It looks exactly like the X1 Carbon, sort of on the inside,
almost all of this is exactly the same.
It uses the exact same motion platform
as their top of the line models.
So, that's kind of where most of the cost is,
and then they basically just got rid of all the extra
stuff that you don't really need.
So, we have a entire spool of Bambu Labs basic filament.
This will be the screen.
So, I don't believe this is a touch screen.
It's kind of just a little guy like this,
with a chromatic, kind of boring thing.
We'll get that installed in a minute.
The kind of design methodology of this one,
more like, "Ooh, you can customize it, make it your own."
So, if you want to upgrade it down the line,
or use the printer itself to print new panels,
those are all available as generic items online.
You can buy these accessories for the P1P,
if you so want.
We have a nozzle cleaning needle, very small.
We have a little Allen Key, for some of the bolts
that we're gonna be removing in a minute.
I believe this is going to be the main Allen Key
that we'll be using for all of the shipping bolts
at the bottom, there.
I guess some extra little screws for the hot end assembly.
We also have a couple of replacement parts
for the nozzle wiping system.
These are kind of interesting, because this printer
has an entire system of pre-checks
before you start printing.
So, it makes it incredibly easy to just kind of...
Push go and everything's all right, including
the filament cutter system and everything like that.
And then, we have the hot end itself.
They give you an entire new hot end as a spare,
which is really quite nice.
You may have noticed that the hot end
is not like anything else on the market,
and it is completely proprietary.
That kind of raises my heckles a little bit,
it's nice that they've included another one,
but you can buy replacement hot ends from Bambu
for the absolutely horrendous price of 15 dollars.
So, if it's going to be proprietary, I'm glad
it's kind of that price.
It's really quite nice to see.
Bambu is saying it'll take fifteen minutes from unboxing
to first print, and pretty much the whole printer
comes fully assembled.
We do have to remove a couple screws
that hold the bed down for shipping.
And then, we also have to put on the screen.
You take the screen, and you plug the cable
into the screen.
So, that tucks in there, and then it just snaps over,
and the screen's on.
I've got the all metal filament spool holder attached.
We can see our belts directly.
It apparently has an automatic belt tension system,
I have no idea how that works, I've never seen it
in action, I assume it just does it automagically
in the background.
And, something that we don't often see on 3D printers,
is it's got a butt, it has a little poop shoot.
When we get it started up, I'll show you.
But, it primes and poops it out the back.
Here we go.
So, we can actually look inside the hot end assembly's
just held on with magnets.
And yeah, we just gotta get this PTFE tube in here,
and we press that in, make sure it's locked in
nice and tight.
There we go.
And, that's pretty much that.
Okay, first power on, this is always exciting.
Ope.
That's what our first bit of hurdle, and a bit of gripe
with Bambu.
We need an app.
Now, I understand that that's sometimes kind of okay.
I think in this instance it is.
I like that they've included a skip this portion.
You really just have to use it once, we have an account.
And, what we're gonna do, is we'll just scan the barcode
and then have it bound to our account.
We're gonna do our first time setup, now.
We can see in the app, here, it's asking me again
if I removed those bolts.
If you do forget, it doesn't destroy itself,
it just makes horrible, horrible noises.
So, don't forget that.
And, it's asking me to start the procedure.
I'm gonna hit start.
Oh yeah, another thing I really like about these,
is the ZED Gantry moves really quickly.
This is it's homing procedure, and then it'll go
to the middle.
The bed will vibrate, which is kind of interesting.
It has a vibration dampening compensation system.
There's a sensor in the hot end, or somewhere
in the printer that measures the vibration
coming from the machine itself, and kind of adjusts
the motion paths to cancel that out, or at least
make it a little bit more minimal.
The bed kind of vibrates, just to make sure
that there's nothing in the way.
If I put my hand on it, it'll basically throw an error
and be like, "Oh, the bed's hit something
and I'm not supposed to have hit something yet."
There's no homing switch on this.
The homing is done completely through the nozzle
and hot end assembly.
Which is amazing.
It means that your always gonna have perfectly level
prints, that don't need any fine tuning
to get that first layer right.
Because it knows that the nozzle is at 0,
rather than it being an offset from your end stop,
compared to the bed, compared to the nozzle.
Now, we've started our vibration compensation.
So, it's going to sweep through different
levels of intensities of vibratory-ness,
and measure them compared to...
The resonance that it's feeling in the case itself.
You can hear the tone rising.
There we go.
If the printer is ever moving, at those frequencies
while it's printing, your whole table's gonna be shaking.
By having the vibration compensation system,
you can make the printer move in not those spaces,
or if it has to move through that frequency range,
it'll slow down or speed up to avoid that little hole
of extreme violence.
So, it's gone back to it's parked position.
Hey, there's...
It's gotta smiley face.
On our home screen here, we have bed temperature,
hot end temperature, print time remaining,
the status of the printer, which is fine.
It's got all the stuff you need.
Second page here, is kind of your transport controls.
We can home the printer, we can move these
at access, up and down, and we also have our fan speeds
and all that sort of thing, as well.
We also have SD card support.
So, you can print from a micro SD card,
but what I've been doing, and what I like doing,
is using the Bambu Studio App.
Which, we'll have a look in a minute
to send the printer the files through their cloud service.
Which is, problematic but you can set it to LAN mode.
One of the things that makes the Bambu printer's
so impressive, is the motion system.
And, the P1P gets the same one as the X1,
and the X1 Carbon.
The entire hot end assembly, here, is a CORD XY system,
and uses two motors at the back, with a pair of belts
to move it in very precise...
Little dance of adjustment.
The XS's Gantry is made of two carbon fiber rods
with the belts sandwiched between.
And, that allows the weight to be really, really low,
because the printer has to move this entire assembly
back and forward, at like...
Ridiculous speeds.
This is our hot end assembly, right here.
And, this is our direct drive extruder.
We also have an interesting feature,
this filament cutter, which it'll automatically slice
off the filament if you're doing changes, or anything
like that, to keep the whole path really pure,
and make sure that there's not extra colors
and things in there.
We also have the filament run out sensor,
which is super nice.
You can take this whole thing apart yourself,
it doesn't have any special screws.
It's just this Allen Key and this Allen Key,
all the bolts in the entire machine are pretty much
just these two, which is great.
Here's the spool of PLA basic.
There's a little tag right there,
and Bambu does something interesting.
They put an RFID tag on the spool itself,
when you're using the AMS, it'll automatically read
that tag and feed the printer the type of plastic
it is.
It's settings, it's color, and how much you have remaining
in the spool.
Unfortunately, this is a Bambu proprietary type of tag,
and I'm really hoping that they'll eventually open that up
for anybody else to use.
But, it's only available on their filament right now.
Now, let's just get this plugged in,
and we'll start a print.
And, I can show you how fast this thing goes.
Bambu Studio is actually a fork of PrusaSlicer,
all open source, you can find the entire un-built code
on Bambu's GitHub, which is super nice to see.
For how proprietary Bambu's has kind of made this
ecosystem, there's actually a lot of stuff
that's really open about it.
All of the slicer, and pretty much all the settings
for the printer themselves, you can modify.
I would find that this printer would drive me insane
if I couldn't modify some of the checks.
Thankfully, Bambu has included a bunch of different
startup scripts, which just exists as start
and end G-Code.
So, you can modify them to however you want.
I have a couple custom ones in here that I found online.
People have already started writing
fast startup scripts.
Which, gets that 7 minutes down to about 30 seconds,
without any loss.
You maybe need to do a full startup script
once in a while, but it saves all the settings
and firmware.
Yeah, it seems to run a modified version of Marlin, as well.
So, you can send this printer just to G-Code,
you don't have to use Bambu Studio.
You just load your G-Code onto the micro SD card,
and it'll print right from that just fine.
So, I'm gonna use the pre-done, pre-set, here
for the startup, which is gonna be the P1P,
with the default 0.4mm nozzle.
If we look at the advanced section here,
we can see all the bed details, we can see the printable
height, 250 millimeters on this.
We have thee G-Code flavor, which is Marlin Legacy.
That's how we know it's Marlin.
And, we can also see the filament load time
and unload time.
So, that's an adjustment setting, to if you wanted it
to pull back the filament, how much to pull it back for,
that sort of thing.
We have access to all of our machine G-Code's, here.
Just like you know from PrusaSlicer.
And then, we have our motion ability.
Which is crazy.
The maximum speed of the X and Y carriage is 500
millimeters a second.
And, you're not going to be printing at that speed,
but that's gonna be your travel speeds.
For you Americans, that's gonna be 20 inches
per second.
You know, it's quick, it's scary, you'll see that.
When you get into printers this capable,
you kind of stop worrying about the movement capabilities
of the printers, and you start having to worry about
how much plastic you can extrude.
Let's just do a God damn print, how 'bout that?
We'll just do the .16 optimal.
And, we hit slice.
It'll give us our time, this'll take 19 minutes
with the full print.
We'll go print play.
It says 19 minutes, it's gonna use 5 and a half grams
of filament.
We select our printer here, and I would like
to do bed-leveling, and...
Cannot send the print job to printer who's firmware
is required to be updated.
Okay, we'll be back in a minute.
I found another box in the box.
We did our firmware update, it didn't take very long,
which was kind of nice.
What's this?
So, this printer's in pre-release right now,
so when you buy the pre-release one,
you get some extra goodies.
So, you get that light, you get the camera,
and you get the layer fan.
Which is... Which is sick.
Look at this thing.
He's a beefy boy.
Let's install this, I think it's pretty simple,
it just kind of clips on.
So, it's just got a ribbon cable here,
with some sticky tape.
If you've got a micro SD card in there,
you can record video, in 720 or 1080,
and it'll also do time lapses,
and there's special time lapse G-Code that it'll inject.
So, when it does a layer, it'll move the hot end
out of the way, take a picture, so your print
comes out of nowhere and there's no hot end jumping around
on top, which is kind of cool.
In.
There.
While we're waiting for the bed to heat up
and everything to get warm, let's talk about
the build plate.
So, it's got these magnetic sheets and it looks
like they've included my favorite plate,
which is the textured PEI 1.
You don't have to use any glue or stuff on it,
and it's good for other things.
The problem is that it leaves a bit of a rough surface,
which you might not want.
They're magnetic, they are double sided,
which is really nice, and they offer two or three
different styles of bed.
The magnets are really strong, which can be a bit
of a problem, as the distance at the rear are like...
Maybe a little bit too small, but that's a problem
with all the printers.
The other thing that this printer's missing
is the light art.
So, Bambu have included a feature that I've never
really seen on any other printer, which is a small
laser radar gun machine, that sticks out the side
of the hot end assembly.
And, what'll do is it'll draw a little pattern
on the front edge of the bed.
Basically, it's an extrusion compensation system,
because when the print head is moving really fast,
the plastic is leaving the nozzle,
but it's maybe not leaving it evenly.
And, so you kind of get thinner lines
and then as you slow down to make a corner,
the lines get thicker as the plastic that it's pushed
through is maybe overcompensating.
And so, what this does is it kind of moves in a jerking
motion, and the line kind of waves around like this.
And, then it'll measure that and in-calibrate
itself immediately for that.
So, we're gonna do our initial home,
just find the base level of where the bed is,
compared to the nozzle.
It's going to wipe the tip again.
And, now it's going to just...
Really just make sure the tip is wiped.
And, it's adjusting the temperate up and down consistently.
So now, we're doing our final bed level.
Gotta wiggle, this printer likes to wiggle a lot.
The textured PEI bed has a slight adjustment
for the base layer, because there's maybe a slight
undulation in the surface it touches.
So, the start script will automatically compensate
for that.
And, depending on what bed you're using,
you don't have to worry about that compensation,
it'll all be handled manually in the start G-Code,
which is really nice.
We're 25 percent through this print,
and it's still just setting up.
We can fix this with the custom scripts,
which skips all of this, it makes everything fast,
it'll wipe the tip once and it'll...
(mimicking printer)
And then, you're done.
Like, come on, it's...
Half the print time is just the setup.
I mean, I like that.
You know, you're new at printing,
this bed leveling system that we're doing right here,
is one of the hardest things to learn.
It does a quick vibration calibration system
as it cuts off my finger.
Now, we get into the fun stuff.
So, this is now our full speed.
I shouldn't, but I'm just gonna disable the part fan
so I can still talk.
One of the fun things that Bambu has included
is your speed control.
I wish they had included a more fine granular speed
control, but this is standard mode.
I'm gonna switch it to sport mode, now.
There we go.
Now, we're in sport mode.
You can see those movements are like...
(mimics printer)
it's kind of crazy.
And then, Bambu has also included,
because of course they did, Ludacris mode.
Which we are now in, now.
The reason it's sounding crunchy like that,
is just because this model has a lot of...
Tessellations on it, it's not very smooth,
so it can't do the arc calculations that it needs to.
The best thing about having a printer that can print
this quickly, is you can iterate through prototypes
way faster.
With my Bambu's, I can do maybe four to six prototypes
in the time that it would take a competing printer
of the same kind of price range to print one.
Just having that acceleration, and that travel speed
and that movement speed, is so much more useful
to getting prints done.
Normally, the trade-off is quality or speed.
And, you can have both with any of the Bambu printers,
including this one.
Yeah, I really like that they've included the same
motion system.
They're not quiet printers.
The X1 and the X1 Carbon are a little quieter
because they have the sides on it.
They come with tempered glass tops and fronts.
Even without the fans on...
It's printing really fast, and so the whole motion system
is gonna make a bunch of noise.
So, here's an example of the pressure advanced calibration.
So, that's the fast start, that didn't take 7 minutes,
it took maybe 1-2 minutes, that's medium level 1,
with a proper bed level and calibration.
Again, our first layer is gonna be nice and slow.
And then, it ramps up after that.
I really like the custom motion paths
that they have in here.
When it reaches the end of the line,
it does a little twirl to break off the end
and make it a little bit more seamless.
So, I wanna remind you that this is the default
standard speed that it's moving at.
We can get a breakdown in Bambu Studio.
So, this is currently printing at 230 mm/s,
which is quite a lot, actually.
I think they've done something strange
with their filaments, because...
When we get to this level of motion platform,
the only thing limiting your printing speed
becomes volumetric flow.
And, this one, with the Bambu filament,
can push 21 millimeters cubed per second of filament,
which is a meaningless number in my brain,
but is basically the amount of volume that it can push
through per second.
I would really love to see Bambu put a bigger hot end
or offer an extended hot end, like the Volcano,
to really push that melt zone higher.
Instead of having to get multiple printers
to work on prototypes that could take 14 hours,
or something like that, you can be iterating
on a day instead of overnight.
Say I wanted to check the fitment between the rings,
it's this little gyro model thing...
It takes me 20 minutes to iterate,
instead of what would probably be about an hour,
or maybe three hours on another printer
that wasn't Core XY.
I mean, even at 230 mm/s for this print,
it's still conservative.
We can push this higher, we can use the sport mode,
we can use the Ludacris mode.
Your print quality's gonna suffer,
but you're still able to get those prints out even faster.
Because the limit of this printer is 500 mm/s,
you have unlimited movement capabilities,
and it's really just limited by the hot end
on this machine.
Which is, a bit of a shame.
But, shouldn't be too hard for them to release
a super extended version.
I mean, the bed levels with the tool itself,
you're gonna lose some print height,
but that would be amazing.
I wanna go faster, speed!
This has minus proofing, so if I pull out the power cord,
it should restore itself, which is kind of nice.
I'm not gonna do that, because I don't want to be here
all day.
Okay, and we're done.
What it did, is it moved to the back
and then cuts the filament, and then makes sure
that it's all ready to go for next time.
It's pooped out the back.
This is it's little purge thing.
It uses about 150 millimeters of filament,
which is kind of a lot.
With the fast start that you can find online,
or write yourself, you can get that down
to about five or ten.
We have this magnetic bed, and the part
has immediately come off.
Looks quite good.
And again, we have this little gyro spinner thing,
which is kind of cool.
It's printed completely without support,
and everything's nice and separate.
It's interesting, you can actually see the tesselation
on the outside, which is from the model itself.
If your model, or STL is exported with a low resolution,
you'll actually have less triangles on the outside,
and so the arc fitting that this machine will do
isn't so great.
It's interesting this printer will reproduce
those artifacts in the model itself, which is really cool.
Yeah, this feels great and it only took about...
I don't know, then minutes to print.
With that seven minutes of start time,
which is always a bit disappointing.
Well, it's about half the price of the competitor,
that everybody likes.
It feels weird, it feels silly to like a product
this much, especially doing a sponsored review,
and I don't know how I feel about that.
But, I think...
If we're trying to keep open and transparent,
the list of positives is basically everything,
and the list of negatives is stuff I think can be fixed
in software.
I don't have the level of engineering degrees required
to properly describe all the little nuisance features
that it has.
I'm basically a more advanced hobbyist at this point,
but I think this is a real game changer
for the whole industry.
Every other printer manufacturer should be scared
of Bambu.
If you're not copying this product, and you're not
making clones of this product, and you're a 3D printer
company, and you're not bringing out a product like this,
then you're screwed, basically.
It's incredible, good job, guys.
If you want a 3D printer...
Only buy this one.
Unless it's too expensive, then buy another one.
But, you'll have more headaches
and spend more time than with the P1P.
Thanks.