SnapmakerArtisan 3D Printer,Dual Extrusion 3D Printing,400x400x400mm Large Printing Size,Industrial-Grade Linear Rails Auto Bed Leveling,All Metal Design with 7" Touchscreen

The media could not be loaded. I have had this printer for about a week now and have only positive things to say about it. My previous printers have all been single extruder models and I was looking for a new one that had true multimaterial capability. After some research on printer types, IDEX came up and seemed like an ideal option. The ability to swap filaments with minimal time lost and waste produced was very attractive, and the possibility of printing two copies of the same part in the same time as a single one was just an added bonus! At the pricepoint of the J1S, all other multimaterial-capable plug and play printers I am aware of use a single extruder and swap filaments, meaning extremely long print times, limited material compatibility (no flexibles), and lots of filament waste. Printers with tool changers meanwhile, cost over twice as much as the J1S.After receiving the printer, my first impression was how solidly built it was. The linear rails look to be high quality and the cast z-axis carriage the bed sits on is something I haven't seen in any other printers. Packaging and shipping protection was also excellent. The removable top and large doors on the front of the enclosure make it easy to get inside for filament changes and maintenance, so I have no concerns about making changes or upgrades in the future (I plan to install the new all-metal extruders). The touchscreen on the front of the printer is responsive with easy to navigate menus, and including instructions with pictures in the UI for maintenance and calibration is a great touch. I also appreciate that you can easily load print files using a flash drive, something lacking on some other popular printers at this price point.As of the time of this review, I have run the printer with both PETG and PLA filament. Running PLA in both extruders, the print quality is good and both the mirror and copy modes work well. One thing to note is that these modes don't need to be preselected in the slicer, they can be selected on the printer as long as the part(s) occupies only one half of the build plate. This means that it is still easy to use these modes regardless of what slicer you use. Multimaterial prints with two PLA colors worked well, and I had no issues printing a print-in-place dump truck. The ability to use breakaway supports, which I think is the most useful application for dual extruders, also works very well. A PLA support test printed with PETG interface layers and a 0mm gap yielded excellent surface quality on cantilevered surfaces and the supports removed easily.In terms of slicing, Snapmaker's Luban software works well and the integrated network connectivity is a handy feature. This is definitely the slicer you want to use when first setting up the printer, and for someone who doesn't care about tuning their printing profiles, there isn't as much control available as in some other slicers. Luckily though, the printer is fully compatible with OrcaSlicer and I got excellent results using the default profiles already integrated for the J1s. I have read that compatibility with Cura and PrusaSlicer is also good, but I have not tried either of these myself yet.Overall, the J1S is a unique printer with excellent build quality at a competitive price point. If you want true multimaterial capability and the ability to use breakaway supports (truly a game changer) on all of your prints, I would highly recommend this printer. It is also encouraging to see that Snapmaker is continuing to make printer upgrades such as additional cooling fans and new hotends available so you can continue to extract as much performance as possible out of your printer.

The media could not be loaded. I've had the Snapmaker J1s that I've received from Amazon for a little while now and I'm very impressed so far with the capability of the printer. Having worked in 3D printing before and maintaining them in makerspaces I'm most satisfied with the multimaterial capability of the printer and with the user-friendly unpacking, setup and calibration experience.I've added a summary of some of my thoughts on the printer:Pros:-I always appreciate when printers come with all the necessary tools to care for and set up the printer. The tools that come from Snapmaker are also good quality -- ball end hex keys and nice angle cutters.-The graphical interface on the touchscreen (which I believe is an android skin) makes calibration very easy to run and follow.-I've had no issues connecting to the printer from my desktop.-3rd party filaments are handled and printed at decent quality, I'm sure I can do better with more parameter tuning.-The ability to change nozzle temperature of each nozzle on the fly during a print job is awesome. Not all printers have this feature and I think it can be very useful.-When set up in Luban, the gcode sent to the printer allows for pretty much seamless transition between the two extruders, with the other extruder heating up as it's getting close to its turn to print-TPU is often a pain to print, but the J1s handled it very well with the default printing profile on Luban, in general- be patient and allow any printer to take its time with flexible materials.-It's fairly quick! I was able to quickly model and print a flexible (TPU) and rigid (PETG) multimaterial part to test the IDEX capability and had good results in a single morning. More "beginner-friendly" materials like PLA are faster-Other multi-material solutions take a bit more work or are unable ro handle flexible materials like TPU, the J1s made it as simple as changing the filament profile on one extruder in this respect.-The snapmaker wiki and community are out there and are rich with information for you to do your own troubleshooting or debugging. I didn't run into many issues with the machine but was googling some possible upgrades for mine.Feedback:-It would be nice to have more options of printable surfaces rather than the single glass PEI plate snapmaker stocks, I'd like a finer PEI texture or a garolite g10 bed.-installing the build platform can be a little finicky-Luban is decent and fairly beginner-friendly, I can see it improving, but for myself I'd like for it to be easier to find straightforward guides on connecting with other slicers like cura or orcaslicer (though it is possible!)-Hopefully Luban adds step file support which will make multi-material printing even easier!This printer is very strong overall, it was easy to get started, it passed the soft and hard material print test I made for it and for me, walks the walk as an IDEX printer. I'd definitely recommend it as either a workhorse printer for engineering or as your first IDEX experience.

I've had this thing for 4 months now and I've yet to get to print properly. Right out of box whatever came out of the right extruder usually failed, strings and blobs everywhere no matter what filament I used. After endless troubleshooting figured the head was actually hitting whatever it was printing on. Tried Auto Calibrations didn't work, tried manual Calibration didn't work. In fact the more I calibrated the machine the worse it got. No matter what settings I used or different Calibration heights it would just always get worse. To the point where now the bed is scratched and I think the hot ends are damaged because they just dribble melted filament as soon as they get hot. My only option now is to take apart the print head and check if the motors to raise and lower the extruders are actually working properly which seems like they possibly might not be as that is a relatively factory defect.That's not even the only issue, say you even get this thing printing it's software is so shit that some times the program will just stop for no reason and give you an on screen error that is blank or some times in chinese. So that's cool.Also the slicer is also a joke, it barely functions hald the time, endless errors and bizarre glitches for no reason are in store for you.Do not buy this thing.