And that is the reason why buying Prusa is so much better than buying Bambu Labs. They care about open standards and the community.
this post was submitted on 02 Nov 2025
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I'm still sore after Bambu's whole slicer locking down bullshit, but you can't deny that Bambu also got the entire 3D printing industry to pull their collective fingers out and start actually making great printers that "just work" - including prusa, who were very clearly caught off guard as well. Before Bambu came along people were still recommending Ender's as a good "first printer", which is all you need to know. Now there's a ton of good options (including prusa).
I do you one better, I admit that I was a few times on the fence on buying a Bambu Printer exactly because of this. But the Apple approach they are pursuing was always off putting. Nonetheless they pushed the whole industry to new goals, which is very nice.
I have to admit I gave in and bought one, despite my misgivings about their approach and at this stage I have no regrets. It really does "just work" in a wonderful way.
At first I was annoyed they used non standard nozzles, but AliExpress sorted that out in no time. The nozzles they use on newer machines are pretty great too, no more burning myself trying to unscrew a nozzle to swap it.
There's no doubt that some of their decisions have been questionable, but some I really do agree with.
I had a Prusa Mk3 for many years. Extremely reliable and open printer if you don't use the MMU. I might go back to Prusa someday but I've got a Bambu X1C which my router is blocking from connecting to the outside world and I'm pretty happy with it.
LAN only A1 mini with AMS for me. I will switch to Prusa eventually. But I never put in the effort to use my Ender 3 much, so the bambu ease of use pitch was what I was looking for.
Prusa printers are MUCH better than Ender 3s just FYI. Not even in the same class. If you end up getting a modern prusa you’ll get something like the Bamboo but more community driven and with real technical support.
My first printer was Prusa MINI and it sucked so much. Something constantly stuck or broken.
And when they went closed source, they lost all my support.
Odd, I had the exact opposite experience. That thing is still going strong with next to no maintenance.
Lucky you, I even got a faulty motor in there. Getting a good print was constant tinkering. That's fine for Ender 3 price point, not Prusa prices.
Maybe I was just unlucky, but unlike many people on the internet I simply don't like Prusa printers.
That sucks, I'm sorry you had such a shitty experience. It does seem like they dropped the ball there.
Thanks. I'm a Bambu user now. Might have to come back to Prusa some day because I really dislike what Bambu's doing lately, but so far not a single thing has broken (well, other than things I broke) after two years of use.
I would really like something top level which is not made by Prusa nor Bambu, I guess.
I don't know what was wrong with your printer but the support should have figured it out and given you spare parts to fix it.
They didn't, apart from when the motor got broken which they send me a replacement for.
Hmm, seems like a decent idea. Definitely better than closed tag systems.
Definitely! Mostly looking forward to see how/if other printers (especially Klipper) will support it
For an open source system I think it's mainly just a matter of when. Granted there are currently complaints with the licensing for the system, so that might hurt/kill traction.
I mean it's fairly new and the maintainer seems to be open for a license change.
Support in Klipper sounds amazing. There could be open repositories of printing parameters. Not 100% sure how Klipper would pass the info to the slicer but that seems solvable.
I wonder if an external DIY sensor could be attached to unsupported printers so the signal/standard could be utilized. Maybe for something like the Creality line it would be as simple as a small display indicating detected filament parameters (for the user to input in the config).
It can. All standard spec NFC: https://specs.openprinttag.org/#/nfc_data_format
So any USB or GPIO reader would work. This will be in Klipper quick I bet.
There are USB NFC readers. Someone could add support for that to Klipper.
I'm sure the likes of Bambu will never support this, but lots of other makes likely will. Some will jump all in right away (it is cheap and a useful feature for their customers), others will jump in when forced. Some of the cheap ones will never jump in because that is $.50 they don't want to spend.
That's sick, I would love to see this become commonplace
Nice! I'm excited!