The value for the money was good. It is very much a kit. If you have experience from a prior build and want to explore core xy printing and want a bigger build volume, this is a good kit.I say that prior experience is important because I had to bump the Vref voltage to the Z stepper drivers to get it to work properly. Otherwise, the build was pretty straight forward. You should watch a few videos on the build on YouTube to get familiar with it. I would highly suggest investing in a set of 20 or so 2040 corner brackets with t-nuts and screws included to help square up the frame and add rigidity. They are cheap and easy to install.The GoodThe printer is very quiet as it has TMC2225 stepper drivers.The linear rails for the XY gantry are very sturdy and smooth moving.The heated bed warms up very quickly owing to the 24V power supply.It has a large print volume.It is not built with any 3D printed parts.The aluminum extrusions make it very sturdy.The BadI had to adjust Vref to the Z stepper driver. Not horrible, but that is why I say you should have some prior knowledge and experience.If you want to add a second extruder or have independent Z drivers so that you can use G34 to sync both sides of the build plate, you will need a new mainboard and install Marlin yourself (which is pretty easy to do these days). The mainboard that it ships with only supports 1 extruder. I will probably do this later.I had to give it a 4 instead of a 5 because of the Vref Z stepper motor problem.This was not in the manual and online help did not cover this topic.It is a good value.It can be made much better with the plentiful mods available from Thingiverse and the various user groups online.

If you want an affordable kit of parts to build a large format 3d-printer from this is it. Packaging was great, parts arrived in pristine shape. Almost all of the parts are metal and well designed. All manufacturing seems to be high quality, beyond normal Chinese standards. Instruction manual is not very detailed but machine is not too complex, and went together easily. I recommend putting it together loosely at first, then using a machinist square when you tighten the frame up. The most important change I made was to upgrade to Marlin Firmware, compiled for Chitu V6. It now works flawlessly with a standard software toolchain. Warning: the stock printbed sticks too well to PLA and will be damaged when removing prints, I fixed this by using gluestick, this works well. The 6 point leveling for the bed is a hassle, but I added 2 more points to the tramming wizard in Marlin to help me keep it level. I will probably upgrade to 3 point leveling with a thicker bed and 120V heater soon.

I bought this for my husband after he finally got comfortable with 3D printing. This takes a bit of time to put together but after that, it’s really easy to use...even I could print something. We’ve printed so many things since we’ve received it and only had one problem but so far so good.

I bought this for my husband after he finally got comfortable with 3D printing. This takes a bit of time to put together but after that, it’s really easy to use...even I could print something. We’ve printed so many things since we’ve received it and only had one problem but so far so good.