Anycubic Kobra S1 Combo 3D Printer, Multi-Color 3D Printer High Speed Max 600mm/s High Precision, Core XY Stable Structure Ultra-Quiet Printing Anycubic App One-Click Printing 250 * 250 * 250mm

Good budget printer. Needs a few upgrades.
This is my 5th FDM printer, I was looking to add another to my printing business and size didn’t matter so wanted to try one by AnyCubic.The printer is boxed nicely and is easy to unpack.Setup is straight forward with only 8 bolts. The hardware seems of better quality then my other printers, and the tools were better as well. The wrenches are probably what impressed me the most being 4” long (about) and twice as thick as normal. I’ll be tossing my other cheap ones to keep these on hand.I would like to see some zip ties included to secure the cabling better. I really like the XT60 connectors on it. The limiting switches I’m not a huge fan of how they connect, but it works. The switch nearest the screen was very tight on mine so I undid the wrap and reran it. I notice the power and a bundle of wires are quite close to the bed limiter and need to be up tied out of the way. The bundle does hit the bed. I’ll need to address this.Install was simple. Instructions were very clear.Now for printing.When I turned it on the first thing I noticed was it doesn’t have a silent board. This thing sounds like your run of the mill 3D printer and is the loudest of the 6 that I have. I usually have my newest printer running prints next to be for a week before relocating it to the shop. Not the case for this one. I’ll be moving it because of the noise. -1 star Anycubic for this. Printer in this current range of around $200 should be silent. I believe this printer originally released closer under $200 per some reviews I’ve read.On to print quality. The owl it printed was a hot mess once it got to the beak area. I believe that’s because it printed hollow and the included filament- I need to look into that. The filament is labeled as PLA+. I got a lot of stringing with it, and it’s spooled super tight. I moved the filament holder to the front just to hold it for now. I ended up switching to some leftover Hatchbox filament for my Benchy and got a better print.I provided a video on leveling the gantry as mine as expected was loose.Oh, and the profiles they provide on the no brand SD card for Cura don’t work. I ended up comparing it to the .1 profile Cura had and made some adjustments. Going to need some fine tubing for this.Thing I liked:Easy assembly, good instructionsGood hardware and toolsHas a corner level option in the menu which speeds things alongSeems to print decently. I ran a print though this and my Ender 3 and this actually came out better.Things I don’t like, none of which affect the printingNon-silent stepper driversBed springs are so skinny they bind. Going to try my upgraded Ender springs. (Tried and Ender springs worked great!)Some poor cable management (fixed with zip ties)Generic PSUNo name SD card (not sure how many r/w it will take but works fine)Cura profiles on sd card don’t seem to workWould I recommend this printer? For the right price, yes.

My second Anycubic printer purchased, the second that’s a piece of junk
I bought this printer after my first Anycubic Kobra stopped heating the bed. Apparently that’s a common problem with the first series of Kobras, but Anycubic’s customer service is useless. After trying a couple of fixes on the first one, I gave up and just bought this version, because it seemed to be better reviewed. It arrived fine, but due to a variety of reasons, I didn’t start it up for about 8 months. I put it together, went through all of the set up, ran the first test print, everything seemed fine, so I started my first real print.The quality of the first print wasn’t great, so I made some adjustments and tried again. Better, but still not good. I read numerous articles and threads on a variety of sites, eventually coming up with a solution. The biggest issue is that, while the printer might be able to run at 500 – 600 mm/sec, unless you have filament that can keep up, you’re still going to be limited to 100ish mm/sec. Even lower if you don’t want the prints to look awful. But, whatever. I ordered some high-speed filament and just slowed down the print speed. Things look pretty good.Then, after about 18 hours of printing across a half dozen prints, in the middle of a print, I realized the extruder wasn’t actually extruding any filament. When I took the thing apart, I found that the filament had hardened inside the nozzle and then the printer kept feeding filament into the hot end, completely destroying the thing.So, I ordered a new OEM hot end and an upgraded ceramic hot end. I installed the ceramic upgrade, and after three misstarts (because the ceramic item is also junk, apparently), I was FINALLY able to finish a test print. Everything looked great, but, considering all the problems I’ve had with FDM printers, I decided to try another test print. Less than 30 seconds into the print, the hot end was clogged with filament backing up.Bottom line, I’ve done everything I was supposed to do with these printers, and they STILL fail after only a few hours of printing. None of the components are high quality, and Anycubic’s customer service is absolutely useless. I will NEVER purchase another Anycubic product again, and my experience with this crap has pretty well convinced me to give up on 3d printing completely.UPDATE:Anycubic customer service decided to reach out to me and offer me a new hot end, despite it being out of warranty. Like they’re doing me some kind of favor, replacing a garbage component on their garbage printer when the component failed after less than six hours of use. Because apparently these clowns think that replacing a component on their POS printer will somehow solve all of the many issues this POS has. I may take them up on the offer just so I can replace it, follow all of their asinine instructions to the letter, then show them that the printer is still garbage.The worst part about this entire fiasco is that this is actually my THIRD FDM printer. My first was a Creality Ender 3 that absolutely would not level. I followed all of Creality’s instructions, looked for solutions online from all kinds of places, and literally spent six months trying to get that piece of junk to work. I eventually gave up and purchased the first Kobra…and it worked, right out of the box. I didn’t have a bit of issue getting it set up, getting it to print, nothing. Print quality was great, speed was decent, I had absolutely no problems with it. Until the stupid thermistor error that bricked a huge number of those first-gen Kobras. Now, the Kobra 2 Pro is arguably WORSE than that useless Creality I had.UPDATE TWO:I received the new “official” Anycubic hot end (which is identical to the aftermarket parts I purchased…they’re probably made on the same assembly line at the same time and just packaged differently). Installed it, tried running a print, and to no one’s surprise, it failed. I followed all of the instructions provided by Anycubic (all of which were things I had already done to troubleshoot the problem), and they didn’t fix a thing. On the tensioner side of the X-Axis, the Z-offset was pretty good, and the filament was depositing pretty much the way it should. After a few passes, however, the filament was no longer adhering to the plate, and there were gaps between each “bead” of filament being extruded. That continued until the extruded filament was no longer even touching the plate. I decided to check the printer’s overall level/alignment, and that of the X-Axis gantry’s alignment to the hot bed to see if that might be the problem. The printer is about as level as I can get it.. With the gantry pressing on the block on the belt tensioner side, it’s sitting more than 4mm ABOVE the block on the motor side of the gantry. That’s AFTER I’ve loosened everything and adjusted the gantry as much as possible. It physically CANNOT be adjusted any more than it is. I have no idea if it’s bent somehow (definitely not obviously so), or if Anycubic is simply incapable of the level of manufacturing precision required for something like this. I’m currently waiting on yet another response from Anycubic…which I assume will tell me to do things I’ve already done that won’t actually work.Never again will I purchase anything from Anycubic.

We bought from them, put the printer together and it didn’t work. We then packed it back and returned it for a refund and they say as it was opened they will refund 50 percent ! Absolute joke of a business ! Should not be allowed to operate on Amazon if they behave like this

Me gustaron muchas características de esta impresora empezando con la rapidéz de armado. El sistema automático de nivelación, cama que mantiene bien adherido el objeto impreso y la calidad de impresión. Realmente estoy no solo satisfecho, sino encantado.