CrealityK1 SE 3D Printer, 2024 New Version 600mm/s High-Speed Hands-Free Auto Leveling Flagship-Level Direct Extruder Quick-swap Tri-Metal Nozzle K1 Upgrade 3D Printer

The printer great, after unpacking, I powered on and followed the prompts,EasyPeasy. The setup process was awesome and straight forward, except the Firmware was downlevel so that forced a restart of the Setup process.Once finished I loaded a big print job from Creality Cloud. The Ender3 would have been close to 17 hours. Started the print job with PLA and something gave this printer a huge dose of speed.My first reaction was it reminded me of a schytzo mouse on Speed and Crack. The printhead moved faster than I could follow.Self leveled, printed from my bloody phone. The End opinion Creality has made the Ultimate FDM printer.Simply Amazing.

Loving this printer, the basic print plate is trash but a15 dollar textured pei plate did the trick, prints nice and fast and is upgradable basically to the K1 model, having to buy more spools since I'm using it daily

DO NOT BUY FROM THIS COMPANY!I originally bought an Ender 3 S1 for my son that never worked and after spending 24 actual hours trying to calibrate it Creality support asked me if I had leveled it (which I had FIFTEEN DIFFERENT TIMES) instead of giving me anymore detailed troubleshooting (I sent them a full list of what I had done and pictures and got this reply back DAYS later). So I decided to try the K1 SE. Out of the box it was much easier to calibrate, but immediately failed on the first project, causing the filament to spill out into the entire extruder. I thought maybe it was just a defective one so I got a replacement but two months in and w have MORE issues now with the temperature sensor and right now I have a son who’s lost the love of 3D printing and a father mad he’s spent almost 800$ on 3D printers that are worth less than the filament we bought for them. STAY AWAY

TLDR:This is a very easy to use 3D printer. I am mechanically and technically inclined so maybe I'm biased, but this was my first 3d printer and I got it working easily. I had three hiccups and resolved every one quickly. I'll explain those below for anyone that wants to know what the experience was like. There are some default settings that can be resolved with youtube and Reddit in a couple of minutes each. Don't panic if you hit a snag.------------------------------------------------------------------------------Experience:1) The box is packed really well. Externally, it was beat up in shipping but when I opened it, everything appeared to be unscathed. Everything was padded or padded and wrapped in foam cutouts.2) Although the instructions were mostly pictures, it was obvious which pieces belonged where. I only needed a moment or two to understand how the software worked and more importantly, why. YouTube and Reddit will help you a lot if you have questions.3) I had three issues with my printer when trying to set it up. I resolved an alignment issue by simple observation and the other two with reddit. They were the following:Small and resolved problems:a) The upper assembly with the x & y axis didn't sit flush with the tops of the four extruded aluminum posts. There are brackets that screws fasten through, horizontally, with reference to the ground. Loosen the screws on the inside L-brackets to flush up the assembly. This helps with alignment and to eliminate introducing any mechanical racking/twisting.b) Auto home didn't move the bed up and down, only the carriage moved the x & y axis. A quick search shows a reddit thread where it's fixed by cleaning the excess grease between the threads and the bushing on the z-axis lead screw is. If your machine is off, just rotate the collar and clean the excess grease as the platform travels upward. If it's on, disable the steppers and then rotate the collar. Resolved.c) When trying to pre-heat the bed and nozzle, my machine would power cycle like the mother board was defective. A quick search lead to a different reddit thread about a voltage selector. What I didn't notice during assembly was that a red switched was recessed inside of the metal housing (left of power cord connector) that was set to 230v. I made sure the power switch was off and then I flipped it to 115v, then turned power on. Resolved..Common themes I found by reading other people's posts about this printer:1)This printer doesn't have a Bed leveling option in the menu like older models or like some of the videos and threads explain. It has an auto home function. Auto home simply aligns the x & y axis to the back right corner (if you're facing at the LCD) and then moves the bed up the z-axis until the limit switch is mechanically triggered. Then you are supposed to disable steppers and just manually slide the hot-end around as needed. You don't need to flash/update anything; you're not missing anything2) Leveling the bed is also called tramming. This does not mean level to the ground. This means level or 'co-planar' to the hot-end nozzle. This made sense to be because of machinery that I have for woodworking but it seemed to come up a lot. Here it is for anybody that doesn't know: Your nozzle can place a thin bead of filament a fraction of a millimeter in diameter. Diameter is in reference to a circular or cylindrical object, so width is the same as hight when the object is on its side like a string. So then, if your nozzle is 2.0mm away from the bed surface on one corner and 0.5mm away from the bed surface on another corner, your printer is going to miss the target when trying to precisely place the bead of filament at an x-y coordinate. Alignment is important. To tram or to make co-planar makes a difference in your prints.Those last two probably belong in a reddit thread or at All3DP. Since I noticed a lot of people jump into this as a first printer and don't know, I figured I'd share and provide something here for SEO magic to find.

Very nice printer and is easy to setup. I upgraded from a Ender 3 S1 Pro to the Creality K1 SE. The print quality is better and the K1 prints 5 times faster than the Ender 3. I only gave it a 4 star because of compatibility with other slicing software. The K1 SE and this series printers use Creality Print software. It connects by wifi which works well. Cura software doesn't support but one model K1 max. All the other softwares out there only support their own printers, and that's it. There is 3rd party software out there if you want to roll the dice. People may have a learning curve with the new software. But the printer itself works great. Happy with the upgrade.

Fantastic printer. right out of the box it worked flawlessly and has continued to do so on every print thus far. It has 90 hours of print time on it so far and i have not had a single failed print. the automatic bed leveling appears to work exactly as intended and i have not had any issues with bed adhesion. This is the fastest printer i have owned so far and the ease of use with creality cloud is phenomenal. i have noticed some slight inconsistencies on vertical flat walls where the layers dont always line up perfectly but i imagine this would be corrected by slowing print speed down slightly if you needed a part to be more precise. So far i have only printed with PLA so I cant say how it will do with other filaments but given how well it has performed so far i think it will be just fine. TLDR this printer just works and for the price i dont think you will find a better value. Whether you are printing toys or functional parts you really cant go wrong with this one.

Muy bueno!Excelente impresora, ideal para pequeños proyectos, uso fácil.

Absolutely love this printer!!! Honestly Creality has a bad reputation on YouTube ect however I have had a great experience with all 9 of my printers including this one. I highly recommend