FLASHFORGEAdventurer 5M Pro 3D Pinter, Max 600mm/s High-Speed with 1 Click Fully Auto Printing, Quick Detachable 280°C Direct Extruder with 0.4 and 0.6mm Nozzles, Remote Control, 220x220x220mm

This was a very simple printer to set up and I immediately got started printing parts. I love the camera option and can watch it print from my phone. Just download the VLC App and open network stream and type in http://(type in your network address for your printer):8080/? action=stream .The printer is very quiet and the display on the touchscreen is easy to navigate. I love the WiFi connection to where I don't have to use a USB stick to download the program to the machine. The travel speeds are FAST! I also own a FLASH FORGE Creator Pro and I can definitely see the difference between the two. The quick change nozzle is a huge plus! After shorting out the motherboard trying to change out the nozzles on my Creator Pro, I was pleasantly surprised to see that FF changed out that design to keep you from shorting out the board.The clean out on the bottom is easy too! Just wipe out any debris without having to go over a lip.The printer stays at a nice constant temperature inside since it is fully sealed for the air filtration system.Flashprint 5 is the software needed and it comes on the USB Stick for easy extraction. You will more than likely need to update the firmware as soon as you get it. Just get on your wifi and it will prompt you to do the update.The machine is fairly rigid and has good stability.Just make sure to place it in a rigid surface when using.The only drawback is the software, but for a beginner it is very easy to navigate and performs flawlessly.I really don't have any thing bad to say about this printer. I started printing as soon as I got it set up which took approximately 20 minutes from the time I opened up the box.This was money well spent!

This is an interesting printer. I purchased it because I wanted to print abrasives and I wanted a quick change hot end that is not available on my other 3d printer, a Qidi X-Plus-3. First things first, the setup was not great. The printer has long lags between actions and did not always complete them w/o my having to press the screen. This was very odd-the behavior was that it would complete bed leveling, input shaping and preheating, would show complete but not progress to the next step in the initial setup. And when I tried to have the machine perform the calibration test print it never did. I tried four times and eventually gave up. No idea why it refused to complete the test print. I did just skip it and printed the pointer as a calibration test. And this is where things improved. It was perfect! I printed the PLA object with no bed adhesive and it came out flawlessly!. Not only that I noticed that the presets in the FlashPrint5 software were different for temperature than that what the FlashForge PLA recommended. The presets are 225C for the extruder and 50C for the bed. If you look at the FF PLA it is 220C extruder and 60C bed. This was quite interesting but it worked perfectly. I then printed the PLA with the enclosure completely closed-a seeming no no for PLA. But guess what, another excellent print-not perfect but very close. So close I would be fine with it. But then I moved on to ABS-GF. Not only that but from another brand (Qidi). The defaults were for FF ABS (250C extruder, 105C bed). This required loading the ABS-GF (easy-peasy) and changing the hotend (less that 15 seconds not including getting the .6 nozzle out of the foil bag), doing a purge (the .6mm nozzle was tested with PLA-hmmmm....) and then slice and print. Perfect print with no adhesive used and an unheated enclosure/chamber in my cool basement. Wow! The FP5 slicer is appears to be a Prusa fork and it works well and has some cool features like being able to save project by default as .stl and not 3mf (the Qidi default) and as .fpp . Very useful. Additionally, the printer is light in weight, I was able to take it to the basement and lift it onto the worktable by myself easily. It was easy to get the packing material out (I've seen YouTube'ers struggle with this, no idea why) and the toolkit includes a set of snips for things like supports or opening foil bags. Very helpful. Also interesting the FP5 slicer printed files that my Qidi slicer requires supports for w/o supports and the prints were, as stated perfect! That is very interesting and cool!. And now onto the second reason I bought this-the hepa/activated carbon filter system. I will be printing abrasives and print in my house, not the garage. I needed to be able to ensure that I can limit the VOC's released. I have a box filter and wanted more protection. This printer has it. There are two filters. And the ability to control them (auto-selecting, based on the type of filament, from w/in FP5) and it worked great! So what are some cons-small print bed, strange behaving setup, not filament fry box included. I won't mention lack of heated chamber because it did not make a difference-there was zero curling or warping on the ABS part-none! Not a bit!. And w/o adhesive! This is going to make me do more tuning of the Qidi as a comparison. and I will be switching out the Qidi hot end (included with printer) and run abrasives on it for comparison. But, is this a "kiddie/noob" printer? Nope. This is definitely rightly aligned as prosumer. The filter system is better than that on BambuLabs until you get to their commercial unit. And better than Qidi. Only the Snapmaker's have an easier hotend change out from what I can see. If you have Amazon Prime like me, I got an extra $100 off when I bought it! An absolute bargain!. Oh and one other thing-the inside of the chamber does not have any attached parts that things can fall into (looking at you Qidi) so it is easy to keep clean and clear of debris. Here's the thing-Flashforge, if you make this exact same 3d printer with a minimum 300mmx300mm300mm minimum print volume. And I mean literally change nothing else about this printer, I will be buying it even though for production purposes I want to get an IDEX 3d printer. This is just that good overall. Highly recommended.

This was my first 3d printer, when I got it everything seemed to work perfectly. Easy to use, great prints made about a two dozen successful prints.Then it started intermittently skipping layers in two subsequent prints, after doing a nozzle check and trying a third time the extruder simply failed to heat up at all. It actually stopped reading any temperature.Luckily t was within the return period so I sent it back and thinking it was just luck of the draw (got a bad one) and I ordered another.This one also worked great for the first dozen or so prints, then it started making a grinding noise that seemed to be coming from the extruder. The grinding noise was just at the beginning for 20 seconds then it would stop and the print would proceed as normal. Did another nozzle check and once again that seemed fine.I was not 100% sure what this grinding was from so I printed a couple more items. The first one came out fine, but on the second attempt it missed a bunch of lines about halfway through the print and ended up just making a ball of plastic string on the print bed. A third and subsequent attempt and it again seemed to be going ok at first, but then it missed on parts of the print and after letting it go for a few more minutes it eventually pulled the entire print off the build plate somehow (when I wasn't watching). Also the grinding noise lasted longer on the last attempt, for a two or three minutes not just within the first twenty seconds or so at the beginning.Looking at youtube videos I saw someone fix the "grinding" noise by taking apart the extruder and removing bits of plastic (or some kind of foreign debris) from the gears. He concluded the pieces of foreign debris was from the manufacturing process. Since I don't want to do that only find out it's possibly some other issue and this second one is also within the Amazon return period, I'm returning it as well and will be trying a different brand.