Hi there, I recently started looking into multicolor 3d printers, and found the Anycubic Kobra 3. I am not interested in the Bambu Lab printers, never have been honestly I just didn’t like the closed source nature of their products.

I have seen tons of mixed reviews on the printer, and am just wondering what y’all think. Keep in mind, my current printer is an Ender 3 V3 SE. Also, it seems to go on sale frequently, so I will be grabbing the Kobra at $350, not the $500 “MSRP”

Thanks in advance

  • @joeyl2008@lemm.eeEnglish
    2•2 days ago

    I don’t know about the Kobra 3 but after my Kobra Go and my Kobra 2 I will never get anything from anycubic again.

  • @ExcessShiv@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    5•3 days ago

    If you don’t like closed source printers, don’t look at anything from Anycubic. They all run proprietary FW that you cannot modify on proprietary controller boards, and their hot end also use a custom nozzle thats very close to a volcano but not enough to actually use standard volcano nozzles.

    FWIW I have the kobra 2 from them, but it was their last model where you could flash klipper on, and I switched out the hot end for a standard volcano ($35 mod). It’s a good printer considering I paid $250, putting out 200mm/s printing and 350mm/s travel with fairly good quality. I have put well over 1000h on mine and aside from bed levelling probe drifting a bit requiring occasional recalibration, it’s a solid performer.