![]() ![]() It doesn’t really make a difference in usability, but it just looks… cheap.īut, for the main event – print quality. If you look close, you can also see it a bit on the Ender-3 v2, but it’s not as noticeable. The interface on the screen, though, isn’t totally identical – for example, the Ender-3 v2 shows the remaining time during a print, the CR-6 SE does not, and it looks like the entire menu structure on the CR-6 SE is just a bunch of JPGs they’re showing you, and they’ve actually got some pretty intense compression artifacts on some of the pages. The firmware they ship with isn’t completely glitch-free, for example, because of the way they’re implementing the power failure detection and print resume feature by writing to the SD card on every new layer vase mode, where you have a smooth spiral contour, doesn’t really work on these printers because the SD card and the processor just get overwhelmed by constantly writing the new z-height to the card.Īpparently, this is somewhat fixed in a new firmware release already, but I feel like they should have caught that before shipping these machines. But overall, they’re good, they’re usable.īoth run a highly modified version of the Marlin firmware on a custom 32-bit board. The only complaint I’d have there is that when you’re standing in front of the printer, the LCD’s poor viewing angles are just at that weird point where the shades of grey on the screen completely blend together and you can’t actually see anymore what you’re selecting. Both have Trinamic stepper drivers, so the motors silky smooth, but the fans they use for example on the toolhead are still very noticeable, so I wouldn’t call either one a “silent” printer.īoth have a 4.3” LCD screen, it’s a touchscreen on the CR-6 SE, and a regular clickwheel-style setup on the Ender-3 v2 – both options are very efficient for actually using the printer, the menus are logical. Supposedly this is Craborundum glass, so silicon carbide, which is normally used as an abrasive powder, and the only place I can imagine they’re using silicon carbide is in the coating, not in the glass itself. Sure, there are a few smaller details, but these two are the only ones that I think make a real difference.īoth now have this screen printed bed surface that does stick and release really well, but it is quite easy to scratch. Both of these printers have some drastic improvements over arguably Creality’s most popular machine, the original Ender-3, which we’ll get to in a second, but really, the only two noteworthy bonus features the CR-6 SE has over the Ender-3 v2 are auto bed leveling and a filament sensor. Of course, the fact that the Kickstarter preorders then weren’t exactly shipped on time and people who had bought a CR-6 SE outright after the Kickstarter actually got their machines earlier than backers, well, that one doesn’t sit quite right.īut that’s over, and today I want to actually compare the CR-6 SE to the Ender-3 v2, which has had a completely normal launch, you know, by just appearing in stores on day. And when people pledge almost $4,500,000 on the campaign, I think that shows that it was absolutely the right thing to do. Kickstarter are happily taking their cut of your pledges, Creality gets hype for their new product, you know, it’s good marketing. Now, sure, it’s not what I would call “in the spirit” of crowdfunding for a well-established company to essentially pre-sell a 3D printer there, and while they surely don’t need the preorder money to actually start production of the CR-6 SE, there’s nothing, like, legally wrong with it. ![]() Out of all the companies that would need crowdfunding to launch a product as basic as the CR-6 SE, I wouldn’t really think of Creality. This is a printer that was launched on Kickstarter by Creality – a company that has boasted about selling half a million printers in a single month earlier this year. Let me start out with the controversy that was the launch of the CR-6 SE. It’s more reliable, it prints better, it looks like a more professional machine, comes in 1/3rd cheaper and it’s a printer you can buy right now without having to deal with the entire crowdfunding or preordering thing they’re doing with the CR-6 SE. But here’s the thing: The Ender-3 v2 is their actual budget 3D printer and it is actually doing a much better job at just about everything the CR6-SE tries to do. It’s an attempt to catch up to the big boys and to finally have something that’s not going to be labeled as “just another budget 3D printer”. ![]()
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