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Bambu Lab recently announced a firmware security update for its printers that would introduce an official “authorization control” system for critical printer operations. The update is presented as a way to mitigate the “risk of remote hacks or printer exposure issues that have happened in the past, and also lower the risk of abnormal traffic or attacks.”

The new firmware will not allow Bambu Lab printers to interface with popular 3rd party software or hardware upgrades such as Orca Slicer or BigTreeTech’s Panda Touch screen. Now, users will need to download “Bambu Connect” to act as a one-way go-between.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

What would you recommend?

I was planning on Bambu because of perfect prints without any tuning, heated bed, enclosure, and multi material.

Anything under $2k.

This is what people are doing without any post processing :

There are no noticeable layer lines. It's almost resin quality.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

that is more editing and good lighting.
there are always layer lines.

Depending on you I would recommend
Voron (DIY, will take about a week to build and a week to tune),
Prusa (depends on your preference, assemble yourself or built, depending on required time a mk4s with mmu3, or the core one which will take several months to get to you, and the mmu3 later when it will become compatible)
Qidi (cheap, chinese, will likely work decent after some tuning)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

Sovol is another option, decent quality out of the box and their corexy units are stupid fast.