3D Printer, Kingroon DIY Aluminum Resume Printer with Touch Screen Assisted Level Free MicroSD Card Preloaded with Printable 3D Models, Printing Space (180x180x180mm)

I have been 3D printing for a couple years now and have had several printers. Up until this point, if somebody asked me what was the best starter printer out there I would have said a Creality Ender 3, hands down.... until now!!This little printer has features that do NOT come standard on an Ender 3 or Ender 3 Pro... Filament runout module... turned on and working out of the box. Touch screen control panel... out of the box. The Ender 3 is still a great option for a starter printer but, for somebody who only wants to spend the minimum to see if they are interested in the hobby and still be able to get some great prints out of the box this printer is really hard to beat.I have seen some other reviews complaining about build quality so I will go through the good, the bad, and the ugly here.Good:Assembly is quick and easy... Take the gantry out of the box and take the base out of the box. Line up a few T-Nuts with the slots on the vertical extrusion and slide it into place. Screw in a couple of screws from the bottom and tighten all the T-Nuts on the vertical and then plug in the extruder stepper wire, the X Axis Stepper wire and the Z Axis Stepper and your done. Everything else comes pre-wired and ready to go. Yes you SHOULD go over the printer and tighten any bolts/nuts that might have come loose in shipping. This printer started life in China!!!! Shipping is going to loosen some things up.Leveling - SIMPLE... what else can I say. Heat the bed and the hot end up to temp, run through the points until the bed is level with a piece of paper.Printed instructions - Very well done. Lots of big pictures to illustrate what the "Not Perfect" english does not get across. Yes there is not a LOT of info online about these printer yet. This is still a fairly new model and there are, or WERE no user groups out there yet.That brings me to, IMHO, one of the biggest selling points of this printer. The company follow up and willingness to listen to customer suggestions. As I saw in a couple other reviews for this printer, the paperwork that comes with the printer admits that the company is still developing and improving their products and ASKS for customer suggestions on improvements and ways to better serve the customers so I put them to the test. One of the biggest things missing up to now was an online presence where customers could go to get questions answered and talk to other users of Kingroon printers. The company is VERY responsive if you email the address listed in the paperwork, [email protected]. The person who answers this address gets back to you VERY quickly... often the same day, and is very good at follow through. In my experience to this point, if he says he will do something, he does it. I asked for several things, latest firmware files and tech questions about the printer and the MKS Robin control board it uses, and all my questions were answered. I made the suggestion that the company consider creating a facebook Kingroon Printer Users Group, and within a day of my suggestion, there is now a facebook group for users of this printer WITH content already. Not a lot... it was literally JUST created in the last day but it is there and accepting join requests. I suggest that if you have this printer or one of the company's other models, you join this group as this is likely the place where anyone else having this printer WILL be.Ok, so the not so good....As others have suggested, the lack of a DEDICATED cooling fan is a hindrance... As you would expect you don't get a lot of good cooling air flow from the cold end fan that is doing double duty as part cooling so, go on thingiverse, find one of the part cooling fan prints for this printer, OR just about any one for the ender 3/cr10 and print it. install the duct, add a 5015 fan or a 4010 fan depending on what your particular print calls for and run the wire down to the board which is accessible enough from the rear of the printer that you can finesse the fan plug onto the vacant part fan header which is very visible from the opening in the back. Zip tie your wires in place and start printing.The only other complaints I have are:1: The magnetic build surface, while nice, does assume the shape of the build platform so, if your aluminum plate is slightly concave... lower in the center than at the corners, your build surface will take on that shape as well and when you level the corners you will have a slightly lower center. I compensated by 1, leveling the corners and making them very close to get the center down as much as possible and 2: I plan to add a foil shim under the center of the build mat to bring the center up slightly. The other alternative is a glass build plate which will automatically make the build surface perfectly flat. I have one ordered.2nd I was not fond of the spool holder and so I, again, printed one for the Ender 2 off of thingiverse and added it... no problem.That's it. No big whammy's just a couple minor inconveniences. There was no "extremely poor build quality" as I saw stated in one negative review. On the contrary, in my opinion, the build quality is on par with several much more expensive printers I have see and used at literally a fraction of the cost.The quality of the prints I am getting from this printer are as good as, if not better, than my ender 3 after several big modifications which included adding an all metal hot end and replacing the plastic extruder assembly with an aluminum one, which this printer already comes with.I would recommend to ANYBODY looking to start into this hobby at a very low cost that they start with this printer. You really cannot go wrong.And before anyone says it, I paid for this printer with my own hard earned dollars and was not asked in any way to write a review for it. These thoughts are all my own. Hope it helps somebody.

i paid $174 US after taxes for this printer an mainly picked it up for its smaller size with hopes of fitting it on my desk with my computer all tho that didnt work out cause it was a bit bigger than i had imagined my own fault, but i was so surprised at how easy it was to assemble along with the hardware it has. filament run out sensor( tested an works) 32 bit robin controller board, touch screen one of the few printers that actually has working resume print from power lose an the fact that its y axis moves on a mgn12 rail with c block was the biggest surprise. when i first seen the printer i thought it was going to be very similar to a ender 2 but i was mistaken and its so much more. ive watched alot of reviews on the printer and any issues that was pointed out have all been addressed by kingroon an no longer has any of the issues i seen pointed out in reviews. u can see in the pictures ive shared only thing ive done to the printer is stick it in a box for a tempary enclosure and printed part cooling fan duct an u can see the benchy from b4 an after adding the fan duct so one is stock out of the box benchy an u can see how it didnt do so well with over hangs due to it not having a part cooling fan at all an only using some of the hotends fan direct down to deal with part cooling so it is poor out of the box but with a quick print i was able to take it from poor over hang quality to literally as good as all my other printers and i dont see much room for improvement at this point beside belt tensioners and ive actually already printed them for both x and y axis but so far they have not been needed, so ive just been running it constantly along with my other 4 printers an only issue ive had with it after 6 months of pretty much constant running is the hotend bottles have loosened up on me a couple times but was easily noticed when starting the first layer of a print. i think this is more my fault than the company cause i dont like to over tighten things so i probably could have prevented it from happening when putting the part cooling on just by snugging them up a little more. hands down would buy again an possibly will. i like trying different printers so ive yet to buy 2 of the same thing cause i feel like im missing out if i did. so as of right now i own a creality ender 5, kingroon kp3, anet e10, flsun qq-s pro and a kossel mini that i built from scratch and i owned a tevo tarantula pro for a short time but it is no longer with me. so ive tried to experience every type of fdm printer i can and so far a corexy is the last on my list an after that i guess will be a resin printer. hope this help anyone looking to buy an worry about what they've seen in reviews on youtube or anywhere else.