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I'll be honest up front the inspiration
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for me doing this review is honestly
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more for my benefit than anyone else's
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after I realized just how good bamboo
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printers are for beginners and I
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reviewed the x1c and A1 provided by
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bamboo along with reviewing the A1 Mini
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for my own channel sake I decided to go
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back and look at both the p1p and the
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p1s again mostly for the sake of having
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a Hands-On point of reference for future
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videos the good news for you is that now
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I get to share my thoughts about this
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product and discuss why you probably
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shouldn't buy it which is a weird
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opinion for me to have right after all
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everyone knows I'm no more than a shi
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for bamboo I'm Ross and this is f Hammer
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videos now as I like to frequently say
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my reviews are for those of you who like
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me don't fancy spending your time
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tinkering with a printer and instead
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just want a reliable product that works
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out of the box as much as possible you
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see my hobby here is about printing
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stuff at least more than it's about
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messing about and tweaking printers I'm
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looking for a printer which reduces the
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barrier between setup and the thing I
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want printed and in my experience fdm
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printing General quality and speed has
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been fine on all products for well over
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a year now on most of the units that
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I've tested so it's the features and
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approach that matter a lot more to me
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and as I sat and wrote this review
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having just come off the back of the
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bamboo A1 review a printer which is all
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but perfect for absolute beginners
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coming now to the p1p retroactively it
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does make me scratch my head a bit
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wondering who exactly I should recommend
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this to there's a lot of benefits to
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this model sure but we'll get there
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first let me walk you through it because
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like all other bamboo printers these are
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a mile ahead of the competition in terms
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of their user approach unboxing and
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setup is one of the easiest processes
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you can follow like all the other bamboo
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products I've owned they have a QR code
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on the box that links you to a video and
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a written guide on how to set up the
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printer and I suggest you follow it even
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if you're an experienced printer user
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there's nothing awkward or difficult in
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the process but the guide is a handy
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checklist to make sure you haven't
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missed a step but other than cutting
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some cable ties the only building you
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need to do is attaching the filament
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reel holder on the back of the unit and
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plugging in the screen you do need to
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unscrew the securing bolts for the bill
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plate too but that's pretty obvious
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thanks to the big red arrow stickers
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pointing at them it comes with a great
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bunch of extras most of which are
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actually useful replacements for
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consumables within the machine I even
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got a whole kilo of bamboo green pla
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filament with this purchase and that's
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pretty damn awesome especially for a
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beginner and to me the best thing about
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Bamboo's own filament with their
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printers is that the bamboo Studio
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slicer already has some decent profile
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settings to get this to work and this is
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for all of the individual colors and
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filament types too and if you want to
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buy more of it well I know this bit
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sounds like an ad but you may as well
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Beware of the benefits this company
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offers I can't really do a review of the
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printer and the services without
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sounding like an ad when it's a good
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thing but anyway you'll get a discount
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when buying direct from bamboo for 6
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months after you buy the printer the
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prices are then directly comparable to
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any decent quality filament from
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anywhere else and you don't need to
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replace the whole reel just get a refill
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pack instead for less money and this
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also saves you having to dump a big
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useless reel made out of plastic into
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the waste so with any of the bamboo
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filaments like the Reel you get with it
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just attach this stuff to the back tell
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the slicer what you're using and print
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an object in fact you don't even need
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the slicer app on your PC to get started
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you can do most of this direct from the
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display unit thanks to the Myriad of
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included files on the printer's micro SD
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card but I've got more to say on that
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later on going back to your outof boox
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experience once you've followed the
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video or written guide just turn the
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printer on and the screen will walk you
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through the rest of the SLE during this
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process you get a QR code pop up which
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allows you to connect the printer to
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your account in the bamboo handy mobile
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app and from here whenever you sign into
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that account using the desktop slicer
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the printer's available to send prints
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to and to the few people who are about
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to comment I'm never going to buy a
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printer if it forces me to create an
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account you aren't required to do this
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you can skip this step and still use the
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printer entirely offline and transfer
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prints to it via the included SD card
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just like any other fdm printer you just
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won't have the benefits you get from
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features that would quite obviously need
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an online account
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and the final stage of setup is the
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printer's self-calibration where it
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tests itself for vibration compensation
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and bed leveling so I recommend before
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you do any of this bootup sequence put
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the printer where it intends to live
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because if you change the surface to
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something more or less sturdy or even
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slightly at a different angle you'll
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probably want to run the vibration
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compensation calibration again
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externally the printer has a few things
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to be aware of which may seem quite
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obvious but not all brands are as
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sensible as bamboo who actually think
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about user experience for their printers
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the power socket and switch are on the
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back of the printer the only other port
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to care about really is the one for the
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micro SD card located just behind the
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screen and like almost every bamboo
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printer this has some cool functions
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built in like Wi-Fi which is used for
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remote printing monitoring and firmware
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updates and you now get the 720p camera
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module included with the printer by
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default when watching prints remotely
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this isn't as smooth as the x1's 1080p
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camera but it's still better than no
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camera and time-lapses exported by this
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are also generally fine and the printer
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comes with a light to keep an eye on
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printer overnight too but one of the
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things I really love about these types
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of printers the most is that accessing
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things like the nozzle should you want
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to swap it like the X1 Carbon it's just
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a case of pop off the magnetized cover
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from the hot-end unit unscrew two bolts
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and you can replace the whole unit
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assembly including the fan and what
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pretty much every new printer wants
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these days print quality wise this thing
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is great out of the box and I'm saying
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great because it's not good it's great
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this printer prints incredibly quickly
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and despite whatever claims you may see
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nowadays regarding printers speeds most
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are capable of speeds far beyond what
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the materials we print with would
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actually support so it's fine in that
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regard and in fact like I've said about
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bamboo printers before the whole printer
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could be described as fine but because
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so many other brands are less than just
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so when compared to Bamboo printers
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these small things stand out in terms of
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usability by a clear mile but it's not
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perfect nothing is I want to talk about
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a couple of negatives one is the
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filament reel placement like many framed
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corx y printers now the Reel is on the
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back though at least with this unit The
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Reel does sit slightly proud of the back
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Edge so you can half blindly remove the
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Reel and replace the line through the
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filament tube from its backs side like
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many of this Styler printer you might
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actually be better off with an external
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filament dryer box which has the added
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benefit of taking moisture out of your
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filament too there are some other
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placement options for these reels but
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I'll come on to that shortly CU it goes
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better with a later part of the video
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the other negative is the UI now I
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actually expected this to be worse than
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it is but I forgot when I thought that
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that well this is bamboo and for a very
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simple low resolution monochrome UI this
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is still very intuitive and it's easy to
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navigate the four SE and various
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onscreen options using little more than
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a directional pad with the select and
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back button and had I not recently
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reviewed the A1 printers I'd have been
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happy with this but because the newer A1
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series both of those cheaper printers
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have a prettier and slightly more
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functional UI now this monochrome UI
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retrospectively feels a little bit of a
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let down but let me be very clear about
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why because this probably doesn't matter
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to most people with the A1 units you can
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tell the printer which filament you're
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using direct from the display this will
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then sync to the desktop slicer
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application on the P1 series you need to
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do this in the phone app if you want
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that function you see it's not a huge
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deal is it but where this matters a
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little bit more is if you have the AMS
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upgrade but again the benefits minor you
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see on the A1 when you choose to print
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one of the many pre-sliced files that
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come bundled with the printer on the SD
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card if they're multicolor print you can
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actually tell the printer which filament
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to use from the AMS for the different
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colored parts of the model on the P1
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series with an AMS it just picks the
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colors in order of what filament is in
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what slot 1 2 3 and four but again this
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is only for the multicolor prints that
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come bundle with the printer all of the
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rest of them you'd Slice on your PC and
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then send it with the relevant colors to
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the printer remotely and that all works
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fine so again it's minor but that is a
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slight problem with the UI that the P1
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series has that the A1 series has now
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resolved additionally where I've
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mentioned how I like how easy it is to
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swap the nozzle here actually the A1
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series is better for that too because
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that just clamps in place whereas here
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you've still got to unscrew it and one
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other slight gripe is that of all the
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prints built into the printer there's no
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way to know what they actually look like
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because there's no images on this UI so
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between this and the p1s I've now
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printed everything I hadn't already
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printed in my A1 reviews just to know
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what they are and what they look like
9:32
but again whilst I'm being negative here
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this lack of an image only really
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matters for prints that come included
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with the printer and most of you will
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only ever print a handful of these like
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the scraper tool and that's obvious what
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they are you'll most likely print less
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than a quarter of these built-in models
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and everything after that will be models
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you sliced on your PC and either sent
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wirelessly to the printer with colors
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pre-selected in the slicer or
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transferred to the printer via the SD
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card so should you buy this printer well
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it's easy to recommend on the basis of
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it being a bamboo printer and if like me
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you want to spend more time printing
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stuff and less time mocking around with
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a printer anything by bamboo is easily
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the best choice if that makes me a shill
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fine if you're happier to do a bit of
10:16
tinkering that's also fine I'm not
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saying bamboo printers are the best for
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everyone I'm saying they're the best for
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people who care more about the act of
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printing than the technology of printers
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so if you accept that and still know you
10:30
want a bamboo printer why should you get
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this one specifically well I'd always
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suggest you buy a printer based on your
10:37
budget first the A1 Mini is a cuty teeth
10:40
printer the A1 is the best place to
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start with a bit of freedom in terms of
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size and you've got the choice to get
10:47
both of these units with a single AMS
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lie as an option this gives you a lot of
10:51
choices for creativity where the p1p and
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arguably the p1s benefit is with the
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build plate not moving back and forth
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the printed models are a bit more stable
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mid print which helps the success rate
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on taller prints and it also saves a bit
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of depth on your worktop because you
11:08
don't need clearance for the bed to move
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all the way back and forward and the p1s
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are marginally faster too not in
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printing speed so much because like I
11:16
said that's limited by your filament but
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in movement speed between gaps in a
11:20
print so the speed increase is marginal
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really I think now that the A1 exists
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and this p1p alone is $40 or pounds more
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than the A1 with an AMS light the p1p is
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for those people who are either on a
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budget now but intend to upgrade later
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perhaps to the p1s and here you can also
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upgrade it to have up to four AMS units
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whereas the A1 series can only have one
11:46
AMS light per printer or maybe this is
11:49
for those people who want a stable
11:51
framework and perhaps intend to upgrade
11:53
it themselves in a more unique and
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personal way you see one part of the
11:58
sales pitch or interesting features for
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the p1p is that there's already a load
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of official and unofficial chassis mod
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plates that you can print for yourself
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and as much as I wanted to print the
12:09
Companion Cube case from Portal this has
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been done to death by other channels so
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I decided to just print out the official
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bamboo pegboard module for me but I did
12:18
print some Companion Cube d20s because I
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didn't want to feel totally left out in
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the video game representation space now
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unfortunately this pegboard module is a
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bit of a pain to fit because as a few
12:29
people have pointed out the holes don't
12:31
always line up but through force and
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persistence I managed to get it on in
12:35
the end and you do these using the extra
12:38
screws that you get in the box with the
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printer they actually come with extra
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screws for you to add mod plates on with
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and because this is one of the earliest
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official mod plates there's a load of
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creators out there who've made their own
12:50
add-ons for it including filament
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holders that mount on the side solving
12:53
our earlier placement issues so yeah it
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may be useful to you to get the P1 1p
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and build something like this maybe so
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you have all of your printing tools to
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hand in a configuration and style that
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you want in which case the p1p option is
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a good call for your requirements also
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as a side note that I'm sure will upset
13:12
some people you may have noticed that I
13:13
decided to print this play in colors to
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match my own branding black and orange
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normally gray and orange but I didn't
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have enough gray but I've only just
13:20
realized now when watching back I've
13:22
actually taken a bamboo printer and made
13:24
it look like it was built by prer so
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whoops but I am glad I printed something
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for it in the very least because the
13:31
style of this printer without any kind
13:33
of frame on it doesn't really meet
13:35
Bamboo's typical design standards and
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even unlike other poorer quality
13:39
printers this p1p looks a bit worse out
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of the box it honestly looks less like a
13:45
stable printer framework because all of
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the protruding bolt holes everywhere
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kind of make this look more like an
13:51
unfinished product and that's
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unfortunate and I guess you can't really
13:54
have the best of both worlds but this
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looks less like a framework for you to
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build from and more like a p1s or an x1c
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where they've taken panels off though
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still what you get here is a solid
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bamboo quality printer with all the
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features that people have come to love
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but if you aren't bothered about having
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a slightly speedier and more stable core
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XY over a beds Slinger and you don't
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ever see yourself wanting enclosed AMS
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units I'd say don't buy it get the A1
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and be happy with that or if you're
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liking this but can afford the extra
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$100 of £90 for the fully enclosed p1s
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also don't buy this get the p1s if you
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aren't sure what the benefits of the p1s
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are well you definitely need to check
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out my next video because it will cover
14:42
that one in detail so as I said in the
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intro it's an odd one to recommend now
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that it's sandwiched between the A1 and
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the p1s I'm sure if you're after this
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you already know you are and have a very
14:53
specific reason to want it for your
14:55
particular use scenario for the rest of
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you check out my p1s video next and
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afterwards go back and watch the A1
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video because you may not even need this
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much of a printer I want to say thanks
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of movie quote but I'll leave it to you
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to guess where this following quote is
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from though I'll do it in a very British
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way kept you waiting huh until next time
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bammer
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