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creality really must be doing their best
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to confuse their customers I can't
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imagine this amount of janked up
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messiness is unintentional but I find
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myself again with another new creality
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printer that I generally like but have
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very little understanding of why it even
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exists Come With Me Now on a journey of
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Madness hi I'm Ross and this is far
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Hammer videos okay so first of all this
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printer isn't from creality well it is
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made by creality but it wasn't sent to
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me by creality or is it sold by creality
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directly I don't think this one is
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actually from creality 3D official
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confused yet trust me this is just the
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start so creality 3D official are an
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official creality retailer or reseller
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but are not creality themselves this is
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an important distinction to know
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creality can be found at city.com or
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store. city.com the guys who sent me
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this who as far as I know are the only
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resellers of it are creality3d official
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which you can find on creality3d
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official.com or creality official. co.uk
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without 3D in the name okay clear
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because if that's not clear and I don't
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think it is this may explain a few
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customer service complaints or
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complaints people have about creality
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customer service because I know that
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I've actually emailed creality 3D
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official before with printer issues
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thinking I was talking to the official
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creality team and just as many people
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have said when complaining about reality
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and sending emails off yeah I was never
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replied to anyway as many of you know
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creality stopped talking to me a while
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back but as you will have seen from my
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recent creality ender3 V3 plus review
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they're back with me and sending
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printers for a review again and when the
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printers are good I'll say they're good
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when they're bad I'll say they're bad
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creality with that printer coupled with
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the new slicer creality have now entered
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the realm of okay but what is this thing
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considering it launched with very little
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Fanfare and even when I searched
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creality 3D officials website for it
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after it had been launched I can't find
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it well basically it's a strip down K1
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and it's $150 cheaper and according to
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Amazon this is also with a $90 saving
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applied to does this mean it's only $40
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than the k1c is usually if so get the
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k1c also this one is only available
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through limited suppliers such as
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creality 3D official and of course
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Amazon and remember I'm talking about
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the k1c not the K1 because the main
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similarity here is that we now have the
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Unicorn hot end that creality have used
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in the K1 series and the Ender 3v3
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Series so long as we're not talking
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about the ender3 V3 SE or ender3 V3 k
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for sake honestly creality take a
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look at just how confusing your lineup
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is and sort this out anyone even
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considering your machines and seeing
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these various options is more likely to
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be confused and exhausted by them rather
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than cleanly decide on a purchase for
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themsel I mean look I do printer
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comparison videos they get a lot of
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views and Views is good for me because
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that's a little bit of AD revenue and it
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helps me get paid yet I don't want to do
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it here which is me literally turning
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down money to help explain this for you
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it's that bad I genuinely couldn't even
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keep sense of the differences in the
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machines whilst trying to write this and
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had to keep chopping and changing
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between Pages just to remind myself what
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was what and I've had these in my hands
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oh and get this audience when I just now
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literally just now searched for the
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creality K1 the first Google result was
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from creality official. co.uk that was
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sponsored then one from store. city.com
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which I can't believe this the one for
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store. reality.com the real creality
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store actually has a page heading
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City's only official store if that's the
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case why are you letting resellers call
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themselves creality 3D official you have
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control over this right and I know guys
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we haven't talked about the printer this
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is very little about the printer so far
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but surely all of this is valid evidence
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which speaks to just how much of a mess
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this company is and for me at least it
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plays a big part in my interpretation of
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their credibility as a brand and let's
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be honest from this the brand comes
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across like an absolute mess so as for
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what this printer does and how it
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performs for the most part I could say
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go and watch my k1c video in fact yeah
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you may as well do that because this
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video will literally be about the
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features you don't get which save you
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that $40 to
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$150 so the most obvious thing is the
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chassis no translucent walls no door no
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lid in place of these parts you have
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some metal corner frame pieces and a
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crossbar for printer stability but yeah
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this is basically the p1p to the p1s but
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as far as I see with creality there's no
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available upgrade kit to add the
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features which would turn this into a
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k1c another missing feature is the
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camera but unlike the original K1
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remember not the k1c which is different
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there's not even a cable to connect the
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AI camera too yet on the page for this
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printer it says that one of the optional
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official accessories for the K1 SE is
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the AI camera and I know that camera
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doesn't come with the required cable
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because I bought one for my K1 review so
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unless they've now changed all of these
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and included an unnecessary cable for
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everyone else but K1 SE buyers this is a
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mistake on the listing and you'll end up
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with a useless accessory that actually
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isn't compatible with the K1 SE this is
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however compatible with the nebula
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camera and I do like that camera for
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time lapses because it's got a manual
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focus ring and built-in night vision the
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other thing I noticed was missing is the
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chamber fan at the back of the printer
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and the cable chain above the hot end
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basically what this means is the printer
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is a bit or a lot cheaper than the K1 se
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but is limited to filaments that don't
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need to be in a perfectly temperature
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controlled environment so this is the
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wrong call for people wanting to print
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things like ABS but cutting through the
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confusion this is still essentially a
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k1c and comes with all the benefits and
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pitfalls of the K1 line you know those
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pitfalls like the extruder which is
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rated to have a th000 plus hours clog
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free Extrusion according to the website
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yet in my testing of 4 K1 series
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printers now I've had to take apart the
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extruder on two of them due to clogs
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including this one now to be fair this,
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hours is based on data from creality Lab
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but unless creality lab is built on top
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of some magical lay lines I simply do
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not understand why I've only had a 50 %
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success rate against this claim but one
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thing I do like about these K1 printers
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is how easily accessible the extruder
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gear is if that can be counted as a
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compliment please take it the thing I
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really want to praise creality for here
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though is their progress one is that
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they've stripped down the creality cloud
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phone app this isn't amazing yet there
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is work to be done to simplify it
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further but this is progress the biggest
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progress comes from the slicer now I
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didn't get any us speed drive or manual
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with this machine I don't know if you do
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so I had to download the latest version
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of creality print from the website and
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hope it contained the profile for the
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machine and it did but the biggest
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surprise is that the latest version of
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creality print has now ditched the
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outdated poer version of curer it was
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before and has now given us a poer
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version of orca yeah that's right
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creality are now using their own build
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of orca slicer but instead of just
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changing it around a little to just show
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their model storefront have their
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printers and use their branding or
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leaving it alone entirely they've
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changed the location of things to less
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intuitive places and even have some
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weird thing where everything is
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incredibly tiny on a 4K screen and I've
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got no idea how to resolve that and I
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don't get this so many resin printer
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brands out there are just giving in and
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saying use chit box use l Chi why do fdm
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Brands need to take a good slicer and
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make it worse like reality mate you
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don't need to waste time doing this just
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tell people to use Ora we don't need
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your lesser version unless you're
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actually going to make a better version
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of orca that people will want to use
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over the original you're just wasting
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our time and your developers so if you
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want any further support in creality
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print please can you put Ora back to the
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way it was and maybe just only change
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your branding and add your printers and
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touch nothing else please or just tell
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people to use Orca this is a waste of
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time now with all I've said about
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creality I'm going to summarize this
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printer as I have with all of my other
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K1 videos you get what you pay for and
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here you're paying for a creality
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printer are they the worst not really
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are they the best no but I guess in
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summary if you're okay with a few hoops
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and the quality and the longevity
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whatever that may be and the confusion
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these are fine if you want to save a few
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monies and get a cheaper K1 only to
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print pla this is fine and I know I
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haven't spoken much about the printer at
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all but it is just a k1c again I've
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generally just talked about creality as
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a whole and I expect to get negative
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comments on that so in response I don't
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think I'm wrong the analysis of the
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brand is a direct metaphor for an
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analysis of this machine they work they
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have all the right parts and with a bit
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of navigation they're passable but I'm
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not saying they're terrible there are
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better printers available just like
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there are better regarded Brands but
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they cost more but this is okay but we
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can all honestly say it's quite obvious
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that it could also be better if budget
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is your primary concern when getting
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into 3D printing this could be the best
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most stable one for you to get started
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with especially if you are specifically
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after a printer for tinkering with the
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software and some of the mechanics
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