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I really wanted to like this printer, and use it to print all kinds of puzzle pieces and interesting shapes. The heated removable bed, touch screen, metal frame, and auto-leveling seemed like great features for the price. Even the 120mm cubed build volume seemed useful enough for my purposes. However, it breaks down to one major problem: The auto-level sensor is mounted the same exact height as the print nozzle. This sensor is almost guaranteed to rub up against your prints and do damage to itself and the prints. Mine continually got bent out of shape and would not auto-level correctly. This is definitely a part to watch out for failing, and something necessary for modding - though this will void your warranty. I found that a Z-offset of -0.85 was the perfect height for the initial layer to stick - this is a manual setting which I learned about later. Auto-leveling seems to only calibrate the 4 corners, but the z offset setting is up to the user to set correctly, by touching the "far" and "close" buttons. The default settings in Cura for the mini v2 worked fine after setting the Z-offset on the printer. The instruction manual clearly states to use the mini v2 preset. I managed to get a total of 5 successful small prints. The printer died after a few weeks of use. The X, Y, and Z axis movement no longer works in both directions, and there's no noise as if the controller is not even trying to spin the motors. I'm not sure what's wrong with it, I've tried power cycling it, to no avail. I will try to update this review in the future, if the seller manages to refund/replace it.Read full review
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I don’t think there is a better starting printer in the market for the price. It is really a great place to start and with all the features it has there isn’t much to complain about for the price.
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