The best buy in the category. It ROCKS! Except...
--EDIT -- I'm amending my review. Here was I thinking SnapMaker were foolishly different from other 3D Printer Brands. Nope. I live in NZ and getting parts and filament from 3D printer brands is a 50/50 deal. Good ones ship worldwide and look after their customers regardless of where they are at reasonable prices. Bad ones, (esp. after their Kickstarter is finished) then swap to be only interested in volume sales through the cheapest channels to large countries and populations. Sadly SnapMaker with the release of their new line of filaments either won't ship them to NZ or charges more for shipping than the products in your cart because... we're small. We're right next to Australia for F sake and they don't charge them like wounded bulls. It's literally a stones throw across the Tasman sea — they're happy to ship to Ausi cheaply or free. I give it a few more months before they won't ship parts here either. So 1 Star for them until they change tactics. -- End Edit -- The U1 is hard to define but in a good way. It's not a super amazing over engineered feat of genius — but it does stands up to heavy scrutiny. In short... IT ROCKS. Why? They've taken the best of what's out there in the world, listened to the most common complaints from real, long time 3D printing nerds, and cost averaged the best way to resolve a design that's both great and inexpensive to build. Does that affect the quality of the end product? Not where it matters in my experience (to date). Is there room for improvement that could make it a higher build quality and functionally smarter? Yes. However, by comparison to my other x4 3D printers of similar or more cost, this one delivers 'more' overall in both performance and quality for both the end prints and the level of control due to Orca Slicer. Do I wish they bundled the lid/heat capture chamber — of course. But an IKEA bin works too. Do I wish the plastic panels on the sides were slightly thicker and stiffer. Yup. But none of those things have had an impact on the overall experience, output quality and configurability when printing. The colour changing is mint, the overall speed is fantastic and the ability to tune prints and print heads is really well thought out. I would buy this again in a heartbeat. Worth the cost and more by comparison to Bambu and Creality.