The Ender 3 is not a good 3D printer for beginners
…Unless you’re a technical goblin like me.
I bought myself an ender 3 because I couldn’t stand waiting anymore. I wanted a 3d printer.
Smart people told me to buy a Prusa mk3 and in hind-sight they were correct to suggest the Prusa, but I figured if I was starting from ground zero I might as well get something dirt cheap since I would almost certainly screw it up along the way.
The only drawback for the Prusa is it’s 700–900 USD before tax, but I found out that extra cost is just a margin that will be translated to your own time if you buy an Ender 3.
I bought the Ender 3
This is the kind of nonsense you’re getting yourself into when you buy the Ender 3:
It arrived early. It took only 4 business days.
I put it together, and this is when I encountered my first problem. The assembly instructions don’t explain how to feed filament into your extruder, and the stock z-stop was too high.
The crux of my claim in the title is this printer probably won’t be able to print anything successfully with stock parts out of the box. I did some reading online and discovered my experience is not unique. In-fact moding the Ender 3 to make it work…
