@fabbaloo

"What’s more interesting is that the K1 series is equipped with substantial networking, cloud connectivity, and remote control features. It seems that Creality has implemented some form of farm management system where an array of K1s could be running production jobs."

This could be great! Maybe #Creality now feels as if their printers are on par with #Prusa, after the #MK3 outperformed the #Ender3 in #PrintFarm usage.

The #Ender3 just wasn't reliable enough, and if it was used, it had to be heavily modded.

But a new age of print farms has grown with the release of the #Bambulab #X1C. Someone could have a small print farm for their products without any #3dprinting skill and juet plug-and-play their printers.

Creating a commercial print-and-play solution is a great step.

It will be interesting to see if this is a fork of #Octofarm, a multi-printer #Klipper and #Mainsail setup, or something brand new. #Prusa already have their own solutions.

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@andy_warb

I feel the #Prusa #MK3 and now the new #MK4 as well as the #XL are focussed on a different target group than the #Bambulab #XC1. But because the entire #3dprinting community would buy either company's machines, this fine line becomes a grey area, so they are directly compared.

The #MK3 and #MK4 will never reach the speeds of the #XC1, with stock parts, and the #XC1 will never reach the reliability of the #Prusa machines.

You can't use a,n #XC1 in a #printfarm, let alone afford 1000 of them, and you can't prototype and test at the speed of the #XC1 with the Prusa machines.

If I had a print farm, I would buy 500 Prusa machines and 1 Bambulab to test on, but I would manufacture with the Prusa machines.

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