Creality CR-10 SE 3D Printer 600mm/s High-Speed Printing 3D Printers CR Touch Auto Leveling with Sprite Direct Extruder, Dual Z-axis & Y-axis Auto-Load Filament, Printing Size 220 * 220 * 265MM

Had this thing about 6 weeks now, I wish I'd never set eye on it. I've owned an Ender 3 Pro for a good few years (and still have) and a CR-X which finally died on me. I've also got 2 Geeetech A10M's (which again, NEVER buy, they really are crap). I've generally found Creality printers a good buy for the price. The after service has always been none existent but they've been decent quality and apart from the CR-X, parts have been readily available. So I foolishly went to on to buy this POS, (BIG mistake) in the misguided opinion that the CR series was suppose to be a better machine than the Enders, after all, that's why you pay more and until the end the CR-X was a serious workhorse, reliable, well built and when you had it dialed in gave great results. None of which applies the CR-10 SE.The first 3 to 4 days I genuinely thought I'd made the right decision, first layers where spot-on be it standard PLA or the high speed stuff. A little time consuming but upload your print, let it do it's bed calibration and you did indeed have that trouble-free perfect first layer that bonded beautifully to the plate, stayed that way throught out and all but fell off when the bed cooled, perfect, a seriously happy bunny. Sure, there where a few slight print quality issues on the standard PLA, only to be expected, it runs waaaay to quickly for the stuff to cope but tweak the settings (primarily slow it down) and things where great.Creality promptly advised there was a firmware upgrade, that's when the nightmares started. No longer does it give a perfect first layer, usually it tends to set the Z offset too high leaving gaps between the filament lines that you can see the bed through giving very poor adhesion. However, the one thing the update gave you was the ability to manually tweak the Z offset (you couldn't from factory install but you didn't need too). Firstly, this machine is sold as not having to do this, it's supposed to be super intelligent and do this for you and you can ONLY do this while it's printing and not before. It also means you can't use the auto calibration because if you do, it'll change the offset you've carefully set up manually and balls everything up and return it to an offset way to high and nothing will stick to the bed.Had I wished to set up the offset manually I'd have bought the much cheaper Ender but if I HAVE to set it up manually I'd like to do it at a convenient point and tweak it when "I" want to. Not pay through the nose to have a machine that is supposed to do it for me. Oh, while it USUALLY gives a ridiculously inaccurately high offset, occasionally it'll throw in a curve ball and over-compensate, gouging a lovely trough in you very expensive to replace PEI bed that you could probably float a barge in.All this coupled with the usual deaf-as-a-post Creality support who's spam filter must dump every customer email into said folder and instantly delete it. Your only hope is your a big influencer in 3D printers, they're the ONLY people they respond too. Geeetech may make horribly cheap printers that are frankly useless but at least they do listen and bend over backwards to help resolve your issue (providing it doesn't involve returning your printer).Short version of this review, The CR-10 SE is poor, Creality aren't interested and I'd save up for a Prusa or Bamboo if you want my honest opinion.

Keeps breaking, cost a fortune to fix it every time. Takes forever to make anything

A bit noisey, and the build plate is a little too small. However, all in all a decent 3d printer.

I wish I'd bought mine from Amazon so getting a refund would have been possible.Yes, if you're lucky, it can produce decent prints (after a lot of tests and calibration).However build quality can be poor, reliability is suspect and after sales service is slow and then ceases if you have a serious problem.You'll need to check over everything when it arrives; Loose bolts on the hotend and a misaligned X axis needed work before I could make a print.Self levelling is unreliable. Good when/if it works, but can print in mid air or scrape the coating off the build plate.Design is poor so debris can fall into Y axis causing problems.Creality software on Windows crashes and doesn't behave correctly.If you go onto the forums they're full of people having hardware/firmware/software issues.AVOID

Good quality build and easy assembly, but after a mere 3 days use the print stopped mid print with a key 3000 exception followed quickly by a key 2000 unknown error. Rebooted via the control screen and resumed but printing stopped after a few minutes. With the same errors. Tried updating to latest firmware but with the same result an the printer barely boots up before the error messages appear. All I want is a replacement but it seems only returning is an option unless the errors are user fixable?First impressions very positive but disappointed with the failure.