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Pros & Cons

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Pros

Dual extrusion is a challenge. The nozzles were corrected by removing the head, tightening one a bit more and adding a little shim.

The qidi tech 1 looks great, is very user friendly, a great investment for newcomers. I'm looking forward to maximizing all of its features as my 3d printing knowledge grows. Support from qidi is outstanding. Highly recommended 3d printer and backed b...  Read More

Great customer service, even after purchasing it about 3 years ago. Very responsive, polite, caring. I am just so happy to have a company who actually responds and sounds like intelligent human beings rather than dumb heartless robots.

While not detracting from the 5-star rating i consider the tech-1 to be a hobby 3d printer, something to learn on. Other than that this printer is a champ. Pre-configured accurately and comes with awesome support for a great price.

Easy setup, just simply works. They have videos instructions for common issues. A few features that are missing are auto bed leveling and wifi.



Cons

There were screws laying loose on the bottom of the unit. The assembly instructions are useless. You need to completely disassemble the printer, until all screws have been removed.

I understand that support doesn't manufacture this product, but they leave me without a working product. Poor documentation is an utter joke. It is far too unreliable and requires too much maintenance.

The print bed has horrible adhesion issues. If you raise it to spec, both extruders drag across the print so hard that they ruin the print, or more likely, shake the print bed violently. The plastic encasing above the unit for abs printing is a nightm...  Read More

They are simply thin pieces of plexiglass that have a coupe holes bored through. Also, some colors are terrible. The control rods are under sized, and flex a lot under vibration, which this thing can create in *.

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Highlights

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Quality


I would recommend this printer for experienced users because of the quality of prints you get


I am very very impressed with the customer support for this product


I am out of warranty now and just had a problem with the machine shutting down while printing


I had an issue with the print quality but their tech patiently worked with me via skype and found out the issue was a bad nozzl...  Read More

Shipping


We have now started to use it to make shipping protectors for our product


I had to replace a motherboard for some strange printer behaviors but support was great about helping with it shipping the par...  Read More


I broke one of the cooling fan fins and emailed qidi support they quoted me a price with shipping and sent off the parts

Packaging/appearance


The printer was easy to setup and printed excellent write out of the box


Like i mentioned soon after i got mine it became clear that something wasnt working correctly on it the print would start fine ...  Read More


All the models attached were printed on the qidi tech i

Competitiveness


All i can say is once it is dialed in it runs perfectly i highly recommendthis printer


I use simplify3d for slicing and upgraded to a glass bed


Sirsi received a qidi technology 3dpqda1601 printer from amazon a few days ago


They deserve 5 star mostly because of the customer support and pricing compared to competition and my past experience buying tech products

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  • Our engine has profiled the reviewer patterns and has determined that there is minimal deception involved.
  • Our engine has detected that Amazon has altered, modified or removed reviews from this listing. We approximate total reviews altered up to 45.
  • Previous analysis of this listing was an C grade.
  • Our engine has analyzed and discovered that 78.7% of the reviews are reliable.
  • This product had a total of 531 reviews as of our last analysis date on Jun 14 2022.

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    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    Because of lack of awareness on our part the power supply of the printer got damaged


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    Even after they sent the power supply they stayed in touch and followed up until the problem was completely solved


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    I have to readjust the nozzles to get it right thou


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    Otherwise its not gonna work right


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    The product is properly packaged that protects the printer


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    I purchased this printer about 2


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    I emailed customer service they diagnosed my problem within one or two emails then offered me new parts to fix it for under 50


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    I would buy the stainless steel mk10 extruder so that u dont have issues with the head being blocked and then it wont work right

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