Prusa announces new CoreXY 3D printer "Prusa CORE One" at 949 USD
Introducing Prusa CORE One: Our new fully-enclosed CoreXY 3D printer with active chamber temperature control! - Original Prusa 3D Printers
Honestly this is better than I expected from Prusa. They are still playing catch-up but not as far behind as I expected them to end up with their first consumer XY offering. It's till expensive for what you get (Prusa). It's too slow compared to competitors. It's a bit small for the price. They need a new hotend setup. But it definitely maintains the Prusa serviceability. Their MMU is still kind of a DIY joke versus the competitors.
This is not their first core XY and they redesigned the hotend with the PrusaXL and MK4. As far as I've seen, they are the only printer company using a strain gauge in the hotend for bed leveling, that they also use for detecting clogs while printing. Also, the new printer's price is comparible to the similar model from Bambu with a metal frame and enclosed print bed (X1C). And, as you pointed out, they always maintained the same serviceability (I'll add upgradability). Therefore, I definitely don't agree that they are playing catch up.
I think it's honestly a bit embarrassing after reading through this. It states that their "main engineering focus when designing this" was "the exoskeleton, a small chamber, and a platform for the future." The exoskeleton is just a rectangular frame that nobody is going to give a shit about while printing and the small chamber means a small build plate along with it.
The main feature they seem to be hyping up is the fact that it has a vent in the body so that you don't have to crack the door open. This does feel a bit lame with the Bambu, but not anything I really care about at the end of the day.
I've said it before that I do like Prusa represents as a company, but they're really behind the ball at this price point.
Aaaaaaaahrg! Guess who recently bought an MK4S and thought "Wish it was a CoreXY, though"?
Edit:
transform your MK4S fully into the CORE One without a single compromise. We are aiming for a release date in March 2025 with the projected price of 449 USD (VAT excl.) / 489 EUR (VAT incl.).
Well, at least there is that...
I saw the video this morning before work. I’m in the same boat as you. Bought a MK4s about 2 months ago. Very happy with it, but I want that CORE One.
The product page says it won’t ship until Jan ‘25, so I’m just gonna be patient and wait for stock to arrive at PrintedSolid in the US. Hopefully they’ll have some by summer. If I still want it that badly I’ll get it. Maybe the urge will pass and I’ll be content with my MK4s.
This looks pretty cool, might pick a kit up if the reviews are also good.
Oh man, now I'm conflicted. I had planned to buy a Qidi X-Plus3 for myself for Christmas. But this new prusa looks great. The Qidi is still bigger build volume with 280x280, and the qidi is half the price. But the prusa will have better community support, and software updates.
And hardware upgrades.
Temperature controlled chamber.
This is a great feature, for this alone I would love to get one.
Having a temperature controlled chamber AND Prusa profiles to easily set it up is amazing.
Right now I'm avoiding printing stuff in ABS, ASA or Nylon because of that, even though I have an enclosure on the MK4s I often have issues with these material. It's working but it is not click and forget like PLA or PETG.
Is this actively heated or just temperature controlled? From what I saw it just has vents to allow heat to escape (think leaving the door open when printing PLA).
If it was actively heated I would buy it in a heart beat, Voron doesn't even like people talking about it due to the high danger if done wrong.
EDIT: Yeah just looks like the bed heater still unfortunately. I have a modded enclosed Ender 5 I just have a heat soak script tied to a thermistor midway up the frame so I'll hold off until there's an actual separate heating element. Hopefully soon!
I've been thinking about upgrading my MK3. It was a hard choice between Prusa and bamboo. This makes the choice a bit easier.
The total cost of the upgrades to go from MK3S>MK4>CORE One is the same or greater than just buying a new kit. It's currently $1-200 more than a Bambu P1S with AMS due to the black Friday sale, which they frequently have on sale for this price. I really do like the concept of continually upgrading your printer to the latest and gratest, but it's not actually that economical. And add to all that, you'll basically end up with a new printer and most of the parts of a second so why not just have 2 for the same cost.
Yeah that's really not considered a large print volume anymore for consumer printers.. It's only slightly above standard of most printers these days...Hit me with minimum 300x300x300 print area and we can start calling it large build volume.
Price is still too high IMO, it should be €1050 for the assembled printer, not the DIY kit.
Considering the Bambu X1C costs 1050€ I'm surprised they were able to get the kit price down to 1050€ while still manufacturing in the EU.
Looking forward to the reviews to see how they compare.
You can self source a voron for that amount, and that's without any of the benefits of large scale purchasing like Prusa has. I'm just really not impressed by the price point.
Better compared to the MK4S price since you get the enclosure with it.
That being said, definitely high compared to bambu, but that is also because bambu takes advantage of much lower labor, operating, and land costs in china. It is quite normal for EU-designed and certainly EU manufactured products to be more expensive.
Yes, but this is likely still assembled from components manufactured in China. So for the DIY kit it's only pre-assembly of submodules that's done in Czech republic (depending on how pre-assembled the kit is). If you have to assemble all components yourself, then they'll have close to no manufacturing cost in EU.