Pxmalion Mini Desktop 3D Printer, Cantilever Design, Auto Level, Filament RunOut Detection Sensor, Easy Assembly, 40 Gram PLA Filament Sample

Purchased this printer because I needed a smaller printer that came partially assembled. Was very happy with my result. Assembly took me about 30 minutes and that was with taking my time and going slow. The biggest recommendation I can make is to follow the instructions, especially when it comes to how to wrap the cables. If you wrap them in a different way than the recommended way, they may not reach the board properly. So far I have printed a few test cubes and some mini vases. The test cubes were able to show the most detail from the printer while printing in several temperatures. I found that the PLA works better around 210c instead of 200. There is no part cooling fan which is why they probably run the PLA a bit cooler. The only small drawbacks to this printer are the lack of part cooling fan, and the software to load the filament is a bit annoying. Once you upgrade the firmware it gets a bit easier, but this is one of those printers where you want to load a spool and stick to that spool. The lack of heated bed is also a bit frustrating, but again on an entry level, pla only printer, this thing is a great value.Anybody looking for an easy to assemble, entry level 3d printer should highly consider this one. The price is fantastic for the fact that it is mostly assembled, and the features on it are pretty standard.

Pros: It prints okay, and it's easy to build. Hotend heats up pretty quick. I think it heats up faster than any of my other printers. This printer (if you ignore the hotend fan) is really quiet.Cons: Poor design and very poor quality control. Cheap bushings which bind at every opportunity. I have to print slowly so the X axis doesn't bind. Autolevel does not work, prints the piece 20mm off the bed. As in, almost a full inch off the bed. I was better off resetting and manually leveling the bed. LCD get corrupted often making it impossible to read or navigate. Firmware sort of fixes the LCD issue. My Y axis came out of the box very difficult to move. I found of it was installed to the black plate wrong with only 1 of the 2 screws going into the black plate with the other lifting up on the plastic and causing it to be tweaked up and in a bit making the 8mm rods not parallel. I had to clear a bunch of plastic chunks out of the hole where the screw goes to get it all the way down and into the threaded hole. Fan on the hotend is LOUD. There is no filament spool holder included. My small sample filament came broken in multiple spots making it useless.There are multiple design issues with this printer that make me feel it won't last long. For one, the Z axis is cantilevered out using bushings, which means it binds like crazy. This scares me because there are no nuts holding the acme nut into the plastic, it's just 2 M3 screws threaded into the plastic. They include a very thin oil in the box, but that doesn't help my Z axis binding issue. The cantilevered part of the printer is held to the black plate by 4 M3 screws which only get a few threads into the metal. I don't trust them to hold on long against all that leverage. The Y axis bed carriage is incredibly wobbly because the part that rides on the bearings (not bushings, Y axis uses actually bearings) and holds up the bed, is only held on by 4 M3 screws close to the center, so any pressure on the bed (like using the pressure based autolevel solution that this kit comes with) just causes the nozzle to push the bed down by a huge amount causing the probing to fail until you loosen the screws on the bed and raise it. However, when the printer homes, the nozzle is not clear of the bed, meaning the amount you need to raise the bed up causes the nozzle to really jam down into the bed before it hits the Z limit switch. Once I got autolevel to the point it didn't fail to probe, it ended up just printing almost 20mm off the bed. No idea how that happened, and I haven't put much work into fixing it since I don't think with the bed deflection it will work anyway.For the price though, it's an okay kit. I got mine to print pretty well once I got rid of autolevel, and I think I can maybe ream out the bushings to make them slide better to decrease the binding during printing issue. I'm also thinking of maybe swapping them out for PTFE or something similar. I wish they used bearings on this.

We bought this printer for my son for Christmas because it said how easy it was to use for beginners and kids. We did not end up giving it to him because it was definitely not easy to use as the description stated. The directions were hard to follow and and understand as if they were poorly translated to English. We finally got it assembled but it kept getting stuck and there were no instructions on how actually print anything. Also the little digital display was unreadable, it was a jumble of letters and number's that didn't make sense.After hours of trying to get it to work we decided we could not give this to our 11 year old son for Christmas.

I have 2 other 3D printers, one based on the Prusa, the other a XY printer. I decided to try this one as the price is amazing for an entry level 3D printer. I found it simply to assemble with the video and instructions included. It has a small printing volume, but is it compact and takes up little space. Everything you need to get going is included in the box, even a starter pack of filament.I use wide painting masking tape on the table to help the prints stick as it does not have a heated bed. You need to use a raft on your print so the first layer sticks, but the prints so far have been amazing! Upside to not having a heated bed is the prints can be popped off easily as the base layer is cool by the time it's done printing.Made a test print with the XYZ cube and it did a great job with base settings. Also printed a knob as it had just the metal knob on the controller board, this way it has a larger area to grip.Customer service was spot on! They sent me new firmware and answered my questions quickly.

Literally a pile of parts next to my other printers. Rods are straight but the bed and extruder rod mounts are skewed. It won't move beyond half out without clicking. Seems to be an issue with the screw mounts on the main plate. I bought this as a Gamble and lost. After modifying the extruder mount and installing more common lm8uu bearings I was able to get it to print at all but prints are still skewed and prone to skipping when there is any resistance in travel.

Awesome

Worst product imaginable. I’ve gone above and beyond to get this printer functioning and it has yet to produce anything. I’ve spent way too much time into trying to get this printer to print and nothing. Don’t waste your money on this product.

This compact desktop 3D printer is awesome. Although it is a compact desktop one, it has all the functions, and it is precise and extendable. It is perfect as a starter kit. I also contacted the Pxmalion support team to try if they could help twicking the printer a little bit to fit my specific project. You know what? They responded very quickly and custermized the firmware for me. The printer is working very well and my project succed! I cannot appreciate the Pxmalion support team any more. Again, this is actually a perfect starter kit. I recommend it to everyone who just wants to enter the 3D printing wold as a beginner but to try some new 3D printing idea.

As a disclaimer, I purchased this printer as a part of PXmalion’s review program where I provide an unbiased review in exchange for compensation for the printer and the printer only.Assembly was fairly painless and only took about 20 minutes to get everything put together as per pxmalion’s instructions. Issues came up immediately as I discovered how wobbly the bed was due to the bearings. Luckily, I had a spare set to press in that fit more snugly. It still wasn’t perfect but it was usable.On initial prints I tried using the autolevelling sensor but every time it would auto level the bed would press down before the sensor would activate so the first layer would dig into the bed. Now this could be slightly remedied with offsets but it was such an imperfect solution that it was just easier to forego the auto levelling and use the old-fashioned paper levelling method.What followed was a long process of trying to get this printer to make anything worthwhile. I could get the printer to lay down a flawless first layer, it printed the bottom of several benchies but at some point most of the prints gave up in one way or another whether it was under extrusion (likely an issue with the version of Cura that I was using at the time), layer shifts, or simply stopping part way through a print for no apparent reason. The layer shifting was the most irritating because of the design of the x axis. The gantry is designed in such a way that the force from the belt is not applied to a spot remotely close to the center of the two bushings. The result is circles that are out-of-round and in some cases impressive layer shifting like this. There’s a similar problem in the z-axis that results in the plastic gantry bending and then releasing when the friction is overcome. The result is these striations due to layers being too close together and then too far apart.So would I recommend this printer?It really depends. If this printer were designed to use standard linear bearings on all axes it would probably solve the issues with binding and make this a completely usable printer. If you really want a super cheap 3D printer and you’re okay with having to maintain a printer mid print, keep all of those linear rods fully lubricated, keep spare parts on hand and immune to the noise of a 40mm fan at constant full blast then by all means. Get this printer, but understand what you’re getting into.Pros• Inexpensive ($135 USD on Amazon)• 32 Bit electronics• Straight forward assembly• Auto Levelling implementation• Filament detection• Compact designCons• Binding X and Z axes due to bushings• Wobbly Y axis due to play in linear bearings• The screen garbles• Auto levelling didn’t work well• Buildtak style print surface sells separately• Closed source firmware as far as I can tell even though the website says based on open source• Uses the steppers as feetThings it doesn’t have:• No heated bed• No Print Cooling fan• No spool holder• No on/off switch• No micro SD card• No control of heatsink cooling fan so it gets really loud

Haven't even got to try it. Instructions are very vague. They send you a ZIP file with videos, they're slightly more help, but still super vague. Adding to frustration the wires they send you and the wires attached to the sensors aren't long enough to connect making this unit useless until I can find longer wires.Edit/update: after taking the unit apart and starting from scratch rebuilding it, I got the wires to connect by changing the direction some parts were facing, but it still can't fully function. The Z axis at full range will pull the wires out of the fan. That's just assembled.Now that it's functioning and I can turn it on, the problems don't stop. When I go to auto level it sells me I need to install a sensor. Everything is plugged in. Seems like a dead part. Low quality parts. Beyond that, the module will crash displaying only random characters on the screen. Have to unplug and replug to fix that.No software for the unit. No instructions on how to install it and configure it on your PC...you're in the dark on that one. Good luck!Finally, I put a print job through. It made motions and moved for 20 minutes, then just stayed in limbo at 100%. Had to alt+Ctrl+delete to close the program.This is an all around fail. Not even worth returning.

Pros:Easy assembly and set upGood priceThe contruction is quite solid.Cons:No sd card suppliedAuto level doesn't seem to help. I ended up in leveling the bed manually.Noticed some random garbage characters on the screen. Pxmalion released a new firmware on their site. That helped fix it, but the screen flashes every 10 sec. I can live with that.Considering the price, I don't have high hope for it. Printed a calibration cube, a small benchy and both look good. Overall, I'm happy with it.

As described. Easy to use.