The Ender 5, as I said, is a good printer and could actually be recommended by me. However, I can’t ever recommend every printer in every case. I feel like I need to qualify my recommendations for specific cases. The Ender 5 is great if you don’t have a big budget, but wants a little bigger build volume than an Ender 3 and you don’t mind doing a little more work to put it together. But I’m not sure I’d recommend this over a Voxel if you’d rather have ease of use, or if you’re a makerspace or school. It’s all about context and what you need, and the Ender 5 is sure to be able to fill someone’s need. In fact it’s pretty amazing that there are so many printers in this range that you can get pretty granular in your choices in this area. That’s less true of the higher end, more expensive, printer spaces.
I’m really enjoying this 5 minute review format. Get in, get out, and say what needs to be said.
I got someone at the makerspace to put this printer together, mostly because I’m done tired of building 3D printers all the time, and it was easy to get them to do it if I promise to give them a spare 3d printer that I’m not using any more. Or that’s what I would have promised if I had half a brain. Instead I promised the brand new Ender 5 that they built for me, which makes sense, but means I’m still stuck with a bunch of old 3D printers.
This is me whining about having more than one 3D printer.
Just for fun I decided to render this in 4k, to see if it’s true that it’ll result in a bump in views. This, also being the second of the guerrilla style recording with a sports cam and the TASCAM mic actually in the shot, but I spent a little more time sweetening the audio and working on the editing. Best video ever, I’m sure.
