Creality Announces K1C 3D Printer’s Launch Date, Pricing and Full Specs: New Flagship is a Beast
Six months after becoming a member of – and profitable — the race for the quickest shopper 3D printer, Creality is again with an up to date flagship. The brand new K1C improves the Ender sized Core XY printer with a superior hotend, beefed up extrusion system and added AI digital camera.
The K1C will launch on Jan 25th with a beginning value of $559. Clients can snag a 5% Early Chook low cost on Jan. twenty fourth. It’s a totally enclosed Core XY 3D printer with a construct quantity of 220 x 220 x 250mm and a most print velocity of 600mm/s.
The K1 line has been Creality’s reply to Bambu Lab’s 2022 disruption of the 3D printing market, which launched shoppers to quicker, extra dependable machines that require little arrange. Although we’re unhappy to report the C within the K1C doesn’t stand for Colour, we did discover out it stands for Carbon.
Throughout CES 2024 Creality gave Tom’s {Hardware} a sneak peek of the brand new machine. We discovered the printer’s capacity to deal with carbon fiber filaments is because of a harden metal tipped nozzle. Carbon fiber stuffed PETG and PLA have nice mechanic energy and dimensional stability, and are extensively utilized in industrial printing.
Creality is continuous to enchantment to the Open Supply group by making its new printer and software program an open ebook. The Creality OS, based mostly on Klipper, allows superior features like linear advance and permits anybody to customise it. The machines may talk over LAN and switch information with a USB stick for individuals who want to keep away from cloud printing.
K1C has an all-metal extruder package and a brand new “Unicorn” nozzle with an built-in warmth break. The nozzle is an apparent nod to E3D’s revolutionary Revo and Prusa’s one piece MK4 nozzle. All three nozzles promise to stop warmth creep and nasty leaks, whereas being simply modified with out instruments.
Just like the K1, the K1C will come pre-assembled for a plug and play expertise. Its auto leveling consists of the flexibility to set its personal Z top for an ideal first layer, and auto-calibration will deal with all of the tuning. The K1C may also come customary with an A1 digital camera to observe for errors and supply real-time monitoring and time-lapse filming.
Creality is addressing complaints that the K1 and K1 Max have exceptionally loud followers throughout excessive velocity printing. To counter that, the K1C could have a “silent mode” that may scale back noise to lower than 45dB, making it quieter than an Ender 3 with conventional followers. The K1C may also have a built-in energetic carbon filter, much like the K1 Max.
Better of its potential, the K1C was our selection for finest 3D printer of CES. Nevertheless, we’re wanting to see the way it performs once we get one in evaluate.