So the Bambu labs A1 looks like the perfect starting point.
One problem, it uses proprietary firmware and software, I’m a big advocate for owning the things you buy, and not supporting companies that don’t allow you to do that as much as I reasonably can. So yea I can’t buy Bambu.
The Creality SparkX i7 seems nice, it looks like a straight up clone of the A1
https://store.creality.com/eu/products/sparkx-i7-3d-printer
I’ve heard a lot of people complain about Creality though, so unsure. I’m a bit stuck and getting decision fatigue.
My budget is ~500 Euro.
Help.
They aren’t vorons then. There are printers, including some that I listed, that are very closer to this conceptually, but they aren’t allowed to be called vorons (and you won’t get an official serial number for them).
One core point of a voron is the fact that it’s built, from scratch, by you. A pre-assembled printer can never be a Voron.
Note that anyone is free to use the parts and designs, that’s the point of them being open-source. The Voron name is intentionally protected so you can’t sell a commercial 3d printer product called Voron.
i mean, as long as you get the excellent functionality of a voron.
you won’t get the prestige or the customization, but it’d be fine as a first printer i suppose.