3D printers · Qidi
Owners keep the Q2 as a dependable everyday printer that turns out clean multicolour work with the Qidi Box, and they weigh its price and open firmware against pricier rivals and find it holds up.
Print quality is the thing owners bring up first: clean results straight away, including multicolour work through the Qidi Box, with owners who came from older Ender-style machines saying they print far more than they used to. The accounts here are few, so treat this as an early picture rather than a settled verdict.
The only recurring gripe concerns the nozzle: an owner questioned whether the supplied nozzles are actually hardened, despite the box labelling them as such. This rests on a very thin set of accounts and has not yet been raised widely.
Pick up to three. You get a page with just those, side by side, on the subjects owners raised.
Once the machine is set up, the part that keeps owners happy is how much they use it. People who moved over from Ender-class printers describe printing more than they ever did, and the Qidi Box multi-material add-on is what makes multicolour jobs routine rather than a project. Some owners run the Q2 and Box as their steady, reliable setup and keep a second, older machine purely for tinkering.
The adjustments owners describe are mostly about expectations against the competition. Several bought the Q2 instead of a Bambu Lab P1S or a Prusa Core One, and they call the print quality roughly comparable while pointing to what the Q2 adds: open source firmware, safety certification, the ability to dry filament while printing, and no worry about being told in future what or how to print. On price, owners are split on how large the saving really is once the Combo bundles are compared, though for at least some buyers, shipping and taxes on rivals tipped the decision toward the Q2.
The accounts we have describe the Q2 working as the dependable machine in the house, with multicolour printing through the Qidi Box running without trouble. The one hardware question raised is about the nozzle: an owner doubted the supplied nozzle is hardened even though the packaging says it is. No owner here described a failure or a repair.
That said, the long-term picture is thin. The accounts behind this page are few and mostly from owners a few weeks in, and even the most enthusiastic among them expect some issues to appear eventually. We do not yet have a record of what breaks after months of use or what owners do about it, and we will update this page when we do.
Nothing with a clear majority yet. Owners who raised these subjects were split, or too few to judge.
Nothing has a clear majority against it yet. Counted from the owners who raised each subject, not from everyone. A subject is judged once at least 4 owners raise it.
The same owner, asked again at each point. Fills in as owners answer.
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