Official Creality Ender 3 3D Printer - Fully Open Source with Resume Printing & All Metal Frame FDM DIY Printers - 220x220x250mm + $50 Newegg Gift card $169.89

I highly recommend this as your first printer. Printing modifications are a rite of passage of owning this printer. This is a great deal without the hassle of Micro Center.

Thanks! I picked this up. Been waiting for a long time to get into the 3D printing game.

Any helpful links or info you can give me on upgrades/mods?


Surprisingly, I have $20 in Honey points I was able to use for this deal. So $149+tax and a $50 GC. No brainer.

I have the original ender 3 and I just got the ender 3 s1 pro. While the original is an ok printer, it isn't one of those "it just works" printers at all.

At the very least it needs a glass build plate because the thin aluminum bed warps, bltouch (which helps with warped build plate and needs a pin27 board, arduino and a firmware that enables the bltouch), stiffer springs so you don't have to tram your bed after every print or two, firmware with thermal runaway protection so your house doesn't burn down.

Nice to haves are direct drive so you can run flexible filaments and have better retraction, pei on a spring steel plate for easier part removal and better adhesion, all metal hotend for abs and other higher temp plastics, better part cooling fans/ducts for bridging and better overall appearance of finished parts, dual z motors/rods so that the x gantry doesn't sag, new motherboard for silent steppers, and x/y belt tensioners.

After all your time and money spent getting the origins ender there similar to what the ender 3 s1 pro has you'd wish you'd have just spent the extra money for the s1 pro and have been done with it.

The s1 pro is literally a 15-30 min setup and you'll print beautiful prints without all the wasted time upgrading constantly. The slicer tuning process has to be done regardless but I've had my s1 pro for 2 weeks now and after tuning my slicer I have as good or better prints on this than the basic ender ever did.

Also I recommend looking into klipper on either printer as it's a VASTLY superior firmware than marlin ever thought of being. Though I'll admit that's definitely not novice territory, but if you can burn a bootloader to setup bltouch using arduino you can setup klipper.