Monoprice MP300 3D Printer Guider II - Black with Large Heated Build Plate (280 x 250 x 300 mm) Fully Enclosed, Touch Screen, Assisted Leveling, Easy Wi-Fi, 8GB Internal Memory (130527)

EDIT: Upgraded to 4 stars because with a firmware update, and some replacement parts from partsbuilt,com, you can have a cheap guider 2 or 2s equivalent. Don't buy this if you're not willing to work on it yourself. Flashforge support will help you with informational questions, but monoprice support doesn't exist for this.This would be a good printer, if the quality control was on par with Flashforge (this is a white-labeled FlashForge Guider 2). The problem is, I'm on my 4th printer. The first one I received was used/refurbished (there was a partial print still inside the printer) and the X axis belt was not even the right belt for the printer. It did not fit. I returned it, received a replacement. The replacement's motherboard fried as soon as I first turned it on. I popped off the side panel and saw a little smoke come off one of the stepper drivers when turning it back on. So I exchanged it again. The next replacement worked okay for half a day. Then suddenly the X axis stopped moving. You could hear it trying to move, but it wouldn't. I swapped the X and Y motor cables, and now the Y axis motor wouldn't move. Okay, not the motor then. I swapped them back, and this time swapped stepper drivers between X and Y. The issue remained on the X axis. Okay, not the stepper driver. The only other possibility was the motherboard itself again. I now have my 3rd replacement. This had an issue, too. The X axis belt was loose and had a large indentation in it that caused a loud noise when sliding the X axis. It sounded like a flat tired whenever that section would reach the pulley. The glass bed was also cracked. Being that everything else seemed okay, I opted to replace the belt (very time consuming, as you have to tear down the printer almost entirely) and buy a replacement glass bed myself. I got the parts in the other day, made the replacements, and all seems okay. I wasn't sure what issues the next one would have and I was dead set on having a Guider 2 for the price available here. Note that this is an 85 pound printer so by the time UPS picked up the 3rd one, even he was frustrated by it.A note on Monoprice and the warranty: Monoprice has discontinued this item and does not provide any support or warranty for it. If you aren't willing to put some work into this one to save the money from buying a Flashforge Guider 2, skip this.

I strongly recommend to use this product if you want high quality and available price product.You can see some of negative review in there, I suppose they could not use the product properly even though it is not so difficult.As of now I have no issue about using the product and initial filament will be almost ended.One thing I want Maker to improve is the slicer soft only has some basic fiction, not enough for more advanced users.But as of now it is not so much issue for me considering the procuct quality and available price.

Bought some of these machines for workhorses in a print farm but they fall short unfortunately.Pros:- Solid contruction- Wifi- Touch screen- Fairly large bed sizeCons:- Power outage resume only works if you use the included worthless slicing software, not simplify 3d or other slicers- Filament runout sensor is worthless because when the printer pauses, it turns off the bed and nozzle heat, which ruins your ABS prints completely- The vendor says there is no way to change that functionality- The stepper drivers suffer from major salmon skin artifacts and need tl-smoothers to fix them- The unit we opened and tested had some weird grinding noises like a bad bearing or something somewhere- Printer USB port is totally worthless and cannot be controlled by Octoprint to implement an actual useful filament runout sensor solutionIf you like a printer with worthless features that don't actually work, buy this printer. All 3 units returned.

This has been a fantastic 3D printer, it’s exactly what I wanted in a printer. It’s simple to use and has good quality prints. This printer is basically the Flashforge Guider 2, just Monoprice branding. It’s kind of on the expensive side of 3D printers but it’s worth the price in my opinion. I would definitely purchase this again without hesitation.

I had a great experience with previous monoprice printers, but the Flashforge-derived printers are not very enthusiast-friendly.It only officially supports the provided slicer, and even though it is a flashforge printer, you can only use the Monoprice-branded version of the software, which is already several versions behind. It also doesn't support Octoprint, by design the manufacturer is unwilling to open the platform to allow interoperability.The printer is MASSIVE with a huge print volume and everything seems to be built extremely well, however I had nothing but failed prints, which is unacceptable for a printer that is this expensive and purports to be "turn-key".

There is not a lot of information out there about this printer but decided to pull the trigger on it anyway. The price was super low for some reason when I bought this and for what I spent it has been worth it so far. I cannot stand the assisted leveling and ended up just doing it manually with a piece of paper, also I can’t get pla to stick to the bed at all without using a glue stick I may try a different surface long term. When I got it dialed in and printing it started to really impress me. You can get really good results with it.

Printer contained faulty extruder head, returned unit 3 times for same issue.

I have had several 3d printers but this one is the best! Its the same as the Flashforge guider 2 and half the price on special! Great print quality, and the touch screen is great.