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Hi,

I am about to buy a flashforge creator pro 2016 but is it still worht it ?

some said that this model is gonna be replaced and no spare parts will be available soon

would like your opinion on this

thanks

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I’ve bought two more just this month. Great printer. Although I got them for about $500 each

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I don´t think it will be replaced soon. I am a Flashforge Distributor for Germany and haven´t heard of any major upgrades on the Flashforge Creator Pro 2016.

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They are releasing a few new models this year, but the Reprap tech this is based on is too widespread to be obsolete in the next year or two. I would say buy with confidence!

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The FlashForge Creator Pro is a great workhorse printer. We’ve got a few of them, some years old and still print reliably every day.

As far as the new 2016 model, there are some chassis case refinements, such as the bottom panel, front door, 1 piece top lid, that have come together to make up the new 2016 model.

It looks as though FlashForge does plan to keep it around at least for the foreseeable future, otherwise it wouldn’t make much sense to invest into new part manufacturing for a model that would only be around for that last year? We’ve been still selling them steadily, and for their quality, reliability and price point, they’re a tough value to beat for many users.

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We have not heard anything about this and our FlashForge Creator Pro works great and we would highly recommend buying it.

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there are plenty of other companies that make parts for them

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We’re replacing 3 or 4 older units with the 2016’s. I haven’t really seen any parts you couldn’t make or order from 3rd parties. If anyone wants to buy 2 2015 units and a makerbot replicator let me know. Also if you want a few new Flash Forges at a discount let me know.

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Honestly I have a creator pro and an old wooden box creator. My creator pro never worked as well as my regular creator and honestly at this point my creator pro has become an expensive paper weight. If I were to recommend a printer to buy it would be the original creator as I have thousands of hours of print time in that one and more spools of filament through it than I can even count, and it’s still running like a champ. Whenever I want to print something I don’t even think about using my creator pro, I just go straight to using my old regular creator. Now that all said, if you would like to buy a creator pro cheap, I’d be happy to part with my for $500 plus shipping to wherever you are just to get it off my desk.

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This sounds like someone trying to get you to buy their machine with scare tactics. I don’t think the FFCP is going anywhere and parts are plentiful. Also look at the QIDI Tech-1 basically the same machine.

Both good solid machines.

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I don’t think a single unit is a decent rating for a printer. If you have one and it has issues it is likely either settings or a bad unit. I don’t think flashforge is six sigma, they likely have a few percent error rate on shipped units.

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Every machine gets updated but very doubtful re the spare parts. Spare parts will always be available as very little is non generic. An amazing printer with incredible quality. Go for it.

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At the old price point of $800 they are a bit much. You can get QIDI and/or PowerSpec from Microcenter for much less and it’s the same printer. For $500 I’d say they’re worth it. Likely most cloners are moving up in build area size.

Spare parts will be around for many years. Whoever told you otherwise is high on ABS fumes.

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It’s not that the printer is non functional, or has any specific malfunctions. It just doesn’t work as well as my original creator. I’m sure with enough time fiddling with the settings I can get it right, but why should I have to spend more time fiddling on my newer printer when my old printer works better with less fiddling. It’s not that the new one doesn’t work, it’s simply that it’s more work to use the new one than the old one.

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I was actually in the same boat that you’re in. I was considering the Flashforge Creator Pro after a conversation I had with a graduate level research program director for 3D printing. He picked it for me because of my price range and the reliability of the printer.

After talking to a couple of Hub owners and doing a little more research I switched to the Prusa i3 MK2. It’s known to be on par with the Creator Pro as far as reliability goes and it’s in the same price range. One of the first things I was going to do to my Creator Pro is to switch out the hot end with an E3D V6 hot end (one of the most reliable in the industry). Prusa just announced that to be standard on their printers now. Yes it’s single extrusion but you can upgrade it to quad if you’d like. And honestly I like Prusa’s solution to dual/quad extrusion. I wasn’t terrible excited about fighting the battle of leveling both nozzles on the Creator Pro.

I guess my question to you is, what’s the main reason that you selected the Flashforge? Because of dual extrusion? Because of the enclosed build chamber?

Good luck,

Geoff

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I have three of the 2016 FFCP printers. For the most part, they’ve been good, solid workhorses. There’s no problem getting parts for them. In fact, I had to service them all from the start, as I got them on eBay from FlashForge Returns for about $400 each – sold as-is, not working, for parts only (bidding actually started at $199). If you don’t mind doing some minor repair work, it’s a great way to get a decent printer.

I spent a total of about $10 in parts, combined, to get the three fixed and working. In fact one of them only had 3-1/2 hours on it and the only problem I could find with it was a jammed extruder, which took all of five minutes to fix. One was a bit more work, though. it only had 40 hours on it, but the original owner didn’t properly secure the head before shipping it. It took about three hours to take it apart, snap all of the idler pulleys, bearings, and belts, etc. back into place that had gotten knocked loose in shipping, tighten the screws, and to replace the bad X-axis endstop cable and the missing filament feed tubes (those two things were the only expense on it).

So if you don’t mind taking a slight gamble on the luck-of-the-draw as to what you’ll get and don’t mind doing a little repair work, you can get a decent deal that way. Most of the QIDI parts actually fit the FFCP and are considerably cheaper than the “original” FFCP equivalent.

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QIDI is not the same quality as FlashForge

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wow thanks everyone for the wonderfull support

I wish I’d see that more often

have a merry xmas :wink:

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That really is not accurate. The QIDI uses metal parts where the FFCP uses plastic. Otherwise most of the components are the same.

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I produce a lot of end use parts. It is my opinion that as far as print quality is concerned. Flashforge creator and creator pro make beautifuly consistent vertical layers with no deviations. I own a alpha (delta style) and taz 5. When I want pretty I go with the creator pro.