Selling my Creality K2 “flagship” printer. Comes with the full CFS setup. I might keep the dryers because, let’s be honest, they’re the only thing Creality made that hasn’t failed. Consider it a bonus that this printer comes pre-loaded with regret and a life lesson.
Why am I selling?
Two weeks after I bought it, Creality dropped the price—so I get to take a nice little loss.
This thing has chewed through more filament than a toddler through spaghetti night, and the “AI” didn’t notice a thing. It will happily keep extruding while your print turns into modern art.
Warranty? Don’t bother. I replaced more parts out-of-pocket than I care to admit, because fighting with Creality tech support takes longer than waiting for Half-Life 3.
Features (if you can call them that):
$1,500 machine that can’t even print TPU unless you mod the spring like some back-alley chop job.
A constant source of troubleshooting, swearing, and late-night “why won’t this damn thing work” sessions.
Beautiful prints… on the rare occasion it decides not to implode.
Comparisons:
Bambu A1 (cheaper): Prints TPU flawlessly, no downtime, zero issues.
Creality K2 (more expensive): A masterclass in teaching patience and disappointment.
So yeah, I’m done. Between the A1, the H2D, and the new U1, I’ll have more reliable printers than Creality will ever dream of producing. Unless Creality suddenly decides to actually fix their “flagship” instead of pumping out yet another “Pro” version, they’re not seeing another dime from me.
Asking price: Make me an offer. You’re basically buying a cautionary tale with some hardware attached.
If you carefully document all the problems and keep track of your conversations with Creality, you might be able to get your money back through a credit card chargeback.
I had lots of issues with my K2 Plus, and I always took pictures and videos of the problems when the appeared to show Creality during our email conversation. This helped me create strong evidence of the printer’s defects.
In the end, I was fed up and filed a credit card chargeback, which successfully returned all my money!
Thanks, lucky for me, I have kept all this information. I might just go the same route. Even trying to sell this for a large markdown to get it off my hands is resulting in little luck, because people ask why are you selling it, and I have to be truthful. I tell them that I have not had luck with the printer producing good prints, and the fact that it just wastes filament.
I’m not sticking up for Creality but my K1 has been printing flawlessly since NOV2023. I feel lucky because there seems to be many unhappy Creality owners. There should be a lemon law to protect consumers against faulty Chinese products.
I was in the same boat initially. Two months of back and forth with tech support, with them shipping me parts right and left, and me rebuilding every component I could. I finally gave up. They sent a brand new machine and it has worked flawlessly right out of the box. I think Crealitys biggest problem is quality control - everything from loose screws to faulty parts. But I stayed the course and am now glad I did. I love the extra printing space of 350mm x 350mm and the CFS. You might want to see if they will replace the whole machine. Some are just duds. But if you get one that works, it is a great machine.
I was in the same boat with my k2 max. Nothing but problems and it was a pain to get help. They finally sent me a new extruder after claiming my warranty was up, even though I tried to get the issue fixed long before the warranty was up. I do finally have it running right, and absolutely loved my ender 3s. When people ask me about what is a good starter 3d printer, I tell them anything but Creality. I hope someone at Creality is reading these messages, but they likely do not care. Their customer service needs serious work if they want to stay relevant.
Can’t print TPU on the Hi either which makes it a garbage printer as well.
The Hi is my last creality Printer i will ever buy. I’ve had it with their piss poor customer service and garbage printers. 3 is enough.. the ONLY reason the Hi works is because they had to replace it within 3 after I bought it. Then make you pay for multicolor prints .. garbage.
I have a Creality Ender 3 V3 and did have the load sensors that are used for leveling fail. It took some time working with Creality but they did send a new set and all is well. To be honest they responded pretty quickly and went through the textbook items to try to fix it and I cannot really blame them for that but it sure does take more time with emails back and forth to China.
Not sure about the TPU issues with you may been having but for me after a few tries, mostly caused by my mistakes that caused the failures it printed just fine. I did use Creality TPU but don’t see why that would make any difference.
So I agree better quality control would be good, but my bed leveling worked fine for a few months before it failed, so not that easy to find in the factory before shipping.
But for TPU just remember that it really is a different kind of filament and with that knowledge all will work just fine. I have also printed filament that was poly-carbonate, well like most of them just a percentage of poly-carbonate, with the only issue is if you print it and forget to change the settings from TPU to poly-carbonate it will fail. Another foolish mistake.