This POS wasn't ready for market

I am beyond done with this time and money wasting contraption, just problems after problems, unrelated problems, ghost issues and codes that have nothing to do with anything. Sorry for the rant but this is the worst purchase I’ve ever made, this is in no way ready for retail sales, the thing is a nice pice of art that is just not reliable whatsoever, you can throw the best dryer filament money can buy and it will find a way to waste it for you while depleting your money it’s does even more damage to your time and mental health, having you endlessly chasing every aspect that makes this printer, and giving a wide array of meaningless codes that mean nothing. I am really thinking this is a plan funded by the CCCP where to waste of bunch of dumb Americans time and sanity, and also a good way for them to sell us back their plastic waste in filament form. Of course that being a joke but I can’t be the only one ready to just take this out to a field and fill it with tannerite and blasting it into a billion pieces. Anyway thank you for taking the time to read my rant and feel free to add your own tidbit of frustration and maybe we can grow a community of people who hate the K2. Don’t sweat the petty stuff and don’t pet the sweaty stuff, peace.

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So, you are upset about something then ?

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You’re not the only one, friend. I live in Russia, and just like you, I face these stupid problems and endless mistakes. I’m just tired of fighting with this printer already. Conda, he works, he’s great, but when he starts dying, he pisses me off. And the dumbest thing is that the company does not officially operate in Russia and I was simply denied technical support, at least you can bring this printer back to the store, but I will wait and suffer and bring it to mind on my own. We’re all in the same boat right now, with printers that aren’t working as they should.

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Well at least you have a cool name my friend, whenever I seen it I was reminded of Stanislav Szukalski, a very famous sculptural from a long time ago, and believe it or not was very much a part of the upbringing of Leonardo DiCaprio,probably my favorite artist of all time. Anyway yeah this thing is absolute garage and today is no different, so far today the axis is off, unknown errors, won’t extrude or retract filament and it will pass calibration only to crash when starting a print. So yeah I will be returning this trash and I suppose your only option is to sell it privately for as much as possible and walk away. Sorry for your luck in that, hope you don’t lose too much and better luck with your next machine.

Must be your machine because mine is an absolute fantastic no hassle piece of equipment. If I look to the Ender 3 S1 Pro or the Ender 3v2 Neo that I have standing next to it then forget it, THAT was a lot of hassle in hindsight. Bed leveling, trying to align the bed with the knobs, filament not sticking, limited bed area, all the add-ons and upgrades needed to get it to work the best you can. Not anymore, all ancient history. Both my K2 and my Ender 3v3 Plus are amazing. The 3v3 Plus is too loud so that got banned to the garage but the K2 with the CFS? Absolutely awesome.
Now if you would have feedback on what is actually happening then maybe people can help here but to just call it crap without any context that’s not helping anyone. I hope you can get it fixed though!

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Well said my friend :+1:

Well I am glad yours is great, but there are a ton of people who’s machines are just bricks. So if I were to list the individual problems it would be a novel, just imagine all the parts of the machine and there you have it, from the extruder, bed, belt, cfs, they are all included, but the really awesome thing is whenever it tells me whatever random code it decides to show it almost anything but what’s listed. While I am trying to be a little funny this thing is absolute s***, can’t tell you how many hours I’ve wasted taking this and that apart, recalibrating, switching filament, redrying already dry filament and just general waste of money with the 40 rolls of asa, petg and abs I bought only to find out they way over promised on what it could run, the only decent prints I have got was with PLA, not why I spent 2k is a machine that only does PLA semi regularly. Bottom line is that wasn’t ready, and proof is it will literally start a print on say ABS without the chamber even being to temp… Seriously wtf is that? No f’ing way that should have ever made it to mass production. So cool that you’ve had good luck so far but I have a feeling all you fanboys will soon realize this isn’t a well built machine and see the light.

Don’t know if this fits this message. Fortunately, my printer works well. I did have the same problem that when I started a print the printer suddenly went off with the fans still running and a whole row of error code. This happened after I had a file from Creality Cloud for the K2 with settings. After three tries I tried to print a calibration kubis, this also failed with the same errors. I didn’t get it because I had printed this before. tried everything but kept getting errors. then replaced my printer.cfg with a backup and did a factory reset. Then the printer worked as before with the same calibration kubis. Then I wanted to be sure and tried the file of Creality Cloud again. Another row of errors and the machine failed also with the calibration kubis or any stl file. put printer.cfg back and still the printer failed. then did the printer.cfg and factory reset and it works again.

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that was 3 printing days ago. no problems anymore. sliced the file from creality cloud myself without any settings and printed fine.

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Hi, I can also fully understand and confirm the disappointments and negative experiences mentioned above although (luckily at least for the moment) not to that extreme extent. Nevertheless I fully agree that a so called „flagship“ printer not least with a significant price tag has to have a much better and robust quality in order to be satisfied as customer (my personal view). Although I also experienced some regular weird and annoying behaviour of the printer the main issues and dissatisfaction on my side are related to the CFS. To me the CFS seems to have even significantly bigger construction and/or quality problems than the printer. And that is totally unacceptable if you ask me. So Creality, please do your homework and asap here!!!