This time last year, we rolled out our first-ever multicolor 3D printer—K2 Plus Combo.
to.store.creality.com/sns-k2-plus
Since then, being bold, creating freely, and coloring outside the lines has reached a whole new level.
Celebrate on April 9 #Creality11thAnniversary in U.S.—To Makers By Makers. 
And still ship it with bugs, defects, and other issues.
I hadn’t realised the K2+ had been out that long. It still feels like a very new product (with all the issues still being worked on). Before my K2+ I’ve been in the Prusa ecosystem for the last 9 years - when they release a new printer, it generally works first time, and continues to work! I guess that’s the benefit of running a farm with hundreds of your own printers - you shake out the issues before the customers find them. Creality take note!
After some consideration of this Creality-initiated thread, I have the following to say (in the context that I’m not one to complain, and am normally a “glass 3/4 full” person!). I cancelled my order for a Prusa CoreOne and ordered my K2+ in late Feb, after checking some youtube reviews and not wanting to wait another 6-8 weeks for the Prusa. I wanted the large build plate and the 4-colour autochanger. I’m an experienced printer but was looking for a “send and forget” printer so I could get on with simply printing stuff, instead of fiddling with the printer all the time. This is the experience that BBL and Prusa Mk4S have led us to expect, and I had every expectation that the K2+, being the “flagship” printer from Creality, and at this price point, would deliver this kind of experience. It has not been the case. Mine seems like one of the good ones, according to some folks’ experience, but I’ve still had to dismantle the extruder multiple times, replace a very damaged part (looks like damage during assembly), modify the bed to get it to lay somewhat flat, dismantle the CFS filament path multiple times, etc. - All this in the first MONTH of ownership. This is simply unacceptable in this day and age! I’ve thought about returning it a few times, but like many here, I’m a patient person with an engineering background, and when it does print, it prints really well (it does ABS very well indeed, which is my main material) so I think I’ll soldier on in the (optimistic) hope things get better over time. I have to say I was disappointed to see this thread, showing the printer has been shipping for a year - I really thought it was newly released, and that the issues we’re all seeing are just teething troubles from very new software - unfortunately it’s worse than that, as they should have shaken out the software issues by now!
So, my message to Creality: you have FAR too many products - reduce your inventory down to a few key products for each catigory; reduce your toolheads to just two or three (all the K series should be using the same extruder!); stop wasting effort and resources on an inferior port of orca - focus instead on releasing printer and filament profiles for Orca, as it’s clearly won the slicer wars and is now the go-to slicer for the industry. It seems most of the members of this forum (and the market for the K2+) have multiple printers, so will be using a “universal” slicer like Orca anyway. Concentrate your resources, stop spreading yourselves too thin, and focus on rebuilding your reputation. Only then will You start to re-gain market share from BBL, who’ve shown the industry how it CAN be done.
What do you mean?
Creality Print 6.0 is equal 95% to Orca Slicer.
I am very satisfied with Creality Print 6.0
I’m glad you’re happy with CP, Thomas - I started with CP when my K2+ first arrived, as I wanted the “factory” experience and assumed that would be the way to get best tuned profiles. However I soon realised that it was very buggy (on Mac at least) and the upgrades I went through were simply playing catch-up with where Orca had already been (and moved on from). I now use Orca exclusively (as I’ve also bought a Bambu Labs A1Mini, which is 100% reliable, quick and easy - how the K2+ should have been) and I’ve found that Orca has the same integrations and profiles that CP has (I presume I have Creality to thank for providing printer profiles for generic Orca). It even works well with the CFS autochanger, which is a huge relief! - So I’ve realised that running CP is simply sentencing oneself to an inferior, buggy, proprietary version of Orca - why would you??
Hello Dangerous,
Very well said and true in every way.
Creality should have left CP at version 5.1.6xxx (for those that are new to the game and don’t know of Orca).
After that version is seens like they simply found ways to stuff it up with each try at it.
As for the K2xx I personally would not want one if it were given to me.
I prefer to spend my time printing, rather than trouble shooting/fixing/modifying it to get it to work.
This may be a bit away from this subject, but why is it that the word Creality comes up red underlined when typed in Crealitys OWN forum.
Wouldn’t they at least get “that” right.
Cheers.
