[themingus]

Had to choose between a Prusa and a Bambu Labs for a school 3D printer. Bambu never got back to us when we reached out about tax exemption. That on top of their proprietary aspects sealed the deal for me. Prusa MK4+MMU3 has been more than satisfactory, even with the abuse of high schoolers and their optimistic print aspirations.

[plagiarist]

2D printing is an abomination because everything is proprietary, trash-tier drivers and HP begging for ink subscriptions. I have decided to commit to open source 3D printing. I was thinking of Voron as a next machine but this Prusa looks pretty nice.

[amelius]

What are the proprietary aspects?

[GuB-42]

BambuLab has a proprietary firmware.

So far, full open source and standard parts have been the standard for consumer-level 3D printer since the RepRap project, and especially for Prusa.

But it is not the case for BambuLab, except for its slicer, but I suspect that's only because it is a derivative of... PrusaSlicer, which is AGPL. Because BambuLab makes great 3D printers and is therefore very successful, the community worries that it will set a precedent and that 3D printing will become more and more locked down.

[blutack]

Mandatory cloud connection for the initial setup (although you can use it in LAN mode afterwards).

[kobalsky]

as far as I know, you can't flash a different firmware on the printer