You know what? You need more head. How about five? The new Prusa XL. We've just got this in,
and I've been really excited about this for a long time. So this is the semi-assembled,
so I'm probably going to rip all the parts out and then disappear for a little while.
And we've got a rip tab. Oh, she ripped good.
Always looks bigger in person, doesn't it? First thing I notice immediately is the size
of the gummy bear bag has increased a lot. The instructions tell you when to eat how many.
It's actually great. Looks like we've got some filament already, which is nice. The galaxy black.
Oh yeah, that's right. We get a little receipt for all the pre-flight checks that they've done for
and has a full LCD control panel, just like the Mark IVs and all of the other ones. There's our
multi-tool extruder. Let's have a look at that. Oh yeah. Oh yeah, this is exciting. So there's going
to be five of these. So here is the next struder with the automatic tool changing system on it.
Oh yeah. Oh yeah, that's going to be great. Now this model does come in a few different varieties
from like one head to up to five. It's a really good way to do multi-material, especially if
you're going to be changing colors. So you can do multiple colors or you can do multiple types
of filament. Looks like they've also sent us a nice little care package. I don't think this is
standard. We have a second heated bed. This is the XL PEI spring shield and the sheet,
which is really nice. And then a whole bunch of filament. Oh my god. Yeah, we've got some prusa
filament. Look at all of this. Okay, all right. Maybe we'll be doing multi-color prints today.
Oh, it looks like they've sent us some spare nozzles. That's pretty cool. These are hardened,
which means we can print things like carbon fiber impregnated nylon and stuff like that.
And these are part of the next struder system, which means that changing these out is pretty
simple. My understanding is that we can't mix nozzle diameters. So these are all 0.4 millimeter.
This model comes with both Ethernet and Wi-Fi capabilities. It shares a lot of similarities
between the Mark IV, but they have the new segmented bed. So the Mark IV has one giant bed,
whereas this one has what looks like 16 individual segments. And each of these can heat up
individually, which means that you're not heating up an entire bed if you're only going to be
printing right on the front or right in the center, which is kind of cool. Of course, you know,
giant build area. So this one is 14 inches by 14 inches by 14 inches, which is absolutely massive,
which is really cool to see. And this is spring steel and magnetic. So it just kind of sits in
with a couple of little locating pins at the back and then snaps down, which is great. Let's get
this out. It looks like we have linear rails for each of the motion systems. Compared to something
like the Mark IV, which has one motor that controls the x-axis, this has two which work in tandem to
control both the x and the y. Just like the Mark IV, each of these extruder assemblies have a load
cell built in, which means that we can home and calibrate and do everything that we need directly
through the nozzle. All of these are direct drive extruders. So there's a little stepper
motor in here, which will pull the filament through. We've got channels on the side here
with filament runout. So this will pop into the carriage here. And then these two locking tabs
head over and click in. And then that holds the whole extruder assembly. So we'll have five of
them at the back here. And then the whole head assembly here will come there and then release
them and undock them and then move away and pick up the next one. Really, really neat system. Very
excited. Looks like we're going to have to install the LCD and control panel ourselves. That's going
to go right about there. And it looks pretty much identical to the Mark IV. Both printers seem to
share a lot of similarities, which is kind of nice. I believe this one does have chamber
illumination, but I think that's mostly some of the differences. Looks like our X-Y plate here
is a giant block of milled aluminum, which is awesome to see. And then of course, yeah, the
linear rails are also great. Still got some traditional 3D printed parts like these top
Z-axis supports and things like that. But most of it seems to be really quite high quality aluminum
parts. Looks like they've given us a test print in here, which is cool to see. Turning it around to
have a look at the back. I believe these have three separate power supplies. You're going to have
five heaters plus the entire bed. You're going to need quite a bit of power. Looks like we've got
our standard aluminum extrusion channels, which kind of make up most of the frame. And it's got some
nice blanking plates in here, kind of like your original Creality or something like that. And
here's one of the mounts for the extruders. They're going to sort of sit back here and that'll feed
your power and your data and all of your filament through there. It's got these two locating pins
on the back. So this slot's in here like that. And it looks like we've got some incredibly powerful
magnets that kind of keep it located. It's really important that these are in the same position
every single time. We have a single cable, which connects to the hot end, is probably just going
to fall down here and plug into the control box, which looks like it's right here.
On this side of the control box, we have our Ethernet jack and there's also a USB-C port,
even though I'm not quite sure what that's for yet. I'm going to flip it on its back and
well, let's have a look at what the bottom entails. We've got our Z-Drive motors here and then
nice big metal sheet at the bottom. Oh, look at all of those. You can see the individual cables,
which go to every single of the 16 heating zones. Okay, here's a spool holder. Let's have a look at
that. They're telescoping, so they kind of, I guess, just snap into each other. That's nice.
Oh, they're going to go into these channels here. Easy. And they're adjustable because I've got some
big spools. We print with some large spools because we do so much all the time here. We have quite a
nice toolkit, it looks like. We've given us a full-size screwdriver, even though we probably
won't be using that. That would be illegal. It was where I was a pair of pliers and some allen keys
and wrenches, which we're going to need to do all this screwing. A little thumb drive here, which is
great for firmware or printing, but you don't actually need that as this has Prusa Connect,
everything built in, which allows you to manage multiple of these for a print farm if necessary.
I think we have about eight or so mark fours now, which are all connected over Ethernet and
controllable from one central location, which is great. I really like seeing Ethernet on printers
because it's a little bit more reliable and a lot more faster. Although if you want, you can run
this completely offline. Absolutely no cloud service necessary. They know who I'm talking about.
Each of these nozzles need to be put in and then ran and then it has to go through all of its
preflight checks. There's a hole right in the center where you put a little peg and then you're going
to be moving each of these nozzles onto that to make sure that their z-height is known perfectly
and then it'll kind of bump into all of the sides of them and so it knows its x and y coordinates
and then it'll store all of those offsets internally and then you won't have to worry
about that again. Now if you don't mind, I'd like to be alone with this thing for a little while.
Hello, Future Dan here. I let a print run overnight. We did a nice multi-color Kirby. This little guy
took about four and a half hours compared to some of the other little layer tests that I did.
I want to try this one overnight as this one has interlayer nozzle changes compared to the
little tests that I started out with which every layer was a different material. I also
switched the bed type. This is the textured bed compared to the smooth one that we tried these
tests on. You can see on both of them that it's left these long stringing things after it purges
all the nozzles before it starts printing on both of them. Like I didn't clean up any of the mess
that it left because I kind of wanted to see how that ended up and yeah it's a bit of a messy
printer but I mean these are kind of easy to deal with. I normally keep a little waste basket
next to my printers anyway but this one in particular is a bit snotty. All right let's see
how it releases from the bed. Okay, just slides off instantly. That's kind of great. Somebody
put a gummy bear in here. Whatever. And we have a new type of purge tower too which is kind of cool.
Yeah, this is a five-color print. Looking at this it seems pretty good. There wasn't really any
stringing or much at all between the purge tower and the part itself. Not also seeing too much of
the z-height ringing. The Joel the 3d printing nerd based greatest goat of all time. Notice when
in his review as well there's some slight overhang stuff there but that seems pretty okay. And other
people are also noticing that there was some blobbing in between where you know a little bit
of a different color would stay stuck to one of the nozzles. Maybe a little tiny bit in the eye
there but I'm not noticing too much. It might just be a larger particular piece in
Marvel PLA that they sent. It's pretty good. Mechanical strength between the two colors is
also really good. And kind of nice thing was that I just colored this inside Prusa Slicer itself.
So software works well for just filling a pre-existing singular model. Purge towers are
kind of cool in this system. The time between layer changes is nearly instant. It just basically
goes zoop zoop zoop and then continues which is really nice. This model printed in about four
and a half hours and contained over fourteen thousand five hundred individual layer changes
which is insane for that amount of time. And yeah on the inside you can kind of wow that's strong.
On the inside you can kind of see how it builds out those interesting little layer lines. There's
not too much in here. It's mostly empty. Depending on the severity of the layer changer or how many
are in one layer it'll do you know a couple of lines and it'll do a little bit of a drag and
then go back and change its tool head. It's really neat. This is kind of exactly the level of
performance that I would expect from Prusa. The build quality is excellent. The printing performance
is excellent and the instructions were also excellent. I wasn't expecting it to be this
kind of simple to put together. This is the fully assembled one where basically all I had to do
was just attach the hot ends and that went together really nicely. The full calibration
included in the software is easy to follow and very simple. It fits our giant spools of you
know two and a half kilograms of PLA which is great. I think some of the issue comes down to
maybe price and who is going to be buying something like this. I know definitely we're going to be
using it here. We don't have a printer with this size build volume and certainly not something
that's easy to use. It'll fit right into the rest of our Prusa ecosystem with their little
Ethernet and wi-fi connected thing but I mean they'll even allow you to break little piece
on the circuit board and load unsigned firmware too if you wanted to go a bit further with it.
I know there's some complaints about camera compatibility but that's not really something
we care too much or value here. This printer here would be the most expensive offering they do which
is the fully assembled and the five head system which comes it to four thousand US dollars which
is a pretty hefty price to pay for something like this. There are other offerings that are cheaper
that will do multi-material. The price category and the kind of competence of this would be for
somebody who wants prints to happen constantly without worry you can just kind of you'll know
that it's mostly going to work ninety percent of the time because you have five nozzles compared
to a single nozzle or even another multi nozzle which has to purge the nozzle every single time
that it does a color change pull the filament back cut it you know do whatever like that
all of these are just ready to go and so the layer times for doing this little wipe tower are
really quick. When I'm prototyping stuff for here I'll do multiple revisions on a nice fast printer
and then I'll batch print them on our Prusas because they're reliable and they're dimensionally
accurate and we just know they work you just set it and then leave. Maybe I'm going to be doing
five or six different types of materials on one plate maybe I want to test a prototype in five
different materials simultaneously that's that's kind of your option I think this would probably
be a lot better for multi-material rather than multi-color if you want to think about it that
way. I think at the opposite end of the spectrum the one head semi-assembled variety which may be
more like a home user or a hobbyist or something like that who has time to spare which is two
thousand US dollars is probably going to be the best entry point into a build volume of this size.
Now that's about twice the price of an entry level mark four but you get a hell of a lot more build
volume. I was doing some parts recently and I needed to do a giant motherboard tray and I had
to segment that into five or six different pieces instead of just being able to print it on something
like this which is great so having a massive build volume can be useful. You can buy both of the
expansion boards that are included in this model including the extra hot end one and the wi-fi card
that kind of just slot in like PCR cards are kind of neat. I'm also happy to see that they're including
each of the individual little bed tiles because I maybe want to buy those for another project that
I'm working on. As a reminder this kind of isn't a review this is just first impressions and unboxing
so I think this printer warrants maybe a little bit more research. I am very happy with this though
I think this is going to meet our needs perfectly because we're distributed around the buildings
having this printer web connected with five filaments loaded is really useful because somebody from
any building can connect into this and then just pick a filament that's loaded into it and print
the effectively that way. The lack of built-in camera though does make it difficult to start a
print to make sure that there's not already a part still waiting there like this was sitting
overnight and then I come in in the morning and start another one and then just destroy it.
I don't know I think you did a great job. Good job Prusa. You make you make good things. If you
like this why don't you check out the video that we did on the Prusa mark four. We have loads of
those and we love them. We love them. We love the Prusa. My precious Prusa.