Welcome to today's 3D print. Today we're going to talk about the any cubic i3 mega. The printer I didn't want that I'm very glad I ended up getting. Stay tuned. I didn't originally want the any cubic i3 mega because it's too small. It's just an 8x8 by printer and I have plenty of those. But my viewers wanted to see it so I asked you your best to send me one especially since I saw the price go down. It was normally like $450 and I needed like $300 or less $27 I believe is the current cube on the hood. So I got one. This is going to be my mid-review. So I did none boxing and an impression and now I'm going to give you a somewhat of an intermediate review. A true review takes six months. I have to use a printer abuse it, torture it, use it for a long time, ensure it's good before I actually put my blessing on a printer. But as a full review. So this will be something new that I'm experimenting with. This will be my first one. The any cubic i3 mega has a or 210 by 210 by 205 print volume. It's a bowed and set up and the cool thing about this printer besides it being a fast assembly printer, four screws and you're done is that it has a color touchscreen on the front and it has what's called ultra base for a print bed. It looks like a piece of glass that has had a pattern of PEI or something similar impregnated or sprayed on top of it. So it's actually part of the glass and this stuff is amazing because when you print on it, for example, I printed this on it. This is another one of those vases I printed. This is now cooled down and I'm now ready to remove from the print bed. There's nothing to remove. It suffers releases from the print bed when it cools, which is very cool. This is a 200 micron phase print in maker geeks crystal PLA green and it came out stunning. It's one of my favorite vases that I've ever printed. I really like this. I've course did a little jaw bot. This is that 100 microns. I help someone make a little corn thingy. So this actually spins inside of here. I thought that was pretty cool. I made little bowed and clips. These actually work. They don't fit this printer, but they fit all my CR reality printers. So I keep your bowed and clips from coming out. Then of course you have my standard trifecta of prints. So here is the Marvin. Very good, including the hook. I have no complaints about the Marvin. The rocket is beautiful. This crystal PLA does a genuinely nice job on vase prints. It's very pretty. It's almost like a metalized prismatic effect. It's very cool. And then of course the Benchie. That's everybody's benchmark. As you can see, it is nearly perfect. It is a very good Benchie. There is also something very interesting about this printer. This is what got me so excited. This printer does something that only one of the printer I have does. The original, the Ender. This has almost Ender Quality prints. If you look closely at the Benchie here, there is almost no noise, no ringing. I only have two printers in my 20 plus printer arsenal that can do that. And that's the Ender and the I3 Mega. Considering this doesn't even have extrusions and rails, it's actually linear bearings and smooth rods. That's impressive. Now it took me a while because when I first got it, there's a wobble in the prints. It ended up being a bent coupler. The coupler itself was bent. Although I don't think it was bent. I think the coupler was drill-draw. So probably the two holes were correct, which caused the whole thing to wobble. I would suggest people start trying to figure out manufacturers put 8mm shafts on stepper motors from now on. So that it's only one hole drill straight through 8mm done. This is interesting. That's right. It prints TPU. No problem. I was surprised by this. This TPU is a little old. I think it's got some water in it. So it's got some on. It's supposed to be more clear. But it printed fine. I suspect that it's got some water absorption in it. It's about two-year-old roll of Fox Bart TPU. But I also did a TPU Benching. And you're going to say, wait, this stringing. Well, that is incredibly low stringing, considering that this is a flexible filament. Very flexible. And this is a mode in setup. I was very impressed. It's a pain in about the load to get because it's a pain in about to keep the filament from turning to get into that mode and to. But once you get in there, you're fine. All I did was use my normal print settings. I didn't change a thing except to pick up the temperature a little bit. And I lowered the speed to one half. So I was probably printing at 25 millimeters a second. And maybe 30 millimeters a second. It seemed to be going pretty quick on the Benchie to the point where I was worried. But it worked fine. I went to bed. I woke up to a finish Benchie and a finished rocket. So it did a very, very good job. I also did something large. I wanted to see if this stuff would hold up. Meaning would I also self-release a large print? The answer is yes. I printed this with that much surface area, which is roughly, I want to say 50% of the bed. And that was self-released. I came to in the morning to get the print. Touched it and it was already released in the print bed. This does have filament detection and it does work. It also has power off resume. But there is a catch. It works. I yanked the power. You see me doing the first video? I yanked the power plug. Plugged it back in, hit resume and it finished the print. But that has two problems. One, it does not move the print head when it does that. So because of that, that hot head sits there inside your print wherever it happened to be. And that's not so good for your print. It doesn't destroy it, but it puts a mark on there that's less than desirable. The other problem is the power off resume is well effectively worthless on this printer. One of the greatest features of this printer, this ultra-base. I already bought four pieces of it. It seems like it finds somebody who can cut it. The S4 is getting four sheets of this stuff. So I can do an S4 print on this ultra-base because I only do PLA on the S4. This also works fine on the TPU by the way. It sticks fine. It doesn't auto release, but just pop it off. The problem is when the power goes out, this bit turns off. And the self-releasing nature of this print bed happens when the bed cools, which means if the power is off long enough for this to cool down enough, and you're not here to restart it, the print is going to release from the print bed. And the resume function won't work because the part will move. It will no longer be attached to the print bed. If you're doing an ultra-complicated model, what might help is if you take a hot glue gun and say three points on the model, pop, pop, pop, just put a little dab of hot glue to fix that model to the print bed so that if there is a power off scenario, the model won't move. That might work. I don't know. Don't depend on the power off resume. And you're not going to do that long a print on this thing anyway. It's only a eight by eight print bed. I am impressed. This printer is under $300. It has a color touchscreen. The interface is nice. It takes a full size SD card. It's not exactly quiet. I'm going to replace the fans to make this thing quieter. But the no noise printing and the auto release print bed functionality is amazing. Any cubic if you're watching this make larger sheets of this. People will buy it. The stuff is cool. So if you want a regular i3 sized printer, 210 by 210 by 205, this really is not bad. It's fast. It handles flexible. It handles with the bowden tube. I was impressed by that. I wouldn't say, let's try it. Let's see what happens. And it worked. The print surface is amazing. There's no noise. Low quality or low noise, not low quality. High quality prints, almost ender quality prints. It's fantastic. I mean, look at this. I haven't touched this. Look at the stringing on this. There's almost no stringing. That's unheard of for flexible. That's impressive. I have a little string on this one. I'm not sure why. You see it on the edges there. I think it's the nature of this PLA. It's got to be printed hot. 255 degrees. But I love it. I am very, thank you very much to those who suggested that I get this printer. I am impressed with this printer and I like it. I hope you guys enjoyed this review. Let me know what you would like me to go over in my reviews. But I would give this printer a provisional. Yes, buy it. I don't see anything that screams out at me that says beware. Nothing screams at me that, oh, this is not good. It's fine. It's a good regular standard printer with some advanced features like the Power Offers Zoom and the Film and Detection and the big one this ultra bass. It's nice. You guys have a great day. Thank you.