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CHAPTERS
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0:00 Intro & A New Face
0:10 Unboxing
1:20 Overview of the Prusa MK4
3:02 Supermicro!
3:38 Setting up the Prusa MK4
6:30 Printing
8:58 Lil Snorlax is complete
9:26 Dissasembly and a look at the internals
10:43 Closing thoughts
12:51 Outro
Looks like they’re one step closer to cloning Linus this clone is almost convincing
just need a snapchat high pitch voice filter 😂😂
Needs to drop more expensive things.
They need to work on the voice and clumsiness. Also make him shorter.
I genuinely thought that was Linus in the thumbnail...
Is he wearing socks with sandals ?
Tynan is like if Dan and Linus had a baby but that baby was raised by a normal family.
Who would be the one giving birth?
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Have you seen Tynan on his tech upgrade? I'm not so sure he was raised by a normal family
@@rodrigof.5956hahaha got them birthing hips
More screen time for Tynan the LTT stud muffin please 😎
Go go Tynan! Nice to see a real engineer doing this, makes it give me so much more confidence buying one of these overly complicated printers. Welcome!
Its overly priced, not overly complicated :)
@@Nobody-Nowhere I've had three of these contraptions, all having to be built from a kit...trust me, they're overly complicated and need to be MUCH simplified to attract the non geek....even most geeks I know avoid them still. This is a nice step in the right direction though (at least the prebuilt one) so there's hope.
He is doing great!!!!!!
Where? I see Linus V2.4
@@scott-proav More like Linus 6' 4"......
I thought that was linus on the thumbnail 😂
Same lol
same 😂
Hahahah I fell for that as well 😂
OpenSource linus face
Same
I remember talking to Josef Prusa at a maker faire when I was just entering middle school when 3D printing wasn’t more than a niche product. It’s nice to see everything still working and staying true to the promises he was talking about back then.
Love seeing actual engineers like Tynan host on content like this. It feels so much more credible having someone as knowledgeable as him, and he's a natural host!
Hello there. I'm a 3D artist expert in Blender, Maya, Cinema 4D, 3ds Max, and more. I provide high-quality STL files for 3D printing.
The not being forced into an app or cloud service is a pretty strong argument these days.
Un-encrypted huge logfiles is also a cause for concern. And unexpected contacts through the firewall.
Hello there I'm a 3D artist expert in Blender, Maya, Cinema 4D, 3ds Max, and more. I provide high-quality STL files for 3D printing.
I've been using the Prusa MK4 pretty much since the day it came out (Was one of the very first orders). Been rock solid for 2 months, have over 45 days of print time on it, and no failures. The Input shaping alpha made it seem like a whole new printer with how fast, and good the prints look!
This supports my findings, although I am usually aiming for cheaper products, the quality, reliability and overall support is definitely worth the money!
Just a quick note. PrusaSlicer is actually itself a fork of the open source project Slic3r.
Prusa's team completely rewrote slic3r in c++ or w/e language its in now because the old language was like visual basic or something. Still this is the power of open source and why it's crucial.
@@JJiG this, slic3r is old and pretty much abandoned.
@@JJiG Do you have a source for this? Looking at the repository for Slic3r it's very clear that it's written in C++ (as well as Perl, which sounds like what you're talking about). Maybe what happened is that they did this rewrite alongside the Slic3r maintainers, which would be pretty cool
yay someone said it also superslicer pulls prusa slicer back into open source but improves it and since superslicer came out so many forks have been created. I still by far prefer Ultimaker's Cura.
@@JJiGSauce?
Tynan is a fantastic presenter, maybe not as smooth with the sponsor segues as some others, but other than that, absolutely no complaints :D
training wheels mate training wheels... remember linus is now the vision guy
Hi Tynan, Hope you step up to do more in-depth reviews of tech like this as you are really informative.
Love Tinus, seems like he'd make a good substitute boss for the summer
I want to see a 3D printer gauntlet like the team do with laptops and GPUs as now it's almost viable in every price bracket. Also love to see another engineer talking about useful terminology. Would like to see more of Tynan
I second this, having very little experience with 3d printing it would be helpful to see a direct comparison across multiple devices.
I have zero interest in getting a 3D printer, but I would watch any video with Tynan in it. He is so fun. We need more Tynan on the channels.
Nice video on the MK4! Now go checkout the input shaping alpha release! Pretty rad on the mk4
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@@AA-xu4vd Got 'em!
@ShortCircuit jolly good show guys. Tynan's engineering background and his in depth review of this printer was indeed informative and entertaining. Fun fact, back in 2021 in my advanced diploma of civil engineering, we had a subject where we had to go into the workshop and 3D print out a bridge (for the civil diploma, for the aeronautical diploma they had to print out a model aircraft, mechanical I can't remember) but due to the lockdowns that did not happen, will buy a 3D printer when I have the money for it (which should be hopefully soon). Hats off to Tynan and the rest of the team.
Tynan is one of the most chaotic members of lmg and i love that for him
how is it chaotic?
@@gaveintothedarkness I think it was meant as normally chaotic but definately not in this piece. He's a classic mad scientist type in other videos normally
I have an MK3S+ and my experience with Prusa has also been very good. If it weren't for my chronic laziness I would have ordered the upgrade kit by now. I think if you're weighing up the pros and cons of this printer vs its competitors, Prusa's ongoing commitment to providing an upgrade path is a pretty big plus in my opinion, as well as their commitment to open source which I think lies at the heart of 3D printing/making, at least in my mind.
Yeah, I am an international student doing PhD in US, and I have used many different printers including Prusa Mk3S+ and I would love to buy and try the new Mk4 but the question is if you already have a Mk3 or one of its upgraded versions does that really make sense at that price point compared to buying a new Mk4 next to your old one just for an additional 200 USD? I feel like if you already like printing and have no problem having another one it makes more sense to buy it as a separate printer, as the upgrade to Mk4 kit sounds a little too expensive as well as it renders your old one(or the rest of the parts you will be left with) unusable that it does not make sense. For another 200 bucks you have another printer as well as keeping the old one.(The old one being a Mk3 as well so that is still very good)
@@gokalpcetin2769 Yes I'll admit I have struggled deciding whether I want to buy the full MK4 instead of the upgrade. I don't really need another printer, but not having to disassemble most of the existing MK3S+ definitely appeals to the lazy part of me that I alluded to above. I'm in Australia though so I think the price gap is a little wider I think. I'm still not sure what I want to do.
@@gokalpcetin2769 In my opinion, the better choice is to buy a new Mk4 kit and keep the Mk3S+ as a backup printer. It's the kind of thing that you might never know you want or need until you have it. Like if you're in the middle of a 20 hour print and find you need a little 30-minute print for something you're working on. With a spare, you don't have to wait until the next day.
Everyone keeps saying that a Prusa printer is overpriced and people should get something like an Ender 3 etc... But after messing with the Ender 3 printers at my school which was an absolutely god awful experience, it was nice to come back home to my old old Prusa i3 mk2 and be able to just print. And it prints the same as it did when it was new 6 years ago and assembled in a day. I feel like the Enders and other printers are enthusiast printers while Prusas are "professional" printers that are meant to be assembled, sat on the table and printed on, not tinkered around before every print. If you're just someone who has a 3D printer as a hobby then it's fine, but if you want it as an actual work tool you need something that just works. That's why I will stand by Prusa printers and will buy a Mk4 in the near future. Thanks for the great review ❤️
just finished building a voron trident!! I'm pumped LTT's covering updates to the industry!! another exceptional video by Tynan!
Prusa really is an amazing company for their open-ness abt the printer, and they are on a good rise!
Unless they changed something recently, they dropped their commitment to open source/open hardware for all their newer kits.
They were really awesome until recently, i think the only reasons why you should buy one of these is because of the customer support and the upgradability, thats it. Bambu Lab as an example has the X1 which has a few more features and also amazing print quality for not much more or the p1p which is also an awesome fast printing machine.
Not sure how amazing is to charge 3x what the kit is actually worth. They sell the same overpriced printed year after year, and rely on sos media advertisement like this to fool people to think that their printer is the only one that actually works. While its the same printer that everyone else sells for 100-300$.
I got my mk4 a week ago....absolutely loving it. I decided to stick with prusa because of my previous experiences with the company. I love the customer service, I love the reliability, I love the future upgradability.....for example for £400ish I can upgrade my mk3 to a mk4. No disrespect to the bambu.....heck, I will probably pick one up at some point.
@@Nobody-Nowherethen go and make the MK4 for 300 USD, be sure to tag me
Prusa to me, feels like the polished tools set that is geared for diy, they got every bell and whistle they can polished but left it open ended just enough to give creators options. I own a mini, and wish i would of gotten a mk3 because a few of the parts i try and print are just at max build. I dont print those bigger pieces often but wish i could go just one size larger. Mini is my recommendation for beginner's and small users who just need a few parts printed. Or Large print farms that print smaller parts, really good cost effective that way. Plus i self printed all the plastic pieces and have spare parts because of it. Also gave them to a friend (2nd set) and he just ordered the hardware and built his printer, cheaper, because of that.
Linus looking pretty buff today.
You know what my favorite part of Prusa is? Their service and how maintence friendly their printers are. You don't have to ship you're whole printer when something is wrong with it. Everything is replaceble. I like how open they are with replacing printable parts and building your own closure. Can't wait to receive and build my mk4!
6:31 Ive been using mesh based bed leveling on my Printrbot Simple Metal for years, its such a blessing. However my old printer is slowly retiring, so it may be time for an upgrade soon
Hello Tynan! Welcome to the on-can crew, always lovely to meet more of the team at LMG. Thanks for the vid.
It’s like watching chill Linus . Great video nice and clear full of detail.
He must present more, keep growing guys love the skills and talent you are bringing in
Tynan did great! Awesome video, love hearing about this stuff from an engineer's perspective
Nice to see Tynan on Short Circuit. I think that's his 1st.
Wow it printed out of the box without having to buy a new bed! Sure wish my ender 5 worked out of the box like that because mine was entirely useless with about a centimeter deep valley in the bed... And then the broken extruder before I finished the first spool of filament... and the pressed on gear for the extruder stepper motor that can't be reused on an upgraded extruder... and the factory bent z rod that leaves waves in my prints... and the included sd card reader that melted after 5 minutes plugged into my pc... You can't really go wrong with a Prusa though, I am always impressed by those machines.
With 3D printers where you will see software updates over the life of the produce it might be a good idea to state or put which version you are reviewing. This would allow a user to look up what has changed easier. Also what Slicer version would be nice even though I know it is not the focus of the video.
Awesome job from Tynan. Look forward to more!
Watched this video last week when it first came out and it was the final thing that made me switch my Elegoo Neptune 3 (1st gen) off and order the kit MK4 complete with Enclosure. The manufacturer of my current printer effectively used us early adopters as beta testers and then abandoned the printer from a firmware perspective; zero upgrade path and no notice. I should have bought a Prusa from the get go but the price put me off, far forward a year and I’m now spending 5x the money BUT there has Always been a clear upgrade path for the i3 series printers way back from the MK2 so this was more of a long term investment. I see this as more of an Apple style of device, yes it’s expensive, but, IT. JUST. WORKS. As for my current atrocity, well it sometimes works and I’ve just had enough. Roll on the end of August when my kit arrives. Thanks for the review guys - you helped me make up my mind!
It’s interesting that he said the Bambu has been inconsistent. My p1p has been a fantastic printer. Very consistent and dimensionally accurate after some tweaks in the beginning even after moving with it twice it is still very consistent
Thanks for the video, it will be nice to have you guys do a comparison of this 3D printers features and value for money with others printers out there. Let's say like vs the Bamboo Labs one for example.
One thing I like about the MK4 is the quiet operation - from what I've heard, many printers are quite loud, which makes them uncomfortable to use in a home office for a person with high noise sensitivity like myself. But with my newly assembled MK4, I'm pleasantly surprised at its low noise levels.
Very nice video guys, well introduced for those who don't know prusa or 3d printing and want to have a start in the world. Tynan seems a nice host for this kind of stuff, happy to see. PD: I imagine this is how Linus talks when he explains something to somebody with no cameras around (in that case his tone is all over the top).
I have a taz 5 and I don’t know how to use it well but seeing how quick that prints and how easy the part came off the bed I’m amazed
That was really insightful, wou ld love more videos like this
Good Vid. Explained a lot in terms anyone can follow. Thank you.
I have a Prusa Mini+ which I got in 2021. Has been a fascinating experience as well as learning OctoPrint and OctoPi.
I would always go for the kit. It is really easy to build and has a great handbook to guide you through. Like lego ( not yet build the mk4 but soon and the mk3 was an easy first printer build)
Currently running a heavily modified Tevo Tornado, (CR10 clone) and eventually hoping to get a Prusa printer and make the Tevo a large nozzle rig. While there is definitely a lot of competition both in the low cost and premium markets, I still love that Prusa is just _solid_ and generally a great company that I can feel good about supporting, and know that they'll continue to support their products and customers. Plus they come with gummy bears. What other printer comes with gummy bears?
I have a 3D printer at home and at school, and would much appreciate more 3D printing content on this channel!
Good information. Thanks for posting this.
Great video - I'm interested in buying my first 3D printer (although to be fair, not sure how/when I would actually use it yet?). Looking at my options, and the Mk4 looks nice, but probably twice my budget for a 1st printer, however I could imagine it'll make great sense for anyone serious in 3D printing as an upgrade to their existing setup. I love the fact that Prusa has an upgrade path too - to make Mk3 into a Mk4 - thats very cool of them to do!
Excelent video, and nice job Tynan!
I don't often comment but please keep this guy around. This is a host for adults. His presentation is great. He is to the point without shouting or acting like a grown child. MKBHD vibes. Great video.
Love to see 3d printer videos on LMG One thing though at the end of your review. I have a Bambu X1C and I never had to do any tuning it prints very well.
I really like this guy hosting. Keep it up!
Nice work Tynan!
Love seeing more 3d printer coverage. Any plans to cover any of the elegoo neptune line?
We have a MK3S at work and upgrading for better Z-leveling would be really good, especially if it can be upgraded to support 2+ filament colors without having to manually swap so we could embed text of a different color than the base.
Tynan misspoke. You would still need to buy an MMU (Multi-Material Unit) for this MK4. It does not auto-swap between 2+ colors out of the box. The MMU is also available for the MK3S. No need for an MK4 if that’s what you’re looking for.
Oh man i need that shirt
I bought the prusa xl 5 tool heads and i am so exited for it i preorderd it just takes forever to ship, this just made me more exited
I'm one of the lucky few who have one, you can _feel_ that it will be a workhorse like the MK3. It's not the fastest (although it is still very fast, mind you), not coreXY, whatever. It's extremely on brand with Prusa. Quality, reliability, and loooong term support. It's good. But it did tease me on speed printing lol. Probably gonna build a voron as well to tinker with, if I find the space in my house lol
I would love it if you y'all did some resin printer reviews as well because i have a printer in this style already and although with Tynan's recco on this being very strong im more so looking into getting a resin next and i actually trust Tynan and/or Dan's imput when it comes to 3d printers so would love their input on a resin based one.
I would have liked to see you cover the wifi connection more and what it can do etc. Dose it have a webpage, can prusa slicer upload and print over lan etc
I've never wondered what a James and Linus kid would look like. ..and now I'll never have to.
Lmao 🤣😂🤣
I will always buy from Prusa as they are the only company in 3D printing to be supporting open hardware and are makers at their core.
Glad to see a new face in Team LMG host more videos. Way to go, Tynan!
Great video like always!
Upgrade kit is good. Depending on you room temp a shroud makes the process better
0:13 that 8k footage finally pulling its weight
Donated my 3s to my grandsons school. They are making course material for their school year, they were very happy to get the printer. JUST ORDERED MY MK4 today! Can’t wait!
Awesome and unique video from engineer standpoint 👌 Taking apart the gearbox always gives me chills though 😅 Following up on your comment, wifi is easy to remove for such special use cases. We just released the new 2.6 slicer, give it a go. Organic supports completely change how you think about positioning models + thousand more useful things. Alpha InputShaping FW is also out, giving you basically a new and better machine. We are managing to run all of this in custom RTOS system without linux an inherent safety problems. It is magic as usually linux+klipper is required. We intend to squeeze every last MHz for new features as always with our machines… Touchscreen is a tough call as the standard controls are so good. Maybe enable start on one click print menu 🤷♂️
I’ve been chugging along with my lil pos Ender 3 pro from years ago. I mean I had to manually level the bed every print. No idea what happened to mine but replacement parts prob cost more than buying a new one at this point lol. Nice to see how far we’ve gotten. Printer died just in time for a whole new generation. So many choices and now I’ve got adult money too!
My ender 3 is like 3 years old and it prints just as good as a carbo x1 and approximately at 80% the speed of a carbon x1.
how do you manage ventilation ? what would you recommend to safeguard against toxic or harmful substances that are released when doing 3d printing ?
Thx for great review. Awesome printer from our country 🇨🇿 ♥!
I'm considering ordering the upgrade kit for my Mk3s, but the nozzle adapter that I would also need seems to be continually out of stock.
prusa slicer is based on Slic3r, which alot of other slicers also based of on. that is some information correction there.. cheers
Been wading through a new 3D printer vendor(s) for the last few weeks. We’ve printed resin for years, but during “the great event of unknown origin”, our previous vendor folded, and we’re finally running out of spares and hacks to keep their sw going. So the Great Search began for both filament & resin printers. Long story short, as of tonight, for filament, going w Prusa cause of 1) security 2)support & 3) reliability all key priorities from our perspective. Hopefully the MK4 will live up to those. For resin, leaning strongly at this point towards Elegoo, in large part as it’s my understanding they can be air gapped, both during running and for firmware upgrades similar to Prusa. Well, here goes… As always YMMV. Just sharing. Nothing more. Nothing less. Have a good’un!
I have an Anet A8 that I converted to AM8 for the extruded frame and I gotta say, if I where to replace that and go more hardcore into 3D printing Id get a Prusa printer. Several of my friend have them and are super happy with theirs.
Ayo Tynan! Great hosting
I got a mk3s+ not even a year ago and its been my favorite thing hoping to get atleast 1 more printer maybe the mk4 or xl
More Tynan please~!
Good job, Tynan, whoever you are! 👏
The thing I'm most excited about with this printer is hopefully seeing a lot of used mk3 printers from people upgrading
Oh wait they do an upgrade kit, should've seen that coming
@@bacon.cheesecake It really isn't worth upgrading, because the price difference between mk4 upgrade kit and the whole i3s+ set is 170€. In one of those cases you have a bunch of perfectly good parts left over.
We need more Tynan, he's a brilliant host!
I love seeing Tynan in videos
I love Tynan videos! always a good day.
First time seeing you host, enjoyed very much
Fun fact: The official announcement video of this printer in Prusa's channel shows it being assembled with the LTT Screwdriver (at 2min50)
How have I missed Tynan?! Excellent presenter. (Handsome, too) More Tynan, please.
very good video! I have been using an ender 3v2 for over 3 years now and this would definitly be a solid upgrade for me. The Bamboo looks nice with all the fancy features but their ecosystem looks very closed as opposed to Prusa where you can pretty much do anything you want.
I Just switched from an ender 5 pro to a mk4 (kit). Took me 8 hours to build and my god the ease of use and quality of the prints is even better than i expected. Sure the build Volume is small(er) but everything else makes up for it.
looks like they fixed everything that is frustrating for me as a prusa mk3 owner since 2018... thinking I may have to upgrade. the live z first layer calibration for me has been very frustrating. once you do get it nailed, however, the mk3 prints very nicely.
Going to be a bit annoying that I may get my mk4 before the nozzle adapters are even in stock as I will have to wait to be able to use it for my cf nylon parts plus have to pay extra postage to ship one part later on.
good to see Tynan hosting. He really looks like a fusion of Linus and Dan
Calm Linus at work, nice vid
I've never owned a 3d printer, but I normally like to assemble things myself. If I buy this model, I'm thinking I'd learn a lot about it if I purchased the kit, but at the same time, I do want a trouble-free experience. Would you recommend the kit or the pre-built in my case? In other words, If I get the kit, is it difficult to get things adjusted right, and easy to correct assembly errors?
It is a double-edged sword. Yes, you will learn a lot about your machine by putting it together yourself, but you’ll also learn the same things as you perform maintenance on it (or upgrade parts of it) down the line. For a pricey machine like this, you just have to personally weigh the value of the knowledge you might gain vs. the risk of not setting something up correctly during assembly, because there are a few things that can go wrong. There is also the peace of mind that you’ll *KNOW* it is set up correctly if it is shipped to you assembled. Prusa machines do have very good first-time calibration to check if they’re assembled correctly, but if you think you will be second-guessing that you’re “not getting best prints possible” or “wtf is that noise” due to having set something up incorrectly, a pre-assembled machine may be worth said peace of mind. All that being said, Prusa Support is amazing and you can contact them at any time. You can send them videos/pictures (Google Drive links) during the live chat and they’ll help you get things sorted. I had a free fan replacement sent to me bc there was a slight noise at low RPMs on my stock one. There’s also the time investment - 10 hours for a first-timer to set it up is not an exaggeration. If you are dead-set on assembling a machine, a cheap Creality machine is an amazing ‘test bed’ type of platform. I spent the first two years of my 3D Printing journey with an Ender 3 Pro as my only machine, and the troubleshooting knowledge, etc. I gained has truly been invaluable. Definitely more finicky than a Prusa machine, but I learned so so so much. The ease-of-use of a Prusa machine cannot be understated though, and a first-timer using one vs. a first-timer using a Creality machine will be a night and day difference.
At the cut to the segue.. It actually took me a moment to realise it wasnt still Tynan on the screen.
First layer / live Z calibration is a headache to get perfect, and I really really want to upgrade to this from my Prusa Mini.
I'm hoping an upgrade comes out for the Mini! I'd also like to see use of the E3D Revo system in the Nexturders as well
What, you don't love spending three hours wiggling an index card under the nozzle and trying to decide if there's just the RIGHT level of friction against the bed and then printing your 32nd Benchy Blob?
I would like a 3d printer as a mechanical engineering student. I want to build parts for my field but also figurines and robotic parts. Would you say this printer is fit for this area or should i keep looking into more printers?( also interested in qidi tech x max )
So prusa mk4 or Bambu x1 Carbon?
Big fan of Prusa, I have an MK2, really excellent machine. Jealous of all the upgrades since then.
I like the direction LTT is going with letting the experts in each department show their strength with who hosts depending on the product. Dan with audio Anthony for retro etc. It adds a lot when the presenter is doing more than reading a script, they are explaining something they love.
Would love to see more focus on the accuracy of the prints on 3d printers moving forward. I have a crummy 3d printer and don't use it much because I can't rely on the prints being accurate enough for engineering purposes. i.e. I try to print parts for building robots, and at the edges, my screw holes could be a couple millimeters off. Knowing how accurate it is on larger objects would be great.
Yes Tynan!, more Tynan
I got a Makerbot replicator 5th gen free from work, and while the quality and convenience features do make the Prusa look like quite a big upgrade, I don't know if it's really worth $800. At that point I'd be saving for one with a larger build plate and/or a dual extruder to do PVA support