Bambu Lab
Compact beginner favorite with easy calibration and optional multi-color printing.
Perfect first printer! My kids and I have been printing models every weekend since we got this. Setup took under 20 minutes and the first print just worked. The multi-color capability with AMS Lite is genuinely magical for beginners — rainbow prints with zero effort.
I bought this to replace my aging Ender 3 and I'm not going back. Auto bed leveling, vibration compensation, and a proper slicer out of the box — it's what budget printers should have been all along. Highly recommended as a first or secondary printer.
Compact, reliable, and surprisingly capable for its size. I use it for small props and miniatures and the quality is excellent. The 180×180mm build plate is limiting for larger projects, but for its target use case it's unbeatable at this price point.