Creality K1
High Speed FDM 3D Printer
Features & Advantages
- Printing speeds up to 600 mm/s
- Dual gear direct drive extruder
- High flow hotend
- Automatic bed levelling
- Automatic resonance compensation
- Double-sided component cooling
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Item no.: CRE-1001060011, Content: 1 pc, EAN: 6971636407010
Product information & technical details
- Item no.: CRE-1001060011
- Manufacturer No.: 1001060011
- Manufacturer: Creality
- Content: 1 pc
- Product type: 3D Printers
- Nozzle shape: Others
- Assembly: Fully assembled
- Printing Technology: FFF - FDM - LPD
- Printer Display: Touch Display
- Supported operating systems: Windows (7+), Mac OS X (10.7+)
- Extruder type: Direct Drive Extruder
- Number of extruders: Single
- Interfaces: USB - Connection, WIFI - WLAN
- Supported Formats (Slicer): STL, OBJ, AMF
- Build volume: 220 x 220 x 250 mm
Description
The K1 from Creality is a powerful FDM 3D printer with extremely cool aesthetics and compact size with a build volume of 220 x 220 x 250 mm. The sturdy design allows the high-speed printer to achieve extremely high print speeds with outstanding quality!
Fully assembled and ready to use
The K1 is fully assembled and already calibrated! A pre-installed simple quick start guide will walk you through the setup of the 3D printer, allowing you to start printing right away!
Sturdy aluminium alloy frame
The sturdy unibody frame of the K1 is custom-made from die-cast aluminium alloy and CNC-machined. The highest precision and stable print behaviour even at high speed are thus guaranteed.
Robust construction for high-speed and smooth printing
The sturdy CoreXY structure and lightweight printhead weighing only 190 g are designed for high speeds. The robust frame, combined with a lightweight design of the moving parts, not only ensures less inertia and vibration but also more stability!
Fast, faster, Creality K1
With an acceleration of 20,000 mm/s², the Creality K1 ramps up to 600 mm/s in just 0.03 seconds, making it up to 12 times faster than other FDM printers on the market.
The printer's high print speed shortens print time, increasing efficiency while saving energy - for the same performance.
► Tip: While the typical print speed of the K1 is 300 mm/s, its travel speed reaches as high as 800 mm/s!
Max Flow Hotend for temperatures up to 300 °C
The titanium alloy hotend is designed for high temperatures. Its copper alloy nozzle operates at temperatures up to 300 °C!
Full power at 32 mm³/s flow
The K1's hotend is equipped with a newly developed heater made of ceramic. This takes just 40 seconds to reach a temperature of 200 °C, heat the filament evenly, and melt it.
Dual-gear Direct Drive Extruder
With a consistent extrusion force of 50N, the dual-gear Direct Drive Extruder ensures smooth feeding and dispensing of any type of filament. Compatible with PLA, PETG, PET, TPU, PA, ABS, PC, PLA-CF, PA-CF, PET-CF and more
Double-sided component cooling
The print head of the K1 features a powerful radial fan that provides double-sided component cooling, directly cooling the freshly printed layers from two sides. A housing fan of 18 watts further reinforces the cooling effect.
Such a cooling system ensures that the model cures before stringing or warping can occur. Perfect for bridging without support structures!
Manual automatic levelling
Embedded in the heating bed of the K1 are strain sensors that create an accurate levelling network. Thus, automatic levelling runs itself before printing begins by automatically compensating for any unevenness on the printing plate. Incredible precision with zero effort!
Flexible build plate
When bending, the printed model can be easily removed from the flexible build plate. After removing the model, the plate returns to its original position.
Fast heating bed
The heating bed of the K1 is made of aluminium alloy and reaches 60 °C in just 180 seconds - for fast and even heat distribution.
Easy one-button self-test
You can easily perform a self-test to determine the functionality of the extruder, heating bed, camera (optional), fan, levelling, etc. Any abnormality detected will be shown on the display. So you can prepare for your print without any hassle: Let's go!
G-sensor to compensate for ringing
Everyone knows it - ringing occurs when the printer is working at extremely high speeds. With an integrated G-sensor in the print head, the resonant frequencies are automatically measured during high-speed printing, and reduced as required.
Accelerometer for fine textures
The print head of the K1 is equipped with a special accelerometer. This monitors mechanical vibration patterns that occur during extremely fast printing movements. The data that the sensor gathers from this monitoring is used to generate a resonance that counteracts the vibrations. A perfect print image without ringing is the result.
The more precisely positioned Z-axis reduces Z-banding and creates incredibly fine textures.
Print via USB drive or WiFi
The K1 can print via a USB drive or WiFi. If there is a network connection, the FDM printer can be remotely controlled and monitored via the Creality Print or Creality Cloud app/web application. Cluster control is also possible if multiple K1 printers are online. Note that you need an (optional) AI camera for remote monitoring.
New version of Creality Print 4.3
In-house developed Creality Print comes with tons of presets in the new 4.3 version, reducing the slicer process to 3 simple steps! With fine parameters such as line width, sheet path and the like, the slicer supports high-speed printing and guarantees excellent print quality.
Creality operating system and hardware
K1 uses the smart and fast Creality OS with a clear user interface. The operating system synchronises data and commands via PC, phone, cloud and add-on modules. At the same time, the fast 1.2 GHz dual-core CPU enables smooth printing processes at high speeds. The 8G ROM can not only store up to 400 model files but also enables fast reading and writing.
Additional Features:
- 4.3-inch touchscreen
- Optionally designed for AI camera and AI LiDAR
- Included Features: Power Loss Recovery, Filament Runout Sensor, Input Shaping, Sleep Mode, Lighting Kit
- Compatible with various slicer software: Creality Print, Cura, Simplify3D, PrusaSlicer
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Questions & Answers about Creality K1
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Hi. The printers that you have in stock are revised units with the bugs fixed or the original version?
Customer Reviews
3 English reviews written for Creality K1
17 customer reviews in all languages
5 stars | | 21 | (61%) |
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4 stars | | 5 | (14%) |
3 stars | | 1 | (2%) |
2 stars | | 0 | (0%) |
1 Stars | | 7 | (20%) |
34 reviews
3 customer reviews in English
17 customer reviews in all languages
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Stay away
Rated with 1 out of 5 stars.
Machine has defintely some potential. It is a priced down copy of the BambuLab vut development is not complete, extruder is stopping for no reason, hot end is not dimensionned for fast flow. So if you are willing to spend some time optimizing, go for it. Again it is a good platform if you are printing PLA at decent speeds. They are a few tutorial to unlock the installed Klipper and bring it to its full potential. I had to return it and get a PS1P and what a machine. As I write it must be on its 4th day of non stop printing ABS and not one failed part. I am astonished.
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A brillaint upgrade
Rated with 4 out of 5 stars.
Coming from a KP3S and an Ender3 this is world's above what I am used / to for printing speeds.
A print that would take 38 hours on the ender3 says 16 hours on the k1 with the same layer height and infill.
-- it's loud when it's fast! But that is the price you pay. But if it's a bit too loud there are always "modes" for "silent" printing. While I don't know specific percentages of what the base speed of your prints are, silent and stable do make it tolerable to be around.
--- When printing fast it can shake an ikea Alex draw and those aren't exactly light, which speaks volumes to how much weight is being thrown around in that printer, so keep those fingers away from moving parts.
Print quality is great out of the box! And accurate to boot. I'm using this printer for printing a bulk of PrintABlok at the moment, and I'm happy with how the bloks are coming out and how nicely they are snapping together.
- I wish that klipper/moonraker hadn't been knee capped, there are options for gaining root access but I'm a tinkerer and that's the reason I want to do so. Do you need to tweak this to have a usable printer? Not at all.
- camera felt sketchy when installing because of the cable clip they'd used but is a welcome addition to the printer for checking up on things.
- bit annoyed that the cable chain was broken in shipping... Not the end of the world but initial impressions count. It was an easy print to do to fix it.
- I can't seem to send to the printer from orcaslicer for some reason, but then it is not a supported config by creality so what am I to expect.
Do I currently want another?
Yes! I certainly do! Parallelized prints are amazing! Especially at this kind of speed.
Do I want to make any changes to the printer?
I want to swap to a Revo set up so I can do 0.6 or 0.8mm nozzle prints which would speed up gigantablok prints a lot!Was this rating helpful? (0) (1)
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Do not buy this printer in its current form
Rated with 1 out of 5 stars.
BUYER BEWARE! DO NOT BUY THIS PRINTER IN ITS CURRENT FORM!
I pre-ordered my K1 from 3DJake and it arrived 10 days ago.
The design of the bowden routing causes it to pinch the filament, thereby causing horrible underextrusion. There is also a huge design issue in the extruder, meaning there is no positive tension pressing the rollers together. Mine printed ok for 2 days, then underextruded for 4 days, before the extruded finally completely failed after 6 days. I cannot print anything now. The door hinges are utter rubbish, meaning the door rattles around uncontrollably, is dreadfully misaligned and so crashes into the top of the screen when you open or close it. There are constant random errors on the screen. The web interface does allow you to send commands to the printer 80% of the time (throws indecipherable Chinese errors). The app is so buggy and laggy that it is impossible to use. Simple tasks like lowering the build plate 100mm results in the build plate moving down 100mm, back up 30mm, then down 50mm.
The printer could be amazing, but it is let down by a rubbish extruder and cheap fittings throughout, as well as a lack of quality control. I so badly wanted this printer to be as incredible as the hype suggested, but it really is not.
I see that they are reducing the price of this printer everywhere, presumably because of the number of dissatisfied customers, and terrible YouTube reviews, specifically about the extruder.
3DJake support have been good and proposed a bunch of replacement parts, but they need to be shipped from China and will take weeks, all with no guarantee that they are any better than the junk currently installed in my printer.
I am returning mine for a refund and will wait for a new version to be released with some design changes.
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