Customer reviews from Monoprice
Monoprice - MP10 3D Printer - Black
Average customer rating
3.3
(34 Reviews)
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Customer Reviews for Monoprice - MP10 3D Printer - Black
Customer Rating
4
Good 3D printer
on January 15, 2020
Posted by: Anonymous
I bought this printer at the December 2019 sale, so I paid only around € 227 including delivery.
Pros:
- Very large build area of 30x30x40cm
- Very easy and fast to assemble
- Easy to adjust belt tensioning
- Easy to adjust the corners of the bed (z offset)
- Easy to micro adjust z offset from the printer's menu
- Very easy to maintain the hotend and swap nozzles thanks to the clever magnetic holder!
- Automatic resume works as advertised
- Fast heat up of both nozzle and bed
- Filament run out sensor
- Very stable construction
- Spring steel bed is magnetic and flexible; yay!
- Comes with a nice microSD card
- Very large build area of 30x30x40cm
- Very easy and fast to assemble
- Easy to adjust belt tensioning
- Easy to adjust the corners of the bed (z offset)
- Easy to micro adjust z offset from the printer's menu
- Very easy to maintain the hotend and swap nozzles thanks to the clever magnetic holder!
- Automatic resume works as advertised
- Fast heat up of both nozzle and bed
- Filament run out sensor
- Very stable construction
- Spring steel bed is magnetic and flexible; yay!
- Comes with a nice microSD card
Cons:
- The extruder can barely keep up. I recommend changing the bowden extruder to an all-metal or a BMG style extruder or a EZR extruder.
- The assisted auto leveling doesn't seem to do much. You're better off just manually adjusting the 4 corners and then the z-offset micro tuning from the printer's menu.
- The bed's adhesion is not good enough. I use hairspray to make my PLA stick. Surfaces like PEI or Wham Bam's PEX is highly recommended, as they don't need hairspray, glue or whatever.
- The touch display behaves randomly due to resistive touch instead of capacitive. I've often pressed on something and either nothing happened or it chose the wrong menu item. That can be rather frustrating.
- Moderately noisy. This can be improved by changing the fans.
- The provided printer profiles for Cura are far from optimal and will give you crap results compared to a good profile tuned specifically for this printer.
- The extruder can barely keep up. I recommend changing the bowden extruder to an all-metal or a BMG style extruder or a EZR extruder.
- The assisted auto leveling doesn't seem to do much. You're better off just manually adjusting the 4 corners and then the z-offset micro tuning from the printer's menu.
- The bed's adhesion is not good enough. I use hairspray to make my PLA stick. Surfaces like PEI or Wham Bam's PEX is highly recommended, as they don't need hairspray, glue or whatever.
- The touch display behaves randomly due to resistive touch instead of capacitive. I've often pressed on something and either nothing happened or it chose the wrong menu item. That can be rather frustrating.
- Moderately noisy. This can be improved by changing the fans.
- The provided printer profiles for Cura are far from optimal and will give you crap results compared to a good profile tuned specifically for this printer.
Overall, this is a very nice printer, which everyone should be able to assemble with no fuss.
There's little to be done; changing the extruder is the most pressing issue imho, and not everyone would find it an issue. However, if you wish for speeds beyond 40 mm/s and a good layer adhesion, the stock extruder simply is not up for the task with the PLA filaments I use. Using flex filaments will be nearly impossible, as the stock bowden extruder has a small space where the flex filaments will creep out and jam.
So after assembly: Calibrate you z offset and your extruder (e step) and that's pretty much it.
The overall print quality I get with 0.1mm layer height is very good. I haven't really bothered testing 0.05mm as the 0.1mm alrealy looks so good - and many will probably print at 0.15 or 0.2mm layer height to save time.
No matter what I do I can't seem to go beyond 40 mm/s without severe under extrusion happening. I've tried to increase flow and temperature both separetely and together, and I've tried to increase my e stepping as well - but around 40 mm/s is as fast as I can go without the quality suffering.
Changing to another extruder (along with capricorn tubings) will probably change that, but the best solution would've been a direct drive extruder.
Written by a customer while visiting Monoprice
Customer Rating
4
Both Good and Bad
on October 5, 2019
Posted by: Anonymous
I'm writing this review in comparison to the Maker Select V2 because that is what I'm upgrading from.
Pros:
- Bigger build plate allows for bigger pieces as well as a printing in arrays to save time.
- Bigger build plate allows for bigger pieces as well as a printing in arrays to save time.
Cons:
- Touchscreen is wonky. It's resistive and not capacitive like in phone screens. Sometimes I have to press a few times before it registers.
- Auto Leveling doesn't really work and doesn't work in real time. You have to 'guess' the Z-offset and then run trial and error until it is right. This has led my build plate to get scratched and scuffed from the nozzle being too close.
- Touchscreen is wonky. It's resistive and not capacitive like in phone screens. Sometimes I have to press a few times before it registers.
- Auto Leveling doesn't really work and doesn't work in real time. You have to 'guess' the Z-offset and then run trial and error until it is right. This has led my build plate to get scratched and scuffed from the nozzle being too close.
Overall I'm happy with the size of the print space. It will save a lot of time being able to print larger things and in larger arrays. Leveling does take longer than the Maker Select V2. I hope it lasts long as I plan to be printing full time.
Written by a customer while visiting Monoprice
Customer Rating
3
What a ride
on September 16, 2019
Posted by: Anonymous
Most of the time it's functional. Had a lot of problems with surface adhesion at first, but that may have been the filament. My machine in particular seems to have problems with either the filament sensor or feeder and constantly stops printing because it runs out of filament with a full spool. This leaves a large gob of plastic in one spot where the filament seeps out and a gap where the filament has to fill back in. Included 3rd party slicing software didn't even have support for the machine. I would definitely hesitate to buy this particular machine again.
Written by a customer while visiting Monoprice
Customer Rating
5
Beginner
on July 9, 2019
Posted by: Anonymous
As someone who had never even seen a 3D printer work it was amazingly easy to set up and get running.
Written by a customer while visiting Monoprice
Customer Rating
4
A great value - with some tweaking
on June 20, 2019
Posted by: Anonymous
It took quite a lot of trial and error, but I've finally gotten this printer working great with PLA, and I'm now tweaking for PETG. I highly recommend checking out the Dr. Vax videos on YouTube for tricks and tips on how to set it up - it will save you a lot of time and aggravation.
Also, before chalking anything up to faulty hardware, be sure to use a newer version of Cura to print. I tested the same stl file using Cura 3.3, 3.5, 3.6 and 4.0. Version 4 was the only one I could get to print correctly - all the others gave me issues with print bed adhesion - not exactly sure why that's the case.
All in all, I'd say this is a great value at its price point. Just be prepared to be patient and tweak settings to get the best prints possible.
Written by a customer while visiting Monoprice
Customer Rating
3
BUY THE EXTENDED WARRANTY
on March 15, 2019
Posted by: Gavin Reph
This is the second printer I've got from them that hasent worked or came damaged. Didn't even get 1 print out of this and had it 1 day. I've had to pay twice now to ship it back and wait for them to do whatever and send it back. Refused to offer quicker shipping or any form of compensation for receiving 2 defective printers. I know several people who have no bad experience and recommend monoprice over anything. If you get a working printer it'll be a unkillable workhorse. If you don't you will be in a printer limbo of having nothing. Been a month and I still don't have working one.
Written by a customer while visiting Monoprice
Customer Rating
1
Not worth your time or money
on December 17, 2021
Posted by: AndrewS
I'm very disappointed with this printer. I had a great experience previously with Monoprice's Select Mini V2, and was optimistic given the reviews and tips for this printer on the MakeWithTech YouTube channel, but that hope was misplaced. After 8 hours of painstaking diagnosis and testing, my printer still does not work. It has not been able to extrude smoothly or complete a single test print. I have given up trying to make it work, and am angry that I wasted my money and time.
Assembly of the printer went smoothly. A few seconds into first print, however, the extruder motor began clicking and skipping, stripping filament, and failing to feed. This is the main problem that has persisted and prevented my printer from working. By process of elimination, I determined that everything feeds smoothly (off the reel, through the filament sensor, through the Bowden tube...) until the filament reaches the hot end. At this point, it repeatedly jams up even when the hot end is unclogged. I have manually and repeatedly ensured the hot end is unclogged, supported the Bowden tube vertically to further reduce stress on the stepper, verified that the extruder feeds smoothly off the spool and through the end of the Bowden tube when it is *not* attached to the hot end, and yet still the extruder skips and fails to feed consistently. It also takes more force than it should to manually feed filament through the hot end. I've verified that my filament diameter is correct, and tried all the above steps with a range of hot end temperatures. Nothing works. Is the hot end too narrow? Does it not heat the filament consistently? Is there some subtle mechanical defect in the nozzle? Who knows. I don't know. It doesn't work.
If the extruder fails to advance filament for more than a second or so while printing, the out-of-filament sensor (a rotary encoder) halts the print, as it should. This happened to me 15 minutes into my first print of "cat.gcode" that comes on the included SD card. I got an "Out of filament erorr" which was incorrect - the spool had plenty of filament, but the extruder had failed to feed. I pressed "Continue", and the print halted again with the same error a few minutes later.
When I pressed "Continue" the second time, the print head crashed into the half-finished print. This appears to be a sofware bug in the firmware. Other users on Reddit and social media have reported similar errors in the pause-and-resume-print function. It is unreliable and not fit for purpose.
One magnets which holsd the hot end to the y-gantry also shattered (see photo) when I was putting the hot end back on after yet another failed print. Looking at the fragments, these magnets are very thin and delicate. I was not forceful in reattaching the hot end; the force developed by magnetic attraction alone was enough to break the magnet.
All in all, this is an unreliable, fragile, fundamentally broken printer that I wish I had never purchased. Do not waste your time or money.
Written by a customer while visiting Monoprice
Customer Rating
5
Excellent product. Well built.
on January 1, 2022
Posted by: CherylannD
Rugged construction and great quality overall. I am disappointed that the very first print I made took the nice logo off of the bed when I removed the print
Written by a customer while visiting Monoprice