Customer reviews from Monoprice
Monoprice - MP Select Mini 3D Printer V2 - White
Average customer rating
3.7
(51 Reviews)
Rating breakdown 51 reviews
5 Stars
23
4 Stars
13
3 Stars
2
2 Stars
3
1 Star
10
Customer Reviews for Monoprice - MP Select Mini 3D Printer V2 - White
Customer Rating
2
Flaky
on June 20, 2019
Posted by: Anonymous
The printer worked great for about a week before the power switch melted and made it completely inoperable.
Written by a customer while visiting Monoprice
Customer Rating
4
Great affordable printer..
on May 27, 2019
Posted by: Anonymous
Printer is easy to learn on.. I would recommend this to anyone looking to get into 3d printing.
Written by a customer while visiting Monoprice
Customer Rating
5
Only been a week
on May 23, 2019
Posted by: Anonymous
Great value for the price. Printed items I make in Sketchup come out just fine.
Written by a customer while visiting Monoprice
Customer Rating
4
Awesome out of the box
on May 19, 2019
Posted by: Anonymous
Found the file I wanted on Thingiverse, which was a part I needed to print to fix our older CubeX printer. Put it on the card via Cura to slice it, saved it, and printed. Awesome quality. Probably Monoprice's best printer, at least of the three we got.
Only rate it 4 stars, because of the annoying issues with card reader. It keeps saying there aren't files on it, until I remove it the card and put it back in. Which was expected, becaise I had read it on other reviews.
Written by a customer while visiting Monoprice
Customer Rating
1
Ruined everything
on April 21, 2019
Posted by: Anonymous
Its absolutely ridiculous, not only did I have issues with movement of the extruder right out of the box, I returned it and then bought another, with plenty of printing issues, I spent more time trying to figure out why it wasn't working than actually enjoying it. Giving the benefit of the doubt that I got unlucky, I purchased one more. NOT SUPRISED, It wouldn't print anything because of a jammed extruder that boke the printer for me. 1/10 WOULD NOT BUY AGIAN!!
Written by a customer while visiting Monoprice
Customer Rating
4
I’m impressed
on April 16, 2019
Posted by: Anonymous
Use 1 or 2 gigabit micro SD cards. Any thing larger is HCSD and the machine with not read from them. That should be mentioned in the instructions. Other than that, it is a great machine for the price.
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Customer Rating
4
Great quality prints
on October 22, 2021
Posted by: JonathonS
Very good quality prints, easy to use, seems to be a pretty reliable printer. I do wish that monoprice would at least give an extra heat bed cable to reroute the heat bed cable, if they won't do it themselves, at least acknowledge the issue and fix it or at least give an extra cable.
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Customer Rating
5
First 3D printer. Initially frustrated but very happy in the end!
on November 21, 2021
Posted by: NathanielW
This was my first 3D printer, and I had quite a few initial struggles and frustrations with it before I finally got it to work properly. I spent a LOT of time watching YouTube videos and reading forum posts about the various Cura profiles and settings I should try using in order to get a successful print. I fiddled with print nozzle temperatures, bed temperatures, print speeds, retraction settings, and adhesion settings seemingly endlessly. No matter what I tried though, I kept experiencing failures. Bed adhesion was an issue, I had ripples on any flat surfaces the printer tried to lay down, and it seemed like new layers weren't sticking to the underlying layer. I was also getting numerous unwanted strings of filament between travel points whenever the print head moved from one location on the bed to another. The most annoying part however, was that the 3D model of the cat that came preloaded on the included microSD card printed perfectly fine, without any issues, regardless of which filament I was using (the included white sample filament vs. the spool of black PLA I bought to actually use with the printer) so I KNEW the root problem was purely software. I just couldn't seem to figure it out.
In the interest of saving someone else the headaches I encountered, I thought I'd post the simple solution I discovered on my own that resulted in a pretty much perfect print on the first try after it was applied. For full clarity, the spool of PLA filament I'm using is Monoprice item number 10551, and I'm using Ultimaker Cura version 4.12.1.
First and foremost, make sure you level your print bed before trying to print. My printer's bed was way below where it should have been when I got it set up and checked it. I used a sheet of paper to do the leveling, following the instructional video created by Monoprice as my guide. I tended to level the four corners so that they were fairly snug with the paper but not too much so. I did notice that the print bed didn't seem to be perfectly flat, but in the end it didn't seem to matter. Also, I'm not sure if it makes a difference, but I did do the bed leveling while I had the bed heat turned on and set to 60 degrees using the preheat feature on the printer. I left the nozzle temperature set to a low value to avoid creating any drips of melted filament from the nozzle that might get in the way of accomplishing the bed leveling.
Next, and this was the key for me to finally get my printer to work properly, I went into the settings menu of Cura and told it to import a profile from a file, then pointed it to the cat.gcode file that contained the included cat test model. I didn't initially realize that a profile could be imported into Cura from a gcode file, but apparently it can, and it was the golden ticket for me. Once I imported cat.gcode as a profile, I saved the settings as a new profile and then used that new profile to slice the STL file I had been repeatedly trying to print over the last few days and was shocked to witness it print pretty much perfectly on the very first try.
At this point, since the printer works, I'm happy. I'll still probably fiddle with some of the settings now that I have a working baseline, but even if I'm stuck with the settings exactly as they are right now, I'm OK with that, since the printer does finally print and the result looks good enough for me.
Written by a customer while visiting Monoprice