3D Printing Business WORST Time For A Farmers Market EVER!!! Ep.6 | The Family Print Project

[@sprbny]

So much good filament that's much cheaper than the Bambu filament, and available in a day or two from Amazon...

[@thefamilyprintproject]

we will take a look into it but from what we have experienced so far when using other brands Creality or overture it causes issues in the extruder when switching back to bambu we never had one single bad filament with bambu not one but none the less we will look into getting back up options just incase this happens again

[@darkalleywaystudio3975]

@@thefamilyprintprojectI understand you have a user preference and that is fine. Your information is anecdotal at best. As long as the spool fits in the AMS without rubbing and no cardboard, just about any filament recommended by Bambu Lab. Every filament that I have put through it has worked flawlessly except Polymaker PLA+ because it is slightly abrasive and needs the hardened upgrade which I later did and no problems. I promise, Bambu Lab is way more expensive compared to other readily available filament. Personally, I use Sunlu and it works great.

[@orange3203]

​I really like elegoo for the price. I almost exclusively run that in my bambu printers. Elegoo PLA plus rapid for the most part. ​@@thefamilyprintproject

[@tinkerhelll]

Yeah, you're paying Bambu instead of paying yourselves. Look at other pro print farms. They order overseas in bulk - NEVER from Bambu! This is not a tenable business model.

[@TheCasualGamer01]

@@thefamilyprintproject VOXELPLA & printsolid I recommend

[@megannelson1260]

We use a lot of Bambu filament, but Polymaker, CookieCad, Inland, and Sunlu are also very high quality. We haven’t had much success with 3D-Fuel- they’re well priced but have inconsistent quality.

[@thefamilyprintproject]

thanks for this input as its helping us organize a way for back ups !

[@lengerer]

I like your videos, you’re a natural on the camera. I find your printing business interesting. Eventually I think you’ll make more money from YT than 3d printing. Keep grinding brother!

[@thefamilyprintproject]

thank you so much for that ! we are only in the beginning stages and can't wait to share more and more as time goes on a lot of my experience comes from our family vlog channel. if you would like to see anything in particular please let us know

[@figuresix]

Took me 3 weeks to get my order from Bambu. Your better off ordering off amazon. Just make sure they are plastic rolls, not the cardboard. I got my amazon order next day and still no update from bambu. I mainly order multipacks of Ender filament, never had any issue with it.

[@thefamilyprintproject]

danggg good to know we've never had to wait this long before on filament from bambu so first for everything I guess lol

[@BIEDZ_3D_RC]

I ordered filament from Bambu over a week ago, and still haven't gotten any updates...

[@thefamilyprintproject]

we had to contact customer service to find out what was going on and created a support ticket

[@williamremig6095]

If you have a Microcenter nearby, they have their Inland brand filament in stores. I have had good success with it.

[@thefamilyprintproject]

we have one and its about an hour away

[@Xtrmn8r123321]

Maybe try some flashing lights at your stand (if allowed). They really draw attention. Tons of people just like to stroll by. If you flash something at them, it stops them and they look at your stuff with more focus.

[@thefamilyprintproject]

thank you we will take a look into that !

[@jennifercrowe710]

I’ve had nothing but great results from eSun High Speed PLA+ from Amazon on my Bambu Lab A1 with AMS Lite. No adapter needed. It runs smoothly and is nice and strong. It’s priced well and comes quickly from Amazon. I have never had problems with it at all. The Elegoo Rapid PLA Plus is also nice and I haven’t had problems with it, either. I HAVE had clogged nozzles with Poly Terra from Polymaker. I might be a little more hesitant to 100% recommend that for your needs, even though it’s super pretty. It also results in softer prints than the PLA+, so maybe not as good on your flexi/jointed prints. Have been enjoying y’all’s channel. Thanks for sharing!

[@thefamilyprintproject]

thanks for this information we are going to look into a lot of these and order one to test !

[@graffix3001]

I was just curious about the prints that you sell, for example, the reindeer or skeleton animals, are they free designs you have gotten or do you pay for them and then are able to sell them? Just wanted to see how you guys go about getting your designs. Like the content.

[@thefamilyprintproject]

we pay for the designs on a monthly bases and are currently working closely with an in-house designer for some products and are helping him build his patreon in the description box of all our videos and we appreciate you commenting and checking out the video we will continue to have weekly content and if you have any more questions feel free to ask !

[@tastytoon]

All I need to say is Amazon next day delivery and sovol for silk/dual colour filaments and sunlu for normal filament

[@thefamilyprintproject]

we will take a look into different types of filament and test them out currently working on a product review from a company that sent us some filament to try out hint hint lol

[@goyourownrea2026]

May i ask what avenues you use for online selling? Ive been warned to stay off etsy as they take a huge percentage apparently ? Ive been doing really well at markets but it maybe also the time of year.. going into '25 im gonna try branch out. Would appreciate any ideas! Thank you

[@thefamilyprintproject]

currently we have a full operational website for online selling and we use Etsy and me and the wife have been going back and forth if we should adjust the pricing to accommodate the Etsy cost to be factored in our listings haven't made that decision yet. right now we are just building the brand and exposure for our website. on average every other market we do, we have gotten one custom order to create and ship off to our customer I might elaborate more on this next video

[@bryankasper6916]

My ender 3 v3 is amazing. I highly recommend it for your backup you were asking about. Bambu is good but its never a good idea to put all your eggs in one basket. Especially paying bambu prices for filament, switching to a bulk filament alone would save you tons. I wouldnt doubt if bambu filament was just rebranded from somewhere else that supplies bulk to bambu.

[@bryankasper6916]

Actually I just verified with a Google search that bambu doesn't produce any of their own filament. It's all contracted out to sunlu, esun, polymaker, and elegoo. So you're literally just paying for the name, and for the fancy little rfid tags.

[@thefamilyprintproject]

that's awesome our original plan was to go all in on Creality because im a sucker for what I get my hands on first is what I go with no matter what . but wife and I discussed after we got our x1 carbon it was a no brainer to switch to bambu after several test and comparison with what we were working with. more content to come covering different aspects of this space.

[@bryankasper6916]

@thefamilyprintproject that's a silly way to go about it, stick with what you know, but they all run the same software anymore. You're limiting yourself to a name brand. Or as we like to say where I'm from, putting all your eggs in one basket. You do you though👍

[@thefamilyprintproject]

the manufacture of their pla is from Shenzhen tozhu Technology co. And also we only order refill packs rather then the full spool on this as well and the rfid tags will come in handy as our print farm gets bigger and we hire people down the road for easy understanding of how replacing printer filament works and what it works for us and is to our liking. it may not suit you and that's totally fine we appreciate your feed back and your support means alot to our family so thank you !

[@bryankasper6916]

@@thefamilyprintprojectI'm pretty sure it's just esun, polymaker, and elegoo, but like I said, you do you👍 i haven't even been to your website, youtube just keeps putting your vids on my page.

[@J1VETURKY]

Have you guys found a hobby store near you that might sell bambu filament?

[@thefamilyprintproject]

nearest one is an hour away

[@tim-tron]

i bought creality yellow for my bambu A1. Bought on Amazon and it prints great. I even keep it as the bambu filament in studio and dont even change it to generic.

[@thefamilyprintproject]

im prob gonna have to order an emergency yellow from amazon

[@JacksonDennis187]

You should try Polymaker filament if you haven't already

[@walkingkimchee]

or overture, any filament that has a bambu studio preset filament profile should be more than fine.

[@thefamilyprintproject]

we will def take a look into it

[@bryankasper6916]

Bambu labs gets their filament from polymaker. They use esun, polymaker, sunlu, and elegoo mostly. They don't produce their own filament.

[@SirHackaL0t.]

Have you ordered the SwapMod for the A1 mini?

[@thefamilyprintproject]

We have not

[@brandonsantos9865]

im a big fan of sunlu pla plus and esun. but sunlu for the ams lite you need an adapter to make it fit properly

[@thefamilyprintproject]

ive heard about them and how then need a printed adaptor

[@saliston]

Great stuff

[@mattm5605]

I've seen people say they need adapters but I'm not sure why? I run almost exclusively Sunlu PLA, PLA+, and High Speed PLA on my A1 w/ AMS Lite and the spools fit and stay in place without any issues. Do they use different style spools at random and I'm just getting lucky?

[@FishingPhoFun]

Might want to adjust ur listing for the Mystery Dragon. There's the Ghost feet pic in the second photo. Cheers and keep it up!

[@thefamilyprintproject]

Thanks for the heads up we will be adjusting that right now !

[@walkingkimchee]

really recommend one of those cryo build plates, they save energy and has unbelievable bed adhesion. i stopped using brims on pretty much all of my prints.

[@thefamilyprintproject]

that is part of the plans. looking forward to getting it to save on energy cost

[@TheFoxalot]

What’s the Total printer count at your farm at the moment?

[@thefamilyprintproject]

4 planning on getting our 5th one before the end of the year

[@samuelescobar777]

What filament do you use ?

[@thefamilyprintproject]

Bambu Labs Filament

[@TechLGP]

Myorder from bambu lab Comes also later and there they sayed 3 to 7 Day delay but i am already Day 7 but i think it is arround Day 15 that it come

[@thefamilyprintproject]

yes today is day 7 from when I asked what's going on to my order

[@Reese-hz9vp]

Not sure what area you are in but bambu has authorized retailers that carry there machines and filament. Obviously you won’t get the quantity discount but it might be worth looking into when you need a color quickly. I got lucky and the only one in my entire state is only an hour from me so not something I would want to do regularly but nice to have when I’m in a pinch

[@thefamilyprintproject]

same io have a micro center about an hour away but the traffic get horrible quickly at any given time

[@Reese-hz9vp]

I feel yah on that. Used to live near ATL so it was a 50/50 shot on if it would take 10 minutes or 2 hours to get somewhere just down the street

[@alecconly1175]

Do you guys just do toys. Or do you sell any functional prints?

[@thefamilyprintproject]

most of our stuff is toys but functional prints is part of our plans as we expand our range over time some of the other things we provide is wine holders that's more for decoration I would say but if your talking about replacement parts we are looking at options and thinking of ideas for fixes of certain products or replacement pieces. one in particular me and designer are working is something for mobile homes.

[@saliston]

So many other good brands of filament never have issue with sunlu Elegoo or anycubic filament.

[@thefamilyprintproject]

we will be taking a look at some of these brands

[@blackax]

Look into polymaker the skuttle butt is that they are the OEM for bambu filament

[@thefamilyprintproject]

we will take a look !

[@440pressurewashing]

Could you show how you design your own products

[@thefamilyprintproject]

In a future video absolutely right now we are squeezing the time I do have into these videos I currently put a pause on our own designs this is one of several KZbin channels I make content for currently working closely with an in house designer who I will cover content with in first quarter of next year with him. but for now you can go follow or subscribe to his patreon to help him get things going for the designs link in description box

[@billwiththeb]

Inland from microcenter has worked well for me,the tough pla is best with your articulated stuffs...very strong compared to reg pla..

[@Gweivyth]

Inland is great. Used pretty much every different offering they have (There's a Microcenter near me as well) and they just get the job done.

[@thefamilyprintproject]

ill also take a look at this brand as well

[@saliston]

Inland is repackaged esun

[@billwiththeb]

I hear ya,the tarrifs and stuff have people holding on to there money..hopefully pla doesn't sky rocket in price..definitely not much profits then..

[@thefamilyprintproject]

fingers crossed on that but we will make plans to make sure we are always ahead from now on and never behind

[@mikeobrien5808]

You seemingly do not optimize your print plate. Many of the plates you show with a little work you can print twice as much if not more.. Save you a ton of time

[@thefamilyprintproject]

most times we try to fit as much as we can on build plate and somethings we don't need as many to print so we can use the material for other products that require the same color thanks for looking out for us !

[@atiratiki3072]

Now here is my question...now ill end up printing sumin...an a friend or neighbor or whoever wants what i had printed...i am goin to charge em for what i printed... Now is what you printing your own creations or you got it from one of the printing sites an selling what you printing...cause i will sell what i printed to others..it more the file or what ??..seem to me that this a secret printing code or sumin of no one making videos on sellin prints lol

[@thefamilyprintproject]

I am a little bit confused on what exactly you're asking but, we do buy our designs from different designers. If you decide to sell your deigns that you printed yourself I would price them what you feel is right. Hope this helps. Thanks!

[@atiratiki3072]

@thefamilyprintproject lol like if you went to thingverse.. printables..ect...an printed those designs from there an you have others around ya wanted one cause you printed it...i would charge em to make it for em ...sorry if it was confusing...

[@dannypaws4107]

ELEGOO from amazon

[@thefamilyprintproject]

I used an elegoo brown last week it needed to be dried

[@dannypaws4107]

Which type of filament?

[@thefamilyprintproject]

basic pla nothing fancy

[@dannypaws4107]

Hmm ok I guess I’ve only ordered petg 😂