**A Review of the Prusa XL 5-Plus Printer**

The Prusa XL 5-Plus printer is an impressive machine that offers a range of features and capabilities for hobbyists and professional printers alike. One of the standout aspects of this printer is its quality, even out of the box. As the reviewer notes, "the paint alone on that gets blown out like this will destroy that easy yes you could to upgrade your Ender to the point of okay it could be you could be making comparable Prints but out of the box no another good example of the paint is this war Beni is I took the paint paint tool and just painted Stripes onto it itself so as far as slicing goes I use uh the prusa slicer as much as possible."

The printer's slicing options are also noteworthy. The reviewer mentions that they use the Prusa slicer for most of their printing needs, but notes that there are two additional slicing modes available: standard mode and input shaper. The input shaper allows for faster printing speeds and removes some safety features, which can result in print times that are significantly shorter. In fact, the reviewer notes that they were able to shave off almost 2 hours of print time using this feature.

In addition to its impressive slicing capabilities, the Prusa XL 5-Plus also boasts a range of other innovative features. For example, most of the printer's parts are manufactured in-house, including their own PCBs and printed parts used in various components. The reviewer is particularly impressed by the printer's ability to source local parts whenever possible.

Another notable feature of the Prusa XL 5-Plus is its integration with Prusa Connect, a Wi-Fi-enabled slicing software that allows users to send files directly from their computer or tablet to the printer. This feature is convenient and makes it easy to start printing quickly. The reviewer also notes that there are instructions available for adjusting the printer's belts, which can be done using a smartphone app that listens for the tension on the bands.

**The Price**

As with any expensive printer, the price of the Prusa XL 5-Plus is a major consideration. The single tool semi-assembled model starts at $1,999, while the fully assembled version costs an additional $500. If you add other tool heads to the mix, each one costs around $500. This means that the total cost can quickly become exorbitant, but for serious hobbyists or professional printers who need high-quality prints and advanced capabilities, this printer may be worth the investment.

**Using the Printer**

For those just starting out with printing, the Prusa XL 5-Plus may seem intimidating due to its price and complexity. However, the reviewer notes that the printer is relatively easy to transfer into for beginners, and it's a great way to learn the basics of printing before investing in more advanced equipment. In fact, the reviewer mentions that they plan to use the printer for large format prints and multi-material prints, which opens up a whole new world of possibilities.

**Print Quality**

One of the standout features of the Prusa XL 5-Plus is its print quality, even out of the box. The reviewer notes that their first print was "amazing" and that they were able to achieve high-quality results using relatively inexpensive filament. Of course, as with any printer, it's possible to fine-tune the settings to achieve even better prints, but this printer already delivers impressive results.

**Multi-Material Printing**

The Prusa XL 5-Plus also offers advanced capabilities for multi-material printing. The reviewer notes that this feature opens up a whole new world of possibilities and is particularly exciting for those who want to try their hand at creating complex designs or printing multiple objects in a single print job.

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Beyond a normal 3D printer in my opinion cuz I only know how to do certain things and this is like forcing me to learn newer things in that aspect anyways let's start going the overview uh we got the just for a note we got the five the five tool head semi- built version so you had to assemble some parts of it um but you could order it in single extruder dual extruder or add additional ones as needed or start with one it could grow with your price or with your wallet if if you're willing to cuz uh off the bat it's a commitment already we're already looking at about $2,000 for just even even just a single a single extruder but there's lots of advantages to doing the five tool it's not going to be for everyone hence they give you options so coming from what my knowledge base of an Ender 3v2 and the prusa mark 3s the big the big change is you can have different materials on on different extruders you don't have to stop mid print just to change the extruder and you do more complex things for example and it just it's less time consuming in that aspect I know there's a couple comp competitor printers out there that also have multi filament um like multifilament capability but they also have like a filament poop as well when it changes the filament uh their prusa approach was a zero waist approach of 3D printing so what you really get is just a swipe Tower along with the filament change apart from and no need for doing like the filament poop shoot or anything like that the poop comes from when you have to change extrude like when you have to it uses the same extruder but it changes filament inset extruder extruder so when it changes it ejects the old filament out and you use the same extruder for all different color filaments this one you have extruder per filament petd and Pla don't really Bond well so what you could do is say print P petg supports with a pla part and that way it's easier to peel apart overall it's exciting it opens a ton of gate ways for things I didn't think was possible for example I also found they have water soluble supports so you could print whatever object you want and then use the water soluble material as your support just dunk the whole print in water and watch it dissolve which I kind of want to try in the future that sounds cool yeah it sounds really cool so the big highlight is the five five tool changer it makes printing less of a hassle you don't have to keep your eye on it so as most of you probably experienc with the the 3D printing hobby there is a lot of issues with first layers on a bunch of different printers no matter what it was so what prusa has done has is they've inserted a load cell sensor into the each extruder themselves so your bed level sensory actually comes from the nozzle itself that feature was new to me but I also found that they put it on the markv so for those who don't want to get something this large you can get the basically their updated Mark 3s which is the markv the load cell system makes the whole bed levely thing a zero issue because it's because of its accuracy and a the pr printer just kind of does it on its own like out of the box I didn't have to assemble a bed but I it walks you through upon upon it first startup it's going to walk you through calibrating the whole thing and one of the things it does is it calibrates the bed per tool head talk about the extruders um this isn't like your average extruder they call it the ne extruder system it's basically I just like to think of it as an all-in-one unit so as far as the extruder units it's basically all self-contained it comes this whole piece comes together with the along with this piece out of the box so you're mounting you have to mount it first and then you got magnets in here which kind of show you how the multi-tool changing works and the Really Neat locking mechanism for when it does the the tool change which is also probably why you want to grab a chair and just watch your printer print so a lot of you are probably wondering like yeah that's a lot of moving parts do have any safeties or just anything to stop it from messing up if it does mess up I could tell you with confidence yes they put it in because I messed up when I was installing them um the first thing it had was a crash detection so basically if that if the nozzle was hitting the bar when it is trading out or if it was crashing into the print itself it would automatically just stop it it stops IT lowers the print and this whole thing flashes red saying like hey crash detection they have an extra thermost on the heat brakes uh basically the heat braake is the piece between your filament feed and the nozzle so it's the piece where your filament is going to heat up before it gets ejected as liquid filament so basically your filament gets fed in through here most of the time it would heat up at the nozzle so all the heating work is done here but what they've done to m understanding is they also Heat this so it kind of heats up preheating here so you don't get filament stuck up here so as far as materials you could print almost anything out of the box right now I have three PR cement colors loaded on this side and then over here is a fiberology fiber Flex uh so it's basically Flex filament not TPU exactly but still flex and then over here is just some plain Inland pla plus which I was running for to try the five color stuff so a really neat feature about this print as well is that it heats up the bed according to what pieces of the bed you're actually going to use for your print so if it's a really small print it's not going to heat up the whole bed it'll save energy it'll only do like a qu like a quarter of the bed or the only specific tiles so my experience with starting it up and actually getting prints running it took me a little over like 2 hours or so just to unbox everything and just to figure out how to install each of these next shoters Once I I got it plugged in and set up I ran through the calibration system the calibration startup basically it calibrates everything from your heat bed to the bed levels per extruder one of the issues I had with starting up was one of these units were not uh allowing me to move to the next piece of the testing because the fans weren't spinning properly so what I did was just to confirm it I tried plugging it in on a different section Tred running the calibration again to make sure it was the fan it was the fan talked to the customer service which was pretty fast to respond and they are available 24/7 so if you're not from Europe they'll still get to you I just had to remove the fan shroud and removing that allowed the RPMs to read correctly allowing it to pass the test and once it passed I put put this back on and then I ran it again just to ensure that it whatever was blocking or slowing down the fan was there and it it went away so that was my only hiccup while setting up I did have hiccups while printing though the very first print I did was this Beni over here and it was uh I Ed the paint tool in their slicer to make the different colors I didn't realize like there was multi-art prints which I'm still figuring out about but eventually I figured out how to make different colors uh without having to paint the sliced like the sliced piece all together uh I moved into like the Herring bone uh sample that they G provided I thought it was pretty clean I was excited but it was with this print I realized I didn't have the docking or thex Shooters in their dock correctly when I was calibrating the dock it told you to actually move the unit onto here and my problem was I pushed it too far forward so every time it docked while printing it was shoving the whole piece back which was actually slowly loosening the the actual dock piece alog together so what I ended up doing was I had to go through each one again make sure I retightened these all together so I had to make sure it was on just enough and not pushing the whole piece back cuz when it pushes the whole piece back it would shift the whole thing and then that's throw off your prints and cause the crash s or the crash sentes to go off so upon doing different color prints especially I want to say especially this one I found that you could the sof the software on the printer allows you to select which extruder to use for what tool or what filament change they have for this one it was a three color or three material print uh and I selected to have uh a white pla for the actual bone I'm using the flex fill as your filament in between the bones and then I use the orange pla just for support material and that way we can also see the detail of how it how it supports I liked uh how the OS was pretty open as far as letting you select what exterior to use in your print the normal stl's like this you have to paint in slicer yeah the multimaterial stuff was just a trip for me cuz it looks it was so much easier than doing like a two-color print on say the Mark Mark 3s the prusa mark 3s that we have in office and I didn't have to like change filament manually this one just does it for you it's really convenient and you can see this one we actually did five colors on it so there's the gray black orange white and red and these came out pretty neat but the color changing or material changing is going to be the biggest selling point and I see it being used for a lot of hardcore hobbyist or even cosplayers if they have to use make different materials but it's really high entry price point per se so if it's going to be like your first printer you might be swerved away from the price tag you there's other printers in that price range like the bamboo but you won't get the size print bed it's like 360 x 360 by 360 mm volume which is probably one of the biggest ones we only the only one that we have in house right now to compare it to would probably like a creality ender 5 plus but like even the quality alone on that gets blown out like this will destroy that easy yes you could to upgrade your Ender to the point of okay it could be you could be making comparable Prints but out of the box no another good example of the paint is this war Beni is I took the paint paint tool and just painted Stripes onto it itself so as far as slicing goes I use uh the prusa slicer as much as possible but it did give me two options of using the standard mode or just the normal slicing option or what they call input shaper and to my understanding it basically kind of removes the safeties per se and lets you run faster and it also it's kind of like a pit tune for quadcopters but it takes the Resonance of the machine's vibrations while it's printing and kind of caner ACC it at the same time it basically just makes it run faster and turns out some safeties it cut down the print time significantly in some cases it was almost like a 2hour difference so a couple other things I should mention about the XL is uh most of it is all made inhouse they have their own PCB they and they also try to source as many local Parts as possible as you can see apart from the metal extrusions that they have there's also bits of actual printed parts that they use especially on the next shoers and another feature that's included with this is the prusa connect it's Wi-Fi capable so you can basically send files straight to the printer on your as on your network it isn't uh I don't think it's as in-depth as something like octo print or you could use a camera and like a spaghetti detector but it still allows it to send files straight to the printer from the computer or your tablet or whatever almost like a a different slicing program as far as out of the box setup for the belts because I did get it semi assembled I didn't have to go through that but they do provide you a link that actually lets you use your phone M your phone's microphone and it listens for the tension on your on the bands there's directions of how to do it but it actually measures uh like kind of like a guitar tuner but it lets you know if you need to adjust the tension on your belts at all for the printer which is actually really neat all right so wrapping up um going to go down the price list basically as far as what you're getting for and how much it's going to cost the single tool semi assembled starts at $1,999 and if you're adding other tool heads they're essentially $500 per and if you're going to go assembled you have to throw another 500 on top of that so you can see where this is going to start increasing price exponentially but to those who are really into the print like the printing hobby or like they have a print Farm or use large format prints all the time this is going to be a printer they want to consider otherwise if you're probably still moderate hobbyist or still getting into it I'd hold off until you build up enough confidence of like okay I could I could do do this they make it really easy to transfer into to jump into large format or even multimaterial but I feel if you had a baseline of even if you're starting on your Ender or whatever at home just get a feel for it before you want to commit to I'm going to put x amount of money into this and stick with it but for the money uh out of box prints were amazing I know this one's a little bit stringy only because I was using some old pla that we've had laying around everything cleaned up a lot more especially when I jumped into the fresh filament from that pra also sent us but like Autobox quality I I'm stoked on it I know you could tune it to be even higher quality but this is a really strong Benchmark to start or a really strong starting point as far as print qualities go so I I really like this print printer I'm glad we got it I can't wait to actually start using it for even the computer case hint hint there's a lot of potential for so many possibilities with this printer or just multimaterial printing alone that it just opens up a whole gate we have more stuff than just your basic I'm going to print some more drone parts or you know you could try a flexible fixed Wing drone you know or even like we're going to try later for my paper airplane motor printing a airplane frame that'll fit it but sound off in the comments below if this is something you would consider if it's something within your budget or like how else you would use use a printer that could print five different materials simultaneously because I'm I'm fairly hitting a wall with what the possibilities apart from high fiving myself with thefor those looking for a high-end custom gaming experience look no further than Falcon Northwest Falcon Northwest has been building PCS made for gamers for over 30 years with a focus on a true high-end gaming experience custom cases available only through Falcon Northwest feature state-of-the-art testing and design to ensure that every component is performing at their best through thermal imaging and rigorous lab testing designed and overseen by the Falcon Northwest founder himself with a complete lineup of systems ranging from small to large every Falcon Northwest system includes a three-year warranty policy and a year of two-way overnight shipping coverage providing the ultimate peace of mind to see all that Falcon Northwest has to offer follow the sponsored Link in the description below we got something I totally didn't expect to get and I'm totally hyped about it the pra XL not even just like the single tool we got the five tool it's way it's levels Beyond a normal 3D printer in my opinion cuz I only know how to do certain things and this is like forcing me to learn newer things in that aspect anyways let's start going the overview uh we got the just for a note we got the five the five tool head semi- built version so you had to assemble some parts of it um but you could order it in single extruder dual extruder or add additional ones as needed or start with one it could grow with your price or with your wallet if if you're willing to cuz uh off the bat it's a commitment already we're already looking at about $2,000 for just even even just a single a single extruder but there's lots of advantages to doing the five tool it's not going to be for everyone hence they give you options so coming from what my knowledge base of an Ender 3v2 and the prusa mark 3s the big the big change is you can have different materials on on different extruders you don't have to stop mid print just to change the extruder and you do more complex things for example and it just it's less time consuming in that aspect I know there's a couple comp competitor printers out there that also have multi filament um like multifilament capability but they also have like a filament poop as well when it changes the filament uh their prusa approach was a zero waist approach of 3D printing so what you really get is just a swipe Tower along with the filament change apart from and no need for doing like the filament poop shoot or anything like that the poop comes from when you have to change extrude like when you have to it uses the same extruder but it changes filament inset extruder extruder so when it changes it ejects the old filament out and you use the same extruder for all different color filaments this one you have extruder per filament petd and Pla don't really Bond well so what you could do is say print P petg supports with a pla part and that way it's easier to peel apart overall it's exciting it opens a ton of gate ways for things I didn't think was possible for example I also found they have water soluble supports so you could print whatever object you want and then use the water soluble material as your support just dunk the whole print in water and watch it dissolve which I kind of want to try in the future that sounds cool yeah it sounds really cool so the big highlight is the five five tool changer it makes printing less of a hassle you don't have to keep your eye on it so as most of you probably experienc with the the 3D printing hobby there is a lot of issues with first layers on a bunch of different printers no matter what it was so what prusa has done has is they've inserted a load cell sensor into the each extruder themselves so your bed level sensory actually comes from the nozzle itself that feature was new to me but I also found that they put it on the markv so for those who don't want to get something this large you can get the basically their updated Mark 3s which is the markv the load cell system makes the whole bed levely thing a zero issue because it's because of its accuracy and a the pr printer just kind of does it on its own like out of the box I didn't have to assemble a bed but I it walks you through upon upon it first startup it's going to walk you through calibrating the whole thing and one of the things it does is it calibrates the bed per tool head talk about the extruders um this isn't like your average extruder they call it the ne extruder system it's basically I just like to think of it as an all-in-one unit so as far as the extruder units it's basically all self-contained it comes this whole piece comes together with the along with this piece out of the box so you're mounting you have to mount it first and then you got magnets in here which kind of show you how the multi-tool changing works and the Really Neat locking mechanism for when it does the the tool change which is also probably why you want to grab a chair and just watch your printer print so a lot of you are probably wondering like yeah that's a lot of moving parts do have any safeties or just anything to stop it from messing up if it does mess up I could tell you with confidence yes they put it in because I messed up when I was installing them um the first thing it had was a crash detection so basically if that if the nozzle was hitting the bar when it is trading out or if it was crashing into the print itself it would automatically just stop it it stops IT lowers the print and this whole thing flashes red saying like hey crash detection they have an extra thermost on the heat brakes uh basically the heat braake is the piece between your filament feed and the nozzle so it's the piece where your filament is going to heat up before it gets ejected as liquid filament so basically your filament gets fed in through here most of the time it would heat up at the nozzle so all the heating work is done here but what they've done to m understanding is they also Heat this so it kind of heats up preheating here so you don't get filament stuck up here so as far as materials you could print almost anything out of the box right now I have three PR cement colors loaded on this side and then over here is a fiberology fiber Flex uh so it's basically Flex filament not TPU exactly but still flex and then over here is just some plain Inland pla plus which I was running for to try the five color stuff so a really neat feature about this print as well is that it heats up the bed according to what pieces of the bed you're actually going to use for your print so if it's a really small print it's not going to heat up the whole bed it'll save energy it'll only do like a qu like a quarter of the bed or the only specific tiles so my experience with starting it up and actually getting prints running it took me a little over like 2 hours or so just to unbox everything and just to figure out how to install each of these next shoters Once I I got it plugged in and set up I ran through the calibration system the calibration startup basically it calibrates everything from your heat bed to the bed levels per extruder one of the issues I had with starting up was one of these units were not uh allowing me to move to the next piece of the testing because the fans weren't spinning properly so what I did was just to confirm it I tried plugging it in on a different section Tred running the calibration again to make sure it was the fan it was the fan talked to the customer service which was pretty fast to respond and they are available 24/7 so if you're not from Europe they'll still get to you I just had to remove the fan shroud and removing that allowed the RPMs to read correctly allowing it to pass the test and once it passed I put put this back on and then I ran it again just to ensure that it whatever was blocking or slowing down the fan was there and it it went away so that was my only hiccup while setting up I did have hiccups while printing though the very first print I did was this Beni over here and it was uh I Ed the paint tool in their slicer to make the different colors I didn't realize like there was multi-art prints which I'm still figuring out about but eventually I figured out how to make different colors uh without having to paint the sliced like the sliced piece all together uh I moved into like the Herring bone uh sample that they G provided I thought it was pretty clean I was excited but it was with this print I realized I didn't have the docking or thex Shooters in their dock correctly when I was calibrating the dock it told you to actually move the unit onto here and my problem was I pushed it too far forward so every time it docked while printing it was shoving the whole piece back which was actually slowly loosening the the actual dock piece alog together so what I ended up doing was I had to go through each one again make sure I retightened these all together so I had to make sure it was on just enough and not pushing the whole piece back cuz when it pushes the whole piece back it would shift the whole thing and then that's throw off your prints and cause the crash s or the crash sentes to go off so upon doing different color prints especially I want to say especially this one I found that you could the sof the software on the printer allows you to select which extruder to use for what tool or what filament change they have for this one it was a three color or three material print uh and I selected to have uh a white pla for the actual bone I'm using the flex fill as your filament in between the bones and then I use the orange pla just for support material and that way we can also see the detail of how it how it supports I liked uh how the OS was pretty open as far as letting you select what exterior to use in your print the normal stl's like this you have to paint in slicer yeah the multimaterial stuff was just a trip for me cuz it looks it was so much easier than doing like a two-color print on say the Mark Mark 3s the prusa mark 3s that we have in office and I didn't have to like change filament manually this one just does it for you it's really convenient and you can see this one we actually did five colors on it so there's the gray black orange white and red and these came out pretty neat but the color changing or material changing is going to be the biggest selling point and I see it being used for a lot of hardcore hobbyist or even cosplayers if they have to use make different materials but it's really high entry price point per se so if it's going to be like your first printer you might be swerved away from the price tag you there's other printers in that price range like the bamboo but you won't get the size print bed it's like 360 x 360 by 360 mm volume which is probably one of the biggest ones we only the only one that we have in house right now to compare it to would probably like a creality ender 5 plus but like even the quality alone on that gets blown out like this will destroy that easy yes you could to upgrade your Ender to the point of okay it could be you could be making comparable Prints but out of the box no another good example of the paint is this war Beni is I took the paint paint tool and just painted Stripes onto it itself so as far as slicing goes I use uh the prusa slicer as much as possible but it did give me two options of using the standard mode or just the normal slicing option or what they call input shaper and to my understanding it basically kind of removes the safeties per se and lets you run faster and it also it's kind of like a pit tune for quadcopters but it takes the Resonance of the machine's vibrations while it's printing and kind of caner ACC it at the same time it basically just makes it run faster and turns out some safeties it cut down the print time significantly in some cases it was almost like a 2hour difference so a couple other things I should mention about the XL is uh most of it is all made inhouse they have their own PCB they and they also try to source as many local Parts as possible as you can see apart from the metal extrusions that they have there's also bits of actual printed parts that they use especially on the next shoers and another feature that's included with this is the prusa connect it's Wi-Fi capable so you can basically send files straight to the printer on your as on your network it isn't uh I don't think it's as in-depth as something like octo print or you could use a camera and like a spaghetti detector but it still allows it to send files straight to the printer from the computer or your tablet or whatever almost like a a different slicing program as far as out of the box setup for the belts because I did get it semi assembled I didn't have to go through that but they do provide you a link that actually lets you use your phone M your phone's microphone and it listens for the tension on your on the bands there's directions of how to do it but it actually measures uh like kind of like a guitar tuner but it lets you know if you need to adjust the tension on your belts at all for the printer which is actually really neat all right so wrapping up um going to go down the price list basically as far as what you're getting for and how much it's going to cost the single tool semi assembled starts at $1,999 and if you're adding other tool heads they're essentially $500 per and if you're going to go assembled you have to throw another 500 on top of that so you can see where this is going to start increasing price exponentially but to those who are really into the print like the printing hobby or like they have a print Farm or use large format prints all the time this is going to be a printer they want to consider otherwise if you're probably still moderate hobbyist or still getting into it I'd hold off until you build up enough confidence of like okay I could I could do do this they make it really easy to transfer into to jump into large format or even multimaterial but I feel if you had a baseline of even if you're starting on your Ender or whatever at home just get a feel for it before you want to commit to I'm going to put x amount of money into this and stick with it but for the money uh out of box prints were amazing I know this one's a little bit stringy only because I was using some old pla that we've had laying around everything cleaned up a lot more especially when I jumped into the fresh filament from that pra also sent us but like Autobox quality I I'm stoked on it I know you could tune it to be even higher quality but this is a really strong Benchmark to start or a really strong starting point as far as print qualities go so I I really like this print printer I'm glad we got it I can't wait to actually start using it for even the computer case hint hint there's a lot of potential for so many possibilities with this printer or just multimaterial printing alone that it just opens up a whole gate we have more stuff than just your basic I'm going to print some more drone parts or you know you could try a flexible fixed Wing drone you know or even like we're going to try later for my paper airplane motor printing a airplane frame that'll fit it but sound off in the comments below if this is something you would consider if it's something within your budget or like how else you would use use a printer that could print five different materials simultaneously because I'm I'm fairly hitting a wall with what the possibilities apart from high fiving myself with the\n"