Review on 🚀 Enhanced Precision and Efficiency: Monoprice Maker Ultimate 3D Printer Built for Superior Performance by Maxwell Thomas

I really wish I liked this printer more, but it has some relatively major issues that prevent me from recommending it or buying another one. Pros: It's fully enclosed and prints ABS on PEI with no issues. I mounted the PEI directly on the glass platform and performed the Z-offset procedure to get the correct distance from the print nozzle. It's quite compact and I really like that the filament holder is inside the printer. It keeps dust off the reel, which should help prevent clogging of the nozzles. So-so: My display is quite small and is located at the bottom front of the printer. If the printer had a large display it would be much better. The print quality is okay. That's not a problem, and the parts are printed to size (after shrinkage compensation in ABS printing). My Ender 3 produces more attractive prints. It's hard to say exactly why the prints aren't as good as the Ender 3, but it has something to do with how light reflects off print surfaces. There are visible artifacts when I rotate the cylinder around its axis. Overall prints are good, but not as good as my Ender 3. Cons: Loud. Really very loud. The noise seems to be coming from the hot end fan causing resonances in the printer case. The stepper motors seem pretty quiet when running, but my goodness you can tell when the printer is on. Mine comes with outdated firmware that didn't have automatic platform leveling enabled. When I tried to update the firmware, sparks flew out of the USB port, prompting me to send the printer in for a replacement. I was able to update the firmware on a replacement printer without any problems and the automatic platform leveling works. The automatic platform leveling works, but there is a significant difference in nozzle height on one side of the platform compared to the other. Prints on one side of the build platform will be pushed into the platform much more than prints on the other side of the build platform. I'm not sure what the problem is, but the automatic platform leveling procedure only measures three points on the platform, which may not be enough. The platform level sensor was loose causing my prints to fail. There are two set screws holding the bed level sensor in place and they both loosened causing the sensor to fall into its mount. I was able to get the sensor back to the correct height, run the Z-Shift procedure again, and got the printer working again. I think the bolts may have come loose because the hotend fan was vibrating on the hotend carriage. I'll probably use Loctite to keep them from coming loose again. The steering wheel response is incredibly late and almost unusable. It's almost impossible to use the steering wheel to select the file I want to print because moving the wheel usually doesn't change the selected item or moves it too far. The very long delay that is also present causes me to choose the wrong file almost every time. This forced me to only have one file on the SD card at a time so I wouldn't accidentally select the wrong file. This is a real problem for me as I use this printer to produce the items I design and sell. This problem is one of the biggest problems I have with this printer. The thread run out sensor struggles with threading and this was causing a lot of false errors that I had to deal with. I ended up disabling the sensor as it just wasn't working. To sum up, this printer can print decent ABS prints, but it proved unreliable and routine to use due to the terribly sluggish interface. I can't recommend it and definitely won't be buying it again.