Sovol SV06 Plus 3D Printer with 300℃ High Temp 250mm/s High Speed All Metal Hotend, Planetary Dual Gear Direct Drive Touch Screen Auto Leveling 32-bit Silent Board, Printing Size 11.8x11.8x13.4 inch

The SV06 Plus is a near perfect 3D printer for beginners to advanced users. I have the Ender 3v2, Ender 5 Pro and Biqu B1. This has quickly become my favorite! At 300mm X 300mm x 340mm print volume you have plenty of real estate for most projects. It doesn’t take long for the 235mm X 235mm bed size of the beginner Ender 3 style printers to become frustrating.This is the first of my five printers I have not wanted to immediately start upgrading. It has all you need for a fantastic printing experience right out of the box.Pros:1. large print volume.2. Its fast, 150mm per second acceleration. With fine tuning it will go much faster. Switch to Klipper, and use an accelerometer for perfect prints.3. All metal volcano hot end4. Direct drive, with planetary gears5. Dual Z axis motors and drivers6. Large enough Touchscreen7. Built in bed leveling sensor.8. Belt tensioners9. Filament runout sensor10. Linear rods for all axis. Although some say not as good as the linear rail, I am pleased with the performance.11. PEI Build plateThere are still many more Pros for this printer, but these are all things I have upgraded on my other printers. Totally ball parking, I would guesstimateI have spent an additional $250 on my Ender to get to a similar performance.Cons:Now for what makes this Almost perfect.First, I always make sure I have the most up to date firmware on the machine from the manufacturer. I then usually update to the most current version of marlin, adjust what I feel is important and load.The SV06 Plus shipped with the Firmware version 1.1.5, the website has a pre compiled .bin file, with no explanation of version, no revision history, so I assumed that to be the absolute latest stable Version, as per most electronics companies standard. I work in consumer electronics industry and this is one of the few companies to ever break that norm. My assumption was wrong, the “latest” firmware version on their site turned out to be 1.1.4, I searched around looking for the 1.1.5, found it on their Github. I compiled it without issue, tried to load but couldn’t get the board to take firmware. I then contacted tech support through Amazon, FB and Email asking for the 1.1.5 firmware. It took 2 full days before I got a response with the attached bin file. I loaded and was printing perfect benchies. So this was 95% my own fault, I should have looked into it more, but I find it ridiculous for a tech company who is fully open source with software and hardware to not have the basic labeling and revision history clearly explained and posted!!Sensorless homing for x, y and z. I know it works, but the sound and mild “violence” of it hitting the physical limits for the sensor-less homing to kick in bothers me.The biggest issue with the printer is the filament runout sensors mounting bracket placement. Although it works, there is considerable friction as the Direct drive pulls the filament through. It has not cause any miss prints or under extrusion yet, I feel it will eventually lead to a printing problem. It is nothing 10 minutes in CAD and 20-30minutes printing cant fix.I have seen many poor reviews of this printer both on Amazon and other social media platforms, I cannot help but feel all those reported must either be new to the hobby, or possibly Sovol had a QC issue at some point that was resolved prior to my purchase. This printer is much, much better than the 4.1 stars it currently has. If you are unsure, I would advise you to just buy it. The only thing I would say about buying it right away is wait until you it on sale. I picked mine up during July Prime Day sale for $299. I have seen it this price a few times since, as long as your not in a hurry, $80 will buy you a decent amount of filament.

The media could not be loaded. Short(ish) version: I'm a medium-level 3D printing enthusiast, 3 years of mixed experience/results with an Ender 3 since 2020. I picked up the SV01 Pro in October 23 and it was so easy to build and use, but I wanted more build area, plus a second printer so I could run concurrent print jobs. I did a fair bit of research and determined the SV06 PLUS to be a solid value. Purchased this guy November of 23, and holy cow was that it a good decision. I mean, here are some of the important boxes this printer checks for me: 1) More build volume 2) Higher print speed capable 3) Self-leveling (not perfect but shockingly good!) 4) Pause/Resume when it runs out of filament (more details below how this saved my six-day print) and 5) In general terms, for my uses, this was a wonderful next step in my 3D printing hobby. Honestly, I can say my new printers have made printing FUN again, and I get to spend time printing again instead of constantly calibrating in between prints.More details: I'm not here to trash Enders, especially since my Ender got me into the hobby (January 2020). I did however eventually get tired of the bed leveling, failed prints, and constant babysitting. To tell the truth, I was hardly printing any more come 2023. My coworker was talking about this SV01 Pro he got cheap and how reliable it was. I said why not, got myself an SV01 and was just instantly having a GREAT time! My only problem - I had the desire to print larger stuff. I joined the Sovol groups on Reddit and FB, and did a lot of reading. The clear consensus was that the SV06+ is one of the best bang for the buck printers available in general. I chose the standard (read: non Klipper) model. Klipper is a whole other (and interesting) topic but I'm not looking to address that in this context, I may tinker with it on my Raspberry Pi later, but I'm just running things stock. So the SV06 arrives, and within about 30 minutes I had assembled it and started the leveling process. As soon as that was done I connected my Raspberry Pi with OctoPi and set up a printer profile so I could print from my PC instead of using the SD slot. I'll go ahead and mention the con I have with this printer because this is where you'll notice it too: The power supply has a significantly loud fan. It's not a deal breaker for my situation because my printers are in the basement, but trust me about the noise of the power supply in case that would be a problem for you.Anyway, It's been about 4-5 weeks of non stop printing for me. I've shared several photos, and one video for this review. I printed a cool marble track model but should have scaled it up in size because it would only fit smaller ball bearings. Turns out the SV06 was big enough to increase the model to a size where I could use regular marbles! The model took up most of the build volume on the SV06 and would provide a great stress test. This beast was a 6-day print and on day 4 when the spool of filament ran out, the filament sensor on the printer paused it automatically, moving the hot end to the side so I could mount a new spool and load the filament. Then I hit resume (holding my breath because I hadn't actually tried this before) and it just picked up where it left off. If you check my video, you can see the finished product which is pretty cool - it has an Archimedes screw that lifts the marbles back up where they randomly fall out to the 4 different tracks and down again.Summary - I hope this helps someone that's on the fence! Potential buyers should be aware of the loud fan on the power supply, but I can sincerely recommend my SV06 plus based on my experience. It's fast, it has been reliable, it successfully printed a monster print for me (hopefully the first of many), and it's been easy and fun to use. I still don't know if I'd call it a "beginner" printer, but I've been teaching my son and he picked it up right away. We're having a blast printing organizers and accessories for a bunch of our favorite tabletop games. Two thumbs up!