Description

So the Geeetech Prusa i3 Pro B is a clone of the Prusa i3 mk1. It uses a direct drive MK8 extruder with 3D printed parts and more. It also has a laser cut acrylic frame unlike the MK1 which has a CNC milled aluminum frame.

Pros

• It can work somewhat out of the box unlike the A8.

• Frame is more sturdy compared to printers of its generation.

• You can buy it for $150 now a days unlike what I had to spend.

• Can print flexible materials.

• Mostly opensource components.

• Wonderful people geeetech is. You will get excellent support from them.

Cons

• Doesn't quite work out of the box. Frame isn't strong enough to do most prints.

• Threaded rods used instead of linear. Plenty of problems with accuracy of prints.

• 3D Printed components on it are very brittle but are opensource so you can print spares.

• Hotend takes ten minutes to heat up triggering thermal runaways on it.

• PSU very underpowered.

• Thermal runaways are disabled along with many important failsafes as well.

• Motherboard came broken.

Conclusion

I had never accomplished something so hard as to get this printer working so good. It was a series of mistakes for about 3 years. The last two have been very wonderful. Thanks to geeetech support and support from the community as well it prints beatifully but I ended up replacing 80% of the components on it thanks to my stupidity and poor design of the printer.