Like some sort of crafty cuboidal snow leopard, the Creality CR-200B has slowly snuck up on us. Expected to pounce on the purses of customers somewhat soon, the CR-200B has some solid sounding features that won’t change the world, but it does at least have a really smart, elegant design.
Unlike an actual snow leopard, this printer looks like something you’d happily have in your home, and the tidy shape and style allows it to have a fully enclosed print area, which is hopefully going to be good for keeping print temperatures stable and free from outside interference.
The print area itself is a cubelicious 200 mm, with filament being sent to the build zone via what Creality says is a “Performance nozzle kit” featuring dual-fan setup supposedly more resistant to wear, among other benefits.
Other features that’ll catch your eye include a color touchscreen for jabbing instructions, both USB and SD card slots, and a small selection of convenience features to help you enjoy the sport of 3D printing. Speaking of the features, let’s have a closer look, shall we?
Features
Fully Enclosed Print Area
200 x 200 x 200 mm is what you’ll get to print into with this new CR-200B. Not particularly sizeable in terms of a build area, just about average in all honesty. It’s fully enclosed though, meaning you can keep a stable temperature inside it and that theoretically means that some of the more temperaturemental filaments will find it a bit easier to become a nice looking print.
Performance Nozzle Kit
Sounds sporty, doesn’t it? Aside from having two fans we’re not sure what makes this particularly performance-y, but Creality says that this new nozzle setup will be smoother, more stable and offer superior wear resistance.
It takes 1.75 mm filament as you’d expect, and can reach a maximum temperature of 260 C, which is about as hot as you need at this point.
Smart Filament Sensor
This sort of joins together the functions of resume printing and a filament sensor. If the little sensor doesn’t sense any filament, or it senses a breakage, it will tell your CR-200B to stop and wait for some to appear though, meaning you hopefully won’t ever have to start a whole print again if you run out of filament. Instead, you can just reload and resume.
4.3-inch Color Touchscreen
You just don’t have a modern piece of technology unless there’s some sort of touchscreen attached to it, but you can’t deny they make our lives easier. 4.3-inches is a decent size for a 3D printer too, hopefully giving enough space to prevent Homer Simpson-esque phone dialing moments.
Best of the Rest
Creality also says the CR-200B will ship with a silent motherboard, a glass print bed that heats up to 100 C, as well as online printing and remote control via the Creality Box Wi-Fi system that’ll be an optional extra. Oh, and there’s a nice little LED inside the CR-200B too, so you can watch your print come to life under some mood lighting. Drama.
Price
Currently this printer is listed on the Creality website at $379 or so. The website itself says that price is a sale price down from $479. So, it’s safe to say this shouldn’t cost you anymore than $500, but there’s a good chance you’ll get it for much less than that going forward.
It’s worth keeping in mind that this time of year can often throw up some very tasty prices, so if this printer is on your hit list, keep your eyes open for tempting special offers.
Release Date and Availability
At the time of this article’s first draft, we didn’t know. But then, neither did Creality, telling us upon questioning that it wasn’t sure when it would be sending this printer out into the world. In the meantime, a great big “buy” button has appeared on the company’s product pages, indicating some dozens of days for delivery via cargo ship. So, right now there are probably lots of CR-200’s huddled up in an anonymous container, crawling their way across the Pacific. Spare a thought for those lonely little CR-200’s this holiday season.
Tech Specs
GENERAL SPECS
- Technology: FDM
- Year: 2020
- Assembly: Fully Assembled
- Mechanical arrangement: Cartesian-XY-Head
- Manufacturer: Creality
MATERIALS
- Filament diameter: 1.75 mm
- 3rd party filaments: Yes
- Compatible materials: PLA, ABS
3D PRINTING PROPERTIES
- Layer height: 0.1-0.4 mm
- Feeder system: Bowden
- Extruder type: Single nozzle
- Nozzle size: 0.4 mm
- Max. build volume: 200 x 200 x 200 mm
- Max. extruder temperature: 260 ℃
- Max. heated bed temperature: 100 ℃
- Max. print speed: N/A
- Closed print chamber: Yes
- Bed leveling: Manual
- Print bed: Carborundum glass
- UI: 4.3-inch color touchscreen
- Connectivity: USB, SD card
- Built-in camera: No
- Resume print: Yes
- Filament sensor: Yes
SOFTWARE
- Recommended slicer: Cura, Repetier-Host, Simplify3D
- Operating system: Windows, Mac, Linux
- File types: STL, OBJ, AMF
DIMENSIONS AND WEIGHT
- Frame dimensions: 411 x 435 x 503 mm
- Weight: 16kg
Similar Machines
Fully-enclosed 3D printers at this price point are few and far between. However, these two might be viable alternatives to the new Creality CR-200B.
Flashforge Adventurer 3
A solid, if unremarkable all-rounder with some nice features, the Flashforge Adventurer 3 didn’t blow us away, but it’s far from a bad printer, and after getting used to it, should serve you well. A good printer for beginners.
Monoprice MP Voxel
If you don’t mind a small build volume, then the Monoprice MP Voxel could be worth a look. We started to grow the feels for it when we had it in for review earlier in 2020, and its quiet, simple approach is just fine if you’re not looking to do anything too fancy.
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