Bigness

It’s a big one, this Magician Pro. You get a whopping big cube of build volume to print within here, 400 x 400 x 400 mm worth. For reference, we often see average build volumes around the 250 x 250 x 250 mm mark, so this is considerably larger than what we might consider to be “average”.

Full-size helmets, big batches of functional parts, and really anything else you want to scale up to an impressive stature should be possible on this machine, providing it can print reliably and consistently enough to yield good results, of course.

Directness

Mingda offers a direct extruder on the Magician Pro, which is dual-geared for more consistent and steady filament feeding. Not a great deal is revealed about its specific design just yet, but we do know that it can reach an official hotness rating of 260 ℃. That means you’ll get to play with the usual consumer 3D printing filaments, ABS, PETG, and PLA. Being a direct extruder, it should also handle TPU a bit easier as well.

A couple of 3D printing safety nets are present, there’s a filament sensor, but there’s also a print resume function which can be a life saver if you’ve just printed 390 mm of something and then there’s a power cut. Phew.

Glass Print Plateness

Like many 3D printers over the last couple of years, the Magician Pro features a textured glass print surface that can be heated to a toasty 110 ℃. Glass surfaces like this are starting to lose favor with some manufacturers using more flexible magnetic beds with coatings like PC.

They have some upsides though, these beds are usually very difficult to break and scuff up, and lend themselves well to the application of glue with tricker filaments. They also have one rough side and one smooth side, and you can use either for 3D printing. You can, unlike some other build plates, also take this off and put in the sink to give it a good clean. Maybe even the dishwasher.

Automatic Bed Level…ness?

There’s an automatic bed leveling system deployed on the Mingda Magician Pro and we love to see it, because manual leveling is a pain in the proverbial. Mingda is keen to point out that it’s auto bed leveling system is self-developed and touches the bed in 36 different places to iron out any unevenness in the surface. We don’t know a lot more about it other than that, however.

From the looks of it, there are no knobs underneath the print bed to allow for some manual tweaking, so we presume any fine tuning can be taken care of by tweaking the Z-offset in the UI.

Dual Z-axis

A dual Z axis offers improved stability and that could be important, as mounted on the X-axis gantry is the direct extruder, and direct extruders normally carry a bit of extra weight. A dual Z should help support that weight and give better printing performance, especially when hitting the upper limits of this printer’s sizeable print height.

Further Features

There are one or two more features you ought to know about on the Magician Pro.

• Touchscreen UI: You get a 3.5-inch color LCD touchscreen with which to control the functions of this printer.
• 5-minute assembly: Apparently, putting together this printer will take just 5 minutes, which could be good for beginners and impatient people.
• 32-bit mainboard: All we know is that it’s an upgrade on previous Magician models, and it comes with silent stepper drivers, so expect a quieter printing experience.
• Dual cooling fans: The direct extruder packs two cooling fans, so maybe don’t expect a super quiet printing experience. They’re likely to be loud.