As mentioned, we haven’t had the chance to go hands-on with the Bluer yet, but we’ve pored over its specs and looked at how the 3D printing community fared when using it to give you an idea of what you can expect.

From what we’ve seen, the initial results with this budget printer weren’t positive, but Two Trees seems to have made efforts to improve the machine based on customer feedback. That aside, here are some of the features the Bluer comes with.

Automatic Bed Leveling

The Bluer is advertised as having automatic bed leveling, but, in our experience, one manufacture’s “automatic” bed leveling is another manufacturer’s manual, so we cannot say for sure that leveling your printer bed with the Bluer will be as easy as touching a button and letting the machine do the rest. What we can say is there are large knobs to manually level the bed in case the “automatic” claim turns out to be false.

3.5-Inch Color Touchscreen

Speaking of touching a button – the Bluer comes with a 3.5-inch color touchscreen. While it doesn’t improve the printing quality, it is a great feature to have on a printer – especially one in this price range.

Filament Sensor

Filament sensors should be on every printer. Plain and simple. And, luckily, the Bluer has one. This feature is great if you’re trying to use up the dregs of a spool and don’t want your print to fail if you miscalculate how much filament is left, or if you’re using an older spool and are worried the filament could snap mid-print. However, be aware that some users have reported the sensor doesn’t work. It’s not clear whether this issue has been cleared up since then.

Metal Extruder

The Bluer is advertised as coming with a metal extruder, but we don’t know much else about it.

Decent Print Volume

For its sub-$200 price, the Bluer offers a decent print volume of 230 x 230 x 280 mm. This makes it larger than the similarly-priced Creality Ender 3 and the Anycubic Mega Zero, giving you lots of room to print just about anything.

Potential Pitfalls

Many reviewers of the Bluer mentioned that it doesn’t come with eccentric nuts, something that other printers in its price range – like the Ender 3 – do have. This is problematic because without them there’s no way to adjust the rollers against the frame and keep the gantry tightly aligned with the frame. However, we have heard that newer Bluers come with eccentric nuts, but we’re not able to confirm it.

Other users reported mediocre to poor printing results with their Bluers, while some criticized advertised features not working properly – for example, they found defects with their heated beds, power resume function, and filament sensors – or generally were disappointed with what they saw as a lack of quality control. We have heard reports that Two Trees made efforts to fix this though, so it’s possible a new machine from them will not have the same drawbacks.

But again, we have yet to go hands-on with the Bluer, and this article is merely compiling how the machine has been received by the wider community so far. We’re reserving our judgment until we’ve used the Bluer for ourselves.