The $500 - CTC Bizer series Dual Nozzle 3D Printer

[Horendus]

What a terrible system they came up with. USB+ ? What were they they thinking...

Im happy to say I bought a CTC 3D printer from ebay for just $600 AUS and it doesn't have this USB+ thing....what a scam...

[EagleSeven]

We also bought a CTC Bizer , on eBay, for $500. US, and had No problem like that.
It's been a Great printer !

I see that this thread was started months ago, so hopefully no one is pulling this scam anymore.

[err404]

Are they still making printers with this, or was this a failed experiment? I am looking to buy a CTC, but the possibility of getting a UBS+ version has me worried. Is there any way to be guaranteed to get a proper unit w/o USB+. If not, I will look at other brands.

[bigo93]

Pretty sure they got rid of them due to so many complaints. I got mine just ubder 3 months ago and so usb.

But what I would do is ask the sellers, if they really are different seller, if the printer comes with plastic gears and pulleys or metal ones.

mine came with plastic ones.

[EagleSeven]

Are they still making printers with this, or was this a failed experiment? I am looking to buy a CTC, but the possibility of getting a UBS+ version has me worried. Is there any way to be guaranteed to get a proper unit w/o USB+. If not, I will look at other brands.

The USB port in our CTC-Bizer's motherboard is a USB-2.0 port.
It connects directly to computer and works Great !
( as far as I know there's nothing different or unusual about it
but maybe some new design is different ?? )

[err404]

The USB port in our CTC's motherboard is a USB-2.0 port.
It connects directly to computer and works Great !
( as far as I know there's nothing different or unusual about it )

Thanks for the feed back, but refer to the first post on this thread. There are models of the CTC printer that include a DRM lock that requires the filament be purchased through CTC only.

[Bakamoichigei]

Are we sure this wasn't just a scam being perpetrated by that eBay seller? I went to that CTC site link and it was just a placeholder item...I did some googling though, and so far any time USB+ is mentioned and somebody says where they got their printer, it's from that same seller. You'll note they don't seem to have an eBay account anymore. I would like to think that CTC themselves would know not to pull something like this, because they make a good reliable printer that I've been happy to recommend to everybody who asks, and to do something like this would be a tragic misstep. Either way, I'm still looking forward to buying another at some point.

[err404]

I wish I knew for sure. CTC has not commented, other than to offer a main board replacement as a fix. Maybe they are just being extremely generous and taking action to correct a scam. It just seems odd to not make any further statement.
In any case, this seems to no longer be an issue. I ordered one the other day and am excited to try it out.

[Geoff]

Well, when the firmware is open source, sadly people do naughty things with it, like this for example. CTC printer might be cheap, but I doubt any sane company would try and trick any one into that. Sounds like a rogue ebay seller who's good with arduino code

[odysseus]

Please contact our service department for free replacement of the printer or motherboard if you have USB+.

Kind Regards,

Are you still doing the fixes?