Once you have worked with printers that have it and printers that don't you will understand that, while not strictly needed, it is key to moving the consumer field forward. Bed leveling has always been one of the banes of 3d printing and one that has make folks put the printer in the closet never to be seen from again. Printrbot recently started selling printers with this included as standard and I doubt you will see them ever look back. Former open source gods Makerbot are even showing their support for automatic bed leveling by filing a patent for it: http://www.openbeamusa.com/blog/2014...lassy-makerbot I agree with Roxy, I will never go back and never buy a printer without it again.