It’s ok mate, the first printer experience I had was at university trying to coax a bricked Makerbot they had back into working… Not a fun time haha.

If you get into the hobby you won’t stop at just a single printer, especially if you learn how to maintain and repair them. Then you’ll be able to buy a cheap second hand one from a more open source company if that’s something you want to do.

So that’d be the next thing to look into: how to maintain and repair your printer and what consumables, spare parts, and tools you need to do that.

If it’s an open frame printer, have a look at building/buying an enclosure for it, perhaps with an active heating unit and carbon + HEPA filtered ventilation for the more noxious filaments.

Then after that some method of drying your filament. And either combined with or separate from the drying: air-tight storage for your filament.

Some stick glue (pritt-stick) will be useful, as will a bed scraper, an alternative to stick glue would be something like cat’s vomit (a brand of a liquid glue for printer beds, there’s a few alternative suppliers around)

Welcome to the hobby!

It’s cool bud. We all know what life’s like right now and finding enjoyment in anything is very hard whilst having principles.

I don’t have much to add except maybe an enclosure for temperature/airflow management if you’re gonna print temperature sensitive filaments.

I really hope the printer works out well for you, have fun.

Anycubic is a pretty good choice compared to other options. Multi color is a bit of a gimmick imo. But it depends if you want structural prints which benefit more from enclosures, or artworks like figures which can use multi color. Then again, for 250 there’s not really a high temp printer.

Anycubic is a fine company they just have shitty consistency. I’ve owned a kobra pro, three kobra neos, three kobra2 neos and a kobra3 with the ace. I’ve loved all of them but the k3. They’re trying to get too much speed from a bed slinger in my opinion. It may do okay printing light parts with enough surface area on the bed to not be thrown off but when you’re printing functional stuff at 99 infill it has a tendency to launch shit mid print. Perhaps they’ve fixed all that with the newer models/iterations but It was disappointing enough I went back to my kobra2 neos… I’d like to hear about your experience with the X when you get it assembled and printing. I can’t decide whether I should take a chance on another printer or hoard k2 neo parts before that get difficult to locate.