This article was automatically translated from Japanese using AI. The Japanese version is the authoritative version.
As a home 3D printer, this is a machine I personally think may be unbeatable.
It’s excellent in every respect: cost performance, practicality, and design.
It does have drawbacks, but even so, considering the price, it’s hard to imagine anything better.
Features of the Sermoon D1
Unusually for a budget home model, it is a fully enclosed 3D printer, so heat doesn’t escape easily during printing and it’s easier to get clean prints.
It’s built with an aluminum alloy frame and transparent side panels, so you can watch the printing process from every direction.
The build volume is a generous 280 x 260 x 310 mm, which is very handy for printing large objects.
It handles PLA and ABS without any trouble, of course.
Operation is via a touchscreen and is very easy.
Buying it and using it
The first thing that surprises you after buying it is the size.
When the box arrived and I tried to bring it into my room, it barely fit through the door.
Apparently there are cases where the outer box won’t fit through the front door when it’s delivered.
The printer itself is smaller than the box, so you can get it inside by taking it out first, but the size is still overwhelming.
The unit measures about 500 x 500 x 531 mm, so you’ll need a fair amount of space for it in your room.
This again comes down to it being an enclosed design: the build volume is 280 x 260 x 310 mm, but the machine is nearly twice that in width.
Assembly after delivery was extremely easy—just attaching two parts.
I think this machine’s greatest strength is how quiet it is.
Even with the fan running at 100%, it’s remarkably quiet.
You couldn’t sleep right next to it at night, of course, but a nap is no problem at all, and if you’re on the phone next to it the printer is barely audible.
Even when you print with a raft, the raft comes off easily.
And depending on the model, you can get beautiful prints without a raft at all.
During printing the bed is warm so the print sticks to it, but once printing finishes the bed cools and the print comes off easily.
The bed is made of some curious material, and popping prints off it afterward is genuinely fun.
Recommended settings
The default settings already give clean prints, but I tweaked things myself to get even better results, and here are the settings that worked well for me.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ZBnrYzihwzA0iWwKvfA8w2feE9WD4-Wn/view?usp=sharing
These are settings for Creality Slicer.
Basically, set the infill (how densely the interior is filled) however you like.
I use 15%.
I lowered the retraction speed (the speed at which the filament is pulled back) and slowed down the print speed.
I raised the head travel speed to as fast as it could go while still producing good prints.
Once you understand what each parameter does and what values it takes, you can customize things yourself to a reasonable degree.
What I’ve shown here is just one example, and since other people’s recommended settings didn’t work that well for me, please treat this only as a reference while finding the settings that suit your own setup.
Drawbacks
Being a home machine, it does have a few drawbacks.
・No auto-leveling, so it takes beginners a while to get the hang of it at first
・Changing filament is difficult (is this true of all printers?)
・There are few reviews, so there wasn’t much to refer to when I wanted to adjust the settings
・You have to put the data on an SD card, so sending data over Wi-Fi and the like isn’t possible.
Among home models it’s very easy to use, and I can recommend it to beginners and advanced users alike.
If you’ve been thinking about getting a 3D printer, definitely give it a look.