Klipper newbie asking about klipper-printers

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I wanted to ask whether there are any 3d printers that come ready with Klipper firmware?
If not, and the firmware is so good, why not?

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I can’t think of any off-the-shelf printers that use Klipper, but many of the high-end printer kits (Voron, Ratrig, VZBot, Annex etc) are all intended to use Klipper. I can think of a few reasons why Klipper isn’t used on off-the-shelf printers:

  1. Klipper requires a rasberry pi, and at the lower end of the market, that is a significant expense that the market won’t bear. The new Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W might change that in the future, but at the moment, supply issues will prevent that from happening.
  2. It would be very difficult to support for new users. Klipper has almost everything configurable available to change via the config file. This is great for experienced users who want access to tweak those settings, but it would be really bad for new users poking around and messing things up, and then needing support. Marlin is good in this regard, because most of it’s settings are all in-built and so can’t be messed with by new users.
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