Review of the 99,000 KRW 3D Printer from Sondori.com Pico

1. Why I Suddenly Decided to Buy a 3D Printer

While doing leather crafting, I found it very unfortunate that I didn't have engraving tools at home.

When I tried to buy an engraver and fonts, the engraver alone cost over 200,000 KRW as a basic, and the brass engraving fonts cost 2,000~3,000 KRW per alphabet letter, with sets easily exceeding 300,000 KRW.

Thinking that leather crafting as a hobby might become too expensive, I looked for other methods and found that people abroad were using 3D printers for leather carving.

Engraving leather without heating is often called cold stamping.

For someone who does crafts as a hobby, this cold stamping seemed good enough.

Using a 3D printer for leather engraving allowed me to create my own designs, like Hangul or different images.

While searching the internet, I discovered Sondori.com's affordable 3D printer, Pico.

2. Pico Review

When I received the Pico after ordering, the 3D printer was in a semi-assembled state, so it was ready to use just by assembling the axis.

After assembly, I tried printing the basic rocket included, and the results were quite decent, making me happily imagine creating various items with it.

However... contrary to my expectations, Pico's performance was very poor. While people have various complaints, the issues I experienced with Pico were as follows:

- X, Y, Z axis misalignment due to motor overheating

- Initial Z-axis pressing issue

The problem is that the Pico printer continuously misaligns even when printing a single model.

However, since I couldn't just throw away something I bought for over 100,000 KRW, I searched the internet and found that there are people upgrading the Pico printer.

If only I had bought the Ender-3 pro for 300,000 KRW, this could have been an easy fix...

I'm planning to go the long way around.

I'll be uploading the process of upgrading the Pico gradually from now on.

3. Conclusion: Is Pico a Worthwhile 3D Printer?

Is the Pico from Sondori.com worthwhile? My answer is 'not at the moment.'

If this were a proper product, someone should be able to produce quality prints without incessant effort after purchase, but that's not the case with Pico.

Would a consumer buy the Pico if they knew this information?

It seems doubtful that anyone would buy a 3D printer prone to misalignment and Z-axis pressing for 100,000 KRW.

However, there are many articles on the Sondori.com cafe to address these issues.

I hope the company takes those articles into account and improves the Pico quickly.

And I also hope to deepen my understanding of 3D printers as I fix my Pico.