AnkerMake M5C 3D Printer, 500 mm/s High-Speed Printing, All-Metal Hotend, Supports 300℃ Printing, Control via Multi-Device, Intuitive, 7×7 Auto-Leveling, 220×220×250 mm Print Volume
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Price: $399.00 - $299.99
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“It’s one of those printers that basically you can kind of set up the desktop app, you can push the button, you can push ‘go’ and basically do everything externally wirelessly.”
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@The Print House
“The experience of the M5C really is impressive. It is a reliable option for those that what a printer that will always work without hassle.”
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Print Speed
500 mm/s
500 mm/s
500 mm/s
500 mm/s
500 mm/s
500 mm/s
Print Acceleration
5000 mm/s²
5000 mm/s²
5000 mm/s²
5000 mm/s²
5000 mm/s²
5000 mm/s²
Auto-Leveling
7×7 Point
7×7 Point
7×7 Point
7×7 Point
7×7 Point
7×7 Point
Print Size
220×220×250 mm³
235×235×250 mm³
220×220×250 mm³
220×220×250 mm³
235×235×250 mm³
235×235×250 mm³
One-Click Button
Y
N/A
Y
Y
N/A
N/A
AI Recognition
N
Y (Deep Learning)
N
N
Y (Deep Learning)
Y (Deep Learning)
Screen
N
4.3-Inch Touch Screen
N
N
4.3-Inch Touch Screen
4.3-Inch Touch Screen
Camera (Video Streaming)
N
Y
N
N
Y
Y
Time-Lapse Videos
N
Y
N
N
Y
Y
Hotend
All-Metal
PTFE
All-Metal
All-Metal
PTFE
PTFE
Quality Prints at High Speed: With PowerBoost 2.0 technology and Ultra Direct Extruder, AnkerMake M5C can achieve printing speeds of up to 500 mm/s while maintaining 0.1 mm precision, so you can create quality models faster and more efficiently.
Easy Control From Anywhere: With Wi-Fi and Bluetooth connectivity, you can control the printer, monitor the status of your prints, and transfer sliced models directly from your mobile device. The user-friendly AnkerMake app is easy to use for beginners and pros alike.
Next-Level Detail with Precision Mode: This all-new feature supports up to 50 μm resolution when using a 0.2 mm nozzle. Supported by multiple advanced algorithms, it makes fine printing faster and more efficient than ever before.
Enduring Reliability & Wide Compatibility: With wear-resistant components and a 300°C all-metal hotend, this 3D printer is durable and versatile. It can handle a wide range of filament materials like PLA, PETG, ABS, TPU, and PLA-CF (Carbon Fiber).
User-Friendly Features for Easy Printing: This 3D printer has 49-point (7×7) automatic bed leveling, an integrated design for easy installation, and power and filament outage recovery functions. The PEI flexible magnetic plate provides a stable and easy-to-remove printing surface, making it an ideal choice for beginners.
Customers say
Customers like the ease of use, speed and difficulty of the 3D printer. They mention that it’s easy to set up and run, extremely fast and that it works great for beginners. They appreciate the value. That said, some have issues with noise, and adhesion. Opinions are mixed on quality and performance.
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Vbone –
Fantastic bed slinger! High quality build and amazing slicer.
Excellent printer with so many features that actually work and are convenient. Price point is spot on for a WiFi enabled and ultra fast printer. I originally purchased a Bambu Labs P1S which arrived broken…Bambu customer support is pretty much non-existent. Took 3 months to get a refund…the core XY printers are all hype right now; bulky, mediocre quality, expensive, etc.Top notch build quality, small footprint, front access spool, sleek/clean features, and is very solid. I am a huge fan of the app and the slicer. Very easy to send prints over the air and manage printer with the phone. I slow the prints down to no more than 200mm/s and the quality at .15 layer height is astonishing. The slicer is great, but you may need to use the custom settings to hide the seams better in the walls section. At 500mm/s it can string a bit but most people do not need to print at such stressful conditions. Overall, this is a great printer backed by a legitimate company that cares. They release many software and firmware updates. They have multi-color printing and other accessories releasing soon.Buy it.
artisannm –
An amazing printer
Let me start off by saying I have owned Prusa clone printers since 2017 and back then these which were mostly prebuilt, still had a lot of nuances to figure out. I was still learning some tips and tricks with it more than a year later.Fastforward to today and I just setup and ran the ‘benchy’ test file which is easy to download from their site. It printed about 95% quality with a few minor spots but nothing to worry about. This printer does not ship with filament samples – FYI.What’s interesting first off is that this printer and company make both a phone app (android user here) and a PC slicer program that can be downloaded. The PC program is more extensive then the app apart from slicing, and you can go in and make changes to the settings which I later did.What’s also interesting here is that their app or slicer program (PC), breaks out speed variations on a layer basis. Cura never did that. I think it only gives a flat rate speed and pushes the machine to try and achieve it.With this new printer, the software determines what parts of the printed model it can print at what speed along with user settings dictating a thing like a slow first layer. After printing some smaller models from Tinkercad and slicing them, I realized that they use color maps which are displayed according to layer changes, and that they automatically reduce print speeds.So, the outerwall for ex. might print no problem at the max speed of 500 mm/s, but once sliced, the inner parts might slow way down to below 100 mm/s – something to be mindful of when considering the spec sheet on this printer.I’m printing with PLA Pro filament from 3D Fuel (American brand), and with the original settings it shipped with of a .25mm layer height, and all of my personal models came out very smooth. I uploaded a picture of one where I also did a filament change on a leftover spool. It printed a single final layer in silver.Another thing to note is on my prusa clone it had a habit of creating a ridge line on circular prints both inside and outside on the first layer. I used the setting regarding ‘elephant’s foot’ set to a negative 3mm to compensate but that also subtracts the first layer inward. On this new machine I didn’t have any issue like this at all. I’m really impressed with this printer, even out of the box. It really is plug N’ play. What’s more the instruction sheet is huge and illustrates the few minor steps needed to assemble it. Once that’s done it tells you to turn on the printer and to download their app.Once installed it basically takes over intuitively figuring out the next step you need and guiding you through everything including the final request to autocalibrate the bed. This was really nice as a feature, as I’m used to finessing my old printer with a piece of paper and it rarely prints anywhere but the middle with good adhesion over blue tape.This printer comes with the now common flex magnetic board that hooks at the rear of the printer and snaps magnetically into place. Now, one of the questions I had while researching this printer was whether it performed a bed leveling prior to each print and the answer is ‘yes’, but there’s a difference here. When first initializing the printer, it will literally go through a 6 plus minute bed leveling process. You can leave the printer powered on all the time, it has an internal shutdown so the fans turn off.However, the bed leveling prior to each print only went through a 2.5 minute procedure to check leveling. The timer resets the estimate after this step is completed. While the PC slicer is pretty intuitive especially for someone who’s done 3D printing before and is familiar with the advance settings in Cura slicer, there were a couple of instances where I had to guess where to click on things. There are two different screens, the slicer tab, and the machine tab. Under the second tab is a printer button but… it won’t recognize the sliced model and looks for an existing sliced Gcode file, which doesn’t make much sense since the idea is to use the slicer software from ankermake.Under the slicer tab there are two icons lower left, one is the main model display ‘unsliced’ and the other reveals the layer settings and has a vertical and horizontal slider tool to view it.At the upper mid left of the screen is a box that may not be expanded and it has drop downs like “Speed”. If you click this it will break down the layers by speed and color mapping. The time it takes to print is hidden under another selection in the drop down, otherwise you have to click the print button to see the time displayed for that model.On the right middle of the page there is a simple drop down menu for basic presets slow, med. and fast. I chose the fast setting and later realized I could click on the advance settings ‘global’ and it would open up all of the speed settings etc. Then there’s the pencil icon which allows editing, and a save icon to create a newly modified profile. You don’t have to do any of this to get a really nice and fast print. I just wanted to push the machine to get my original times as low as possible.Now due to the type of model, the infill which they default to a measely 10% will depend on the type of model it is, for how long it will take to print. I did a test square block about 20mm high and fairly large in size. This type of model quoted some 2 hours or more because of the tedious infill for every layer. However for a shaped object with a hole through the middle, and only some infill on each layer, Cura slicer quoted me 6.5 hours with 50% infill and a layer of .15mm which is really fine for a print. Now on this printer with infill set much lower at 25%, and chosing a ‘line’ fill option pattern, with a less fine setting of .25mm it still came out really nice and smooth. The ankermake slicer quoted just under 2 hours for the same model and interestingly the mesh infill is just as good at the lower percentage.As to the printer itself sometimes the head needed to travel about three inches to the next wall and it moved at 500mm/s which was like a blink of an eye. Sometimes during the printing process it also moved this rapidly depending on what part of the model it was producing. This printer is crazy fast and very accurate. I ran several test prints and none had any issue with bed adhesion. I will add that the texture of the build plate does show up on the bottom of the print however.Another really nice thing I noticed was when it was laying down lines in the first layers of the print before proceding with the infill. There wasn’t a single lift or bubble anywhere it was incredibly smooth. Even on a good day my old printer just can’t give that kind of result. If you’re on the fence about getting a 3D printer watch for monthly sales on the Amazon tracker tool. So far the company is discounting to $239 for a one week period starting around the first week of each month. If you’re a current owner of a 3D printer, and haven’t upgraded in a while I don’t believe anyone would go wrong with buying this. The fit and finish from delivery to the initial setup and print was basically flawless.I will add here that I don’t recall any app prompts or install instructions telling me about loading or unloading filament however. So, I’ll mention it here.There’s a long plastic tube as noted in the pictures that sits near the spool of filament. There’s a small colored clip that gets removed, per the instructions, to insert this tube and then to reapply the clip. After that just begin feeding the filament straight from the role, rotating towards the tube and feed it down until it stops. NOTE; you need to warm up the printer to around 200 degrees C prior to depressing the loading lever on the the direct extruder otherwise the filament will see like its stopped but still has another half inch of travel where the internal gears pick it up.On the app on the phone for example, there’s an unusual selection for ‘retracting’ and ‘extruding’, the latter meaning to load the filament. Hitting the button raises the hotend temperature and turns it to a red ‘stop’ button. Just leave it there and don’t hit it again otherwise it would stop the process. This isn’t intuitive because its like the app is telling you something went wrong with the process and to stop.The same thing occurs with unloading the filament. The only difference is that once it starts doing its thing, it won’t seem to move and may even appear to pull the filament down a little, and then suddenly it spits it out at the spool, a few inches and you have to manually pull it back through the long tube and all the way out.As to the upper model and its much higher price point, I don’t personally see a need for it. The local screen and camera idea are mostly fluff and you can truly work this 5C model with apps and the PC slicer over Wifi / bluetooth. I also didn’t need to send over the ankermake cloud or anything. Once in the slicer, it will load the available printers it detects nearby in another room if necessary, and you select the 5C as presented and it goes straight to printing. No complaints at all. If the long term reliability holds up, this will prove to be one very nice printer, especially considering the one’s I’m letting collect dust on.
T.McCartney –
Anker is a great company, some app hiccups, but easier printer on market by far!
Foreword: (review is below) I knew Iâd wanted a fdm printer since they first became mainstream about 8-10 years ago. I have a ton of other hobbies though, and not much space, so I put off getting one.Note to people with adhesion issues: clean the build plate with dawn dish soap in hot water between material swaps and every week or so if printing a lot. I marked one side as âPETGâ and the other side as âPLAâ because the residues cause issues with each other that alcohol doesnât remove. Dawn dish soap is the best ever PEI build plate cleanerIâve checked in from time to time to see how the industry was coming along, it seemed like it finally got convenient a few years ago. Before a couple years ago, it was still either expensive or time-consuming to get into 3d printing.When I saw that Anker had launched a new FDM printer company, I knew that this could be my way to get into the hobby, Iâve owned nearly 50 sets of headphones and earbuds in the last 15 years and just by chance, I came to only buy Anker products, theyâve always stood behind their products and Iâve always been satisfied with them.REVIEW: On cyber Monday 2023, I pulled the trigger on an M5C by AnkerMake.I was originally going to get the more expensive, slightly larger, and more feature-dense M5 flagship model until I read many reviews of people that had both. Many of them had said they didnât use the camera feature on the M5 for timelapses, and the excellent printing experience negated the need for the AI print failure detection that detects spaghetti messes (when a print comes loose, the filament makes a large bush of plastic until you stop it or it âfinishesâ the print)Those reviews and the fact that the lower-cost M5C comes standard with an all-metal hot end (allows higher temperature/stronger material to be printed) was all I needed to know.Despite being new to the hobby, I had always planned on printing functional parts more than artistic work, and the materials that are the strongest need higher temperatures to properly print (up to 300*c)Unboxing and setup were a breeze. All the tools needed to assemble and run the printer are included in a nice little toolkit. Assembly consists of screwing in about 6 stainless Allen screws and some removal of foam shipping braces.I downloaded the app and scanned the QR code on my new printer and allowed the app a few Wi-Fi and Bluetooth connections and then it was done! I checked for new firmware and it updated once.The main method of finding and printing pre-made shared models is directly from the AnkerMake app. The app is awesome, if your printer is turned on and ready to go in standby, you can start a print from anywhere with your phone or on the desktop app.I havenât gotten into designing my own models yet, but I am looking forward to it. You can use the new AnkerMake Studio (based on PrusaSlicer) or the older app called AnkerMake slicer. You can also use Prusa to design and slice files for the printer, but you will need to download the correct profile for the M5 or M5C (they might be the same?) and using prusa, you can save your new print files to a thumb drive and put it in the printer to start a print.My first print was a cascade style wallet made of silver PLA material. It turned out perfect! The machine does all the work, if you keep your filament dry and keep the build plate clean with rubbing alcohol,!the machine will turn out print after print flawlessly.Iâve already made about 60 prints and have only had a few failures and 2 of those were due to me not cleaning the build plate. The third was from operating in a cold basement, I built a cardboard enclosure around it and havenât had an issue since.ISSUES:Hardware:The only issue so far Iâve noticed is that the main hotend cooling fan has started squealing on startup when cold. I will ask support about this and update this review.Software:The app was updated recently 12/20/23 and it has made it somewhat buggy, trying to load files from my phoneâs local storage shows a message that the printer is busy. It also keeps bringing up models that were already finished and asking me to rate them and telling me that the print is complete, even when I already had completed the print hours before. Will update after talking to support.
Ray –
No querÃa romperme la cabeza, solo imprimir y eso es lo que he obtenido. Buen tiempo de entrega, desde que abres la caja y la manera en que viene empacado sabes que es un artÃculo de gran calidad, los materiales de construcción se ven robustos y bien terminados, estéticamente luce muy bien. Es mi primera impresora, ensamblaje mÃnimo y sencillo, configuración rápida y comienzas a imprimir. Las impresiones tienen buena calidad y lo mejor es sin mayor esfuerzo y conocimiento. Solo llevo un par de semanas, supongo que de a poco iré experimentando y toqueteando la configuración, pero como viene va bien.
Roxanne –
 This printer was quick to set up, is not too heavy and works amazingly well. The phone app has limited interesting things but it does work well. You can use it to slice and print any stl file you download online but you cant change much *From the phone*. The app on windows works much better if you like to make your own supports, tweek a few things ect. But what truly impressed me what the speed and accuracy of the printer.Only problem i encountered was the extruder slightly hooking the supports it was printing, sometimes creating missprints. But you can easily ajust the y axis on the app (phone) and it does take care of it. The automated supports from the apps do work but it sometimes creates more then truly necessary.Overall a great machine for anyone who can think by themselves and learn a thing or too, while easy enough for a first time machine.
Pykle –
Incredible value for money 3D printer, accurate, fast and great out of the box software
Chivoan –
This is my 2nd printer. It is easy to install and setup. Noise of the fan is strong but it is ok because it needs cooling for high speed printing. Speed is variable by angle or piece that the nozzle needs to move. It is new for me to figure it out. The printing item comes out very nine with detail and can print out direct from AnkerMake app in smart phone(Iâm using iPhone). The bed leveling takes around 7minutes. Each time before printing, it does bed leveling by itself same time to heat up the nozzle and bed plate. It never finishes as time estimates in the app. Always longer but it is ok for me, Iâm not in rush and the piece come out without problem.
Tedwards –
Wonderful printer. Prints with outstanding accuracy. Was so easy to set up and just looks clean. From the body of the printer to all the wiring being hidden away, no complaints.First printer Iâve owned that successfully completed a working torture test.My only problem is some filaments donât print well, and the Z Offset can be very close to the bed. These arenât massive issues and nothing a manual offset adjustment and filament drying canât fix.Also, this thing prints fast. Minimum speed from preset profiles is 250mm/s which is incredible.Overall, this is the best printer Iâve ever owned and I hope it stays that way because Iâm loving being able to actually use a printer. Would highly recommend this to anyone looking for a good printer, especially beginners.