Plug and play my ass, 3dPrinting has a steep learning curve and that’s totally fine.
http://m.imgur.com/a/XvmCv
Looks about the same as me. I thought my first prints were great until i started making great prints.
Nope, no printer is plug and play. We don’t claim that and no one should at this stage.
wow it really took a long time for you to get the color right
The difficulty is why I have misgivings about the informal use of “3D printing” as a term. People think of printing and infer it should be an easy thing, “just press print”. It’s much more accurate to think of it as a manufacturing process (hence additive manufacturing), with lots of variables that must come together right to get the part that you want.
@Jeff_DeMaagd it’s just a tool
Nils, do you have anything documenting some of the changes you have made? I am about the same as you, my first print is similar to your and I am working to refine mine printing. Not quite to where you are now, but it would be great to have some assistance.
@Ryan_Peters sry - forgot to mention that the linked imgurl account is from a Reddit User, not mine
@Ryan_Peters there you go: https://www.reddit.com/r/3Dprinting/comments/2uhhal/3_months_of_practice_makes_marginal_improvement/
@william_foster1
Yeah, well, the ease of getting good results from a given tool can vary a lot.
“Plug and play” , “my ass”, should not be combined in the same sentence.
There is no such thing, unless in a commercial unit, even then the machine has to calibrate itself.
This is why I hate recommending printers to friends who can’t really afford them. The idea that “poof” plastic things will come out is rarely true, and while printing one thing perfectly might happen, a different thing will print differently (and poorly). I sometimes ask folks “well have you considered buying a CNC mill instead?” and if the answer is “No that would be too complicate to learn” then I have the “let me tell you what you have to learn to use a 3D printer” talk 
That said, it has been getting better and better. The first printer I experienced was a Makerbot ‘cupcake’ printer, the difference between that and a Printrbot Simple is like the difference between an Altair 8800 and an Apple II.
Hahahaha, boy you can say that again. And we always tell our customers that it’s not like a washing machine where you throw the clothes in, pour in some detergent and turn a knob.