3d Printing Newb, Press experience

I just wanted to share my thoughts on here with others that are perhaps in the same boat as i am with the Press.  I have never owned a 3d printer in my lifetime, never used one, to be honest prior to this arriving on my doorstep ive never seen one in the flesh.  The most electronically technical things ive ever done were building a PC, and motorsports wiring (car hobby).  Anywho....

Unboxing and Calibration:
Press arrives at my house, unboxing it goes fine, set it up on the desk, attach to the PC, windows recognized it....but did install the drivers for it.  So, downloaded those, install goes smoothly, SoliPrint recognizes the printer and we're off to calibrate.  First calibration goes to shit, forgot to take the glass out and clean it then spray it with some hairspray.  Redo.  Calibration number 2, better bed adhesion but still nothing that im overly excited about, onto attempt 3.  This time the calibration looks good, everything stuck to the bed, and i was able to choose which line looked  the best and set the coarse Z axis calibration.  Onto the fine Z axis calibration, again everything adhered to the bed well, and im starting to get excited for my first print.   

First print:
I take an .stl file of a part i modeled in fusion 360 and load it into soliprint, the object looks much smaller then it should be sitting on the bed in the soliprint software, but i couldn't figure out much in the software in the way of checking the dimension of the print, or manually re sizing it, etc.  so i sent it off to the printer.  It printed, but was at least 80 percent smaller then that it should have been.  So i putz around in Soliprint some more, not that there is truly much there, and after a little while i decided to say....fuck it, and downloaded Simplify 3d.  Reasoning behind that was i didnt want to mess with Slic3r and RH, i just wanted to print something.  I wanted to load .stl files into a program, move them around the bed, if needed resize them, things of that nature, so i just pulled the trigger on S3D, loaded some GCode from the forums here, and off i went. 

Impressions 4 hours in:
The Y axis rubber band mod had to be done in order for the Z axis probe to pop down and work the way it should.  Ive been printing with the lid up thus far until i print out and better solution then a rubber band wrapped around a hinge pin for the door.  I've printed a few little things ive designed in Fusion360 over the last few months in anticipation of the Press, and so far so good. 

Newb Advice:
I know its $140 but S3D is simply worlds better then Soliprint, is it better then RH and Slic3r? I would have to assume it is, but since ive never used them i couldnt tell you.  As far as being user friendly, it most certainly is; and anything that i couldnt figure out on my own...was in the tutorials that S3D posts on their website for when you first purchase the product.  If you're a newcomer, and you're having issues with Soliprint i wouldnt hesitate to go and buy S3D, even after using it for a few hours it really is what i ENVISIONED Soliprint to be from the Press being advertised as "consumer friendly plug and play.  Im not knocking Solidoodle in any way here, im just giving my experience for what its worth to the newbie community thats on these boards. Also, PEI....type it into google, its sold on Amazon and its the absolute cats ass.  Order it in a 12x12 sheet, cut it to size with a razor knife, pull your glass off your heated bed, slide this stuff in (i ordered the 1/16th inch thickness from McMaster and its fitting in there nice and snug thus far without adding any washers or spacers) and enjoy, from what ive seen so far, perfect bed adhesion and absolutely smooth removal of prints.  No glue, no hair spray, no tape, no scraper to remove a print, just let it cool a bit and it pops right off...done deal.  The stuff was i thnk $30 something after shipping, and after using it today i would pay twice that knowing how much nicer my prints are coming out,  I will be ordering another sheet to have as a backup just in case anything ever happens with the sheet that i have now.