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- Canon/3D, CR-10, CR-10S, KP-3
I think I’ll stick with the good old Mono 3D system, because I have on occasions being known to have objects with many colours without all the messing around trying to decide which colour goes first..I believe maybe 10% of all this hype and, on second thoughts, only 5%.. 600 m/s printing speed with supreme quality my foot (and theirs ). It seems that Creality or Prusa ( and many politicians ) have read carefully the book 'how to lie shamelessly without blushing a bit.".
I’d sooner stick with Creality because they make printers that last..If I had to choose a Bambu or this new Creality I'd buy the K2 Plus.
I have done that with some success..it's almost better to design a model from individual parts that you print on different colours and then are glue/assembled together
As far as 3D manufacturer marketing is concerned I'm HIGHLY skeptical about all the claims they make about those awesome features. I believe maybe 10% of all this hype and, on second thoughts, only 5%.. 600 m/s printing speed with supreme quality my foot (and theirs ). It seems that Creality or Prusa ( and many politicians ) have read carefully the book 'how to lie shamelessly without blushing a bit.".
I agree - Speed and quality do not go together. Maybe fine for prototype parts or parts that are purely functinal rather than have to look nice, i.e. internal brackets etc. For anything that needs to look good I never go about 100mm/s for the external walls on the Voron and sometimes 50 mm/s.
Some day I'll probably break down and get one.
You don't have to use the Bambu cloud. I don't let the slicer access the internet at all never mind be logged into a Bambu account. The printers used to have to be logged into a Bambu account to retrieve firmware updates, but, recently they supported firmware update from SD Card. I block all but DNS and NTP access for the printer in my router firewall to be sure. With SD Card updates I will never have to unblock it again.Not having to use the cloud is also a bonus for those that value their privacy.
There isn't a lot that can be done with purge amounts. If you want clean color transition you simply have to feed enough through the nozzle to flush out the old color. Some people and Bambu have tried reducing the purge amount by pulling filament out of the heat break some before cutting and hoping the new filament will be able to push the old bit with a melted end back down to the nozzle. I don't know if that has been reliable enough for Bambu to use that tweak.One thing they need to do is configure the purging of filament so that it retracts the filament and only purges and cuts a small amount thus saving wastage.