Make:: “Multicolor Is Hot!” proclaimed the cover of Make: Volume 88, highlighting the Bambu Lab X1 Carbon AMS system that finally broke multi-material printing through to the masses. But with its original price of almost $1,500, a large swath of the maker audience was excluded from the multi-material mania by cost.
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Honestly, FlashForge is absolute chinese temu shit. It sucks, really really badly. FlashForge was the first 3d printer I ever used, at least that I remember actually using, and I could not name one good thing about it. The software sucked, the print quality sucked, it couldn't even be reliably online. Their stuff also breaks, a lot. When you try to read the fucking manual as Zach says, it’s like you’re reading a terribly written PhD thesis, it’s just not helpful at all. When you reach out to their support, they do not respond or they give you a terribly written and unhelpful response, and then won’t answer followups. It seems with this new printer, at least the UI on it looks a lot better, but I still stand by it being a terrible company and I would never support them in a million years, specifically because of their support. If you cannot have good support for your customers, why even have a company.
I used to be really into 3D printing in high school. I remember back then I would be on online 3D printing forums and someone would post a photo of their multiple filament print and I would be like wow that’s so crazy. But nowadays, it’s fairly standard fare on the same forums to see multiple filament prints, no doubt due to the newer generation of less expensive multiple filament printers such as this one. Maybe I’m just out of the loop but it’s odd to me that this article doesn’t include ABS in their list of plastics this printer can handle. Maybe it can and this simply wasn’t mentioned but if not then I guess things really have changed because ABS used to be the second most popular filament after PLA. I actually did an entire research project for chemistry in high school on the differences between ABS and PLA so I can’t say I’m mad about ABS falling out of favor since it’s kind of brittle, not compostable (though admittedly PLA is also not THAT compostable but it is lactic acid so..), and produces nasty fumes.
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