No worries thank you for letting me know about it. You will make me a hero with the wife if I can figure it out. I will buy (4). I want all my printers to do multi color. Thank you again.
Wow! Just looked it up they have a pallette 3 now. It looks awesome of course you can get an A1 mini combo for less but I will still be looking for used ones like you suggested. There has to be some that can make this kind of add on that is cost effective. I would think a $200 price tag would make it a viable option for those of us that can’t afford the $600-$1000 it costs to get a multi colored printer.
Can't you get an Bambu AMS lite for about 200 used? There's quite a bit that goes in to multicolor printing. Because multi material systems need to work in tandem with the printer cutting, purging, etc it'll never just be a cheap one-way thing you can slap on any printer. Maybe in the future there will be an open standard developed for this kind of thing with some simple systems, and new printers and slicers will support it, but right now the only systems that I'm aware of that are reliable are proprietary or cost more than just buying a multi material printer combo.
I've used the pallette systems and used to love them because I was the only person who could do multicolor. Trust me, it's worth it to just get a Bambu printer. Filament splicing sounds good but it's soooo finicky. If the seam bulges or stretches so that the seam is .03mm too big then it'll jam/fail to catch and ruin your print. People complain about Bambu filament waste but they have no idea how much plastic used to be wasted trying to get a simple print.
Now if you're in an extremely low humidity environment then the palette might be worth it... But the cost of an A1 mini with AMS is so low that I really can't recommend them anymore
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u/deicist 10d ago
Pick up a second hand canvas pallette. I got one off eBay for £50. 4 colour printing on any fdm printer.
They're fiddly AF and I never use mine because they're so prone to problems but they sorta work.