Advice on Upgrading from A1 Family

I’m currently using the A1 series printer and primarily work with PLA, PETG, and TPU. I’ve been looking into the P1P as an upgrade option, and on paper, it seems to match my needs. However, I’d love to hear from those who have experience with the P1P, especially if you’ve been using multiple Bambu Lab printers.

Cheers :slight_smile:

In my experience, my A1 Mini is better than my P1S. There’s WAYY less noise, easier nozzle swaps, and etc. Since you’re going for the P1P, I’m assuming you don’t need an enclosure. So imo you should just go for an A1.

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Get the P1S as it will allow you to print materials that need an enclosure. The A1 can print anything a P1P can print aside form really tall slender parts.

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Interesting takes. Looks like you both agree that for those needs a P1S is not that an upgrade from a regular sized A1, which is also quieter.

The P1S may be interesting if I need start using more complex materials that require the enclosure.

Am I getting this right?

I think you have those models inverted.

The P1P doesn’t have an enclosure and IMO isn’t an upgrade from the A1

The P1S does have an enclosure.

One other advantage of the P series over the A series is that you can chain up to 4 Ams’s so you can print up to 16 different colours. The A series is limited to single Ams Lite with 4 colours.

Don’t do P1P, because first of all it won’t change what you can print (it’s still without an enclosure). Then you will start looking how to enclose it and you will pay more than buy a P1S directly.

So if you want something “different” take a P1S or better a X1C :wink: (but not the P1P).

X1C seems to be an overkill :smiley:
Thanks guys, I’ll think about your observations

Just a typo, thanks :slight_smile:
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Gonna just say that I cannot get this rod to print, so not sure if it even matters too much.


I made it so slow that the dang thing takes 1.5 hours, and it still looks like ■■■■ on the end. Probably slightly better than the A1, but not much.

The latest beta has added “paint-on support on vertical surfaces” which should help with the really tall slender parts.

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