Has anyone ordered the filament swatches from the UK store recently? On the store page it says “Due to the continuous expansion and adjustment of Bambu Lab’s filament lineup, the swatch contents may be adjusted accordingly, so the version you receive may differ slightly from what is shown.”, so will I get all the matte colours?
That’s what I’m interested in as I’m trying to match the skin colour for a figure I want to print (and no, my hand’s not steady enough for much painting), so if I don’t get all the matte colours then that could be £10 wasted.
I am not sure if the swatches are good for color matching, they arent printed, so it is mostly like a toy (maybe I am wrong) but at least the filaments I have they dont look like their swatches
Thanks, that’s useful information. It says in the description that the tiles might be injection moulded so I did wonder if that would affect the colours.
I guess I need to order the two colours that look closest to what I want, which will be cheaper than ordering the swatches and then a single colour only to find it’s different from what I expected.
They do nit contain all the aesthetic filament examples either. This is certainly not a complete set.
I believe we are currently on version 2, I suspect there is a version 3 due soon. From memory, v3 doesn’t contain all 30mm the Bambu Lab PLA Basic, let alone all of the PLA Matte variants.
I just want to be clear @BambuLab. The community member is attempting to buy sample filament swatches, presumably for the purpose of ensuring that a full spool meets their needs with respect to color and finish.
Bambu is charging for these samples, but includes a disclaimer stating that various versions may be shipped randomly during a transition. If that is the case, what purpose does ordering a paid sample serve at all? A sample that is not representative of what will actually be delivered defeats the entire reason for offering it.
Please tell me if I am misinterpreting this, but as written, this is not a meaningful sample product.
Personally, this reads more like Forrest Gump’s proverbial “box of chocolates,” because as Mamma always said, “ya nevva know what you’re gonna git!!”
Each time I think I’ve seen it all from BambuLab, they still manage to surprise even this jaded customer. It’s this ongoing systemic disregard for quality control that is astounding. It reminds me of a quote from Avatar where Sigourney Weaver (as Grace Augustine) says: “They’re just pissing on us without the courtesy of calling it rain.” That’s how I feel most times I deal with BL.
Seems I may have opened a can of worms here. My 2 pence/cents worth is that if Bambu makes printers for professional use then it would be ideal if they used Pantone colours for their filaments, although I guess that wouldn’t really work as differing nozzle and bed temperatures could maybe affect the colours.
For now, I guess I’ll stick to plan B, which is to buy a couple of colours that look the closest.
Pantone are subhuman corporate lizardpeople, keep them as far away as possible
Imagine the hubris of claiming to own a hexadecimal color code
0x52ff33 oops i owe them $30
on-topic, I dont get why bambu is so stingy with these swatches. They make lots of money off filament. These objects only value is to serve as advertising reference for their own product. Include them free with every printer order IMO
Amazing how complex the simplest-seeming thing could be.
A set came with one of my first printers. It never struck me as all that useful… mine appeared to be injection-molded and I didn’t see how they could be a really accurate representation. They ended up in the back of a drawer somewhere.
If they want to do sample sets, they should do it right. Package sets of small samples of actual filament, maybe 50 grams or so of each color in a specific range, like PLA Basic or PLA Matte. Enough to actually print a small test object to see how it would appear. That would be useful for me and I’d be willing to pay for sample sets of the filaments I’m actually interested in using.
There are some pictures, how many mattes are in the set they are advertising vs how many Bambu matte are sold?
If you are trying to match a skin color you will probably be wasting your £10, what you need is a swatch collection of just skin colors from different manufacturers.
Just FYI, colors in a color system that looks the same on prints, powder coating, screens, etc. are not (and can’t be) described in RGB. RGB is device specific (like screens) and even there it depends on the gamut of the device or reproduction unit and the used color space (where sRGB is a typical PC color space).
Colors are usually described in LAB (or CIELAB). And with Pantone, RAL, etc. that’s LAB plus their surface structure (matte, glossy, etc.).
I was saying it in jest, and I do understand the complexity of reflective light vs emitted light, and that their rigorous methodology boils down to a result. Photoreceptors record that result. And they pursue litigation on people for using the result, as if they own the color and that it cannot be produced by any other means, which is asinine.
You all know how I feel about companies clawing back features, or worse, putting them behind a paywall after you have already invested man-years of intellectual effort and real money into a project.
Now imagine this: you are fat, dumb, and happy, show up to work one day, and your entire creative body of work is locked behind a paywall controlled by a third party. This is despite the fact that you already pay obscene subscription fees to Adobe.
That is the Pantone monopoly.
They operate like legal ransomware, staying just inside the edge of the law while blowing straight past anything resembling ethics. Why? Because they can, that’s why!!! And if you don’t like it; sucks for you!!!
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