Printing with 5 or more colors on the A1

[M_F_II_0]

Hello! I might be doing a project for someone I know and there would be multiple colors on the model. Not sure how many colors yet, but at least 5 or more. I was wondering if there’s a way to swap the colors on the AMS Lite when using it for the next color that needs to be used while printing? I looked and I found that I could do a pause, but I don’t think it would work well in this case. The model would be a keychain where the colors are all on one layer. I have an A1 with AMS Lite.

[CarbonForge]

You can manually edit your gcode to insert pauses wherever you want - midlayer, multiple per layer, whatever.

Failing that, get the new AMS hub from Bambu and get either an AMS-HT or one of the other AMS options.

[MalcTheOracle]

I keep answering this, so here is one I prepared earlier.

Printing 5 colors with P2S and AMS Pro 2

There is currently no way (as far as I know) to utilise the external spool while also using the AMS opportunity. It is one or the other. If your model uses 5 colours and you have access to a single 4 spool AMS, it is still possible, one old way, often the best and one new way, possible, if the colours chosen work out. Old way, my preferred Provided you model doesn’t use all 5 colours in the same layer, you can simply swap out one spool at the correct time to use the fifth colour. I first …

BTW, the printer type doesn’t matter, it works on all Bambu Lab printers with a single AMS.

The only restriction is that no single layer can have more than the total number of AMS slots you have available in any one single layer.

[M_F_II_0]

@MalcTheOrcale Thank you! Oh, gotcha! I’ll have to see what I can do. Maybe the person won’t end up wanting more than 4 colors. Thank you for your help!

[M_F_II_0]

@CarbonForge Thank you! I didn’t know that! Yeah, I had thought about that doing that.

[FuzzyJohn]

With the latest Studio and firmware updates you can use the AMS Lite and the External spool to do just that. I have printed up 7 colors per layer. See this post where i did 6 colors:

AMS Lite + External -->> More Than 4 Colors on the Same Layer

First, I apologize if I posted in the wrong forum. Second, I apologize if what I posted was already known. I am new to AMS. I got the AMS Lite about 10 days ago. It gave me happy times but it also gave me a fair share of frustrations. I was under the impression that AMS Lite multi-color on the same layer was limited to 4 colors on the A1. Today, after downloading the latest version of Studio (v2.8.2.60) I gave it a try. To my surprise I was able to do 6 colors on the same layer: 4 colors in t…

[M_F_II_0]

@FuzzyJohn Oh really!?!? I’m definitely going to have to try that!!