I have 6 printers, 2 of them have the same colors in slot 2 and slot 3.
I have a sliced file, I sent it to one of the printers and selected print. them I sent the same file to the other printer and it has reversed the 2 colors.
before this I did the same thing with both printers except on used 1 color, they both printed fine, didn’t use wrong color.
anyone have that probkem or know how to prevent it?
Before you send a file to the printer, are you syncing the spool information? If you have spools in different locations in each printers’ AMS, it may think it’s using the correct color but instead using the wrong spool?
I don’t know that’s possible but maybe?
It sounds like you have AMS units on these printers and have organised the spools to match the locations.
If you are slicing the model and choosing to print to one printer it will try to auto match the colours in the model and to the AMS set colours. It does not always get this corrrect, you can manually change it before you confirm the print.
You haven’t said who the filament manufacturer is, I have to assume it isn’t BL as shouldn’t be possible to fail. If not BL, there are a number of ways. Either way, you would have been presented with the final check before confirming the print.
Assuming they are from BL.
Your AMS automatically knows the material type and colour in each slot.
If you had setup your filament colours from the filament chooser and chosen the colours from the colour picker, you could have hit the shades slightly off. When you go to print, the printer auto compares the manual filament colours you selected with what the AMS detected, you confirm and it prints. You repeat for the second printer, the identical matches occur, no error.
Assuming not BL.
Your AMS has no idea of the material type and colour in each slot. You setup printer one. Move to printer two and use slightly different tints/shades if the colours in slot one and two on each machine.
When you go to print, the printer auto compares the manual filament colours you selected with what the AMS has set by you manually, you confirm and it prints. You move to the next printer and because the colours are not identical to the first printer, the auto matching chooses something else.
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thanks,
both printers have Grey in slot 2 and green in slot 3
in the setup, in the slicer grey is in # 2 filament and green in #3 filament.
neither is bambu filament.
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I have printed these files with the exact configuration maybe 50 or 60 times.
I did this same thing everyday this week.
its not a big deal. thanks for your suggestions.
i’ll pay more attention to see if I am doing something wrong.
the 2 color design is face down so I can’t see the actural print but when it does the calibration, it always uses green for the calibration and on the suspect printer the calibration is in grey
You’re missing the important picture of when you sent the print to the printer. This is where the AMS is matched (and can be adjusted) to what is in the printed file. The location in Studio of each filament doesn’t need to be related to where it is located in the AMS.
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Hey thanks! I know what you mean, i will pay more attention next time. I usually do that. It gives that message to verify the filament.