I’ve owned my X1-C for a week now and purchased a role of ABS filament when I purchased my printer. I also received a sample role of Carbon PLA, when I insert both spools into my printer it does not recognise the BBL print spools which is funny because all the genuine PLA spools I have loaded it recognises no problem. When I load the ABS and CF PLA I have to edit the spool properties manually and when I try to print the printer shows only PLA in the AMS. Am I missing a setting to tell the printer that I have a non PLA product in the AMS? If I try and use the PLA settings it runs the bed at 60 degrees which is not hot enough to bind the ABS to the bed.
Not sure what I’m doing wrong here so would appreciate any input.
Is the firmware up to date?
Yes I have updated the firmware
After loading the spool and pushing in the new filament into the feeder. Does the AMS load the filament into the ptfe towards the printer? It has to do this to see if there is an rfid tag on the spool and remove any filament slack in the spool.
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Yes it loads the filament all the way to the print head as I have seen it purging filament into the poop shoot. Last night I tried loading the settings for generic ABS but it made not difference as it still only shows PLA in the spool options. I also tried manually heating the bed up to 100 degrees which is within the recomendations for printing ABS but when I tried printing a benchy it started dropping the bed back to 60 degrees which is the standard temp for PLA so cancelled the print.
Try this. Go to this screen and pick the circled settings gear.
Then make sure this checked and go back to main screen. Then restart the printer. This will make it check each spool on startup.
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Thanks for the heads up I’ll have a look after work and see if this fixes my issue. BTW am using the engineering plate which is ABS compatible which I was asked on another forum.
Yes it did great for me too. But i changed to the high temp plate. Much better for me. Othe users have complained but it sticks great without glue stick.
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So I done as suggested and rebooted my x1c and it hasn’t fixed the issue. I’ll post some pictures of the issue. I’ve tried both engineering and textured plates as well, nothing seems to fix the problem. I may have to log a ticket with Bambulabs.
Are you trying to print the benchy that is already loaded on the printer?. I think this is already set buy bambu to illustrate its capabilities. Download a bency or some other file, load it into bambu studio. Search how to use bambu studio for more info.
I am assuming you are new to this 
Yep only used that file to show the issue. I have tried multiple prints including a number of my own creations and none pick up the ABS filament type.
Sorry it didnt work for you. You really cant use bambu lab benchy with ABS. It has to be PLA in the first slot. But we know you tried other files and it didnt work.
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I finally cracked my issue, I had installed the Bambulabs Studio several weeks before I recieved my X1C and had been messing around with colour prints and I had set 4 colour PLA filaments in the software. I finally twigged to the issue when I loaded my ABS spool in slot 2 tonight and my printer finally recognised that it had an ABS filament loaded as it must have reported back to the Studio software. So I went back into the studio and realised I had all the filament slots set to PLA. When I deleted these and reloaded them the printer finally let me do an ABS print. Can’t say I was impressed with the ABS printer compared to the PLA, I’m guessing you need to mess with the standard ABS print settings a bit to fix this up.
Thanks to all those who made suggestions as to the issue.
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