And may 3D printing machines for dental devices and instruments across to rubber rolling machines. They have expanded the list in the document quite a bit…
Now the Chinese New Year is over and it will probably start next week, and if not soon or later…
But don’t expect anything new, just something that is negotiable and has proven itself on a basis that exists also in 3D printing but the show around it will be phenomenal - along the lines of a Superbolw halftime show - with sliced bread, short appearances and so on. So it’s better to go to sleep and check back in a year
If you really want to read a lot into some of those trademark categories, there was one that mentioned 3D scanners. How cool would it be to have that built in to a 3D printer. Put your item in for scanning, it uploads and processes in the cloud to generate a 3D model, you then take the item out and send the model for printing. End to end replication machine.
@Don_Newman Is it truly possible to get a complete, accurate scan in one pass, or would you have to flip it over to scan the bottom as well? Not that it would be a deal breaker. Just asking, as I have no direct experience with 3D scanners.
My 3D scanner is a Mitutoyo caliper. Not exactly efficient, and maybe even less accurate. Time to upgrade.
I think the new printer series will have a pay-per-print function, to address the pro clients. I guess the firmware will report the model printed to Bambu Lab and they will charge the user. Some might think clever, but this might be further restricted and is very problematic in my eyes. But it would fit perfectly to the rumours that are around. shout oout to Bambu. Please sent me a test printer.
If it doesn’t blow our socks off it’s going to be terribly anti-climatic. My theory is that whatever it is, it won’t be absolutely new technology: we should already be able to point to bits and pieces of it out there in either the marketplace or on youtube, as we have more or less successfully attempted to do on this thread. The main question is: which bits and pieces did Bambu go with, and as a package did they hit the sweet spot? I expect it will be a minimum of 350x350mm, have a heated chamber, and print meaningfully faster, and probably have quick change nozzles, and ethernet, and reach higher temperatures on both build plate and hotends, better camera, and better wifi, and better nozzle wiper, and better lighting, and better circulation (so you don’t have to leave the lid and doors open while printing PLA), and better air purification. Taken together, it’s a meaningful step up. How they get there is up to them. I suppose the dual head dual nozzle design is how they’ll get to faster. So, that’s probably it in a nutshell.
Anything else I missed that anyone here thinks is sure to be in it?
Thats my guess. Everything slightly better with some bits from the A1. Now I do think there will be 2 printers. A single nozzle and a dual nozzle. Im guessing one nozzle will accept the new ams which will be heated to 50c and have a digital readout for temp and humidity. The other nozzle to the side spool holder. I guess the sjngle nozzle will be $1,999 and not have a heated chamber. The dual nozzle unit will be $3,499 and be heated. both 326x326mm. The dual nozzle unit with one head connected to ams gives us a middle ground between x1c and prusa xl. Support, main color or tpu in the one nozzle.
Just ordered the other 3 heads for my xl, for my birthday. Figured we would atleast have a basic teaser by now. I honestly cant think of any reason why they wouldn’t tease
I wouldn’t be surprised if Bambu developed their own eddy current design for automatic bed leveling. The improved speed and accuracy would add a tangible level of pizzaz that people could readily see and point to that would make other printers look rather old and tired by comparison, and Bambu could advertise that the new printer gets a guaranteed perfect first layer each time, every time, all the time.
But it’s not a given. Maybe Bambu will leave that for a future model.
Well, the X1C had some unfortunate layer separation.
Even though they were all the same filament type, I wonder if they were printed from the same spool of filament? The ones on the left look as though maybe the filament wasn’t as dry as the one on the right Or maybe the more matt finish and lower resolution is a result of print speed, which one would expect, and which is maybe an alternate explanation.
The Prusa allegedly has a way to maintain a consistent gloss level by controlling the speed.
What was Uncle Jesse’s conclusion? That they’re roughly equal and that there’s no free lunch when it comes to speed? Or did he just present the results without comment?
The P1S print seemed to come out pretty good (though the bottom of the breast plate came out a bit crooked), especially for the price. Or am I missing something obvious? I hadn’t realized that the P1S was slower than the X1C. I had always thought it was just the stripped down version with a bit of nerfing, but otherwise the kinetics were the same? Don’t shoot me: I don’t own a P1S, so I never had a reason to pay particular attention.
The Elegoo Centauri split the difference on time between the two Bambu prints, but came out looking more accurate, albeit in matte.
No doubt others here will catch details that I’m totally missing! Well, that’s half the fun. Please post if you do.
Probably just slows the speed of the outer walls. I set my outer walls to 50mm/s on prints that I care about the appearance of, for the same affect. Like todays home building. Hire crappy framers and good sheetrockers to cover it up
The Prusament PLA is only rated up to 200mm/s, so although faster than old school PLA, it isn’t true high-speed PLA:
So, if Uncle Jesse ran the Bambu’s with generic profiles but not accounting for that (which, I hate to say it, a lot of the youtube “reviewers” are generally prone to do), that might be where the disconnect occurred:
Trust me, prusament can go as fast as any of these printers. Its my favorite PLA but way over priced.
Take a look at sunlu, rated at 50-100mm/s but does great at 300. Alot of these ratings are leftover from when we ran PLA at 190c. That extra 30c makes a huge difference.
but now I run the Sunlu HS-PLA, and it prints so much better at 300mm/sec that I won’t ever go back to Sunlu’s “lower speed” PLA., unless it would be to save a little money and I had the time to run at a lower speed.
here. I dont buy the high speed stuff. I also dont run pla at 230 like is suggested here. I even run old pla. Polaroid pla from 6 years ago, rated at 30-50mm, at 300mm/s. Because that particular rating is at 180c-190c
Are you finding the same with PETG? For instance, I was under the impression that Bambu’s HS-PETG for many people made printing PETG much easier than Bambu’s old regular speed PETG. Speaking only for myself, I found that Elegoo’s Rapid PETG (which pre-dated the Bambu HS-PETG by a few months) and more recently Sunlu’s HS-PETG made printing PETG a lot easier for me than regular speed PETG that proceeded it. Maybe I’m wrong, or it’s just me, but it sure seems that way.
[Matter of fact: the flow rate on Sunlu’s HS-PETG is insane! Using maxflow calibration in Orca Slicer for an X1C, it comes out at 44mm^3/sec, versus 25-28mm^3/sec for Elegoo Rapid PETG. Both are far heigher than for PLA of any type, which never used to be true before the high speed PETG’s came to market.]
The bambu hs petg is different. Lower melting point, knstead of higher like the pla. Its almost a new material all together. The whole purpose of petg was its higher temp resistance.
Not sure why the link does g show correctly but its the live release of the centauri carbon.
but the show around it will be phenomenal - along the lines of a Superbolw halftime show - with sliced bread, short appearances and so on. So it’s better to go to sleep and check back in a year 
