Speculation about new printer announcements

Here is an updated enhanced photo. any ideas on what it is?
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This is an updated photo for the Extruder. I can make out the dual Extruder area. This looks very similar to the a1 series toolhead. I think the white rectangle near the bottom might be a fan?
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Which Software did you use (Topaz Labs ?) ? I would like to try the high res photos I saved from the website

For goods sake people wait these 5 days.
BL making this hype - it will end them if they do not deliver ā€¦

Printer with laser + vinyl cutter all in one combo is not something in high demand. Perhaps 350 mm x 350 mm print bed is big enough for most users but for laser or vinyl cutter this size is - to put it mildly a Childs toy ā€¦ so this launch will go from new flag ship to sinking ship at same rate as Titanicā€¦

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I used my own software that my cousins made for me specifically for deblurring photos of future product releases. It does an ok job given the processing power behind it. I need an RTX 4090 to make it work right. (I have a 4060TI)

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In that case, what algorithm is it?

Up to now I didnā€™t know deblurring was a real thing, at least without knowing what algorithm did the blurring in the first place.

Impressive work! Even more so if itā€™s DIY.

I mean, given that photoshop can blur images, there must be a way of deblurring it, right? I have looked at the algorithm for a few years now and I still donā€™t fully understand it yet. (Iā€™m trying!) Itā€™s complex as heck.

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I have a 4090 hereā€¦ just saying :wink:

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How am I going to transfer 50+ gigabytes of data over to you and run the setup process without compression?

I wonder how the H2D switches from one hotend being active to the other? The Qidi I-Fast does it by pressing its toolhead against the side of the enclosure (similar to how the X1C activates the tool cutter). Thatā€™s a big waste of time, though, compared to having a solenoid or similar in the printhead, so that it can change in a momentā€™s notice.

Other comparables: The WonderMaker says it can change an entire toolhead in 5 seconds. Not sure how long it takes the Prusa XL to change toolheads.

on my XL itā€™s about the same, if not a bit less. Havenā€™t measured it, but itā€™s relatively fastā€¦Iā€™d say less than 5 seconds

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I have a Pro account for WeTransfer (200GB) but perhaps we should just wait. By the time everything is transferred and up and running Bambu will have released all of the pictures :sweat_smile: Can always try with one to see how close it got to the actual image.

In China here there is not just the teaser but the actual product name(in TaoBao):

Can someone explain to me like Iā€™m an idiot (I am) about the dual nozzle vs dual head thing, in regards to speeding up purge time.

I was under the assumption that a dual head system could park one nozzle and do the filament purge/swap while the other was still printing, then immediately start with the new filament (kinda like the XL)

But a Dual nozzle seems to be able to be great for multi material, and 2 color printing would be quick too, but as soon as it needs to use a third color, itā€™s back to purging taking ages

What am I missing?

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that is it, itā€™s not a multiple head like to prusa XL, it will be fast with two materials (or two colours) but anything above that is back to the normal unload / reload / purge approach - it cannot purge one nozzle while printing with the other as they are attached :slight_smile:

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So, would it be fair to say that itā€™s fairly similar to the Qidi I-Fast, and the innovation is to combine that with an AMS?

Up until fairly recently it was selling for around $1800.

I-Fast is a fairly old machine now. Pre-Klipper maybe. Max print speed is 120mm/sec. I presume the H2D will be faster than that.

That leaves one other comparable, which would be an IDEX, where each printhead has its own 4-color AMS. That would maybe be an even more straightforward innovation, just not the path that Bambu took.

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Yeah, It took two weeks to actually get the images legible enough to start trying some slightly blurred images. In the end it was worth it. Lets see how accurate it got it. This was the hardest one by far because of how blurred the images were. My computer crashed on two of them because there wasnā€™t really anything legible it could pick up.

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Maybe the laser could be also used for 3D scanning? Like in the XYZprinting da Vinci?
Some more similarity the Duo also had a dual extruder. lol. So Bambu Labs had not a real new idea.

To be honest, after seeing the details of the printhead carriage released today, I personally donā€™t see any space where the pogo-pin counter part could be placed or fitted :man_shrugging: