At factory settings .12 the kobra x actually surprised with a decent quality.
Machine stop gcode needs some love, it leaves a “stringy kiss” at the end where the job terminates. But other than that, quality seems alright. Very low vfa on a known model with no tuning, which… for a 300 dollar printer… is in fact pretty good. Can you spot on this model where I unplugged the machine to test power loss?
I’m not the kind of madman that tests maximum complexity first, lol. I confirm along the way to max complexity.
It’s working on a longer single color now, and will then go to multimaterial pla, then multimaterial petg+tpu.
Wierd thing I noticed - the presliced gcode does not produce a prime line. Nor does default settings from their orca-skinned slicer. Next print I’m going to be present and observe the startup sequence.
On the subject of prime lines but offsubject of Kobra x, the ECC2 does prime lines great - it purposely makes a bulge and raised edge so you can sweep it off effortlessly. Other vendors should take note If you’ve ever had a prime line get itself stabbed under your fingernail . ECC2 has some pretty gnarly coreXY teeth vfa though that I’ve been unable to tune out, so its not all rainbows and sunshine. Way moreso than the ECC1 which is… puzzling since theyre mostly the same
I tried a lot of vendors printers recently and I gotta say, maybe my standards for software are too high, but Bambu is so far at the top of the stack for user experience. I almost vomit in my mouth saying that because I was so sure that I would find a vendor who had hired a single ux designer. Alas. None are any good, all junk in their own way! Why can’t these schmucks just release on klipper with an orca profile, and sober up a developer long enough to create a touchpad UI that has useful and responsive user controls. Arghhh i feel my standards melting awaaaay
Keep your standards as high as possible. It will not only save your hard earned money from being spent on sub-standard machines, but it will also help create some level of pressure on some manufacturers to develop better quality products, for reasonable prices.
The H series can display the camera output on the control. Would be a back saver for people with printers below the waist. Only works while using the laser.
Doesn’t surprise they ship to authorised retailers in advance as they want them to have availability at launch, they will be tied under a non disclosure agreement though
I was hoping they would surprise and release an x2c (mini vortek) instead but looks like that x2d it is, guess that will be the next one
I agree, I would have much prefered a single nozzle with the vortek system with 6 or so nozzles, instead of a dual nozzle. The H2D to me seemed like more of a stepping stone to the H2C, but it makes sense that this is the direction they are going.
I was more surprised because I was expecting the announcement to be closer to summer.
I think the two nozzles still make sense, but it would be cool to have a 4 nozzle vortek on the right side to, so one ams 2 for the right and an ams ht for the left, I was pretty convinced this would be the next one to stay competitive with the multi tool heads that are coming out
that being said two nozzles for me are plenty and I love my H2Ds, as don’t really do multicolour, what I like on the vortek is that I have readily available different nozzle sizes not having to manually switch:)
I would like to see the option to have up to at least 8 nozzles. Go big or go home. 6 was an odd number to choose for the H2C. 2 AMS units connected to one nozzle changer would be what I am looking for. (but maybe I am just hoping for something more similar to the INDX system)
My buddy says that they got a pallet of them this morning, but there is no information about pricing in their system yet.
If you’ve ever had a prime line get itself stabbed under your fingernail 
