I have a 40W diode laser and it wonāt cut a lot of colors.
One thing I donāt think has been mentioned about the laser is the odor. Wood obviously puts off smoke but acrylic is going to flat out stink. My lasers are in a garage for a reason. Even with external venting with an inline fan, you still get smoke and foul odors from wood and acrylic.
Itās already 8am Tuesday March 25 in China. When exactly does the H2D go on-sale? And when do the youtube embargoās get lifted so we can see some informed reviews?
ā¦7 am PST
rumored price is $2499:
I donāt buy it (no pun intended)
Perplexity tells that the official price is going to be $2000. And around ā¬2500 to ā¬3000 in Europe, depending on the model.
$2995 preorder price would be awesome. Be fast. But slower than me please
Perplexity the AI tool? Does it say how it knows?
His reference for the price in the video is not real. Website style sheets (CSS) are used for site presentation and styling and not for storing data.
The AI tool indeed. It told me the official price was $2000. For the European (higher) prices it posted a source, but I didnāt checked that one.
According to vertex3d:
Bambu Lab has officially announced that the H2D will be launched on March 25, 2025, at 3 p.m.
but no indication as to which time zone 3pm.
CET = Central European Time. OK, so thatās 7am PST, which is what @NoahKatz said was also the time that the youtube embaroās get lifted.
Iām going to guess that itās $1999 for the plain vanilla H2D with no AMS, and then it ladders up from there depending on which version, add-ons, etc, reaching ~$3K for the āeverythingā package.
I wish theyād sell a " I donāt want to have to by anything else after this" bundle. But Iāll be taking advantage of the accessories discount and grabbing stuff with that. Hopefully itās still 30%. I just want the full package without limitations
12 hours 8 minutes from now
Well I took the liberty of checking every Bambu Labs reseller and only 3 websites currently have any reference to H2D but next to no information (Polyalkemi website is most descriptive but limited info based on what we know and no price I can see).
Bambu Lab H2D AMS Combo - Polyalkemi
Bambu Lab H2D - 3D Printer- BAMBU LAB
Bambu Lab - H2D - Bambu Lab 3D Printer - Faigle3D
Edit: Apparently Vertex3D has listed it for 2,799,999.00 Rupees, the equivalent to about $32k or Ā£25k 
Iām sure thatās just a dummy price
You are absolutely correct my friend. The laser process is definitely a smelly one, although some woods smell really good :). But acrylic really stinks and I have very powerful exhaust fan in the enclosures and an extra one in a different window plus an air filter. and they still smell lol.
Yep. I hope people do some research before jumping on this. Even being enclosed, you have to have a way to route exhaust to something. Iām sure Bambu will offer an air filter/purifier (something like the Xtool AP2) for another $1K but even then, itāll still smell. And I mentioned earlier that youāre gonna get residue on everything so youāll constantly have to clean the inside.
Donāt get me wrong, itās a neat idea but Iām not sure where they are going with this. I havenāt tried a lot but everything Iāve seen shows a diode doesnāt engrave well on printed materials and you need a fiber really to do anything that looks good. Weāll have to see what the pricing is but Iād suggest that people look at a stand alone laser if they really want one.
Also not really digging the green door if that comes standard. Green blocks the blue light fine but it also blocks blue lightā¦ So there will be a significant color shift.
Just like some tobacco products 
. Iām really curious to see what the filtration setup would be since cutting produces a lot more fines than 3D printing and can clog a filter pretty bad and pretty quickly depending on the material you feed it (looking at you, MDF)
