I bought the printer close to its release date. While it took me a couple of weeks before I had time to unpack it, I have now been printing with it for two to three months, long enough to get a solid impression of its strengths and weaknesses. Background I’ve been 3D printing for three to four year…

It is ironic that Bambu advertises the secondary nozzle as ideal for printing supports, when using it for supports might be the worst thing you can do. Even if you use the secondary nozzle for support only (as it was advertised to work well) - that would still be a huge mistake. As I explained …

[image] Eponymous: OK this is true, but then you’re printing non-support material with the derpy print head, which I do not think should be done. This is definitely supported, and even advertised. It’s actually part of the Bambu Slicer. Once you slice a model for X2D you have an option to Ma…

[image] AlexM: One of my first issues was a “clogged extruder” error message, which turned out to be a clogged nozzle. But I tried to follow the (Bambu-provided) instructions to actually disassemble & clean the extruder as the manual suggest. The toolhead is extremely complex, not-well-documente…

[image] GreenPlasticWaterCan: My experience with the X2D (which I would not call a flagship by any metric) is the opposite. I have been printing highly complex PETG parts with PLA supports. Parts that should be perfect as they are used to test assemblies that would be machined. Even the smallest…

“Most online comparison videos struggle to show quality differences because they use small test models.” Given the current landscape of content creators, sorry I mean influencers/marketing agencies that’s a really low bar. But that’s a discussion for another day. It all boils down to how big is…

[image] GreenPlasticWaterCan: And hundreds of hours for a single print? on a 235x256x256 build volume? I want to see that. It might not be as large as 200x200x200, but it still takes over 100 hours to print [image]

dear god [image] A full kilogram of plastic in the bin

[image] AlexM: As for time and filament savings: I didn’t go in blind. I watched every hands-on review I could find, and they all made the same promises: massive time savings (up to 50% faster multi-color prints) and significant reductions in purged filament. It seemed like a win-win-win. I d…

[image] Alex_vG: For multicolor, it was never ideal. It also isn’t a flagship printer. that’s the H2x series. So I think you just bought the wrong printer for your use case. Honestly, I would be pretty stupid to buy an H2C purely to reduce multicolor waste. P2S Combo costs $750. H2C Combo c…

Just referring to your claim that the X2D was advertised and tested as a great multicolor printer. It is just marginally better at that than the P2S or older P/X series printers. The reviews I saw clearly stated that. For 2-color I find it great, but I never expected it to save much time or waste f…

The woes of owning an X2D

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AlexM August 30, 2026, 6:35pm 10

It might not be as large as 200x200x200, but it still takes over 100 hours to print

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