I am a new potential customer, thinking about the combi P1S + AMS simply because I hardly ever used 2 colors in one print. My current printer is supposed to be able to run multiple colors, but, after parking, it rapidly takes off for the rest of the print, so you have to sit next to the machine, AND be very fast.
The AMS would resolve that.
BUT, for all the users here, who have an AMS combi, I would like to ask: would you spend the additional money for the AMS again, even if you are satisfied with the performance?
Or in other words: is it worth your money to be able to print multiple colors, just because you really rarely use this facility (which may be achieved in another way, perhaps)?
At this moment the add-on outlay for the AMS is ā¬240 incl. the current discount.
Yes, the AMS is great, even if you donāt multicolor print just to have 4 filaments āon deckā ready to use. The additional runout features you get are invaluable as well. You donāt have to worry about half spools ruining your print.
Absolutely. Initially I was kind of āwhateverā about it. But once I got it and started using it, just like @moonrakerone said, having the filaments available to you and is a big quality of life improvement.
In fact, I was hoping BL would have an AMS deal on Black Friday. A 2nd one would be nice.
would buy again, and am currently teetering on the fence to buy another! Youāll likely find after having one AMS, youāll quickly find new prints needing a second one too!
Bought 1 AMS thinking how cool it would be, then quickly realized unless youāre printing a signā¦ most cool multicolored prints are more than 4 colors. Guess I have to spend another $350ā¦
So in the meantime Iām printing simple dual or triple colored items. Just didnāt think when I bought the AMS Iād already be complaining that Iād want more colors.
I bought a P1S but not the AMS. I donāt do multicolour printing as the vast majority of my prints are functional rather than decorative.
BUT I will be getting an AMS fairly soon as I can have a few materials āready to goā.
I make a few things for ebay - I offer them in different colours
My old creality printer, even though itās very much 1st world problems, every time I got an order if it was in a different colour I had to go off into the spare room and unload/load a different colour. Which also meant I had dry boxes sat around everywhere with all the other colours in.
Now I just choose a colour and hit print from my office, and away it goes. Also have 4 rolls in there always dry (I printed the extra dessicant boxes for the AMS)
Itās definitely worth it to have 4 rolls in handy dry storage ready to use at a button click.
I donāt do much multi-colour as the waste is insane but it has opened up options for doing signs/keyrings etcā¦
@Naalroc - Make sure you have plenty of space (ā¦for filament rolls!); the X1C + AMS will multiply the number of colors and types of filaments you keep around by at least five, possibly ten.
I am waxing funny here, but I am not BSāing you: the AMS (and almost certainly the A1) somehow change in your mind what it means to 3d print.
You will probably first start getting into using every type of support you can think of (which IMHO is reason enough to buy the AMS)ā¦ because who hasnāt been frustrated by beautiful pieces that are impossible to print without complex supports?
Then you may develop a habit of testing same piece in multiple materials (even single color), and thenā¦ ah, then you will start looking at a model you want to print and stop to think about which color it will look better on (guess what, itās usually not one you have in front of you).
Thatās because the X1C+AMS is not really a minor incremental upgrade to the old slingers, but rather an enabler of a change in the way you think about 3d printing: more nuanced, more about what you WANT to do and not what CAN you do with the printer you have.
Definitely!
I was running prusa mk3 with mmu2s and after first try with AMS I wonāt move back anytime. Prusa stated that mmu2s has reliability above 95 %. Not in my case. AMS 100 % working all the time without single issue.
+1 to buying the AMS again. I typically donāt do a lot of multi color prints as Iām impatient and the long times scare me. For instance Iām printing an Erick Killmonger now all black with suppprt filament at the connection points. Itās been running two days mainly stopping because itās having trouble pulling back filament, or the filament when it comes loose from the main roll kit spins on the AMS roller, not retracting.
I think for my use case my daughter (9) uses my printer and itās easier for her to plop filament in the AMS than it is to load and unload manually. Iāve actually been thinking about getting another one
AMS is great even if you donāt do multicolor prints.
it works as a drybox for materials that need it (but print silica gel containers for it and refill them regularly with dried silica gel)
it makes swapping spools extremely simple. No heating the nozzle, waiting, cutting, retracting and then feeding a new spoolā¦ When my AMS was broken, it was miserable you get to used to it very fast
if you want something multicolor, you can. Even just changing color at layer height looks sophisticated
I considered the RFID function a gimmick, with the potential to lock us to BL filaments (hopefully not happening until they kill the rest of the market :-D), and it mostly is, but if you like BL filaments then it actually works pretty good. Still waiting for automatically using the proper pressure advance value for the filament, but I fully expect that to come in the future.
so i own a x1c with 2 AMS units and getting ready to purchase another AMS unit. I occasionally print a 2 or 3 color item, but the best part about the AMS for me is the ability to have multiple types and colors available for print with a push of a button. and the auto change over function i can load 2 spools of the same type of filament and when 1 runs out the next one takes over, I am only using bambu labs filaments though so it is a no brainer for me. I have 1 unit with PLA, 1 with PETG, and will be getting another one for my ABS, and eventually a 4th for everything else.
would buy again, and am currently teetering on the fence to buy another! Youāll likely find after having one AMS, youāll quickly find new prints needing a second one too! 
you get to used to it very fast