that guy is 100% right. I have the XL with 5 heads and it is nightmare… where to start…the screen is awful, the screen interface is so linux 1995, so slow, very long tube for the filaments, very long nozzle, + everything he said. yet J Prusa keeps on crying abotu other brands…
I have many bambu X1C and P1S with more then 2000h on some and I only lubricated the z axis… heven’t even changed an extruder or nozzle or belt or anything in the AMS…AMAZING!!! bambu all the way.
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just load the xl with 5 filaments take around 15+ minutes and add in case you have to unload 5 other filament before.
he was right about the calibration though, lots of time one of the tool heads is shifting.
prusa slicer is terrible with settings especially with filaments types and mainly with that stupid tower settings. cannot even change the temperature during he print, it always goes back to the gcode sliced setting.
anyways, we;re not here to discuss the xl, just go bambu all the way. worth every penny.
got the assembled version and ended up taking around 2 hours to assemble it. it does come fully assembled. and with the 5 tool heads it is a nightmare.
He said “point 6 mm off” so 0,6mm deviation in 30 cm.
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Robert had a broken Prusa and replaced one of the chips in it.
Also, he didn’t even do the multifilament tests, just said, Prusa would win that. I
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As somebody who recently got my first Prusa (XL), I have some very real thoughts on this.
When it comes to 5 colors with individual tool heads vs 2, it’s not even close, the Prusa just changes faster for anything with more than 2 colors and it is truly impressive to watch it work.
They thought of quite a bit with regards to the hardware design for sure. However, for as good as this thing is, it is by no means a perfect machine at all.
Also, it is very awesome to be able to just cancel one object on the printer when something goes wrong and not have to wait and hope for the best.
First, the camera options are not great for this model, but they are flexible and you can use a web came with a Raspberry Pi 4B, so there is that. This makes printing remotely extremely limited.
Second, the printer will need something from you and instead of showing you or letting you fix it remotely, It will require you to physically go to the printer to see what it needs on some occasions. This is insane as I’m 30 miles away when it decides this.
Third, Prusa Slicer is not for the faint of heart, as it is very unnecessarily complex and even has you manually aligning print extruder color profiles with paint profiles. To me the Slicer has been the largest issue as it has left me very frustrated that it isn’t as simple as Bambu or Orca but don’t get me started on that!
You’re probably asking why not just switch to Bambu or Orca slicer right? Well Bambu took most of the Prusa printer profiles out of their slicer. Orca just refuses to let you add the other extruder colors in many situations.
As for things they have in common… Collisions! But the Bambu will typically just drop a face plate, the XL will drop an entire tool head.
Do I like the XL? Yep, it is a very nice printer for my needs. The H2D probably would have fallen just short as my goal was filament waste reduction and 4 color printing on average. I’m sure the XL is great as well, but there’s a lot more to consider with these things, that’s for sure.
Funny thing is, if Bambu had let me buy just the H2D without AMS, I probably would have gone that route instead.