This week’s Monday piece covered multi-color printing with the AMS and how much filament and time every color change eats up. Soluble supports are the other side of the same coin: they run on identical material-swap mechanics, but instead of looks they solve geometry you could not otherwise print in one piece. PVA dissolves...
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Multi-Color Printing with AMS: When It Pays Off, When It Doesn’t
Multi-color printing sounds like a dream come true: you load a model, assign colors, press a button, and the machine handles the rest on its own. Bambu Lab’s AMS has brought that vision closer to the average hobbyist than anyone else, but there’s a gap between the marketing video and the reality on the...
3D Printer Buying Mistakes: Reader Q&A on Hardware
The past few weeks brought an unusual number of questions into the editorial inbox, all tied together by a single theme: what to buy, what to avoid, and where people most often go wrong. This month’s block therefore revolved around hardware, how to choose it, and the mistakes that cost both money and nerves....
AMS Lite vs AMS 2 Pro: Which One Is Worth It
Multi-material and multi-color printing has gone from a premium luxury to a standard that Bambu Lab has put within reach of beginners. The question is no longer whether to print in multiple colors, but with which system. AMS Lite and AMS 2 Pro represent two different philosophies: an open, lightweight frame for the A1...
Reader Q&A: Your Questions from the First 3 Weeks Answered
The first three weeks at printara3d.cz are behind us, and you’ve sent in dozens of questions. Readers responded mainly to the article on PETG composites (CF and GF variants), to the guide on the AMS system in Bambu Lab printers, and to the practical walkthrough on dealing with warping on ABS parts. This arc...
Bambu Lab: Why Users Don’t Want to Go Back to Other Printers
Few brands have divided the 3D printing community in recent years as sharply as Bambu Lab. Some users insist that after their first experience with one of these printers, they simply cannot go back to another brand. Others warn about the closed ecosystem and cloud dependency. The truth lies somewhere in between and depends...
