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FYI (opinion.) don't buy an MMU (sopuli.xyz)

submitted 1 week ago by elucubra@sopuli.xyz to c/3dprinting@lemmy.world

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Most of the multi color printers out there are AMS/MMU or similar, and there are many DIY options, like Armored Turtle or ECF.

They are an evolutionary dead end. Slow, wasteful, expensive to run.

The Prusa XL, or the Snapmaker U1 are the future direction.

Also a good CoreXY machine like vorons/sovols/ratrigs/VZ, etc can be upgraded with the Bondtech INDX tool changer.

We are talking 5x lower print times, 5x lower material costs.

There is going to be a glut of used Bambus and other multi material unit printers, when print farms unload them, since the tool changers will massively boost their bottom line.

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[–] jsnfwlr@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Anycubic offers them as an add-on for their printers for under ~120€ when purchased with the printer. That's a reasonable price. But buying them on their own the ~200€ price is a bit much

[–] elucubra@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 week ago

Is that compatible with other brands? I believe most MMUs are only compatible with their own printers. That's another advantage of INDX, and other toolchangers I'm sure are in the pipeline. I'm going to be installing an INDX in my heavily modded Ender 5 Plus, and if I ever decide to sell it, or retire it, I know I'll probably be able to carry it over to another printer.