BAMBU LAB H2C

the markings turned out great. They're pretty fine, and I wasn't sure how well they would turn out, but they look good.

The bins print a lot faster

I've noticed a slight drop in quality on steep overhangs

The printing experience on the H2C has been exactly what you'd expect from Bamboo. Clean, reliable, and consistent.

those faster print times and instant zero purge swaps really matter.

if anything happened to one of the parts in the tool head of this machine, the whole printer is down for maintenance.

it was only saving me like one filament swap, which was absolutely not worth the added 7 plus hours of print time.

when I looked at the differences between the two in filament waste, it was only saving me like one filament swap, which was absolutely not worth the added 7 plus hours of print time.

I think it might be the time to add a time savings mode to the slicing options in Bamboo Studio.

it prints a good bit slower than all these other machines.

The reliability has been rock solid in my testing. Zero mispicks after over 5,000 hot changes.

And I haven't needed to do any maintenance on the Vortex changer.

This print saved a total of 227 g of filament poop, which is great considering how small this print actually is.

The H2C, though, uses multiple nozzles loaded in a rack on the side, and it goes through and switches each one out per the color it's already using and cuts down on waste almost entirely.

Running a bunch of calibrations just prior to a firmware update is kind of silly because it's good practice to run a calibration after a firmware update.

And so far, this printer has shown a level of reliability. That means I'm going to just design and print.

One thing I have said to Bamboo Lab in the past is the reason for buying their printer is that I do not want to tinker.

This print clearly shows the overall quality you can expect from the H2C. There is some very minor stringing visible on the blue pieces, but it's minimal and likely indicates that the blue filament could benefit from drying. The orange pieces, however, are effectively perfect.

both machines have reliable bed leveling for those all-important first layers, and detailed model prints look good on both.

paint cat was a 36 hour print with hundreds of nozzle changes and printed pretty much perfectly.

printed pretty much perfectly.

206g were used in the prime tower.

it is pretty wild to see how much detail you can actually achieve with such a small nozzle.

The AMS system is limited in speed

But overall, my experience with the H2C has been, again, I'm straight with you guys, it's been a dream. It was much better than I thought it would be.

we should be able to queue up our next print while the current one's active. So, I'd like to see that here without having to install some server and client application.

the only thing I don't like is it just takes a long time to print stuff.

the hardware's just been flawless.

that's the only software problem that I've had.

But you can use five colors but it will need purging.

We lost one of the support, but fortunately, it fixed itself and the print went very good.