I’m looking for a multi-material printer that can also handle TPU.
AFAIK are most multi-material systems not made for TPU, so printers like the BambuLab P1S with AMS or Anycubic Kobra with the ACE Pro won’t work (I would like to have a printer where I can just load TPU without disconnecting anything. And I know BambuLab has a TPU for AMS, but 40€ for 1kg is a little much).
The only printers for hobbyist that really support it are the Prusa XL or BambuLab H2D, or did I miss any?
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For what it’s worth, I regularly print materials not supported by the AMS on my Bambu P1S and it’s quite painless. There’s a spool holder on the back of the machine that you can load directly to the extruder bypassing the AMS. Of course, if your goal is do multicolor prints in TPU obviously that won’t work.
The only other one I know of, outside of a dual exturder Voron, is the Qidi I-Fast IDEX printer. It’s expensive, somewhat over $1000, but it has a lot of goodies too. 350C extruder, heat chamber, and a decent sized build volume to print just about any engineering filament.
Thanks, didn’t knew about the Qidi. And even thou its 1k€/$, its still a half the price of the BambuLab or Prusa!
Their Plus 4 printer is supposed to have multi material box -a la AMS- some time this year. But there hasn’t been much said about it since the release of the Plus 4 model.
I’m super happy with my formbot Marathon IDEX, works perfectly fine with TPU (though i did have to adjust one screw guide in the extruder so it doesn’t eat the filament). it’s not very well known, since they don’t hand them out to influencers etc. The discord is pretty active and lots of helpful people there.
made with all standard components, regular Klipper firmware, so i know i can replace parts if anything ever breaks.
And IDEX in mirror/copy mode for printing multiple parts at twice the speed is great when you need it.
I just got my Elegoo Centauri Carbon and it’s a huuuuuuge upgrade from my old Ender3. This doesn’t directly answer your request because it’s multi material isn’t even released yet and I don’t know the specifics of what it will support (the details might be out there I just haven’t looked). But I would recommend checking it out, from what I understand it’s meant to be a bamboo competitor at about half the price.
My bambu AMS doesn’t work with TPU so I don’t think multimaterial has much benefit in this use case. Basically I have to put the tpu on a spool at the back and disconnect the tubes from the AMS.
I do find multimaterial handy for PLA/PETG although AMS can be annoying if a piece of PLA snaps which often happens.
