I use the AMS on my X1 Carbon. Since I print functional parts, not decorative items, my filament changes are for automatic filament runout, coloured labels, and material type changes. As a result my filament changes are quite few on a per object basis and therefore I have very little waste. Having said that, the AMS has been extremely useful for these functions. My X1 Carbon and Ender 3V2 have been running pretty much 24 hrs a day for the past 6 months and I have found the X1C with AMS to be extremely reliable allowing me more time to work on other jobs. My biggest complaint for the AMS is the inability to handle flexible materials like Polypropylene, TPU and TPE. Being able to switch out these materials would make the system much better. Second biggest complaint is the compatibility of spools. Several brands of the filament spools I use will not fit in the AMS. I have to re-spool the filament, which is a pain but worth the effort for the flexibility the AMS provides. I have had some issues with wet PLA 3D850 filament, which gets brittle, and breaks inside the AMS necessitating a tear down of the AMS to remove the broken filament.

Could have reduced lot of filament waste and time,by simply orienting with the back down on build plate, with supports enabled(and using a dissolvable/breakaway support). The idea is, keeping the number of colors to minimum, as you move from one layer to the next. Additionally, the nose and the feet could have been printed separately, and attached later with super glue. That would eliminate all the purging due to the least used color. The trade-off is a little bit of surface roughness and gluing parts after print. Just some 💭

Great video and interesting knowledge with waste management 👌

with this much waste they should make a filament extruder so you can recycle the waste and make filament

thanks for your review. I bought the x1c and im pretty happy with it beside some small software things in the slicer and the printer (e.g. filament change) i bought it without AMS because the waste is too much... i hope they can fix it. Maybe bigger prints just use the purge tower for infill or reduce it by new hardware. We will see....

Yesss ignor now we need you to do get a X1 Carbon

Love your content igor!

whats the reason for both a poop shoot and purge tower? why not just one

I hope that they come up with a solution for the waste. On large parts you can use the infill as purge tower but for small parts this may not be enough so it will need some careful consideration and smart people to solve the issue.

I hate the AMS on the x1 carbon we have at the office. In addition to the issues mentioned most filament comes on larger spools and it makes no sense to rewind filament on the clock. Even spools that fit don't work with a full 1kg load. It has also never successfully changed spools when one runs out. I agree 100%, IDEX would make much more sense. For that matter it would likely be easier from an engineering and production standpoint and you could still offer an AMS in addition. (It would of course make the machine larger and a bit more expensive but cheaper and smaller than the AMS combo) This is a very slow, very fast printer :)

Orca Slicer and I assume Bambu Slicer have an option to print the waste as support and infill for the print. I'd like to see that option enabled and in action.

Try the vision enclosure

This is probably a silly question, but if you have an AMS and want to print with a single color, do you still feed the spool through the AMS? In that case, I assume that there would be no difference in terms of how long it takes for the print complete, am I correct?

Cool Printer !! And very good print!! Thats pinguin looks amazing ...but (yeah ,there always a but), that filaments purge are a lot !! Of waist material so the printing cost was not good...unless yuo find the right client to sell them , anyway , nice printer

Interesting, I noticed that I did not receive ANY empty spools with my AMS, which is very disappointing as they are both very expensive and also out of stock at Bambu. (I purchased the X1C AMS combo)

Thanks for the review. Had you ever try AMS not for change color but for supports parts? Is the same waste of filament?

Thank you so much for this video. I liked and subscribed. I had a question, which printer would you recommend if I’m mass producing small decorative (3-4) color small figurines when speed, accuracy, and reliability is needed?

Igor, what type of white filament was that you printed, which was warping? Thanks for the video

I hope for you that this will make your filament tests a little bit easier.

Did you try to compare monochrome printing time vs multicolor time? That would be interesting? Or did I miss it?

Could you show in the future optimization/best calibration of the Printer? Also what is the best Color Multiplier, when changing colors with AMS? I tried 0,5 and 0,6 so far.

Can p1p hot end be upgraded to print abs or high temp. filament such as nylon carbon fibre?

Hi, did you check out the snapmaker j1 idex? Seems to have few problems, but should be way better then sovol sv04 which i did se you had reviewed. Im sitting a bit on the bench waiting to se how prusa xl 5 head multi system will work :)

Nice video, but about printing more than one object - as I saw Mihai (IG and here in youtube) video, that there is not yet "cancel single object" thingy... so if you have full bed of penguins and one fails, this causes more problems to others and so on... chaos theory applied :D

can the Bambu Lab P1P print TPU filaments.? I'm thinking of either getting a P1P or the Prusa Mini+, and also is the Bambu Lab AMS compatible with other 3D printers like a Prusa Mini+ , the Fokoos Odin-5 F3 and or a Kingroon printer.?

Wish we could order those from Brazil

I just got ams did you order the spools seperate?

if this system had 4 nozzels that be amazing , i have this printer and yes the waist is to much if you print a lot of multi color stuff

Multi-part prints use (Print Sequence) "by object"

Algorithm could be optimized for 2 color printing - let's say you print a an ellipsoid: () with split red/blue color, normal printing would be: layer 1 RED: ( change BLUE: ) layer 2: RED: ( change BLUE: ) ... Optimized would be layer 1 RED: ( change BLUE: ) layer 2 BLUE: ) change RED: ( layer 3 RED: (

Hello, you should at least skip the prime tower. Kind Regards N.B.

For 1 kg of filament on one object, 4kg of material is wasted… Let’s wait for a different or modern way of making a multi filament 3d printer