Purge waste is what multicolour printing costs you every swap. Bondtech's dedicated nozzles against AMS purge towers in grams and print hours.
3D Printing
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Eight materials print at once on the Prusa CORE One INDX
The Prusa CORE One INDX prints eight materials, each with its own nozzle. How passive toolheads work, and how the kits price against a second printer.
A 330mm print bed now lands on Bambu's budget A2L printer
The Bambu A2L 330mm bed adds 105 percent more volume for $469. See how much of that space prints reliably once warping and the open frame are counted.
Print Farm Manager runs Prusa, Bambu and Klipper as one
Print Farm Manager is a free, self-hosted tool that runs Prusa, Bambu, Klipper, Elegoo and OctoPrint printers from one local dashboard with no cloud.
Bambu's X2D is the cheapest dual nozzle printer yet
The Bambu X2D dual nozzle printer puts two hot ends on one toolhead at $649. See the purge waste maths and what soluble supports really cost.
Prusa upgraded the CORE One and XL without raising prices
Prusa CORE One Gen 2, CORE One L+ and XL+ add GT1.5 belts, a nozzle wiper and a 20x faster tool sensor, and Prusa held the price on every model.