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Bambu Lab P1S 3D Printer on sale for
$849.
Shipping is free.
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Note, purchase of this printer will grant your
6-Months of Bambu Filament Membership benefits for
Free
Lead time for product is ETA before December 5, 2023.
About the Product- Enclosed-body for high-temperature filament printing
- Up to 16-color printing with AMS
- Up to 20000 mm/s² acceleration, prints a benchy in 18min
- Well-polished hardware and software
- Built-in camera for remote monitoring and timelapse
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3d printer designs have been stagnant for 3-4 years, they brought some good competition to market (think tesla).
You don't have to like it, or support them, but without them I doubt you'd see so many competing coreXY klipper based machines out there.
Locked down propriety machines will come and go
1) Dry box for open spools.
2) Keep an extra spool of the same color filament and have it automagically use the next same color spool for long prints.
3) Multicolor by layers. It minimizes waste and you don't have to manually switch colors at layers.
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not a good start with this company.
Both boxes arrived today for me, but they might not for you. But it's most assuredly not a scam, just two separate shipments.
Both boxes arrived today for me, but they might not for you. But it's most assuredly not a scam, just two separate shipments.
Subtotal $1,299.00
Sales tax $113.67
Shipping $35.00
Coupons - $50.00
Total (1 item) $1,397.67
Note shipping is the same as from Bambu Lab directly ($35), so the $50 coupon does indeed reduce the price by $50.
I have a P1P + AMS, P1S + AMS, now X1C + AMS, am quite happy with these printers.
Subtotal $1,299.00
Sales tax $113.67
Shipping $35.00
Coupons - $50.00
Total (1 item) $1,397.67
Note shipping is the same as from Bambu Lab directly ($35), so the $50 coupon does indeed reduce the price by $50.
I have a P1P + AMS, P1S + AMS, now X1C + AMS, am quite happy with these printers.
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* P1P if you want the budget model that requires more brainpower on your end (to tune filament, etc. - Best for printing PLA/PLA+ (Mostly Decorative prints that don't need to be temperature resistant) - You can print other filaments but need to enclose it. (I have mine in a Greenhut grow tent from Amazon for this purpose)
* P1S if you want the enclosure included right up front.
* X1C if you don't want to hassle with calibrating your filaments so much (LIDAR) and want the more premium build vs. P1S (metal vs. plastic walls), 1080p camera with real FPS vs. 720p with 2 seconds per frame (0.5fps) on P1P/P1S. The CPU and Screen in X1C is also superior to P1P/P1S.
In my experience, the P1P, P1S, and X1C can all generate equivalent prints. The underlying technology is the same in all 3. The screen is not used for interaction very much at all. The better CPU in X1C allows more features/slightly faster slicing.
Started as a Hobby with P1P/Early Bird almost exactly a year ago (ordered on Black Friday)
I printed stuff that I thought was cool. Made a lot of small, cheap, single color prints that i gave out as keychains and fridge magnets, etc. to friends.
Without intending it, this functioned as advertising/word of mouth, and I started to get custom orders in.
It quickly became profitable and I had my P1P paid off within a few months.
I purchased 1 year worth of monthly vendor admission to the art show downtown locally, and I started to set up a booth there with racks selling my prints. I had a lot of fun talking with everyone and selling stuff! I spent more than I made, for sure, on supplies, foldable shelving/racks for the booth, modeler's patreon subscription for commercial sales, etc.
Got an EcoFlow River 2 Max - this can run the printer for a few hours, enough to bring my P1P to display at the booth. Printing right in front of people creates a lot of engagement, really boosted my sales.
I got the AMS to go with P1P at that point and started to do multi color printing, but that takes quite a bit more time to print than single color with the color changes. So that created the need for a second printer. Got the P1S+AMS.
Now, I've got enough custom orders in that my workload is saturated - creating the need for another printer. I got the X1C just because I wanted to experience the full range of offering from Bambu. For my needs, P1S would be more than adequate.
If I had to start over again and budget wasn't an issue, i'd probably have started with X1C + AMS, as it is a little more newbie friendly with LIDAR to calibrate your filament. However, learning how to calibrate does not take very long at all, and you can almost get two P1S for the price of an X1C.
It seems like this is something that will get very little use and that is a very expensive addon
I know a guy with the X1 and the AMS
And he does this sort of professionally and sells at the local farmers market
He has very few prints that use the AMS and be said that coloring prints in the slicer is difficult and he usually just grabs models that are are already colored.
Seems like a waste of money till the software improves as I am sure it will but is it just better to get it now as future proofing?
The price difference between the X1 and the X1 with AMS is pretty steep isn't it?
Would the X1 with no AMS be a better value for close to this price?
It seems like this is something that will get very little use and that is a very expensive addon
I know a guy with the X1 and the AMS
And he does this sort of professionally and sells at the local farmers market
He has very few prints that use the AMS and be said that coloring prints in the slicer is difficult and he usually just grabs models that are are already colored.
Seems like a waste of money till the software improves as I am sure it will but is it just better to get it now as future proofing?
The price difference between the X1 and the X1 with AMS is pretty steep isn't it?
Would the X1 with no AMS be a better value for close to this price?
Expensive - well, it's relative. Bambu has a very fast 3D printer, so I would say that filament is really the expensive part. The one-time costs associated with purchasing a printer will soon pale in comparison, if you want to keep it printing
Personally, my hands shake and i'm not the greatest artist. I tried to sand/primer/paint my prints that I wanted colored, and while it did come out good in the end, I was not a fan of the post processing work involved.
I am however good with CAD software, regarding the difficulty in coloring, it is true that painting with the slicer is difficult. Learning the paint bucket and it's angles helps a lot. But what really helps is exporting your models from CAD as separate objects. You can import all the objects into the slicer at once, and it will offer to assemble them whole.
At that point you can right click each object in the list and assign a color to it. Works as well as you can ask
You can also use AMS to change color by layer, and design your models so that each desired color is at a different layer. This makes it simple to color.
I've read in a Reddit post that Bambu will not honor any warranty service if the printer was not directly bought from them, including Micro Center. The post quoted a direct response from Bambu.
China is going to to get my super secret Pikachu file!
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I just pulled the trigger on a P1S through their TikTok store for an additional $50 off. Excited to start printing again and not spending 95% of my time tinkering with the stupid printer.
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