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expiredEnzomatrx posted Oct 23, 2025 2:23 PM
Bambu Lab 3D Printer/Accessories Black Friday Sale: A1 $279, A1 Mini $199, P1S
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5-inch touchscreen - I honestly could care less, the amount I use the screen is near 0, everything is controlled via wifi and the slicer.
Improved Lighting - I did end up adding better lighting to both mine but honestly this was strictly because I wanted to be able to spin around in my chair and see my prints from across the room, at no point was this a "need".
Improved Camera - again neat but I never used the camera other than to occasionally check in on my print when I was away from the house and the 2fps I was getting with the p1s was plenty to do that with.
Cooling - again awesome but I never had any problems with cooling and I printed PLA all the time with the lid on, in fact I never take the lid off and I have had 0 problems.
Guide Rods - I like the steel guide rods but the 2 seconds it took to clean the carbon rods every 100 or so hours wasnt a big deal.
Filament Handling - I printed a side mounted holder for my p1s, it is way better, 10/10 for understanding the rear spool was a terrible idea.
AI Failure detection system - I mean I'm sure its cool and all but the amount of "failures" i have had with my p1s is near 0 and most of the time it was my fault because I forgot to change what plate I was using in the settings or some other goofy thing.
New extruder - Folks this is where the money shot is, they took all the bells and whistles of the A1 series and slapped it on the refresh, the auto flow calibration on my A1 mini is chefs freaking kiss for getting insanely nice prints the clog/grinding detection is nice but honest to god I 've never had either on any of my bambu machines.
All in all you can upgrade your p1s to do damn near everything the p2s does for near nothing but I have to say unless you can get a sexy deal (like this slick deal) on a current p1s I would grab a p2s soley for the auto flow calibration, I love it on my A1 mini.
Ask me literally anything if you have any questions about the p1s or A1 mini for that matter I have literally thousands of hours on my machines.
You will have VOCs (volatile organic compounds, or "bad fumes") with every printer just from the nature of heated, broken down materials to print with. In general PLA and PETG are safe enough for you to be in the same room as the printer. The fumes I smell are little to none from my P1S, although mine is enclosed and I have HEPA filters on the vent fan in the back. I also have the Bento Box mod if I'm printing other materials besides PLA, PETG, or TPU.
The "S" in ABS and ASA is styrene. If you have ever thrown a styrofoam cup into a camp fire, you know how terrible those fumes are. You should definitely not print ABS or ASA in an occupied room without some serious air treatment. People who print stuff like this have a whole another vented enclosure around the printer to contain the VOCs. It's going to be much safer to do this in a shed or a vented garage. Same with resin. You should do this in a shed or vented garage, as well as using nitrile gloves and masks to handle it after the print.
Should you protect yourself even with PLA and PETG? Sure, but microplastics have permeated every aspects of our lives, and you have to do the calculus to determine what is an acceptable risk to you. I've accepted to have my PLA and PETG prints going in the same room as me. The carbon filled nylon prints I've done used the Bento Box mod and I didn't smell any fumes. I will not print ABS or ASA unless my printer is in a garage or shed.
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A1-A1 mini is not worth it when you can get AD5X. A1-A1 mini were my recommendations for beginners before AD5X came. If you want a mini-van, go for the one that is bang for your buck.
Second, do not really like that Bambu is not innovating to sell more AMS. Also h2c is going to be 2k+
A1-A1 mini is not worth it when you can get AD5X. A1-A1 mini were my recommendations for beginners before AD5X came. If you want a mini-van, go for the one that is bang for your buck.
Second, do not really like that Bambu is not innovating to sell more AMS. Also h2c is going to be 2k+
I also wonder if Best Buy will have the same sale
For color/material change, It will be like H2D with swapping nozzle setup. So every-time it needs to change color in that swappable nozzle, it will do similar to what it does in H2D, cut, drop nozzle(new step), pick new nozzle, push next filament, purge whatever was remaining from last cut, prime tower to equalize the pressure and then print. Only saving you will get is time and filament saved that was required for purging the last material/color. For the other head, just like H2D it will have its separate filament path, and switching to that will be faster.
https://youtu.be/rluJj3NEdQA?t=1
Single filament path will always be slow, thats why this system is flawed.
Indx is better: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCmGoP0
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I had pretty much decided on the P2S but was really hesitate to spend that much money and would wait a while. For $500 though....
It would still be a lot better than what I have.
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Now... well... it's a lot harder since I could take that extra money and buy filament and then sell it later.
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