@jsj

The price surprised me, and this is by far a more enterprise-grade printer. But I don't know if I am even sold on the idea.

I've always wanted a #Idex printer, mostly for water soluble supports or even doing the PETG-PLA trick #Modbot has suggested before. But with the relative price of the #Bambulab #AMS, isn't it just better to get that? Because here you are now just limited to 2 colors, and the AMS could one day be upgraded and also easily extended.

So I wonder if Idex will be killed before it even went big ever? #SnapMaker are leaders in the space, and technically, this isn't an Idex because the nozzles are on the same head.

If creality wants this to be successful in the target group they are pricing it at, their software needs to improve.

I think most people can admit that similar to Apple, the thing which makes the BambuLab printers so good is the software and build quality.

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@thinkyhead @layers @marlinfirmware

I agree, but one thing to note is, #Marlin is big, and you are big. You have a say and some power behind your voice, but smaller #FOSS developers still suffer.

One thing that disgusts me is 3D printing companies just actually doing this.

In the popular series "Blue Bloods", Frank Regan said that it is so disgusting when a cop commits a crime, because cops should not be kept at the same standard as other people, but at a higher standard.

Now we have companies coming in here. Like #SnapMaker, saying they love #opensource and they want you to create what you want at home and I would put money on it that would attempt a rip-off of #Printables or #Thingiverse in the future for "open-source", but then they do stuff like this.

I honestly didn't know this about them. I was actually interested in buying their #IDEX printer.

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@RobeeShepherd

I do manual coloe changes by issuing M600 on my printer and then switching the filament and then switching the filament and pushing it through to do a manual purge. But this isn't really comforable or viable.

So I only use it for the first or last few layers to have a different face color or text color, but other than that, it would just be frustrating.

I would love a #IDEX printer for soluable support. Color changes are too wasteful for me, and I don't actually have the need for it because all of my parts are mostly functional.

@geekandi

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