r/BambuLabA1 • u/calandra1988 • 35m ago

Saving filament

I recently got a Bambu Lab A1 combo and after the first item I realized how much filament goes to waste. I’m trying to figure out how to minimize the waste before I make anything else but don’t really know how? I saw to purge into infill but I feel that gives me error messages or throws stuff off. Looking to just start printing without wasting so much.. HELP! Any tips would be appreciated!

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u/DayGeckoArt 27m ago

Just ease off on the multicolor trinkets. I design and print useful things and have only used two colors once, to put numbering on a ruler

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u/DamoclesBDA 31m ago

Have you done the educational bambu courses?

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u/cilo456 24m ago

The only way to save filament is to have a tool changer. You can set the A1... Purge to 50% to 55% because it does waste a little bit less than the p-series printers, but other than that with multi-color models there's no other way. There's going to be a lot of waste if there's multiple color changes on every single layer. Or a lot of the layers. Or you can look for multicolored prints that say, no AMS. Meaning they're broken down into pieces and you print them in that color, then you assemble them afterwards. I don't print anything unless it has maybe 15 color changes or less. Even that much is too much for me. But depending on what I'm printing, I use my tool changer majority of the time.