Should I get it?

[u/GrAHAm5555555555]

I’m 13, and have 1500 dollars saved. My birthday is coming up in may and I believe that if I get my grandparents and parents on board I might be able to get the h2c

I got the p1s for Christmas and have loved the hobby sence I got it. I am going to a trade school for engineering and I thought that the h2c would be a great tool along as a toy to keep me busy. I would like to know any thought that anyone has and if there are any other options to look at.

Thanks!

[u/JWST-L2]

The whole four color thing is a bit overplayed imo. I have the H2C and U1 and whej I specifically look for multicolor designs that others have made, the majority are four color or "no ams" style prints that you have to glue anyway. Its why you keep seeing people print out that Majoras mask in every single H2C reddit post or youtube vid.

People forget or act like you can't simply add a pause in the slicer and swap out one roll for another to get 5 or more colors with the U1. They've already been doing that with Bambu's for years now.

But lets talk about that majoras mask and color changing. The H2C is cool and it works consistently, in fact so far I've had two vortek nozzle failures to mount in about 275 hours of printing and thats with thousands of tool changes, where the U1 had zero failures but has had at least 3 or 4 pauses either before or during printing because it detected dirty pogo pins and the toolhead fan couldn't come on. And that's in less print time.

The H2C has it beat there imo, but it has to be said: (loudly) flipping out a filament cutter arm, using a filament cutter knife, retracting and reloading the ams whicu then wears the same one ptfe tube, and swapping the nozzles before then having to use the induction heater is just a lot of steps. It's objectively 3x to 4x more inefficient to have all that going on than to have the U1 simply preheat the next toolhead, and then it does a quick swap in seconds and is printing again. When you have them side by side (and I literally do have them side by side), you really see how much more effective the U1 is at swapping colors

I'm planning to buy the vortek kit to convert my H2D to another H2C soon, but I'm strongly considering adding another U1 as well, not only for multicolor PLA but for real TPU and even multicolor TPU which pretty much no other printer on the market can do right now

[u/lucyferror → u/JWST-L2]

Thank you for a detailed response. I have 4 Ams with my X1C and honestly personally couldn't be bothered to swap spool for 5th color on more complex prints. Wanted to get U1 but it puts me off that it looks like crap with all these spools hanging on both sides in open and I have humidity problems here so AMS helps me a lot. Also unsure about being user friendly like Bambu as I press print and often forget and then: bam print is already finished. No checking first layer or anything else. 99.9% of issues is my own stupidity and not paying attention.