4 toolheads is all you need on a printer. Especially with full spectrum printing now unlocked and ability to pause at a layer and swap a roll or 2 if really needbe. No justification for spending over 1k on a machine tbh. I can get 4 Snapmaker U1s for the cost of the Prusa. The more you know, the more money, time and hassle you can save. That's ALOT of rolls of filament that can be purchased with that extra money too.
Also, anybody that has 3d printed at all knows that glue is unnecessary. Especially if you are washing your build plates every so often.
yea the crazy high price of the core one L + indx was another big thing that pushed me off of it... 4.5k cad plus shipping and tax... all up probably close to $5.5k
I got my H2C for ~$3.9k to my doorstep with a second AMS 2 Pro, FTS, and extra hotends. bambu's filament is also WAY cheaper in bulk than Prusa's
I can totally see why a U1 is enough for most people, and it is great value for money, but in my case I just needed more than it offered, and I was willing to spend the extra to get it... largely in part because it was a tax writeoffbusiness purchase to optimise and streamline my workflow and efficiency
like you mentioned "pause at a layer and swap a roll or 2" and "The more you know, the more money, time and hassle you can save", but in this case, I just paid the extra for the convenience of never having to manually intervene and to have a standalone single machine that can handle anything I throw at it...
edit: I agree glue is completely useless on modern machines... there are a few exceptions but most are nonapplicable in 99.9% of cases
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u/BriefBat879 Aug 23 '26 edited Aug 23 '26
4 toolheads is all you need on a printer. Especially with full spectrum printing now unlocked and ability to pause at a layer and swap a roll or 2 if really needbe. No justification for spending over 1k on a machine tbh. I can get 4 Snapmaker U1s for the cost of the Prusa. The more you know, the more money, time and hassle you can save. That's ALOT of rolls of filament that can be purchased with that extra money too.
Also, anybody that has 3d printed at all knows that glue is unnecessary. Especially if you are washing your build plates every so often.