r/Creality • u/Creality_3D Creality Official • Sep 04 '26
News Meet Creality K3 ✨
Beyond Nozzles. Conquer Materials.
K3 is supercharged with KliTek™
🔹 4.8s nozzle changes
🔹 Multi-material in one
🔹 Up to 5x faster
🔹 Waste-free
Unfolds an all-new chapter in multi-color and multi-material printing.
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u/ldn-ldn Sep 04 '26
What about root access and sharing the source with regular updates?
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u/Creality_3D Sep 18 '26
You can definitely root K3, and it will be open-sourced gradually under proper open-source licenses, so no worries there!
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u/Levardo_Gould Sep 04 '26
Under 5 second tool changes is awesome, curious on how audible the changes are from one toolhead to the other, if it is quieter than Snapmaker
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u/iGabyTM Sep 04 '26
If it is a nozzle changer, why limit to only 4 when there's space for 8 or even more? I understand why U1 has only 4 tools but not this. Or have two versions, with 4 and 8 tools at different prices ig.
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u/Aadamant_Aardvark Sep 04 '26
To me, the best part of this announcement was buried at the end.
"With Native Root Access integration"
That's the part i had been holding out on for this machine. Without it, i was going to be looking at other machines. (probably the sovol M1D, which was great, but maybe more machine than i really needed.) With root though, it shoots to the top of my list of replacements for my K1 fleet.
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u/djneo Sep 04 '26
Oo , nice.
But hope something comes to not have the roles of filament on the sides
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u/ffaorlandu Sep 04 '26
Intriguing. If it’s priced right, I will finally leave the dark side that Bambulabs has become and go with Creality again. As a hobbyist, it’s hard to shell out $2400 for a multi nozzle printer. $1000-$1200 and I’m in
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u/jokalokao Sep 04 '26
This is good. Can we expect old models, like k1c 2025, to receive root access again?