Creator 5 Pro

MizuMakes may earn a commission from links in this post. Short answer: to print multiple colors on the Flashforge Creator 5 Pro, load each color into its own toolhead, then set that toolhead’s material and color on the printer’s screen. In Flash Studio, assign colors to the model and slice with the prime tower on. When you send the job, map each slicer color to the matching toolhead. The printer swaps whole toolheads instead of unloading and reloading filament, so there’s no long purge between colors. ...

MizuMakes may earn a commission from links in this post. My Bambu P1S has been the workhorse of this shop for well over 1,000 hours, and it isn’t going anywhere. But the kind of parts I print has been drifting. Less PLA, more ASA and carbon-fiber nylon, and more prints where I want two materials in the same part. That’s where the P1S and its AMS start to fight me, so I went shopping for a second printer. ...