Multi-Material

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. For most people choosing between the Bambu Lab AMS vs AMS 2 Pro vs AMS HT, the answer is the AMS 2 Pro: four spools with active drying. Add an AMS HT only if you print materials that need more heat than the 2 Pro can deliver. The original AMS only makes sense if you find it discounted and you print PLA and PETG. Each unit is a feeder, a sealed storage box, and in two cases a dryer. For functional parts, the dryer matters more than the color count. ...

MizuMakes may earn a commission from links in this post. The Bambu Lab H3C is a nine-tool changer. It went on sale November 3, 2026, at $2,499 in the US, and that price includes the AMS 3H filament system. It fixes the biggest problem with the H2C’s hotend swapping, which is the single shared filament path. It does not fully remove purge, and its chamber is no hotter than the Creator 5 Pro’s. For functional multi-material parts, it wins on build volume and tool count, not on purge waste. ...

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. ...

MizuMakes may earn a commission from links in this post. The short version: the Flashforge Creator 5 Pro is a reasonable deal at its current price, but only if you want four dedicated tools and a heated chamber in one box. If you mostly print single-material functional parts, the Bambu P2S Combo is $200 cheaper and probably the better buy. Prices below are US prices as of November 1, 2026. Sales are moving daily, so check the cart before you commit. ...

I don’t need a printer that goes faster. The one I have now is fine on speed. What I keep bumping into is a wall the machine can’t get past no matter how good my profiles are: one nozzle, one melt zone, one material at a time. Every color change is a purge. Mixing a flexible part with a rigid one in the same print is a non-starter. Different nozzle sizes in one job? Forget it. ...

If you’ve been loosely following Bambu Lab news, you already know they’ve been on a tear. In the span of about a year, they released multiple new machines, discontinued their flagship X1 Carbon, and just this week dropped a brand-new printer that undercut everyone’s price expectations. It’s a lot to keep up with — so here’s a breakdown of what’s actually out there right now and what each machine is trying to do. ...