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I'm looking for a multi-material printer that can also handle TPU.

AFAIK are most multi-material systems not made for TPU, so printers like the BambuLab P1S with AMS or Anycubic Kobra with the ACE Pro won't work (I would like to have a printer where I can just load TPU without disconnecting anything. And I know BambuLab has a TPU for AMS, but 40€ for 1kg is a little much).

The only printers for hobbyist that really support it are the Prusa XL or BambuLab H2D, or did I miss any?

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[–] Bluewing@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The only other one I know of, outside of a dual exturder Voron, is the Qidi I-Fast IDEX printer. It's expensive, somewhat over $1000, but it has a lot of goodies too. 350C extruder, heat chamber, and a decent sized build volume to print just about any engineering filament.

[–] 31ank@ani.social 1 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Thanks, didn't knew about the Qidi. And even thou its 1k€/$, its still a half the price of the BambuLab or Prusa!

[–] Postmortal_Pop@lemmy.world 1 points 19 hours ago

I'll second qidi, I got my x-pro back in 2018 and it came with instructions on tpu before you could reliably get tpu filament. My box has been printing like a dream ever since and they've even helped me do a bunch of custom mods. Last time the provided full spec measurements for thee extruder head to me, before they they provided custom cura specs for a machine modified with my custom kit to help troubleshoot an issue I was having. Literally, they modded their own machine with my files to help me out.

Best company I've ever worked with.