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Hot on the heels of the H2S, Bambu Lab announces the seven-color, wireless nozzle-swapping Vortek H2C
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this post was submitted on 31 Aug 2025
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Prusa costs more for a reason. They are built in the EU, which is frankly a far more expensive place to manufacture anything compared to China. But, Prusa will also support your printer for longer than anyone else will support their printers. And Bambu and all the rest of the China made printers still lag behind in customer service. Customer service is very expensive to offer. While Bambu's service is better than the rest of the Chinese made machines, that's a low bar indeed.
I have an A1 Mini combo. My opinion about Bambu is: Good hardware, as good as anyone else's. Not so good software/firmware-- they need a lot better software engineers for sure, CS is getting more and more spotty, and everyone pretty much agrees-- questionable business practices.
I'm not trying to talk into buying one or not. Just giving you my personal experience with my one Bambu printer and one Prusa printer.
It's a hard decision to make, so thank you. I wish the Core had a few more features, I really like some of the stuff that Bambu does re print quality, all the calibration, the lidar, spagetti detection etc, but Bambu slicer is ass and Orca really isn't much better. I'm in decision paralysis on this one. I'm at the point where I don't want a hobby, I just want a printer.
It is hard to decide. But at some point you need to pays your money and takes your chances. No any one machine is the perfect design. They all have faults. So, perhaps you might want to consider which faults you are willing to live with and which ones you can't live with.