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If you don't mind the closed platform, you can also get the Bambu labs A1 mini + AMS Lite for around that price. From what I've heard, it works really well, albeit a bit wasteful when switching filaments due to the purging it does.
Yeah. I saw those and my SO has suggested it might be a good idea but having done single hotend the purge towers are a massive pain and pretty wasteful and if your filaments are especially different there can be clogs in them.
I mean my previous multi filament printer was single hotend and used a ball bearing apparently to keep the filaments separate while heated and just clogged all the time.
But yeah I have heard good things about Bambu
Yeah for multi-material printing multiple extruders are preferred, but for multi-color printing with the same material type it's just fine with a single extruder. The purging waste is crazy though, completely agree.
My buddy described his X1P with AMS as "the iPhone experience" of 3D printing. You can't control much, but it's a seamless plug'n'play solution without any fuss.
And there’s no easy way to avoid it since you have to replace the melt zone plastic with the new color including traces that will blend together (e.g. white replacing black will have some gray for a bit)
You could use the mixed colour transition for infill, that way it could be used instead of just wasted.