Original Prusa i3 MK2 Multi Material upgrade release - dual/quad extrusion
2016 ж. 27 Қыр.
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Original Prusa i3 MK2 Multi Material is the first consumer option available to print with up to 4 different materials or colors simultaneously. The use of up to 4 material feeders with only one hotend makes the solution calibration free and much easier to use than currently available systems with dual or quad extruders. Check out the article for more info - prusaprinters.org/original-pru...
So, not only does Josef and his team give us the best printer of all time, they then manage to improve on perfection. Thats simply showing off :-) This looks amazing, I will be keeping a very close eye on it for sure. Now we all know what's gonna be at the top of our Christmas list :-)
it's a reprap oh dear
Yes, that produces some of the best prints out there. Your point?
He doesn't have one
This is awesome, please take my money!
Hope you're planning to show us all about it Joel?
have you made a video about it? love your videos btw ! :D
Joel, have you got this yet? I'd love to see a review. I'm hoping to get the i3 MK3 early next year.
If there was any doubt of getting this printer or any other model, that doubt is gone now... Very impressive @Josef Prusa. Congratulations !!!
This is beautiful. I have an off-brand Prusa i3, added in a duel extruder setup, and all of those disadvantages are true. This seems like an elegant solution to multi-material printing. I would love to see one in action myself!
Keep the improvements coming Joe! Competitors and clones will have to work hard to catch up. Congrats on your upcoming new additions to an already great machine.
So glad I got an MK2. Great Stuff Josef! Looking forward to this.
This is crazy. I'm so happy I spent the money on this printer. My birthday is in November to. I will definitely be dropping hints that I need this in my life. Well done Prusa and team!
I'm already in love with my MK2 which I haven't even got in the mail yet. And now I'm twice as in-love with it. I wish you all the very best at developing these new printer ideas. No-matter where all the ideas originate, I'm super happy to see them all mesh together into functional incredible printers. I like how this is coming together, and WOW very pretty video presentation! I feel like a mega-billion dollar corporation like Ford has made this video, it's so fun to watch. Good stuff Josef and crew.
This is so awesome! Congrats Josef and the Prusa team!
The i3 MK2 kit that was available yesterday is already on backorder today! I'm sure with this cool upgrade you're having a lot of new orders coming :) I couldn't resist anymore, as said in another comment you made the best printer of all time (at this price point) even better with this upgrade. I just ordered. Take my money. And continue to be amazing!
Brilliant Idea. Josef and his team did it again. I am glad that I got the MK2 kit. Love it.
Amazing how far you have come with the mmu2s now!
The purge tower is an added disadvantage, why not just put it on the inside of the part that no one will see unless they cut your part in half?
That's actually a pretty cool idea, just need to have software that can calculate the minimum infill percentage needed to clear the nozzle so that it can fully clear it while only printing infill. Not only would it decrease the amount of filament used, it would also save time as the head wouldn't have to move back and forth so much.
good idea but it may be bad for small items or things that need to be weighted in a specific way.
of course, for such models we can still use the waste tower. In the end, I can imagine some prints would have to use a combination of infilling and the tower. It sounds as a fun programming/computing project.
Or use it with a second rainbowcolor print besides the orginal print
I have *a lot* of respect for you and your team! Absolutely fantastic! Not really one for dual colour, dual material is more of an interest to me. If I do go dual, I'm going with your design. Incredible as always :)
On The wish list..The MK2 arrives sometime next month..I am beside myself...Congrats Josef...I had no expectations of things getting this advanced so fast..Quad 4 Sure.
Wow.... just read an article last week that this ability was failing.... now it's working.... that was fast. Nice job Mr. Prusa!
i will really enjoy to test this, this is awesome ! Congrats :)
the wishlist is getting shorter and shorter! You Sir are AWESOME!
I think that was a mike drop! Very impressive!
Damn, I just cant wait to receive my mk2 I've ordered yesterday!
Awesome so happy to have ordered a I3mk2 yesterday
This would be awesome if rather than doing that cube at the back to change the colour and wasting filament, you could load in a 2nd smaller model that the printer prints when changing filament, it wouldn't need to be perfect but it would let you use the scrap to make a rainbow 2ndry print :D
I think that can be done now!
wow you've come so far since this.
Ok josef. That's enough pioneering for now. Let me just take in what you've already achieved before you show us anymore. Mk2 ordered! Multi-colour on pre-order is next for me. KEEP SETTING THAT STANDARD.
Now thats what im talking about! Awesome! Cant wait to buy this mod!
Im glad its available in the christmas time. I hope Santa knows my new whish ;)
HOLY SHIT! I knew you were hiding something when you said "I don't know what you are talking about" at Angus' Broadcast weeks ago. That's fantastic! Great job to the team :)
I'm getting this ASAP!
amazing, prusa keep up the good work! :)
Great stuff Josef! I'm looking forward to getting my Prusa i3 Mk2 and the multi material upgrade next month! Can you tell me if the multi material upgrade will be able to print Ninjaflex?
that is a great idea. im assuming it would work with ABS in one and PVA in another for support material? or does it all have to be the same material due to temperature and or burning/clogging issues?
Wow, I want one :P This guy made magic!!
Interesting! Moving the idler tension springs into the extruder body is an elegant solution. What slicer support will this ship with?
Superb Josef -Excellent
i love my mk2, and when i ordered 2 instead of one, not knowing it, had no problem selling it in a day in the us
Looking forward to getting my hands on one Josef. Would love it if I could order one right now on Amazon! any plans to use them in future?
this printer looks awesome. thinking about getting one. i have a question about this feature. when printing different materials that require different temperatures will the printer change temps when switching?
Very nice! Can you set size and position of "waste tower"? And density? Because - waste tower (like more heads) waste some space on heatbed, and waste (how much?) some filament too.. But, almost all has some pro and cons - good job!
Great upgrade to a great printer. As has already been asked a few times but never answered, how much extra waste is produced with all the change overs? Instead of a waste tower, could it be set to make a second model using the waste if the proportions were equal?
An excellent solution for solving problems with multi-extrusion. Is there any planned solution for the Prusa printing multimaterials when some of the materials are flexible? I like to print parts with flexible and stiff portions fused together, but it seems that the Bowden setup will only jam with flexible filaments.
Yep think I won't one of your printers joe great stuff.... 👍
awesome Joe does it again :)
This looks amazing. I'm guessing this could be installed on any system? Just requires some extensive configuration changes to firmware, etc?
Awesome design Joe, when you making a larger scale version?
This looks super cool!) I wonder if I can add it to the Anet A8?
I take it I should be able to do PVA and PVC with this? I'm still new to all this but looking forward to coming up to speed. (mine is on order)
The potential for this is awesome! Surely you’re also experimenting with blending colours? You could have cyan, magenta, yellow and black and mix any tone! The motors could just run at speeds based on normal CMYK colour codes! I’m not talking fades, even though that could work too I guess, but the gcode could state a new cmyk value instead of a binary motor selection.
This could sadly not work, because the nozzle would have too have 4 inputs, while currently it is just automated filament loading.
dude is that the MK7 hobbed direct drive thing on your extruders?? i have those and i couldn't get them to grip enough for my switching extruder on my wanhao Di3. went the with gregs geared bowden mod by richard and hobbed my own 8mm bolts with an M6 tap (tried M4 first, didn't grip so well). great job on the printer and the multi-extrusion system! thumbs up as always!
Really great and promising multicolor concept. Is it also possible to mix the colors while extruding? Open source is taking ideas from the community and make it available for everybody.
What I'd love to see is your custom slic3r software have a setting for a custom 'waste tower'. This way, for example, when printing in multi colours from the same type of filament, a 'waste' model could be printed during the nozzle purge. Being able to say 'build me this part' rather than 'build me a tower' and make better use of the purged filament would be nice. Even if the colour banding would be crazy it would be cool to not 'waste' the purged filament. Possible? Would layer adhesion be an issue? Is there ever gaps in the waste tower from under extrusion?
hello mr prusa i have a question about the upgrade because i'm considering purchasing both the mk2s and the upgrade along with it- Wouldn't it waste loads of filament in the corner of the build plate and what happens when the design is too big and the extruded filament in the corner cant fit on the build plate because the design is too big???????
Truly amazing. Is there anywhere one can get more insight of exactly how this work (with the electronics and code)? I do not own an original Prusa (wish i did), but it would be fun to try and mod my machine with this upgrade.
Hi Josef... Is possible to make combinations with two or more colors at the same time, like a mix... to obtain a different color as a result
Very cool. You should make possible to choose what print when cleaning the nozzle. Sure it's not a good print but some times you don't need a good print and it's "free".
Got my MK2 in August, i'm confident printing with it by now... Where can I pre-order it? I want to get the first batch :p
Very simple and innovative :)
Is there still a way to buy only Dual Extrusion? Or even add on stepper motors as desired?
Josef, love what you did with this, but can you make a video for switching the MK2S to the MMU. I will be eternally grateful :)
Amazing, but can u print with different materials or just different colors of the same material?
sold!
What build program will be used to make things on this printer?
do this slicing type hotends have any advantages over mixing hotends ?
Hello, what programm or software does this printer use
I got a Question, could u put a MK2 in a closed box with windows without having any issues with ventilation etc? i am thinking of building something like that when i get my pruse in a few months and install some sort of simple suction mechanism for the vapors.
How consistant is it? How often does the nozzle clog?
Skvělá práce :)
Looks cool, but what when I want to print not just different colors, but different materials. With different temperatures needed?
Can you do a video showing how you configure a 3d model with support structure and a few more examples of multi material printing to show the capabilities a bit more please. 1) How does it handle the temperature changes when switching between different materials? IE PLA and Nylon. 2) There currently seems to be quite a lot of wasted material with all the switching between materials (200g wasted for a 200g model). Is there a setting to fine tune that and reduce the amount of material printed out on each material change? 3) Is the 4 material printing compatible with simplify 3d slicer? 4) You are coming to Birmingham next week for the tradeshow. Would I be able to buy a Prusa i3 MK2s there? This thing does look awesome and I think it may even be possible to mix colors at some point in the future which would be amazing.
That's cool as hell. Shame i couldn't afford one of your printers, but i did order an A8, so maybe i can use it to print a prusa :D
Im trying to upgrade to 3 colors. would this work with ramps 1.4? can i make e0 or e1 stepper control e2 motor as well? is that what the multiplexer option in marlin does?
Wow, this is major league cool!
Can I get access to the 3D models in relation to the Stepper motors? I want to test if it will interfere with some existing mods I've made to my printer.
Now this is handy if one of those four is water soluable support material
If I can get this machine, will it work with my apple iPAD 3d scanner. Or what type of computer will I need to download my 3d pictures off the iPAD scanner. I know nothing much about 3d printing except what I've read or seen here on youtube.....but I'm hooked on trying it......
will this work with flexible filaments? I'm kinda thinking it'll struggle to push ninjaflex in this manner.
One question this system working with the i3 MK3 ?
can I print a complex model with support material like pva ? or can it only print layer by layer ?
I wonder if there is a way to print flexible filament with normal filament? as Bowden and retraction is not good for flexibles.
Will this only work w prusa i3 mk2 or will it work with prusa i3 mk1 too?
Is posible to print about more than the coñor but the kind of material. Petg-carbon-flexible? To make some layers?
next step is to move to CMYK+W blender model of RoVa4D. nice work
Dumb question but would this work with PVA and a colored filament. I like the idea of the water soluble support material the ultimaker is using but this printer is looking like it's going to win out for my home printer
Tony Gore Dissolvable support material will work
Amazing guys!
this is so freaking genius. I think I'm going to sell my Zortrax for an MK2
Does it althoug work if i want to print some different kond of filiament at different temperature?
Can I use PVA support material with this configuration? Instead of a colour
He where can you buy the 5 filament extruder? I can only find the 3 filament extruder.
Prusa, 100% my next machine. Sorry Creality.
Broke a idler during my assembly . No STL files for the idler on the site. Where do I get the STL to print a replacement?
Why not use some of the purged material as infill? I mean certainly move away while unloading and loading, but then use the material which would otherwise be wasted on the tower as infill which wont be seen?
It can be done in this way or maybe it could be possible, I believe it is, to calculate how much it needs to be push in order to have a clean color. Then knowing the speed and volume it can be possible to calculate a time to change filament enough fast before in order to get a desired color at place we wanted.
then you might need another specialized slicer
or you could make a plug in and design your own...
Josef hire this guy please
Mmu 2.0 has the feature to swipe waste into infill.
HEY BROZ - CAN I ACTUALLY STICK AND MK2 IN TO A LATEST BIGGEST PRUSA PRINTERS LIKA i3 300x300x420mm ???
Excellent idea! Esp. on using the teflon tubes + cleaning pad. But why all the stuff with retraction? Wouldn't this be easier to just make 1 nozzle with 4 holes? Your X/Y calibration and Z is going to be easy, after all the nozzle is a solid piece of metal, there isn't much play there ;-) Then the only thing you need to do is to actually "wipe" the off the thin cloth duct-taped somewhere in the corner of the heating bed. If you need details / blueprints - drop me a line. Cheers!
I really like this upgrade, but printing in multiple materials will be longer then other printers because the nozzle temperature needs to change accordingly. Also the "waste" bin created to clean the nozzle seems rather big...? At any case, i like this more then the dual extruders and will probaly also purchase this upgrade later on. I just hope the software won't be a pain to design different prints, i'm quite new.
With multiple filaments backing out so others can advance, there is a risk of breakage of sub-optimal or even any filament. What can be expected during a print job if a piece of filament breaks off part way through the "fork in the road" blocking traffic? Hopefully "Air Printing" will be the worst of it. Regardless, this is still great progress since one should probably not be doing multicolor printing with degraded filament. It is interesting that it was decided to put the "fork in the road" on the print head carriage and not on the frame. The X carriage is heavier that way, but there would be a lot less "backing up" of the filament which is probably bet minimized. It sure is great that good stepper motors are cheap. Otherwise this solution would have been impractical. :-)
I wonder if you could make a nozzle that was wider than normal and had 2 or 4 holes cut in it, then use it with a setup like this. You wouldn't need to waste filament when you switch colors, and yo won't have to deal with the issues you point out with multiple extruders. So it'd combine the best parts of this concept and the multiple extruder one.
Is this compatible with a Wanhao Duplicator i3? I mean, the principles of the printer are similar, I know it could take some work, but can it be made compatible?
Mind blowned!
Damn these guys are good.
Where is this? You took my money in October of last year.
One thing I do not see addressed is print time. How much more time will a simple object take if it uses 4 colors? I imagine that white crown looking object took at least 3x longer to print as it had to change filament colors 4 times each layer. Also, how much extra filament will be wasted to change so much? I see the big green block in the back of the white crown looking object. Is that thing solid plastic? I think these are the hurdles that will make or break this upgrade. Not whether it can print with different materials that require different temps
Hi all! Just spent the last 5 weeks or so, shopping to see see what my first 3D printer will be and came across this.... Beautiful, to say the least! Could anyone direct me to where I would purchase this printer please? I was looking at a Robox, and I really am an absolute amateur when it comes to this, so any advice around be really appreciated!! Thanks to all in advance....