The Prusa Core One+ INDX, A Troubled Multi-Extruder Improve?

The Prusa Core One+ INDX is an fascinating improve to the bottom FDM printer by Prusa, that includes eight impartial extruders – therefore the INDX – that in principle ought to enable for multi-material and multi-color printing with little or no purge waste. As [Thomas Sanladerer] discovered throughout his experiences with this printer, there are a lot of issues with this machine, together with the flexibility – or lack thereof – to print with non-Prusa filament.

Although the premise is stable, with a claimed 0.013 grams of purge waste per colour or materials change together with fairly good dual-gear Bondtech extruders, the primary main hurdle that [Thomas] encountered was that the necessary calibration sequence on beginning a print is designed to solely work with Prusa’s personal filament and its particular materials properties. This resulted in an lack of ability to print with Voxel PLA till [Thomas] eliminated this sequence manually from the g-code.

This is when [Thomas] discovered that the complete print sequence makes use of the fabric presets for Prusa’s filament, leading to a failed print. The outcomes from the handbook calibration are additionally not saved regardless of the show claiming it does, making this calibration on beginning a print completely necessary.

Other points discovered are the ineffective place of the digicam because it’s now blocked-off by the INDX {hardware}, with even handbook peeking into the print chamber being closely obscured by the contraption that holds the extruders. This makes even checking that filament has loaded accurately is borderline not possible, by no means thoughts ogling the printing course of.

Although there’s lots to love about this INDX improve to the Core One+, the above and different points mentioned within the video make it look considerably shaky subsequent to rivals just like the Bambu Lab H2C and Snapmaker U1, in addition to Prusa’s personal XL toolchanger printers. During [Thomas]’s print take a look at comparability between the XL and the Core One+ INDX there was no contest that the XL merely works, whereas the INDX even struggles with some Prusa filaments.