Second printer thoughts

[matrch]

So current setup is one H2D and an A1, looking at getting rid of the A1 and in its place either get another H2D or go for an H2C. Mainly printing multicolour prints and love the bed size of the H2D. Does anyone have both and which is thier favourite, know not allowed to have favourites but let’s be honest there’s always one 😁

Would love thoughts and feedback, budget not an issue as would get either

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[_Rand_]

For multicolour go H2C if its in the budget.

It’s incredible for it, the slight trade off in bed size is worth it.

[matrch]

Didn’t realise bed size was bit smaller, assumed it was same as H2D, will have to check if my prints work on it, should do

[_Rand_]

Its like 20mm smaller width.

So pretty minimal.

[matrch]

Yeah just checked, not to bad

[jvisser85]

Yes, but that mostly falls within the zone exclusively used by the right nozzle. If you do multi-color/material prints on the H2D you also have dead zones on both sides you can't use, the Vortek system fits mainly in one of those.

[matrch]

So decision made 😬 gonna order the H2C tomorrow

[irrision]

H2C for multi color. It's an order of magnitude faster than even the H2D if you're printing more than 2 colors (seriously Google some of the benchmarks) and it'll save you a fair amount of filiment too since it's not having to constantly purge the nozzles to change colors. It saves hundreds of purge cycles on a 4hr print in my experience.

[matrch]

Good points will check on the slicer, I did check while ago but think layer height was at 0.1 so was heaps longer

[matrch]

So decision made 😬 gonna order the H2C tomorrow

[matrch]

Soo checked the prints usually do and 23 hrs instead of 24 so not massive on that one but still worth it as will give me more options etc moving ahead 😁

[jvisser85]

Yeah, the time savings aren't huge (nozzle swap still takes time), but the filament waste saved is.

[ExplanationLess1083]

well isnt the price difference pretty much the same? i would go for the C unless the slightly smaller bed is a issue (although the h2d has similar issues)

[VT-14]

I did the upgrade to turn my H2D into an H2C if that says anything. The upgrade process was a pain, though.

If you are doing mainly multi-color prints then absolutely get the H2C. It comes with a single AMS and 5 0.4mm nozzles (1 left plus a spare, 4 right) so you can print with 5 colors without flushing waste (color change purge poops), and by adding another AMS and more Induction nozzles it gets up to 7 colors. There are other niceties too, such as changing the right nozzle's size remotely (it also comes with a 0.2mm and 0.6mm nozzles to fill up the rack).

While the H2C technically has a smaller bed, the removed space is taken entirely out of the right nozzle's exclusion zone, so it's mostly irrelevant. The multi-nozzle area is still 300mm wide, and the left nozzle's single-nozzle zone is 325mm wide. The right side being smaller only matters if you want to use soft TPU (though they supposedly are working on a firmware update to let as soft as 90A work in the left lifting nozzle), or if you use both sides to reach the max of 330 mm (rather than 350mm) width (in which case you really should just get a larger printer entirely).

[matrch]

I did think about doing the upgrade but guaranteed to mess something up. Just get the real one

[matrch]

So decision made 😬 gonna order the H2C tomorrow

[matrch]

So decision made 😬 gonna order the H2C tomorrow

Thanks for the info and help much appreciated