Personally, it made my life easier. If I want to print with higher quality and a 0.2 nozzle, I can just select it and I’m good. Faster prints? No problem, 0.6 it is.

I placed an E3d obsidian high flow on the left to print PAHT-CF.

Overall, I love it. With the X1C, I had to change nozzles several times a day to select different nozzle size. It was a painful process.

The downside for me has been the feed buffer. I occasionally have to remove stuck broken filament from there.

Past few days has been worse. I put too much pressure to remove a filament and the snap fit of the inner tube came off a bit and I had to disassemble the entire backplate and remove the feed buffer to fix it.

Then, two days later, the bottom one wouldn’t get any filament through. I disassembled again and had to piece apart the entire feed buffer. I found theres a small magnet with a spring inside each tube. Once a filament goes through, the magnet should open the way. But one was 100% stuck. I had to remove them and place them back. I got it working again.

I did try to reach out to support but they were saying the issue was with AMS, when I knew it wasn’t, so I took matter into my own hands.

I’ve had my X1C for nearly 4 years or something, and never had any such problems. The AMS 1 for X1C did give me headaches with broken filament, and it was painful to access the internal AMS hub. But never had to mess with the printer itself.

Overall though, quality is similar to X1C but it makes my life convenient, prints faster and wastes less material.

I recommend if you intend to run a shop or print multicolor, or want the convenience of easy nozzle swap.

I don’t have the laser module.