Review Bambu Lab H2D Review: For Elite Crafters

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Bambu Lab’s H2D is a premium 3D printer for the high-end maker who wants it all.

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[albatross83]

$1,900 seems like a good starting point, but $1,600 more for the 40W laser seems excessive. You can get an entire 40W cutter/engraver for about $500, so this seems ripe for DIY or third-party mods.

 

[Ful4n1t0c0sme]

Beautiful for the hobbyist. Useless for those who work making prints.
Because volume is what makes the difference. And with the price of one of these printers, you could buy about 10 cheap Creality printers.
10 slow printers running at the same time produce much more than just one of these printers.
In other words, beautiful, but useless.

 

[Heiro78]

This review just stinks of paid, sponsored, bought off. If not, it is naive on the part of the reviewer to give this a five-star rating and all while the true veterans in the 3D printing community who actually understand kinematics (see Voron) are laughing their heads off. For those of us who actually bothered to fire up the new version of Bambu Studio and compare print times between printers, the H2D is significantly slower in printing a benchy compared to the original X1-Carbon. The 8000 mm/s^2 acceleration for normal printing is a miserable excuse compared to the X1-Carbon competitors that are larger and faster. Never mind Magneto X that actually is as large as a barge and pushes the envelope of FDM/FFF acceleration within that volume. A class-leading flagship H2D is not: it very much embodies "jack of all trades, master of none" while making concessions in performance to accommodate a boatload of features to try to monetize off normie ignorance. So once you have the new toy syndrome wear off, H2D is a grossly overpriced, middling performing, dual-nozzled system that has lame laser aspirations. Creality K2 Plus is looking really good right about now: larger and faster, actually focusing on *gasp* being a 3D printer, not some maker monstrosity with an identity crisis. Bambu Lab, you guys are a joke! Enjoy the barrage of returns when people realize the real-world speeds and feeds are worse than your original flagship. XTool has nothing to worry about either as their loyal influencers are thoroughly underwhelmed.

This was a difficult read. Separate things into paragraphs. Your displeasure comes out clear to the point where it's hate instead of regular criticism

 

[USAFRet]

This review just stinks of paid, sponsored, bought off. If not, it is naive on the part of the reviewer to give this a five-star rating and all while the true veterans in the 3D printing community who actually understand kinematics (see Voron) are laughing their heads off. For those of us who actually bothered to fire up the new version of Bambu Studio and compare print times between printers, the H2D is significantly slower in printing a benchy compared to the original X1-Carbon. The 8000 mm/s^2 acceleration for normal printing is a miserable excuse compared to the X1-Carbon competitors that are larger and faster. Never mind Magneto X that actually is as large as a barge and pushes the envelope of FDM/FFF acceleration within that volume. A class-leading flagship H2D is not: it very much embodies "jack of all trades, master of none" while making concessions in performance to accommodate a boatload of features to try to monetize off normie ignorance. So once you have the new toy syndrome wear off, H2D is a grossly overpriced, middling performing, dual-nozzled system that has lame laser aspirations. Creality K2 Plus is looking really good right about now: larger and faster, actually focusing on *gasp* being a 3D printer, not some maker monstrosity with an identity crisis. Bambu Lab, you guys are a joke! Enjoy the barrage of returns when people realize the real-world speeds and feeds are worse than your original flagship. XTool has nothing to worry about either as their loyal influencers are thoroughly underwhelmed.

I have a Bambu X1C. I love it.
I also have an Ender 3 S1 Pro, and Ender 3 Max.

Going to a couple of recent sidewalk fair things, asking sellers what printers they use.

Bambu A1
Bambu A1
Bambu X1C

These were people actually selling printed items.

 

[Crazyy8]

Being able to print a shoe is neat, I guess, though the process of using Bambu's proprietary AMS TPU is pretty tedious. Increase in build plate size is also neat, though I wish Bambu would release a large build plate printer for a lower price. I semi regret buying the A1 Mini due to it's small built plate, and I regret not buying the AMS combo even further.

 

[jp7189]

Is there a difference between the 10w and 40w laser combo (other than the laser itself)? Additional safety features, dark glass, etc.? It seems like no, but then why is the price so much more expensive?

I'm an x1c user, and love it, but want more volume. I've often looked at laser units and while there are a few things I would love to do, couldn't justify the cost or space on the work bench. The h2d hits me right between the eyes... except for that price jump from 10 to 40 watts.

 

[Heiro78]

Is there a difference between the 10w and 40w laser combo (other than the laser itself)? Additional safety features, dark glass, etc.? It seems like no, but then why is the price so much more expensive?

I'm an x1c user, and love it, but want more volume. I've often looked at laser units and while there are a few things I would love to do, couldn't justify the cost or space on the work bench. The h2d hits me right between the eyes... except for that price jump from 10 to 40 watts.

What things would you use the laser cutter for?

 

[jp7189]

What things would you use the laser cutter for?

I think it would be great to engrave on all sorts of things wood, glass, metal, acrylic. It would be useful if I could do custom engraved pens. Is it possible to engrave on an egg shell? Also, I could come up with lots of uses for thick raised wooden lettering, custom wooden puzzles, etc. Wooden inlays would be awesome too. I've never been precise enough with hand tools to make something I would display.

When I got my first 3d printer (10+ years ago), I had some vague ideas, now everything is an excuse to design and print a solution. I would guess having an engraver and cutter would be similar.

 

[Heiro78]

When I got my first 3d printer (10+ years ago), I had some vague ideas, now everything is an excuse to design and print a solution. I would guess having an engraver and cutter would be similar.

lol that's awesome. Seeing the laser version of the H2D, I didn't even know there were consumer versions of them. So I was just curious what people use them for.