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The Bambu Lab one is probably about as close to "it just works" as it would get. Some people don't like them because they're more proprietary and 3D printing as a lot of open source enthusiast types.. but lots of people just want something that does the thing when you push the button.

I mean strictly speaking ANY FDM printer can print multi colour as long as you can babysit it and manually change out the filament, just a lot easier with a system that can switch the filament for you.

But be aware that multi colour printing can generate a lot of waste.. like more waste than the actual print in some cases.

I think Bambu Labs just introduced a new printer that has multiple hot ends and cuts the waste to almost nothing but that's in their higher end ones that are in the thousand+ range.

In 3D printing world cheaper can often means harder to get something you want which is usually the opposite of kid friendly.. and even the best ones still run into things where you have to figure out why it isn't printing what you want and fix them.. the filament is too humid, or the bed needs to be cleaned, or this particular model needs larger pads for better bed adhesion, or the default generated supports allow too much shake which makes the print fail.. it's a deeep rabbit hole, just be warned. Be prepared to have to learn stuff to help when things don't do what they'd like.

But for simple stuff like just downloading a popular flexible dragon model from the Internet and printing it I think it's hard to go wrong with the A1 mini. I unfortunately don't know anything about Flashforge so can't speak to that one.