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Originally Posted by photon
But be aware that multi colour printing can generate a lot of waste.. like more waste than the actual print in some cases.
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Thanks, guys. I dug more deeply on this one in particular and didn't realize the difference. Like 10-20x the material and print time according to this video.
Time is most important to me for fun use and trying to get kids to share, so I think I'm going to go with the A1 Mini. If they get super into it I'll upgrade in the future.
edit: After thinking about it more, this video is an extreme example of the waste issue. Because the nemo fish has its colors stripes in the vertical direction, there are tonnnnes of color changes every layer so lots of waste. If, in theory, he could have built it standing on its nose there would be way fewer changes and fewer waste issues. General googling seems to suggest its still a lot (1-2x?)