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Wow. I admit: multicolor prints kind of make me angry with some kind of irrational insecure jealousy.
The funny part is that I don't really ever find myself wanting multi-color prints, I just hate that they look so good and I can't do them.
But these are admittedly cool.
Watch some videos on hueforge. The layers are different colors so you can pause and manually change filament for each color.
You don't need a "multicolor" 3D printer for this. You just do manual filament swaps at specific layers. As many as you have filament colors - unlike a multi color machine that might have to swap hundreds or thousands of times, hueforge works on entire layers at once, so generally you're only going to be swapping colors 3, 4, maybe 5x...
You might as well tell me to whittle this out of birch and paint it.
I didn't get into this hobby to do things like "swapping filaments". 🤮 (kidding)
I feel the same. I have a hard enough time justifying the printers I have, let alone spending to get multi colour support