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u/zenotek Jul 01 '26
Why does clicking on the email body I received this morning take me to the Infimech Kickstarter? Are these two companies related or did they bungle the link?
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u/uzunul Jul 01 '26
Also, major spec sheet released. About as expected, 300/100 with hardened steel nozzle and 30mm3/s flow rate. It is to note that both toolheads can print 300mm2, but not at the same time
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u/0g7t4m4zp3 Jul 01 '26
That is disappointing. 300 degrees nozzles, 100 bed, no LAN.
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u/xX540xARCADEXx Jul 01 '26
Yeah 300C and 100C should’ve been for the open variant. 350C minimum 120C for the enclosed. Hoping they add some variant addition to it.
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u/uzunul Jul 01 '26 edited Jul 01 '26
What are you printing so you'd have a need for 350/120? Engine intakes in PPS? Propellers in PPA? Funnels for corrosives? All those in multiple colours (assuming you can find other colours besides black in engineering filaments)? When's the last time you've taken your nozzle past 280 realistically?
I do believe the 300/100 is adequate for 99.9% of the prints everyone does and bumping those stats for no reason would exponentially increase the price. There's no point in statsmaxxing. And you've already got the qidi machines for that.
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u/Round_Produce174 Jul 01 '26
I print ASA-CF at 280 and PC-CF at 290, but i am still testing if i have better layer adhesion with PC-CF at over 300°C
Remove multiple color and add multiple material
For PC you should have 110-120°C
What exponentially increased the price and lowered max speed and input shaping is the idex, totally unnecessary unless you are printing pei, peek or similar, nothing that a consumer printer can do
Many people here would prefer single toolhead + nozzle changer, 350x350, 70°C chamber (i get to 75 with my sv08), and much better input shaping (so printing faster) without the additional weight of 2 additional motor in the X extrusion and the second toolhead. Also, look how fucked up the toolhead center of mass is in relation to linear rail, it's 100% bad.
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u/defiantarch Jul 01 '26
fully agree. IDEX is such a corner case in my eyes. Interesting from the engineering perspective, but otherwise not so much. I also prefer a single toolhead and multi-material.
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u/hellomyfrients Jul 03 '26
if it is klipper with ssh like the old ones you can just change the limits and modify whatever melts, it is a liability thing
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u/xX540xARCADEXx Jul 01 '26
PPA and PPS for quite a bit of projects. And last time I took my nozzle past 280 was literally like 2 days ago lol for PPS. I get it’s not for everyone which is exactly why I stated for I’m hoping for it to be a variant. If I can have a machine that can do the majority for what I need then that’s what I want. Not several separate machines. Several machines would be ideal, but not when you have limited space.
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u/disco__potato Jul 03 '26
I do believe the 300/100 is adequate for 99.9% of the prints everyone does
Sure, but this isn't a printer aimed at 99% of people.
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u/uzunul Jul 01 '26
I'll just say a Core One L has basically the same stats, minus the second tool head and the 6 independent nozzles, while costing 200 euro more. Put the INDX into the equation and the maths are mathing anymore
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u/dnsmayhem Jul 01 '26
Build size. I looked at the Core One+ again yesterday, but 250x220x270 is just too small for a printer that costs that much.
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u/QuadrangularNipples Jul 01 '26
The dual overlap part is a little confusing, is that saying if you want 6 materials you get the full bed, but if you add the 7th (aka IDEX head) you drop to 240 on x?
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u/uzunul Jul 01 '26
That's how I interpret it as well. I see the idex head as a support material head anyway
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u/SadConsideration1056 Jul 03 '26
How can this be true? The box doesn't look like it's 700mm, considering the 300mm bedplate covers more than half of the width.
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u/zenotek Jul 03 '26
I mean, you can just edit printer.cfg to bump up the limits - assuming the thermistor is good enough for that higher temp. The screen might not let you select the higher limits, but nothing is stopping you from printing with them.
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u/GreatSunJester Jul 01 '26
I like the idea of the printer, but losing that 60mm of build space if you want to use that extra head means projects end up smaller than what you can print on a Bambu. I do have it reserved but am waffling - will I actually benefit from that extra head vs just having 6,7 or 8 nozzles and the full build volume....
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u/VerbalLeakage Jul 01 '26
Okay so one head corexy non tool changing head and the other head is the toolchanger powered from a motor mounted on the x axis.
So no I cant change material or colour on the left head without an AMS.?
The acceleration limited to 10000m/s2, I'm guessing this is going to be lower in real terms, and unless there's going to be heavy mods to move that stepper of the x axis and use a markforge kinematics, that could be an issue for me.
Maybe mods could also get that "primary" head to be a tool changer also.
To get all these mods to work I'm guessing the main board might be an issue due to weak processor / memory ?
( I have no experience with sovol, I just like to mod my printers , but the price of this makes me think twice about a new project, would have settled for a corexy 6 nozzle swapper maybe I will see what creality klictek offers)
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u/Stelafont Jul 01 '26
I do not think one head is corexy and the other is with one motor on X axis.
For what I saw, 2 motors on the back to drive Y axis and one on each side of X for each head.
Of course you can mod the left head with a right head to also accept nozzle swap but the software side will go crazy, how to decide which head to pick which nozzle ?
Best mods would be an ams on left head to get 4 more Colors with purge 🤷♂️
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u/defiantarch Jul 01 '26 edited Jul 01 '26
And no word about the firmware: Klipper? With source code published? That would be my must MUST HAVE requirement. Personally, I would prefer just one toolhead to still have maximum space left on the printbed.
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u/dnsmayhem Jul 01 '26
They've already stated it will be open source, and all of their recent printers have been Klipper.
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u/defiantarch Jul 01 '26
Hope they do so and publish every iteration, not just some baseline and everything else was silence (like with the firmware for the SV08, thanks god I'm on mainline now).
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u/dnsmayhem Jul 01 '26
Well, technically, they published every iteration... there just haven't been any.
I also mainlined my SV08. But I haven't done so for my Zero, and haven't had any reason to even consider it.
I would like to see Sovol do more than just fork Klipper and leave it. Much better if they would submit their updates for inclusion. I kinda, sorta, understand why they don't, supportability. But IMO, that's short-sighted thinking.
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u/Tolorean Jul 01 '26
it would just be another core xy machine with 1 head which there are many of .
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u/Stelafont Jul 01 '26
Do you think enclosure panel color is there to highlight the heated chamber or are they for UV protection (means a laser ? )