They're just trying to protect their ass from when somebody 3D prints a gun and goes out and kills somebody the state considers "important"
(ie; not you.)
this post was submitted on 12 May 2026
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My Voron 2.4 doesn't seem to care about clouds, what slicer I use, filament brand, etc. It just works.
oh no the thing that everyone said would happen happened? who could have foreseen this?!
Certainly not everyone who said this would happen!
I think Louis Rossman is going after them
For what end, if he succeeds they'll just remove it from the market.
If by "it" you mean the printer, not at easy move imo
Not quite yet. He’s basically said he’s ready to back a legal challenge to it.
Louis is encouraging someone to keep doing what they’re doing despite Bambu sending someone a cease and desist and Louis will provide some funding for legal support if Bambu keeps pushing. But there isn’t anything going directly after them yet.
He just uploaded orcaslicer to the FULU GitHub and invited Bambu to sue him instead… I’m ordering popcorn in bulk for this one 🍿
You're right. Maybe it better in general to let other people fight while he supports, this way more people learn to fight back.
He’s calling for donations in order to fight them
When did he do that? Last time I remember there was no link
The former poster was incorrect in saying he was asking for donations (he was asking for people to say they would donate, if the need were to arise)
However, a few hours ago, he uploaded a followup video stating he has uploaded the code in question himself, and is inviting Bambu Labs to challenge him legally. In the video he did mention where donations could be made but I don't recall him specifically asking for donations for this particular cause.
Splitting hairs here imo. His 2nd video was baller
Glad I got a prusa
Knew it at the start and know it again now, that it was the right decision.
“Felony contempt of business model”
I bought an x1c in 2023 as I was getting into printing, but I've pretty much stopped buying anything from Bambu. I get my filament 3rd party, I dont care about the rfid tags and their system doesn't deserve my money anymore, and I'm already stocked on consumables for the next 1500hrs of run time on my printer.
I have never bought Bambu filament. There’s a far wider array of types and colors available to print with online, cheaper, than Bambu’s offerings. It only takes a few minutes to calibrate and save the settings for a 3rd party filament. The only thing it should be necessary to buy from Bambu is replacement parts.
The bulk deals at Bambu were pretty inline price wise with china filament- I was getting it under $14 a kilo. and I do like their refillable spools reducing overall waste and taking up way less storage space in my cabinet. But yeah none of that's worth it at this point, and their bulk deals are all mostly gone.
Always have been.
Damn, I naively bought an A1 a few months ago for my first 3d printer. "Easy for beginners" was really all I knew about them at the time
I have an A1 too, and when the news came out that third-party slicers (like OrcaSlicer, which I was and still am using) were going to be blocked, I set my printer to LAN only mode. I wouldn't recommend a Bambu to newbies to 3D printing anymore, but I'm stuck with mine and it has been printing ok. Like any printer, it struggles with overhangs and such, it's not always a magic "it just works" experience".
Bambu Lab printers to me are for the people who don't care about tinkering on their printer as a hobby, and just want to print things without fuss. Stay in their Apple-like ecosystem and their cloud environment and you'll be perfectly happy. If you want the printer itself to be the hobby, there are a number of similar spec devices that with some tinkering can work just as well.
What are my options if I don't want the printer itself to be the hobby, and I just want to print without fuss, but I also don't want to deal with all that vertical integration crap?
Well, the most open you can get is Prusa's machines. Repairable, upgradeable, with great customer service to boot.
Other companies are more open than Bambu but few support the open-source movement like Prusa. Qidi, Elegoo, etc. all have great printers that I can recommend (Q2 and Centauri Carbon are fantastic options based on feature set) but they don't use a very open firmware. They are compatible with OrcaSlicer and aren't as bad as Bambu though.
You're also giving money to a company that has completely screwed all the people who made 3d printing possible by a culture of open sharing.
They are... My daughter wanted one for Christmas last year because she's into cosply and it works great out of the box for someone who has no idea about 3d printing....
But from what I've read on here it's not the best company because of all the proprietary shit they keep coming up with.
For what daughter uses it for, it does the job and does it well...