Most of the multi color printers out there are AMS/MMU or similar, and there are many DIY options, like Armored Turtle or ECF.
They are an evolutionary dead end. Slow, wasteful, expensive to run.
The Prusa XL, or the Snapmaker U1 are the future direction.
Also a good CoreXY machine like vorons/sovols/ratrigs/VZ, etc can be upgraded with the Bondtech INDX tool changer.
We are talking 5x lower print times, 5x lower material costs.
There is going to be a glut of used Bambus and other multi material unit printers, when print farms unload them, since the tool changers will massively boost their bottom line.
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There is little reason to abandon a perfectly good older machine that still works just fine all because a newer technology shows up. That’s wasteful of money and material in itself.
I doubt there will be a glut of used Bambu printers being dumped by print farms either. They will continue to use those “old and obsolete” printers until they wear out enough to be replaced at the scheduled time. At which point it could very well make sense to swap them out with better tech. As long as that tech works first time, every time-- which hasn’t been demonstrated yet. It’s one of the major reason many print farms use Bambu printers and not Vorons or Crealty printers.