3D Printing Filament

7 months ago
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Refilling printers

Use the material which is stored on the shelves in the Print Hive to refill the printers. If the material has run out for a particular colour, take an entire stack of 5 rolls from the overflow cupboard in the Electronics & Craft area to the Print Hive to replenish the stores.

Bambu Lab Printers

The Bambu Lab printers use Bambu PLA filament in 1kg, 1.75mm diameter rolls.

The Bambu Lab filament has an RFID tag inside which allows the printer to automatically detect the filament that is being inserted into the AMS.

Bambu Lab filament is bought from Additive-X, a University approved supplier. Sometimes the Bambu Lab shop has a sale, in which case it is worth placing a credit card order with them as the savings can be considerable.

We keep the following colours in stock as standard:

  • Black
  • White
  • Yellow
  • Orange
  • Red
  • Cyan
  • Mistletoe Green
  • Grey
  • Blue-Grey
  • Beige
  • Chocolate Brown

We also stock non-standard materials which can be loaded into the “weird materials printer”. These include:

  • PETG
  • Aero-PLA in white
  • ASA in white
  • ABS in white and black
  • Polycarbonate in white