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0 pointssho_hn26d ago0 comments

From what I've seen in the blog post, this is underselling it a bit. They did improve on the color mixing model, and they're launching filaments to match to make it an end-to-end product.

No this isn't rocket science, and there's definitely a vibrant FOSS community actually pioneering this and that is probably the best place to be on the true frontier, but there is productization effort here. Considering people always advocate for Bambu for "making it easy to buy", Prusa also deserves credit when they try. They certainly get knocked when they don't.

As someone deeply embedded into the FOSS community myself, it's sometimes really annoying when we sabotage the better players. It only helps the worse ones.

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MBCook26d ago

Well said. They’re also sharing everything!

PrusaSlicer is used as a base by some others, they’ll get this.

Version 3 is coming soon, they’ve promised good things. I’m curious what shows up.

They also open sourced their color mixing model so if people think it’s better they can switch. And they’re using and adding their stuff to the open print tag database they’ve already cooperated with others on.

This seems like all upside to the community to me.

Aurornis26d ago

> They did improve on the color mixing model, and they're launching filaments to match to make it an end-to-end product.

For what it's worth, CMY filament bundles have been available forever and they're well characterized for use with HueForge there are open databases with measured color and TD values. It's great that Prusa is launching their own bundle with their own measurements. I'm just trying to point out that this all exists and has existed for a long time, and there are multiple resources available for it.

> As someone deeply embedded into the FOSS community myself, it's sometimes really annoying when we sabotage the better players

Not trying to sabotage anyone, just trying to help the community with some more information.

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