Bambu, Prusa, and Creality are the usual household names in the 3D printing world, but there's no shortage of alternative makers trying to upset the status quo. Anycubic just announced the Kobra X, an affordable multi-filament, multi-material 3D printer that the company claims can print twice as fast while spending half the material of its competitors — all for just $259 for early birds who preorder the machine.
The Kobra X's main claim to fame is its purge reduction system. By reducing the distance between the cutter and the nozzle by half and bringing the retraction distance down from 160mm to 30mm (compared to the extant Kobra 3 v2), the system can theoretically print two to three times as fast and with just half the material. This comes by way of the head spending far less time "pooping" and more time printing.
