If you’ve ordered an MMU3 like we have, you may have been informed by now that there are further delays to getting the thing finalised to work with the MK4.

pic of the mk4
MMU-less MK4 waiting for some action

I understand this is to do with the extra long nozzlage (made that up) on the Nextruder.

Apparently they have changed the way purge/retract/ramming/whatever happens in the MK4 version compared to the MK3, because of some issues they were having. And apparently that will save material too – cool.

testing samples
Looks like the kind of thing I’d do

Obviously like everyone else, I’m impatient and I want to try the MMU3 out, but I’m not impatient enough to want an unreliable MMU – that would be annoying. The Bambu AMS is, at times, a little tetchy, albeit currently the most reliable system on the market (apparently?) – I am hoping the MMU3 will be able to at least perform as reliably as that, and the reports are that it does, on the MK3.

Anyway – PRUSA absolutely don’t have to compensate users at all for a minor delay but they are issuing $50 vouchers to anyone who has a preorder as of the announcement.

Maybe I’ll put it towards a MK3 so I can try out the MMU sooner 🙂

If you want to read the full announcement it’s here

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