Bambu Lab Blog

Bambu Carbon Fiber Filaments

We hope to lower the bar to allow more people to experience 3D printing with carbon fiber and we hope Bambu filaments will be your first choice.

Let the arms race begin

The Beginning of a New Era First of all, I want to congratulate Prusa wholeheartedly for beginning to ship the long-awaited XL and for the MK3's successor, the MK4. No one understands better than us the difficulty of taking a brand-new design from concept to mass production, especially considering the

Introducing Bambu Lab P1P Design Contest

We are very happy to announce that we have partnered up with Thangs 3D to host a design contest which could win you a brand new Bambu Lab P1P 3D printer! All you have to do? Design or remix a BambuLab P1P Enclosure or accessory! Remix existing modplates, create new

Quality Assurance and Operations Update

We apologize for the lack of updates, and we fully understand that one is overdue. In the background, a lot has been going on to step up our customer support workforce, but we still kept our ears to the ground and took note of all your feedback shared on social

P1P Firmware And Customer Support Update

New P1P Firmware hotfix and BambuStudio release A hotfix for the P1P firmware along with BambuStudio v1.4.2 has been released. We’d like to thank everyone for their valued feedback in helping us improve the firmware. Some of the features you can expect with this firmware release include

Thermal Runaway?

There has been discussion online after Nero3D performed some tests in his recent livestream about the way Thermal Protection works on our printers. We thank him for the detailed testing, but we believe that there has been some misunderstanding on this matter. 1. There is thermal runaway protection in the

Christmas Gifts from Bambu Lab

The season of giving is upon us, so we felt it would be appropriate for us to partake in this tradition, and give our customers something to look forward to this season in the form of two gifts. We will be releasing a major software update that will contain a

AGPL compliance of Bambu Studio

We'd like to address Roy Sigurd's claim, recently posted on his blog, which alleges that Bambu Lab, through its slicer Bambu Studio, failed to release the source code belonging to a plugin used in Bambu Studio which communicates with Bambu Cloud Service, and therefore not abiding by AGPL license. We

Answering network security concerns for our printers

First of all, I would like to thank Roy Sigurd for his blog post about our network security. It is a wake-up call for the whole team here in Bambu Lab.  In his detailed blog, many network security risks and concerns were raised. We read the blog on the day

P1P preorders opening on Black Friday

We have been very happy with all the feedback shared with us throughout all this week about our upcoming new printer, the P1P 3D printer. We are now convinced that this new addition to our range of 3D printers will enable us to make more makers' dreams come true. For

Company News

Welcome, P1P !

We, at Bambu Lab, think that 3D printing can change the world for the better. Thanks to 3D printing, You can kick-off projects that are not big enough to make tooling feasible. You can repair things instead of throwing them out, you can lower the inventory by manufacturing goods on

Shipping update. Will you be able to print Christmas decorations ?

It is no surprise to any of you that the holiday season is a very busy period for manufacturers of consumer goods and for logistics. However, we also know that this is an important time for you and your family. A time when you want to offer gifts that you

Company News

Bambu Lab Named amongst “The Best Inventions of 2022” by TIME

Nov 11, 2022 TIME has recognized Bambu Lab X1 Series,  the AI-powered 3D printer, by featuring us on their annual list of “THE BEST INVENTIONS OF 2022”. TIME editors highlighted the most impactful new products and ideas, and honored the Bambu Lab X1 Series of 3D printers in the year’

Company News

Shipping 6000 state-of-the-art 3D printers around the world. Check. Next ?

It's been six months since our first public Hello World message. One month later, we launched our Kickstarter campaign and the whole world discovered the 3D printer we have been working on relentlessly for 2 years. At that time, we were very nervous, anxious to know how you will receive

Completing our KickStarter and beginning Pre-Order delivery Soon

Kickstarter shipping status We are thrilled to announce that our Kickstarter campaign is ending. Motivated by your tremendous support and feedback, everyone at Bambu Lab has been working relentlessly to get every Kickstarter backer their printer before the end of October. And we can now say that there is a

Timelapse download, hotbed protection, and more new features roll out to Bambu Lab users

The new Bambu Lab firmware has been released globally today, and it comes with fantastic new features. Your feedback has been invaluable and plays an enormous part in the updates and new features. Your help is greatly appreciated as we continue to improve our firmware! The update includes several highly-requested

KS shipping update and signature required

More than half of the KS orders have been delivered to customers Following our last update three weeks ago, we would like to give an update as to the progress of fulfilling our KS backers, and news about pre-orders. As of the 16th of September, we are delighted to announce

All KickStarter units are shipped out and pre-oder update

All the KS units have already left the factory We are pleased that more and more users have received printers.  With that in mind, we would like to update everyone on the overall manufacturing and shipping status. As of August 23, 5600+ units, that is to say, 100% of the

Update on shipping and Pre-order

Shipping Update August 14, 2022 It has been two weeks since our last update. We are pleased that customers in the first 2000 pledges are receiving their printers.  With that in mind, we would like to update everyone on the overall shipping status. As of August 14, 4,500 units

Pre-order Launch Date Released!

We are excited to announce that we will be launching pre-sales for Bambu Lab X1-Carbon Combo on Aug 10th in AU store. Other stores will soon (estimatedly 1-3 days) be open after we ensure that the process works in one region. Here is some important information for you to read

Update on the shipping

It has been one week since we started shipping, and some customers with air shipping have already received their printers. I know the feeling of anxiously waiting for a new printer and seeing others who have received theirs already posting their prints. With that in mind, we would like to

The plan for the coming weeks

Our sales team is wrapping up everything from the Kickstarter and confirming addresses as I write this. The long-awaited shipments will begin next week, and some backers with airmail shipping will receive their printers in that same week. Here is the detailed list of what we are going to do

To open, or not to open, that is the question

In the last few days, on various occasions, we were asked the same question, "Is the system open or closed?" People showed their concern about the RFID for our filament, on the slicer, on the proprietary hot end, and also on the seemingly new firmware.  This is actually a very

The full story and price of the proprietary hotend

WHY DO WE USE A PROPRIETARY HOTEND IN THE FIRST PLACE? 1. We need to make integration as compact as possible to save space for the Lidar.2. We want to reduce the mass of the toolhead to improve speed.3. We want to reduce the thermal inertial (thermal capacity)

The team behind Bambu Lab X1

This is the picture of the first five crews of the gang. It was taken during our first retreat, when five of us had a 3 day long intensive technical discussion and laid down the architecture of Bambu Lab X1, including the Lidar, CoreXY structure, multi-material approach, and embedded software