Bambu P1S vs Snapmaker 2026 Comparison

 

This print first appeared as an original challenge on this blog in September of last year before our School Market Day and came out of a physical challenge - that was combining an object (in this case the oversized single eye) with a 3D Print.   You can view this project by clicking on the link here.

While the design was adjusted a number of times by student concerned (who was seven at the time) the details remained relatively constant.   One of the things about this print that stood out, apart from the creativity was that it was an excellent example of junior innovation, particularly when it was modified to include additional storage space - and in an excellent example of working it is a great USB drive storage and sits well on a desk! It also had some variation where we printed a glow-in-the dark or super-glow-in-the-dark versions.

One of the aspects to it that was of question was the print time.   At the time we had a single Bambu H2D for printing and several older Snapmaker machines.   When printed on the Snapmakers the print had a completion time of two hours, it was the intention to try it again on the Bambu H2D or Bambu P1S and compare the times for the same print, and the quality of the print.

With a two hour timeframe in mind we repeated the print again.   Of a small side note we have used Tinkercad interface (classroom) for a number of years now the old profiles, accounts and material is still available for students to use hence we are using for this comparison print the original design.

The repeat print (shown left) completed this week has been printed with a similar quality.   The print cost from the project was $0.72c and the print used 35g of filament including some support/rafting for the parts of the piece that were not part of the main body (the circles on the design to show bumps).

There was clearly an expectation of a time reduction - as the original took two hours to complete and we estimated at the time the (top of the line) Bambu H2D would take about half that.    However using the P1S machine we were unsure of the timescale and how it might affect this print or other pints from the past.

The new version of this print was completed in a total of 57 minutes which included the standard six minute warm up for the machine and fifty one minutes for a total print time - meaning that the smaller Bambu machine was printing twice as efficiently.  This will lead us to revisit some of the students previous work which we either didn't print in larger numbers due to time constraints or issues with rafting or details.