Bambu’s PLA Palette Kit Mixes Colors From Five Spools, and Bambu Recommends a Multi-Nozzle Printer for Color Mixing

Bambu’s wiki says Color Mixing has needed Bambu Studio 2.5.3 or later, and its Gradient Color Curve 2.7.1 or later, while support for the kit itself arrived in 2.9.1, released November 3: a Use Official Color Mixing Kit option adds the kit’s filaments in one click, mixed-color filaments no longer count toward the project limit of 32 filaments, and the release fixes unexpected color overlay results when using the color mixing kit. For the H3C’s 0.4 mm nozzle presets at 0.2 mm and 0.24 mm layer heights, the color mixing sublayer feature is on by default. On cost, Bambu’s wiki example used four source filaments rather than the kit, white, black, red and blue PLA in its screenshot: about 170 filament changes used 130 g of filament in total on a single-nozzle printer and 35 g in total on a multi-nozzle printer. Bambu’s screenshot names an H2S and an H2C, and shows about 99 g of the H2S’s 130.15 g purged and print times of 5 h 30 min against 2 h 46 min. Those are Bambu’s figures for one model, not a site measurement, and they do not transfer to other models.

What the kit costs, and where it already appears: Bambu’s U.S. store listed the kit at $76.99 against a $94.95 “Total Value”, which it defines as the total price if purchased separately; the five single rolls are $18.99 each. The store does not say whether $76.99 is a launch price or part of the Black Friday sale it was running, so do not count on it lasting. Bambu also sells the kit with its H3C: the November 3 launch post lists an H3C bundle with PLA Palette and TPU at $2,589, and the H3C store page says the printer’s color mixing requires CMYKW PLA Palette filament to achieve the intended result. Bambu’s announcement calls the kit available now, but its U.S. store showed the kit out of stock on November 9, with its ETA moved from November 9 to November 18 that day.