If you’ve been paying attention to Creality’s conference booths over the last few months, you probably already know the prominent Shenzhen 3D printer manufacturer has partnered with Co Print to offer the latter’s printer-agnostic multi-material KCM Set system with Creality 3D printers. Now, the two companies have signed their marriage papers with an official announcement of their partnership, and we’ve gotten a few new details about what, exactly, that means for Creality 3D printers with Co Print.
The Ender 3 V3 and Ender 3 V3 Plus are the focus here; the announcement press release says, “For Creality customers, the KCM Set will come with tailored software and unique advantages.”
Those advantages include “a special firmware for Creality users”, Co Print CEO Fatih Kazim Duymaz told All3DP. “For some Creality models, the screens that were previously inactive will now work, and the firmware will also support Co Print’s 4-8 color printing capabilities. This makes the setup and operation more straightforward for Creality users compared to generic firmware.”
Creality products will also have a filament sensor integrated into the Co Print ChromaHead – a feature unavailable on other systems for the time being.
Co Print has been around for a few years now but managed to coax a spotlight onto itself with a 2023 Kickstarter campaign for its latest multi-material system. It followed an earlier 2021 Kickstarter with a similar concept that garnered less attention at the time. Now, things are picking up for the company, and Creality has picked up the system to bring multi-material printing to its earlier, non-CFS compatible systems like the Ender 3 V3.
Co Print’s KCM Set will fill the multi-material gap left in Creality’s bed slinger offerings from before the enclosed CFS system launched. Though some took Creality’s promise to deliver a multi-color upgrade kit for the Ender 3 V3 to mean CFS compatibility would be coming for the system – as it recently did for the Creality K1 – it has confirmed to All3DP that won’t be happening, and that Co Print’s offering will be the only multi-material offering for the systems.
Creality will offer the Co Print KCM Set through its official sales channels this February, while generic ChromaSet and KCM Set models are already available from the Co Print website.
Correction Jan 23, 2025: A previous version of this article erroneously claimed Creality "promised a CFS compatibility kit would be coming for the Ender 3 V3". In fact, only a "multi-color upgrade kit" was promised for the Ender 3 V3 during the CFS announcement.
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