r/BambuLabA1mini

Every A1 & A1 mini user (and probably every bambu printer user) has or will have this traumatic experience. Are you close to having one? Let's check. Printer on => settings=> SD Card. There you will find a screen with buttons Format and Eject along with the storage amount & remainder with a bar graph. If that bar graph is approaching full, you'll be experiencing this fail to print soon enough.

2 Solutions: format and destroy the OEM firmware stored on the OEM sd card & all print gcodes, or, remove thru eject sequence and attach to a computer. From here, open in a file management app and move any gcode & the OEM firmware files you want into the computer or other storage. device. Properly remove the card from the computer and re-insert into the printer. Now, select format. Plenty of storage room now.

Edit: I should add when not to remove nor format the card. Do not attempt to properly remove or clean or format the card while printing. Effecting the card during printing will end the print in bad ways, similar to removing a card from any devise during it's use.

The printer does need to be turned on to access the card's storage amounts and the eject & format options.

The card can be removed and inserted while printer is turned off.

Problem and problem solved.

I just thought I'd share that I was having trouble with my Mini's screen freezing or blacking out. The printer would keep on printing with mixed results accessing it with Handy or Studio.

I turned the printer off and removed the SD card. I put the SD card in my computer and hard formatted it. Put it back in the printer, booted up, and problem solved.

I don't know what to call it and because of that don't find the information I'm looking for, so new post:

Is there a way to disable the weird and unnecessary print head movement, where the print head stops printing after the second layer, moves to the camera, lowers itself and rises again, and then moves back to the print, all while the filament doesn't get retracted, so it's always oozing out a few millimetres while doing this shit.

Until now I didn't really care about it, but I'm trying to print a few small pieces with weird geometry and this stupid whatever it's called either causes problems with the print or at least gives me a little clump of filament where the print head resumed printing, which I'm sick of removing after the print has finished.

Hey all,

Just going to post here in case anyone else has the exact problem I just had;

I live in the UK (very relevant) and I don't 3D print very often anymore, but recently got into doing some Warhammer Old World and decided i need some movement trays.

I find some, run bed levelling and filament checks etc, A1 starts printing and all good.

But suddenly it completes like 5 mins in, half printed. Odd. But like I said, I don't print often anymore so figure it was a bad file or my filament is dry/wet whatever.

I check some bits, unload reload filament, test...all good. Get a new file, try again.

This time, it just stops extruding halfway through and clicks at me.

Ok, time to look up tutorials on how to clean and unblock the extruder.... after an hour of fiddling and unscrewing and scraping and cleaning, I try again... NOPE! Still dying on me.

Totally upset at this point, thinking my printer has died.

I go into force the filament into the "dumb" machine to realise; the filament has melted together on the spool!

Now, as stated I live in the UK, we've had some BAD heatwave over here and I live in a top floor flat/apartment and obvs, cos it's the UK we don't have AC. So my filament has melted (slightly) on the spool which caused it to just stop.

As for when I've been feeding it through in the multiple previous attempts, I can only imagine the top layer was looser or slightly unwound, letting me get some filament out at a time.

Pissed off, but relieved my machine is ok.

TL;DR - if you're in the UK and haven't used your printer since before our hideous heatwave, please check it thoroughly as the FIRST thing you do to troubleshoot print probs!

I recently bought a used A1 mini on marketplace. It seems to be at least one firmware update behind, am I missing anything by not updating my printer to the newest update?

Hey all I’m noticing during longer prints my A1 mini tends to move around a little on the surface it’s on. Wondering if anyone has advice on how to secure it to stop this. It’s on a wooden table with a semi gloss finish. I have it currently sitting on a magic the gathering playmat to stop it but it still does a little.

I have been using my A1 and AMS Lite for just over a year and all has been going well, for the most part. But it "seems" like it is becoming more difficult to thread the filament into the AMS. Once I can get it into the gears, it works perfectly normal, but it just feels like something it interfering with the filament, blocking me from pushing it in the the AMS. If I play with it a lot, I can eventually get it into the gears and then all works, but it is frustrating having to goof around with it for 30 seconds or longer.

Am I going crazy? I looked for answers on the internet but it seems like all the answers address other issues, not a single one could I find that addressed just getting the filament into the AMS. And as I said, once the filament is in, it works perfectly.

I am holding off pulling the AMS apart as it does still work (for now). I'd like to get some feedback first. Maybe there is a lubrication issue? I don't know yet.

Thanks for any help.

I first bought a bambulab printer. When I connected it to the studio, I was given two boost tokens. But they didn't tell me about it! I didn't know I had them until other people told me, and when I started looking for them, of course I found them - expired. I don't understand, I just can't wrap my head around it - why do this to users? Why did they deserve such a negative experience? It's better not to give any tokens, and there will be no disappointment that they disappear. There was a very incredibly unpleasant residue from bambulab. It would be better to make the printer cheaper or better equipped than to give out non-existent tokens that don't exist!