Bambu Lab has made it official: the X1 series is now officially retired.
As of today, the company will no longer be manufacturing the extremely popular devices, as they have reached “end of life” status.
That said, current X1 series operators have nothing to worry about: Bambu Lab intends on supporting the devices for quite a while yet. They will continue with feature updates until June 2027, security updates until June 2029, and will continue to supply spare parts until April 2031 — that’s five years from now.
If you’re still running an X1 in January 2031, well, you probably will have far better options at that point.
You can still purchase an X1, X1C, or X1E if you happen to find a reseller with some leftover stock. They may even be available at a discount.
However, at this point, one would wonder why you’d bother with an X1 series 3D printer: there are better options available today in the Bambu Lab catalog, such as the popular P2S. We’ve been testing and using our P2S for quite a while now, and it is a truly amazing 3D printer.
The end of the X series is also a bookend to how Bambu Lab began years ago. The system was the first for the company, appearing suddenly on Kickstarter. The campaign was a smashing success, generating around US$7M, enough to launch the company forward. Why the big success? I believe it was that Bambu Lab was the first company to properly package up the then-unknown high-speed printing technology. The machine was literally 5X faster than the normal machines of the day, and that was extremely compelling to buyers. It also didn’t hurt that the X1 also included all kinds of convenience features and carried a low price, too.
From there, the company continued to improve their product line by introducing a series of machines in different formats, the P, A, and H series. Today, they are very likely the biggest 3D printer manufacturer in the world.
But let’s get back to the name, the “X” series. Bambu Lab likes to name its machines based on a letter that matches the frame design. Could we see an “X2” series in the future? That’s possible, but I expect it would be unlikely because the P series is essentially the same format as the X series.
So we’ve very likely seen the end of the X series, a line of machines that changed the 3D print industry.
Via Bambu Lab
