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RFID-identifying rolls of filament is a good thing. I would like that very much. I can't count the number of times I loaded the wrong roll and printed with the wrong material on our Prusa Mk4. Not to mention, I would like that the printed warned me if the roll I've loaded doesn't contain enough filament to complete the print I'm about to start.
What I really would have a beef against is the printer refusing to print with anything that isn't RFID-tagged from Bambu.
But to my knowledge, Bambu printers don't do that. They don't prevent you from using generic rolls do they?
Not yet anyway, but considering what a shit company Bambu Lab is, they certain could and probably will at some point. Still, for the time being, they don't.
Is your concern the fact that they could suddenly lock Bambu printers to Bambu-approved filaments?
What if Prusa implemented RFID roll identification? Would you feel the same way?
Yes of course. Any machine that has DRM on it and has the ability to kill itself when its company demands, is a piece of worthless junk.
RFID isn't DRM. But let's overlook that.
So the trustworthiness of the company implementing RFID doesn't matter at all to you?
But this particular RFID has some sort of encryption-something, that means that other companies can't make them.
I don't like it, but since I can still use other brands without the convenience of RFID tags, it's not a deal-breaker.
Ah right I didn't know. I thought they used plain-jane ASCII tags with some known documented format.
That sucks.
I loaded third-party filament onto my spools with RFID several times and it worked fine.
I have since started printing almost exclusively from a filament dryer (AMS lite works fine this way), so it doesn't matter anymore.