Posted by: @draftingmaggie

Here's my question... do I:

1.) wait on purchasing a unit until Prusa says "here it is, a complete package"; or

2.) do I buy one now and continue to manually change filament for color changes until the INDX can be added; or

3.) or do I buy now with the MMU, getting the INDX when available?

at first glance, it would seem that option 3 is a waste of money... but is there any benefit to having both systems?  can that even be done??  

There's no benefit in having both.  As far as I'm aware, firmware support doesn't exist to run both, and I seriously doubt that's even on Prusa's radar.

I had an MMU3 on a MK4 in an enclosure, and while it mostly worked rather well, on the occasions when it needed attention it was an absolute devil to fix - access inside the enclosure is terrible, and the standard MMU3 design isn't optimised for troubleshooting.

When I wanted to add one to my CORE One Prusa had a long lead time on the parts, so I ventured 'off piste' and bought a clone kit of parts, and I took the opportunity to try the UltiMulti printed parts, since this design has more of a focus on accessibility to fix problems.  I also changed the mounting location to the top right of the CORE One, rather than the back, and for me it's a much better setup - it's easier to get to, and it's easier to open and clear blockages etc.  It works fairly reliably, but it didn't work reliably out of the box.  I found the ramming settings weren't right for ABS, for example, and it kept jamming on filament swaps until I found the right settings.

So I'm quite a fan of the MMU3, yet I jumped on the INDX founders pre-order the moment it became available.  I'm certain that other posters are correct when they say it'll need work initially, but to me it seems like a fundamentally simpler system that should be easier to set up and should be more flexible and reliable once it settles down.  I won't mind tossing out the MMU3 on my CORE One in the slightest - I'm expecting the INDX to be a major improvement.

In your shoes I wouldn't bother with an MMU3, unless you're desperate to print multicolour ASAP.  And personally I wouldn't hold out for an assembled CORE One+/L with INDX - it feels like that could be some way off at this point, and having built my CORE One from a kit I think it's likely to be a fairly simple job to build the INDX kit onto an assembled printer.

I knew in my heart the answer was going to be "wait" as far as INDX went.

Small issues with MMU tweaking dont bother me too much, maybe I'll just take a second look at doing that. That might bring the XL back into consideration. 

Thanks again,  like I said before,  I know this wasn't the right thread for this. It's appreciated. 

The entitlement comment was more around the fact that we’re apparently over here looking to be spoon fed info. We should be going to the effort of asking the lads on discord the same questions every 4 hours on cycle 😂 again I love how we’re seemingly trolling them on this forum here without even trying 

I guess on some level the Discord aficionados know that their way of interacting and wasting time over there is not healthy.

Posted by: @cwbullet

One thing that bother me about my son’s generation - everyone older than them is a “boomer”.  I missed that generation by a few years and would gladly associate with them, but I am not a baby-boomer.  Ignorance is a terrible thing.  

I missed the boomer generation and smile when I get lumped into that category as well but then even Gen-Z is throwing shade at millennials for being "out of touch" 

Posted by: @jurgen-7

I was expecting something along the lines of "young turks vs. boomers"...