Tested a beta unit and found the U1 fast, precise and frugal with filament, producing clean multicolor prints faster than the reviewer's Bambu Lab P1P because tool swaps take seconds. Caveats are early-adopter rough edges, since it was Kickstarter-only at the time, and no fully enclosed lid at the base price.
“The Snapmaker U1 is the affordable tool changer we’ve all been waiting for, one with both speed, precision, and respect for your filament budget.”
Enjoyed how the U1 speeds up multifilament printing and rated its print quality, design and small desktop footprint highly. Notes it is still an open printer with the enclosure an added cost, only 0.4 mm nozzles at the time, and would have liked a built-in filament drying option.
“I've really enjoyed using the Snapmaker U1 as it opens up a world of possibilities for multifilament printing.”
Aurora Tech · 2026年7月18日
Long-term review after more than 1,000 hours: it consistently printed faster with better quality in his single-color and multicolor tests, and he moves it to second place on his recommendation list with 87.5 out of 100. A dual-nozzle Bambu printer is the closer rival for two-material work and engineering filaments.
Maker's Muse · 2025年11月2日
Review of a production unit by a skeptic who ends up impressed. For single-material printing the Bambu A1 or A1 Mini are still the best budget picks, but for multicolor or multi-material without purge waste the U1 makes much more sense. Cautions that other reviewers saw less reliable units.
Teaching Tech · 2025年10月17日
First impressions of the production model: sees it as a slightly larger, more open-source tool changer take on the Bambu X1 Carbon, at a price that will attract many buyers. Notes the LAN mode and USB printing, and wants Snapmaker to publish its Klipper changes.
Snapmaker is a Shenzhen company founded in 2016, built around machines that swap tool heads; its Original, 2.0 and U1 machines were launched on Kickstarter. It sells the U1, a CoreXY printer with four tool heads that change in about five seconds for multi-colour printing, and the Artisan, which combines 3D printing, laser engraving and CNC carving. Its buyers are makers, hobbyists and small workshops.
成立:
2016 ·
总部:
Shenzhen, China ·
所有权:
Shenzhen Snapmaker Technologies Co., Ltd.; its main products were crowdfunded on Kickstarter ·
网站:www.snapmaker.com
Snapmaker is mostly open: the U1 runs Klipper with a local Fluidd interface and published source, and nearly every part is sold separately. Its proprietary hotends and RFID system are the closed parts.
固件和自定义固件 ●●●●●
The U1 runs modified Klipper, Moonraker and Fluidd. Snapmaker published its changes on GitHub under GPL-3.0 on 30 March 2026, about three months after Kickstarter deliveries finished. Firmware for the Snapmaker 2.0 and, since August 2026, the Artisan controller is also on GitHub under GPL.
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本地控制与集成 ●●●●●
The U1 runs Klipper, Moonraker and Fluidd on the printer and prints from Snapmaker Orca over Wi-Fi or from a USB drive, so other software can use Moonraker's documented API; Snapmaker publishes its Moonraker changes on GitHub. For the Artisan, Snapmaker documents its G-code commands and has Luban pass jobs from OrcaSlicer over the OctoPrint protocol. The Snapmaker app is for remote monitoring.
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第三方耗材、切片软件和零件 ●●●●●
Third-party 1.75 mm filament works and the U1 is supported in OrcaSlicer, but its RFID filament recognition is proprietary and only reads Snapmaker spools, and its hotends are proprietary one-piece units. Snapmaker documents using Cura, OrcaSlicer and PrusaSlicer with its older machines.
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维修和备件 ●●●●●
Snapmaker's shop sells most U1 parts on their own, including the main board, heated bed, extruder motor, toolhead board, belts, fans and touchscreen, and its wiki has replacement guides such as the U1 XY motor. Hotends can only be replaced as a whole unit.
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数据与隐私 ●●●●●
Cloud features need a Snapmaker account. The privacy policy says personal data is stored on servers in the United States, may be shared with affiliates and third parties in China for some functions, and some data is kept for three years.
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社区和文档 ●●●●●
Active forum and a wiki with detailed FAQs and guides, firmware and slicer sources on GitHub, and frequent public updates and livestreams during the U1 campaign.
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优点
The U1's four-head tool changer wastes little filament on colour changes.
Klipper-based U1 with a local Fluidd interface and published firmware source.
Nearly every U1 part is sold separately, with replacement guides.
Has delivered all of its Kickstarter campaigns, the U1 ahead of schedule by its own account.
缺点
U1 hotends are proprietary one-piece units.
RFID filament recognition is proprietary and only works with Snapmaker spools.
U1 firmware source came after deliveries, at the end of a self-set deadline.
Personal data is stored in the US and may be shared with affiliates in China.
The U1 does not work with Luban, so owners of older machines need a different slicer.
实绩
八月 2026: Snapmaker published the Artisan's Marlin-based controller firmware on GitHub under GPL-3.0.
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2026年3月30日: Snapmaker published its modified Klipper, Moonraker and Fluidd for the U1 on GitHub under GPL-3.0, on the last day of the deadline it had set itself.
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十二月 2025: Snapmaker says all U1 Kickstarter orders shipped by 23 December 2025, ahead of its schedule. It says it delivered all three of its Kickstarter campaigns.
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九月 2025: The U1 Kickstarter raised $20.2 million from more than 20,000 backers by 30 September 2025, the most for any 3D printer on the platform. Snapmaker gives the final total as $20.6 million from 20,680 backers.
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中国
SimplyPrint客户端 
Klipper（Moonraker） 
PrusaSlicer
BambuStudio
CrealityPrint
Cura
最适合美国：Snapmaker面向美国的商店
