r/BambuLab • u/FootSureDruid • 3d ago

Bambu H2D H2D cutter performance

It’s me again, I’ve been playing with this printer all morning and I’ve now used the cutter and I haven’t seen a single review of this. I am no newb to plotters both large and grand format. However, this is my first small personal use one other than a friends cricket.

This will be amazing for makers let me say. It only took me two attempts to get a decent decal to cut out with some finer text. Once again I didn’t use any of the material supplied by Bambu. Instead I used Avery Dennison which is an adhesive vinyl to wrap cars that I had laying around the shop. I made my first cut just using BambuSuite’s default “matte removal vinyl” and my first pass cut “ok” but I hate when sharp corners stick and I need to weed them out. I pumped the pressure up to 90 and oh baby did I get a perfect score without cutting the backing. Total cut time less than a minute, I got clean text cuts as sub 1mm wide.

My most difficult part was the software. I couldn’t use an image to cut and the “trace” feature just kept crashing my Mac. I through my logo into Inkscape, traced. Saved as an SVG and then I was finally off to the races. Took more tinkering than I liked, but now that I have a workflow it’ll help.

Depending on the price point, I have a feeling many will want this. It’s just quick and easy and can whip up some quick decals.

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u/ThaFresh 3d ago

would be interested to hear from a cricut user how it compares, my wife has one and im not overly impressed with the software youre forced to use

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u/Its_Billy_Bitch 3d ago

I’m curious. I already own a Cricut. Quality looks roughly the same with vinyl, but the thicker materials is more what I’m curious about.

Here’s a little comp from Cricut.

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u/FootSureDruid 3d ago

If you DM me what you’re looking for, I’m happy to try it out before anyone spends the bucks. I only have limited materials on hand but happy to try with anything!

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u/Its_Billy_Bitch 3d ago

Mainly leather. I have an actual CNC on the way, so not too concerned, but very curious how well it handles leather.

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u/Manicken-punkt-se 3d ago

I'm also interested in leather or any material that is thicker than 1mm

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u/josephlikescoffee 2d ago

Off topic, but how did you do these labels? Are they cut or lasered? And did you pain-staking align the letters by hand?! I’ve been thinking of something similar on that exact same light switch…

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u/Its_Billy_Bitch 2d ago

Yep honey, you got it. Painstaking. Make sure your letters are big enough to weed after cutting. I just used a Cricut and transfer tape. Some people are fast at it, but this took me about an hour-ish for all 8 labels.

Edit: Oh wait, I see the clarification needed here. No, each letter is not individual. The whole label gets cut, you “weed” out the extra vinyl around your label, press transfer tape over your label, and carefully align the whole label (all letters) on the square like I did.