Most printers rely on filament changers to switch between colors or materials, spending more time purging than actually printing. With four toolheads preloaded and pre-heated with their own filaments, the SnapSwap system lets the U1 switch by simply swapping the toolheads, cutting your wait time from approximately two minutes to only five seconds[2]. Filament-changing printers "purge" by wasting perfectly good filament—pushing one color through the nozzle until the last trace of the old one is gone. The U1 doesn't play that game. It only purges the tiny amount of filament that's actually degraded by the time a new print job begins, or during flow-rate calibration, cutting waste by up to 80%[3] on every print. The U1 uses steel-ball kinematic couplings to click each print heat into perfect position, then locks it securely—no screws, no magnets, no extra motors. Locked fast, rock solid, tested over 1,000,000 swaps with zero failures. So. Much. Waste. On other 3D printers, printing a multi-color model leaves behind a mountain of garbage—often wasting 3 or 4 times more material than what ends up in the actual model! U1 avoids the waste with smart tool swapping, saving filament, saving money, and even saving the environment. Fundada en 2016, Snapmaker es una empresa de tecnología que desarrolla, fabrica y vende impresoras 3D multifunción de escritorio. "Snap" significa pensamiento rápido. "Maker" representa a las personas que convierten las ideas en realidad. Snapmaker cree que las máquinas que mejoran la creatividad serán fácilmente accesibles para la sociedad, de la misma manera que lo hicieron las computadoras e Internet.