The amount of waste and time it takes are downright insulting

I just prefer to paint my models. It’s more fun and doesn’t generate a metric butt ton of waste.

Btw there are videos of people on YouTube melting the poop into silicone moulds using a toaster oven to make key dishes and stuff!

I wish he didnt use shitter because the pages dont load for me

Is there any tool that can turns those wasted 3d print materials into a new filament spool?

In fairness to multicolor printing in general, he couldn’t have picked a worse multicolor model for generating waste. You want to optimize for as few color changes as possible. Just the other day I printed some pokeballs in full color and it was (iirc) around a 0.4:1 waste:print ratio - which is still a fair bit of waste, but nothing like 2.5, thanks to the fact that the colors are layered.

Gradients are the absolute worst thing for multicolor printing, this printer was probably doing 3-6 color switches per layer