Bambu Lab Ceases Production of the P1P, Outlines 5-Year End-of-Life Service
Bambu Lab’s product line-up continues to evolve with production of the skeletal P1P 3D printer ceasing today. The company has committed to years of further firmware and security updates for the printer, plus spares and support through to 2031.
Bambu Lab has officially shuttered production of the P1P, the company’s budget-friendly open-frame CoreXY 3D printer, leaving the enclosed P1S and the newer P2S to anchor the company’s mid-range line-up. The printer has been pulled from the Bambu Lab store as of today, though that’s not the end for the personalizable P1P.
Despite the halt in sales, the end-of-life plan is well defined. Bambu Lab has committed to a five-year support window that keeps the hardware viable until 2031 – no doubt great news to the “hundreds of thousands” of machines that are out there, according to a blog post announcing the discontinuation.
What can P1P owners expect?
This five year period comprises staggered levels of updates and service that gradually fall out in 2031, leaving the machines functional, but just no longer supported.
The printer will continue to receive firmware updates addressing bugs and evolving the feature set through to mid-November, 2027. Beyond this, critical firmware and software security patches for the P1P will continue to beam out for the machine through to mid-November, 2029.
A “continuous supply of spare parts” will persist through to the eventual end-of-life cut-off in February, 2031, though this seems to be primarily based on the P1P’s shared component set with the P1S 3D printer. The post recommends stocking up on parts that are unique to the P1P while you can.
Incidentally, the post announcing the P1P’s managed retirement also confirmed that the P1S is sticking around for the foreseeable future – no bad thing.
If you’ve upgraded your P1P using the enclosure kit – a bundle of components that effectively turns the P1P into a P1S – your machine will follow the P1S’s software plan and continue to receive updates beyond 2029.
Custom Body, No Place?
This “simplified” alternative to the X1 series made little sense in 2026, rubbing shoulders with the P1S, which offered greater thermal stability for a marginal price increase, and an A1 series that handled the “entry-level” materials at a lower cost.
That being said, the P1P going off-sale sees a Bambu Lab one-off disappear, too – the P1P’s customization-inviting design. The lack of an enclosure was a challenge to the user to print or design their own, adding functionality like peg-board style mounting for tools, or something completely artistic that changed the look and vibe of the printer completely.
It’d be lazy to say this consolidation signals the end of Bambu’s openness to “printable” hardware customization and modification, though. There are pages of official and recommended models for the brand’s printers on its own wiki and MakerWorld, even for the company’s most high-tech and expensive machines.
It’s great to see some transparency about this kind of thing. Love them or hate them, not many manufacturers in 3D printing flag a printer’s sunsetting like this. And of course, signs of the end times for the P1P only increase our anticipation for other things you can do with the machine.
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