Source: All3DP

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Finally Here

Flashforge’s $399 Multicolor 3D Printer is Now Available

by Shawn Frey
Published Jun 9, 2025

The latest 3D printer in Flashforge's Adventurer 5 series ships June 15, and comes with a handful of improvements over the systems we've seen live.

After a long and unexpected delay, the AD5X, Flashforge’s new budget multicolor 3D printer, is finally available for purchase and set to ship June 15.

The latest addition to the company’s Adventurer 5 series, the AD5X is an open-frame, single-nozzle CoreXY 3D printer with a four-spool multi-material system and 220 x 220 x 200 mm build volume. At $399, it’s the most affordable CoreXY multicolor 3D printer we’ve seen, matching the price of Bambu Lab’s much smaller cantilever A1 Mini Combo.

It’s easiest to call Flashforge’s “Intelligent Filament System” (IFS) an integrated multi-material system, but it seems the IFS will be at least somewhat modular; the company showed off its new Guider 4 series with the hardware as an optional add-on at this past Rapid + TCT. The AD5X mostly seems to be an AD5M (our choice for the best 3D printer under $300 until Elegoo’s Centauri Carbon displaced it) with a filament purge chute in the back and IFS pre-installed. Though last we heard, the other 3D printers in the series will not be IFS compatible, which Flashforge has attributed to their “different extruder systems”.

Flashforge says the IFS works with TPU, which stands out among multi-material systems. It will also swap out finished spools automatically on single-material prints, a common feature on multi-material systems, but combined with the printer’s compact size due to its side-mounted spool storage and multi-material system, Flashforge has been angling the AD5X as a print farm machine.

Flashforge’s AD5X printing at Formnext 2024 (Source: All3DP)

The AD5X first “launched” last November, with pre-orders expected to deliver in just 20 to 60 days. The machine was on display in force at Formnext 2024 that month, and could be seen again at Rapid + TCT 2025, but repeated delays held it back from reaching the hands of a reported over 1,000 pre-orders until recently, with the AD5X now appearing to be in the hands of pre-purchasers.

Flashforge doesn’t appear to have been idle in the meantime, though. When it announced its first delay in early December, the company cited a problem with the purge chute jamming. Since then, Flashforge has told All3DP, it has also improved the 3D printer’s cooling system, reduced clogging with an “upgraded nozzle”, and improved its spool holders.

Flashforge’s Adventurer 5 series grew on us last year thanks to the company’s continued improvements to networking and the release of a Klipper firmware variant. The AD5X was an enticing continuation of the line when it was first “pre-launched”, but could now face stiff competition from Elegoo’s affordable Centauri Carbon and recently announced multi-material system.

At the moment, you can get $30 off the AD5X, bringing its price down to $369, by answering a survey on Flashforge’s website.

Flashforge AD5X Multicolor 3D Printer