Sovol's 1+6 IDEX-toolchanger scored fast Kickstarter success, while LightMake gears up its campaign for the linear-motor quad-printhead L4. Meanwhile, Bondtech hit a snag: its INDX "hardened" nozzles miss spec, dragging Prusa along too. With Creality's K3 landing in a few months, brands are racing to pitch different fixes for multicolor waste.

We know most of you want a toolchanger, but does the kind matter? The mix of approaches makes them tricky to classify – do we even need to, if the results look the same?