IdeaFormer-3Dfor Bambu lab Build Plate Smooth Rainbow PEY+Textured PEI Build Plate for Bambu Lab X1C/X1/X1E/A1/P1S/P1P 3D Printers, Double Sided PEY PEI Spring Steel Flexible Platform 257x257mm

PEY type plates are novelties, and a lot of them on the market just don't work: they don't have enough bed adhesion to be useful.This plate, like other IdeaFormer plates I've tried, works. It's well constructed, and my builds had no problem sticking to the PEY side. The star pattern is attractive; certainly it'll be a favorite with tween daughters.Why not five stars? Well, it'd be far better if it came with printed barcodes for the X1C... on the textured PEI side if nothing else. And for some reason, unlike other IdeaFormer plates, this one didn't come with the instruction sheet telling you the essentials: clean with dish soap and brush before use, use the "smooth PEI plate" preset in Bambu Studio/OrcaSlicer for the PEY side. That'd make it perfect.But if Amazon let me give 4.5 stars, I would. This is absolutely a good plate to buy. It gives you a nice novelty pattern AND a spare textured build plate. Recommended.

I had played with the patterned build plates before. They will imprint a bunch of lines in different directions and make the surface look faceted. It is a cool affect, but it is pretty easy to see how it is working. THIS, on the other hand, is pure magic!!! The plate is very colorful with rainbow dots and stars. If you shine an intense light from a flashlight, the effect is even stronger. But who knew it could actually be transferred to the bottom surface of the 3D print!!! This works great! At first I thought that it did not do it, but then under the right angle, the part sparkled with rainbow dots and stars. I tried clear at first-- it was ok-- but a bit hard to see. I then tried black and the pattern was even easier to see. My first print was not that smooth, so I adjusted my build plate a little closer to get a better smear on the build plate and the next one came out looking EXACTLY like the build plate!!! I was amazed! I handed it to several of my coworkers and they were amazed as well. We put it under a microscope and could not see any clues as to how it was working. The stars and dots just appear to float on the surface of the plastic. One thing we heard was that if oil from your hands gets on the surface, the pattern can go away. But, a soft cloth with Isopropyl alcohol takes the oil away and the surface was to completely covered in rainbow dots again. Now I think that I need to find a bunch of cool things to print where the bottom surface is the display surface! So cool! Maybe a communicator shirt pin….1st picture is a clear print, 2nd picture is with black and the 3rd was a close-up. It is really hard to take a picture of just how really cool this looks.Hope this helps.

Pick it up, it's a good plate.

I purchased the variation that has the gold PEI sheet, and the Stary Night on the other side of the plate. After reading some of these reviews it seemed like it would be a good alternative to the OEM Bambu Labs plate. However, sadly, it is not.The stary night pattern part of the plate hardly transfers over to your print. I tried multiple different settings, but the overall transfer was weak and hard to see. The prints did stick, after ensuring that I had tweaked the correct print bed settings within Bambu Studio.The PEI sheet started off promising as I had no issues with adhesion and the prints did not lift. I was sure to follow proper print bed care, and cleaned it as the description of the product said. But after about 6 large prints I started having adhesion issues. Certain parts of the bed do not stick at all. Almost like a coating has been removed, but the plate itself looks brand new. I thought it might be dust, or oil from my hands after removing a print, so I deep cleaned the plate and heat set it before trying again. But the same issues in the same spot of the plate all over again.It doesn't matter what model I'm printing, or Filament as I've tried about 7 different rolls, from different brands and tweaked the settings within Bambu Studio near a million times. Nothing will stick.This is super disappointing as I was hoping to be one of the lucky few reviewers that had good luck with this product. I can't recommend buying this overall. After not even a month of owning this plate, with low print hours, it's already failed. Comparing this to the OEM Bambu Labs plate that lasted 14 months with THOUSANDS of hours of print time and proper care.

I purchased this build plate because my Bambu Labs 'cool build plate' was having adhesion problems. I had been washing it in dish soap, roughed it up slightly with steel wool, conditioned it and nothing would help I had to use glue stick on it in order to get any sort of consistency with my prints.Since Ive used this plate I have not had to use any glue for adhesion, I have used it to help release some things but not for for keeping things stuck to the build plate. So the consistancy of my prints has been much better since using this plate.Additionally the holographic design gets embedded into my prints and it looks really cool!