Painting intricate models is a thing of the past — the H2C brings your designs to life with six-color printing and a versatile seventh nozzle for support or an additional color. This entire project is printed in 2 parts. The main raptor is 6 colors, and the base is another 6 colors.
Geminaraptor @FireBird(Sophie)
Aero Mobius Drone Frame @极尘悦
With the H2C, you can print up to seven different materials in a single run — no nozzle purging required. Combine multiple material properties in one seamless structure and take integrated design to a whole new level.
Print durable TPU ball joints for your robot models — flexible, long-lasting, and built for endless motion.
Heavy Second Core Mecha @Kit Crafters
In traditional single-nozzle muti-material printing, purging is needed to clear leftover material between filament changes. Vortek changes that with an intelligent hot-end swapping system that replaces the entire hotend - delivering faster, cleaner prints with minimal waste.
The Vortek system works seemlessly with the highly reliable AMS (Automatic Material System), making the entire filament changing process automatic, with no need to load each filament into the toolhead.
The Vortek system can store filament information in the hotend's memory, ensuring the correct filment is matched to each hotend. If you are printing with more than 7 filament types, the system can calculate the optimal combination to minimize purge waste.
Because only the hotend is swapped, the system can house 6 replaceable hotends without significantly reducing the build volume. That means more materials, more colors and more possibilities - all in one print.
Our industry-leading induction brings the nozzle to temperature in 8-seconds, significantly reducing the preheating time for each material swap compared to traditional methods.
Our high standards for reliability led us to move away from contact-based metal pins, which are prone to oxidation and unstable connections. We developed a contactless solution that ensures a stable, high-frequency connection - the foundation for precise temperature control and intelligent hotend sync.
Unlike traditional toolchanger printers that limit color count by the number of toolheads, the H2C supports up to 24 materials in a single print through parallel-connected AMS units. Its intelligent algorithym optimizes filament-to-hotend allocation to minimize purge waste while delivering outstanding multi-color and multi-material results.
With its seamless enclosure and adaptive airflow system, the H2C maintains a stable chamber temperature for high-performance materials and filters the air to keep your workspace clean and safe.
The inductive nozzle offset calibration is fully automated - no manual steps, no calibration plates, no extra setup. In just a few minutes the H2C precisely calibrates the nozzle offset by 25 microns.
The H2C's Vortek system lets you dedicate one of its 6 interchangeable hotends to specific filaments - a game changer for valuable engineering materials. This ensures superior consistency and reliability across prints. Each hotend can even automatically store filament information so the next time you load that material it is instantly matched to the correct hotend.
The PMSM servo extruder delivers up to 10kg of maximum extrusion force - 70% more than a stepper motor. It dramatically improves high-flow-rate extrusion stability. The proprietary servo architecture samples resistance and position at 20kHz and actively detects filament grinding and clogs in real time.
With its Vision Encoder, the H2C achieves a distance-independent motion accuracy of less than 50 μm—thinner than human hair. The system automatically compensates for any mechanical drift during calibration, ensuring consistent precision and peak performance over time.*
The H2C leverages both the servo motor on the extruder and the high-resolution eddy current sensors on the nozzle to sense extrusion dynamics. This enables precise extrusion control and automatic calibration of Pressure Advance (PA) parameters for each filament, resulting in smoother surfaces and cleaner, sharper edges.
Chamber Heater
350°C Nozzles
The H2C's 65 °C actively heated chamber & 350°C nozzles minimize warping and deformation while enhancing layer adhesion for high-performance, high-temperature filaments.
The H2C is equipped with an array of 59 sensors* and a quad-camera computer vision system, all orchestrated by a proprietary neural algorithm. During printing, this system delivers intelligent, real-time diagnostics that can detect even the most subtle print anomalies as they happen. You don't have to be an expert to solve problems—your printer does the job for you.
The H2C features an AI-backed camera system. This intelligent monitoring system continuously tracks extrusion patterns, immediately detecting material accumulation, filament deviations, and extrusion failures. Also runs a pre-flight scan to ensure a safe start.
Best-In-Class Air Filtration
The H2C's three-stage filtration system is essential for printing with engineering filaments. This powerful combination of a G3 pre-filter, an H12 HEPA filter, and a coconut shell activated carbon filter effectively minimizes the odors and harmful particulates often released by engineering materials.
Fire-Retardant Construction
The H2C's chamber is constructed entirely with flame-retardant material, providing robust, passive fire safety protection across the entire enclosure.
Flexible Network Security & Connectivity
The H2C offers convenient cloud connectivity for remote control from any device. For security-sensitive applications, it also provides full offline functionality, ensuring complete physical isolation. Users can operate the printer, send files, and update firmware without an internet connection. For advanced users, Developer Mode enables MQTT port access for integrating third-party components and software.*
| Component | H2C AMS Combo | H2C Laser Full Combo | Ultimate Set4AMS 2 Pro |
| H2C | 1 | - | - |
| H2C Laser Edition | - | 1 | - |
| Build Plate | 1 | 1 | - |
| Spool Holder | 1 | 1 | - |
| 0.4mm Induction Hotend | 4 | 4 | 3 |
| 0.2mm Induction Hotend | 1 | 1 | - |
| 0.6mm Induction Hotend | 1 | 1 | - |
| 0.4mm Hardened Steel Hotend | 2 | 2 | - |
| 0.2mm Stainless Steel Hotend | - | - | 1 |
| 0.6mm Hardened Steel Hotend | - | - | 1 |
| 4-in-1 PTFE Adapter II | 1 | 1 | - |
| Accessory Box | 1 | 1 | - |
| AMS 2 Pro | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| AMS HT | - | - | 1 |
| 10W Laser Module | - | depending on option | - |
| 40W Laser Module | - | depending on option | - |
| Cutting Module (with Pen holder) | - | 1 | - |
| Laser Platform | - | 1 | - |
| Cutting Platform | - | 1 | - |
| Emergency Stop Button | - | 1 | - |
The H2C AMS Combo/Laser Full Combo includes 8 hotends and 1 AMS 2 Pro: Right hotends (Induction hotends): 4 × 0.4 mm hardened steel induction hotends, of which 1 is pre-installed on the printer and 3 are included in the accessory box. The accessory box also includes 1 × 0.2 mm induction hotend and 1 × 0.6 mm induction hotend. Left hotends (Standard hotends): 2 × 0.4 mm hardened steel standard hotends, of which 1 is pre-installed and 1 is included in the accessory box.
Currently, the firmware supports mixed flow-rate printing (standard flow + high flow), but does not yet support mixing different nozzle sizes during printing. If this feature is added in the future, we will provide details through a software update.
To fully experience the Vortek 6-hotend automatic swap system, we recommend purchasing the H2C Ultimate Set, which include: 3 × 0.4 mm induction hotends, 1 × 0.2 mm left hotend, 1 × 0.6 mm left hotend, 1 x AMS 2 Pro, 1 x AMS HT.
Combined with the AMS 2 Pro that comes with the H2C Combo, you will then have 2 × AMS 2 Pro + 1 × AMS HT.
Ultimate setup: Two AMS 2 Pro feed the right induction hotends; AMS HT feeds the left hotends. This gives you full 7-hotend automatic swapping with AMS support on both sides.
In addition to the above options, you can also try:
Multi-AMS Setup: Add 2 × AMS HT. All three AMS feed the right-side hotends.
Future Setup (2026): A Filament Track Switch Module will be released, allowing full 7-hotend support with only 2 AMS units, enabling free filament switching between left & right filament paths.
The H2C Laser Edition supports both 10W and 40W laser modules and is also compatible with the blade-cutting module.
The non-laser H2C supports blade-cutting by default, but can be upgraded to support laser functions via an upgrade kit.
Both H2D and H2S users may upgrade to H2C by installing the Vortek Upgrade Kit.
However, the upgrade process is complex and time-consuming, so users who want the Vortek experience are recommended to purchase H2C directly.
Purchasing H2S/H2D first and upgrading later will incur extra cost.
The Vortek Upgrade Kit is expected to be available in early 2026.
Not currently.
The firmware does not yet support mixing nozzle sizes (left vs. right or within Vortek hotend sets).
However, mixed nozzle types of the same size (e.g., 0.4 mm standard flow + 0.4 mm high flow) are supported.
| ITEM | PACKAGE AMOUNT | PACKAGE 1 | PACKAGE 2 | PACKAGE 3 |
| H2C AMS Combo | 1 | H2C AMS Combo | - | - |
| H2C AMS Combo + Ultimate Set | 3 | H2C AMS Combo |
| AMS 2 Pro |
| H2C Laser Full Combo - 10W Laser | 2 | H2C Laser Full Combo | 10W Laser | - |
| H2C Laser Full Combo - 40W Laser | 2 | H2C Laser Full Combo | 40W Laser | - |
| H2C Laser Full Combo - 10W Laser + Ultimate Set | 3 | H2C Laser Full Combo |
| AMS 2 PRO |
| H2C Laser Full Combo - 10W Laser + Ultimate Set | 3 | H2C Laser Full Combo |
| AMS 2 PRO |
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