[iancmceachern]

It's not. You are misinformed and clearly have not used one personally.

I have one you do not need the rfid to load filament.

There is a hole on the back of the printer, you put filament in it just like any other printer and then tell it what you have.

It doesn't even have a rfid reader back there.

That's in the case you don't want to use the AMS. If you do want to use the AMS it's similar. Open AMS, put filament in, push it into hole, select what filament it is on the touchscreen. If the filament happens to have an rfid tag, you don't need to do the last step. That's all.

I have 4 bambu labs rfid enabled spools loaded now, 4 spools from matter hackers without rfid in my second AMS right now, works great.

[function_seven]

OK I guess I’m not making myself clear. I am not under the impression that the RFID is required for the printer to accept filament. I understand that it’s a nice-to-have feature that makes it seamless to swap things out without punching a bunch of buttons.

You know what would make it even better? If those RFID tags were available to filament makers. This would improve the user experience.