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All carts that I have ever seen have vents, otherwise the ink would not flow due to fluctuations in pressure. Not heard of that brand, however most Maxify users that have refilled have eventually noticed issues with some colours, Yellow or Cyan being the most regular culprits. My 5150 was a...

No sure what they use for lubrication on the rods, however the Bambu printers are the most unfriendly machines to do maintenance on. Take the carriage with the toolhead as an example. If a bearing goes bad on it there is no way to replace a bearing. You have to buy a complete carriage at...

Been a while since this thread was active but I thought it might be useful to document my foray into laser printers. I recently bought the Brother MFC-L8690-CDW printer. I spent most of a week researching the various brands, aftermarket carts, which ones had chips etc. I alwys returned to the...

A write up on how to test and adjust the settings (not for the faint hearted) https://www.printables.com/model/783313-better-seams-an-orca-slicer-guide-to-using-scarf-s

You can downlaod the Beta version with the seam enhancement here... https://github.com/SoftFever/OrcaSlicer/releases/tag/v2.0.0-beta Orca Slicer seems (no pun intended) to be forging ahead with lots of new developments compared to other slicers currently. They will of course turn up in Prusa...

This looks very promising and worth trying out soon in Orca Slicer intially.

A re-inforced glass bubble would be safer than a plastic one :hide:p

The Bambu X1C works out of the box but is a nightmare to service even some of the simplest parts. If a bearing goes faulty on the gantry then its throwaway and buy a new $100+ gantry as there is no way to remove the bearing. Currently there is a problem on some machines where a bed cable gets...

Melted plastic no matter what type is not good if inhaled. The smallest particles (VOC's) can't be seen, they are pretty much the same size as gas particles. No one yet knows what the long term effect will be, in the same way long term Vaping effects are also as yet unknown, but it makes sense...

If you are bored you can watch this video where Thomas Sanladerer builds this €72 wobbly printer and seeemingly enjoyed it :)

There is what I call an "apprenticeship" or rite of passage when first starting 3D printing. The first test in the apprenticeship is a frustrating one and that is bed adhesion/first layer issues. It's the number one source of frustration for newbies. Experience through observing the first...

Lucky, as some of them don't care about the environment. HP are still crippling laser printers so they won't take 3rd party toner carts. One OTA update knocked out many printers recently. I think it will take a Class action to stop them doing it.

Or maybe someone/some other connection from outside is enabling it :eek:

Worth a shot. I hate to admit it but I'm about to go down the laser printer route as my Maxify printer head is playing up, and the amount of printing I do now means that it can lay dormant for a week or more sometimes, which doesn't help keeping the nozzles unblocked. It kind of makes sense...

3-4K prints a day is a lot of printing and beyond hobby use. If you are running this as a business then you need to factor in the cost of good quality ink and price your printing accordingly. Don't use cheap inks unless you want to risk losing a good printer.

Everyone has to decide based on what research they do whether to take a Covid vaccine or not. Telling people not to take it is not of much help as it is a based on your beliefs/research. Everyone needs to base their decision by weighing up the risks of Covid given their own heath state and...

Just avoid the very cheapest as it is generally more bother than its worth.

Welcome to the mad world of 3D printing. The best advice I can give is set a finite time per day for playing with the printer, otherwise if you have a partner now you might not have them after a few weeks :lol: Its addictive!

I stand corrected, but what a stupid way to promote a product!

Some of the cheap machines don't even have thermal runaway protection in the firmare, in fact many of the early Creality machines had memory chips so tiny they allegedly remove the protection code to add more features. I'm quite happy with mine, Klipper has many safety features built in and I...