I literally have a dissembled 3D printer in my desk right now that got the hotend entirely covered in some unknown carbonized substance… Probably from the filament.
Yet, that’s actually an easy fix and will cost a little bit because I’m choosing to replace that stuff.
At the same time, I have a paper printer around that I dissembled 3 weeks ago that is just waiting to be thrown away, because some parts made to break broke, and they cost as much as a new printer.
And yet I have at least three 3D printers sitting on my desk that are broken in various states that I have been unable to repair and unable to get working again including a brand new one that I literally just got a couple months ago I only started it up last week I’ve only done four prints on it five prints on it I think and it’s currently stating that it’s clogged even though I have cleaned every single piece of that damn thing and just replace the hot end this afternoon. But yet my inkjet printer which I haven’t touched has a absolutely zero issues.
Printing is VERY fickle. Most mixtures of PLA or PETG only have a good print temp range of ~20C, and that’s a generous window that is very different based on brand of plastic, age of the spool, and current humidity for some even common plastics, like PLA.
I’ve clogged nozzles with nothing but a hiccup on temperature over the course of long prints (thanks to a dying thermistor, but easy fix), let alone prints where all sorts of variables build up over time until the print pops off the plate half way through.
It will be decades yet before 3D printing is as trivial as a modern laser printer, or even ink jets that don’t randomly decide it’s time you owe HP a new $50 for ink carts…
I literally have a dissembled 3D printer in my desk right now that got the hotend entirely covered in some unknown carbonized substance… Probably from the filament.
Yet, that’s actually an easy fix and will cost a little bit because I’m choosing to replace that stuff.
At the same time, I have a paper printer around that I dissembled 3 weeks ago that is just waiting to be thrown away, because some parts made to break broke, and they cost as much as a new printer.
That’s what’s the other printers’ for, innit?
Not really.
Almost nothing in a paper printer is just a plastic part with 0.1mm accuracy.
And yet I have at least three 3D printers sitting on my desk that are broken in various states that I have been unable to repair and unable to get working again including a brand new one that I literally just got a couple months ago I only started it up last week I’ve only done four prints on it five prints on it I think and it’s currently stating that it’s clogged even though I have cleaned every single piece of that damn thing and just replace the hot end this afternoon. But yet my inkjet printer which I haven’t touched has a absolutely zero issues.
Printing is VERY fickle. Most mixtures of PLA or PETG only have a good print temp range of ~20C, and that’s a generous window that is very different based on brand of plastic, age of the spool, and current humidity for some even common plastics, like PLA.
I’ve clogged nozzles with nothing but a hiccup on temperature over the course of long prints (thanks to a dying thermistor, but easy fix), let alone prints where all sorts of variables build up over time until the print pops off the plate half way through.
It will be decades yet before 3D printing is as trivial as a modern laser printer, or even ink jets that don’t randomly decide it’s time you owe HP a new $50 for ink carts…
Looks like you found the company doing that to 3D printers.