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N314

Print Quality
August 13, 2012 06:02PM

Registered: 12 years ago
Posts: 188

Hi-

I built my Prusa in may and have used it to make random (non mechanical) things. e.g. a model of a dinosaur for a friend...

But I want to get my printer operating at the best quality it can do for actual parts/part assemblies.

I want to know every factor to change and how to make my printer to print high quality parts.

-Nick

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Lodorenos

Re: Print Quality
August 13, 2012 09:36PM

Registered: 11 years ago
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The most important things in my opinion that affect quality, in order, are calibration, layer height, and nozzle size.

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Charles S.
Software Engineer
Prusa Mendel I2, RAMPS 1.4, Marlin 1.0 R2, Pronterface, Slic3r

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N314

Re: Print Quality
August 13, 2012 10:57PM

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What would you recommend as layer height for a .35mm nozzle?

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NewPerfection

Re: Print Quality
August 14, 2012 01:43AM

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N314 Wrote:
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> What would you recommend as layer height for a
> .35mm nozzle?

I use 0.2mm layers with my 0.35 and 0.4mm nozzles.

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Jaramaniac

Re: Print Quality
August 21, 2012 12:48AM

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I've Been Searching Around the Forums for a little bit now, is anyone able to point me in the right direction for some more detailed instructions on how to calibrate the Prusa Mendel?

Im using RAMPS 1.4 on an ATMEGA2560 with Pronterface and Slicr

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N314

Re: Print Quality
August 21, 2012 02:19PM

Registered: 12 years ago
Posts: 188

Jaramaniac Wrote:
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> I've Been Searching Around the Forums for a little
> bit now, is anyone able to point me in the right
> direction for some more detailed instructions on
> how to calibrate the Prusa Mendel?
>
> Im using RAMPS 1.4 on an ATMEGA2560 with
> Pronterface and Slicr

What Firmware are you using?

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Jaramaniac

Re: Print Quality
August 22, 2012 08:07PM

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I am using Sprinter Uploaded to the arduino (the file I donwloaded is specifically: kliment-Sprinter-3dca6f0

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Enough

Re: Print Quality
August 23, 2012 08:57PM

Registered: 11 years ago
Posts: 1

I think if u want to get good quality,u should study Skeinforge very seriously..
Skeinforge is really important ,and it will help u a lot..

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N314

Re: Print Quality
August 23, 2012 09:33PM

Registered: 12 years ago
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No Idea how to install or use skeinforge. Ive tried... never got it to work.

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thejollygrimreaper

Re: Print Quality
August 23, 2012 10:11PM

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if you download a copy of Replicatorg it has Skeinforge built into it

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N314

Re: Print Quality
August 23, 2012 10:21PM

Registered: 12 years ago
Posts: 188

Where can I get ReplicatorG?

EDIT: Nevermind. I forgot about google.

Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 08/23/2012 10:23PM by N314.

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13asilis

Re: Print Quality
August 25, 2012 06:06AM

Registered: 12 years ago
Posts: 43

here is a 3-part series from RichRap, after reading and doing that your printer should be working rather well, then the tweaking begins smiling smiley