Hi all, I'm relatively new to this whole printing thing, and having a really hard time getting consistent results out of my Prusa Mendel 2. I'm printing Reprapper brand white PLA on unheated blue tape over glass, using an E3D v5 hotend. I have Marlin firmware on a RAMPS 1.4 board. Control software is Repetier Host, and I'm using Slic3r as my slicing software. Up until I started tweaking thingsby Klokworker - Printing
You were right, but even more so than you thought. I had calculated my extruder steps/mm wrong and the new value is about 20 times higher. It's not great at this point, but it's definitely printing something. While we're on the subject, any ideas as to why plastic might just stop coming out of the extruder mid-print?by Klokworker - Reprappers
Hi all, I've just finished building my printer and I'm working towards getting my first print out of it. My problem is that the extruder produces a correct (as far as I know) extrudate of melted plastic when it's away from the bed and manually command it to run, but when I attempt a print no significant amount of plastic leaves the nozzle and no more than little drops adhere to the bed. My priby Klokworker - Reprappers