Anyone used Printbite surface ?

[curious aardvark]

like I said it's cheaper to buy an oversized piece and cut it yourself into two beds. I need to work out soe sort of temporary clip system for the knp.
Cut is the wrong word.
You just score it with a knife and then snap it - working in from the edges to the centre.

[Talon 3D]

Agreed and they are cutting two for me for the QIDI.

like I said it's cheaper to buy an oversized piece and cut it yourself into two beds. I need to work out soe sort of temporary clip system for the knp.
Cut is the wrong word.
You just score it with a knife and then snap it - working in from the edges to the centre.

[Talon 3D]

Grr now there is no PrintBite for me.
They stopped communicating.
I will try a different vendor.

[curious aardvark]

you tried these guys: https://flex3drive.com/printbite/

Don't know of any suppliers in the states.
Although looking at their list of materials they claim will work on printbite, there are some there that absolutely do not work.

PrintBite supports printing of the following materials on a clean hot level bed without substrates

• PLA (including CF, metalised and other additive formulas)
• ABS (including CF, metalised and other additive formulas)
• Nylon (Taulman range and others including PCTPE)
• Woodlay and stone/copper filaments
• Flexibles such as NinjaFlex and Filaflex
• PET filaments
• PVA support filament
• HIPS
• TPU
• Polycarbonate
• TGlasse

polycarbonate - nope, not a chance, nada, nix does not stick at all. Ninjaflex -well yes it sticks, but try getting it off. Not recommended. Pva is the best print surface for tpu's.
Nylon, yes - kind of. But under no circumstances shold you attempt to print Mymat nylon on printbite. Just don't :-) Use pva and it's perfect.

[Talon 3D]

This was the site that was going to do it for me.
I woke up to an email from him and stating the site was updated and he could get me set. I am ordering it now.
I will be ordering the 500x500 and having it cut to two pieces for the QIDI.
Thanks again.

you tried these guys: https://flex3drive.com/printbite/

Don't know of any suppliers in the states.
Although looking at their list of materials they claim will work on printbite, there are some there that absolutely do not work.


polycarbonate - nope, not a chance, nada, nix does not stick at all. Ninjaflex -well yes it sticks, but try getting it off. Not recommended. Pva is the best print surface for tpu's.
Nylon, yes - kind of. But under no circumstances shold you attempt to print Mymat nylon on printbite. Just don't :-) Use pva and it's perfect.

[DaveB]

This was the site that was going to do it for me.
I woke up to an email from him and stating the site was updated and he could get me set. I am ordering it now.
I will be ordering the 500x500 and having it cut to two pieces for the QIDI.
Thanks again.

Did your order for printbite go through with the flex3drive folks? When do you expect to receive it?

[curious aardvark]

How should I clean the Printbite surface? I leveled the bed a few times and it appeared to work better. Curious Aardvark, what machine and slicer do you have?

The printbite is installed on abog standard (well slight modification) flashforge creator x. My slicer of choice if simplify3d - for dual material and tpu prints I also have a klick-n-print machine. Essentially an unenclosed crerator pro. I still use pva stick on that and use it mostly for flexible prints and dual extrusion.
At some point if i do more printing I'll set it up with a removeable printbite bed.

[Talon 3D]

So my PrintBite arrived this week. I just installed tonight.
It is printing the first print right now. Some CableChain chain units. So far one has popped off. The other 3 look ok at 33% done. I will let it run through.

Thanks to cncartist for a great removal video for the blue sticker the QIDI dual extruder ships with. It made for a super easy installation.

I will post the ending pics as well when done in a couple hours.


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[Talon 3D]

Just a note for anyone looking for PrintBite.
I got it here at https://flex3drive.com/, I cannot say enough how good their service was. There was a bit of an issue as I ordered a single huge sheet and asked for it to be cut into two sections for two for the QIDI printer. It was just an email thing were they were at conferences and busy launching their new site. They quickly got me set once they were ready and got it right to me. They have been great.

[Talon 3D]

And 4 of four have lifted.
I leveled the bed cold and then hot and hot extruders when I first installed. I am sure it may need a bit more adjustment.

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