Wanhao Duplicator I3 3D Printer

[rhd]

Mine is here. I'm incredibly impressed. I have very little frame of reference though, since I only have one other printer. However, this seems very solid in construction and it was basically ready to go right out of the box (8 screws to attach in total, and it even comes with the hex wrenches to do so - kind of like Ikea furniture!). Honestly, it blows my mind that this was available for the price I paid. This is a heavy, rigid, printer. Very little plastic to be found anywhere.

I haven't even hooked it up to a PC yet, I've just been printing from SD cards (I like the concept of saving the GCode to an SD card so that if my computer restarts for a windows update, or for whatever other reason freezes or reboots, it doesn't interrupt the printer).

The only flaw I've spotted so far is that it doesn't run the extruder fan enough, which causes PLA jams as the extruder heats up. This is solvable by simply manually turning the fan on 100% at the beginning of a print, but if you forget to do that, you'll run into jamming issues a few hours in to a long PLA print. I tried adding "M106 S255" or "M106 S1.0" to my GCode, but that doesn't seem to turn on the fans. So unless Wanhao provides some guidance re: GCode to turn on the fan (or an update to always turn the fan on full when printing PLA) then it will be necessary to remember to turn it on manually each time you print with PLA.