Anyone used Printbite surface ?

[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?

[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]

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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[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]

I releveled the bed again before I started the new print. Cold and hot.
Nothing is sticking yet.
PLA at 195, bed 40 like I had dialed in before.
Going to relevel the bed again and try again.

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[Talon 3D]

And yet another fail. Does not stick past a few layers.
Will try yet again to level the bed. It has to be it. The PrintBite is clean, level, installed right. I even used gloves installing it.

[curious aardvark]

okay - two (could be more lol) things that are obvious to me.

1) bed levelling. Printbite is only used hot - why are levelling a cold bed ?

2) the bed heat needs to be at least 60c for pla and most other filaments - never go lower, but for some things you need to go hotter. Always calibrate with bed and extruder at printing temps.
That said, I calibrate at 225 and that suits my printer for everything from 200-260.

2.5) print your pla at least at 205 - 210-215 is usually better.

3) calibrate tighter, that front bead you have is practically round. ie: almost no downward pressure on the bead at all. Now that's fine for flexible filaments and really good zero-warp filaments, but utterly useless for normal price range pla.

4) You can adjust z-level in the slicer, well you can in simplify 3d - nevber looked in anything else. I adjust downward pressure (z-level adjustment) for different filaments and different size models.

Printbite is like everything else - you need to get your settings right. But at the moment you're just not using enough heat :-)