Filaprint bed surface

[Zesty_Lykle]

Hi All

After testing Filaprint as a printing surface I finally finished the report and want to share it with you.

Have a look and see if it is relevant to you.

The report


Lykle

[curious aardvark]

well judging by your report, you either have a very loose calibration, or that stuff isn't a patch on printbite.
I don't get any corners lifting on anything.
Plus nylon tends to stick much too well.

There do seem to be a lot of half useful printing surfaces around - still yet to see anything as good as printbite.

But love the report :-)

[Zesty_Lykle]

Interesting!
I switched from Printbite to Filaprint as I had way too much trouble getting the first layer to stick. With Filaprint I had a lot less trouble.
Interesting how experiences differ from printer to printer or from user to user.

But loose calibration, yes, that would not surprise me. I am changing my effector every day testing something new. Swapping hot ends, nozzles or even the whole effector. Stress testing an extruder does these things to your printer.

[curious aardvark]

You do need a pretty tight calibration with printbite. These days i just adjust it from the z-offset setting in the slicer.

You do seem to use a lot of very high bed temps as well. I pretty much just use 60c for 90% of filaments and 70c for pet-g.
Never needed to go any higher yet.

[Zesty_Lykle]

Hmm, I could not get ABS to stick on Printbite unless I went to 110C At least.

[wirlybird]

That is one reason I haven't tried Printbite is it doesn't play so well with ABS. Most of what I read indicate using very high bed and extruder temps to get decent results.

Hmm, I could not get ABS to stick on Printbite unless I went to 110C At least.

[Sebastian Finke]

110° is too high for ABS. I know I sound like a stuck record on this but there physical properties within which we need to operate.

Good job on the report!

[wirlybird]

Since when is 110 bed temp to high for ABS? This is really what everything defaults to. What physical properties do you mean?

[Sebastian Finke]

The defaults are set like that for beginners who struggle getting prints to stick on the build plate.

The physical property I mean in this case is the glass transition temperature of ABS which happens to be 105°C. At this point ABS can be easily deformed by gravity. Your HBP should be no higher than 100°C.

[curious aardvark]

or just don't use abs :-)