creality

New printers

Well I’ve got two new printers, one still is waiting to ship the other is here and printing.

I backed the CR-6 SE on kickstarter and now I’m just waiting for it to ship along with the add-ons I selected.

  • The other printer is an Ender 3 V2 which I’ve been hearing lots of good things about, especially that it’s a 32 bit board with silent stepper drivers. It arrived yesterday and went together in less than an hour and here’s my first impressions of it.

  • The instruction manual seems to be much better than the original ender 3, much less confusing on how to put things together so that was very welcome.

  • Typical excellent packing, nothing was damaged or missing.

  • First test print was perfect, very encouraging.

  • I love the color screen, and the menu system is laid out very well.

  • Don’t like the fact that the creality slicer is Windows only.

  • But using Cura with the default ender 3 profile is printing absolutely gorgeous prints, so that’s REALLY nice.

  • Some people have complained about the weak bed springs, but so far I’ve not had any issues.

  • Hooking up Octoprint had one issue, the temp readouts are all wonky, but someone in the octoprint community has already posted a fix for it and it worked great.

Looking forward to really putting this printer through its paces.

This may be a printer that I don’t upgrade. The only possible upgrades I can think of would be a BLTouch, which it has a connector already in the board but right now I’m not having any leveling issues.

The other is something that I probably will install and that’s the filament runout sensor. I’ve found that to be very convenient in a couple of different ways.