Topic: Help with a DaVinci Jr 1.0 making covid supplies...
Hi everyone.
We have a couple of printers running off supplies for local hospitals and first responders for covid. One of the printers here is a DaVinci Jr 1.0 which is great for making ear savers for people wearing masks with the elastic behind their ears. Unfortunately the lone spool of chipped filament for it has about 20 meters left on it.
The printer is currently on 2.4.8 firmware. When I set it up it was on 2.2.7, which seemed odd because according to the current DaVinci software the current firmware for it was 2.2.6. I had read that Cura worked for it on the current firmware, so using the firmware update tool on here I updated it to 2.4.8. That said the Cura profile XYZ says to make for it doesn't seem to want to work as there's no start or end gcode and they say to use -10 for the x min and Cura 4.6 keeps changing it to -20.
I am guessing it's due to the missing start gcode (or maybe that -20) that it's not exactly cooperating. I tried using start gcode from someone's mini on here and it makes the proper test strip the same as it would with printing directly from an SD card but after that Cura prints much much finer lines that have a hard time adhering to the bed. The Z adjust doesn't seem to work all that well, as in that it's a big enough jump that it's either floating or mashed into the bed after running a calibrate.
So I ordered some NFC213 tags, and am trying to get that to work but the first few I've made are popping up as unknown spool. I've tried Reel Tool and NTAG Renaamer. The tag I made with Reel Tool and that DaVinci said was an unknown spool shows up as locked in NTAG Renamer. Extra weird, that NTAG Renamer is popping up that the chip is locked even though the initial scan says the chip is unlocked.
All that said, I have two questions:
1- Does anyone have working Cura profiles for the Junior 1.0?
2 - What is the current best way to create/refill these tags and are they refillable or would they be single use?
Printing from the SD card just worked, and if it wasn't for the chipped filament this thing would be still chugging along making the things. I know they have an unlimited NFC card, but it's currently sold out at least from their web shop, however I'm not sure spending $50 on that is worth it (and the time it would take to get here) for a printer that will most likely end up back in storage when this is over.