The invitations look pretty nice.

It looks as though you may be marrying way out of your league

Agreed! But don't tell her that. She still thinks that she is the lucky one. :-)

This is just a test print but what do you thing for wedding invitations? I will be altering the text still to be a raised relief.

elmoret wrote:

Linky link?

http://www.ebay.com/itm/331626621883?_t … EBIDX%3AIT

This is a black PLA that came with the unit printing off of the SD Card. All that was done to the printer was a bed level before printing. Pretty impressive.

What is the file name for those spool holders? All the names on my card is in Taiwanese and I don't want to print each file to see what they are. They are in X3G format as well so I cannot preview them.

I printed some from thingiverse but the screw on parts have knurled grips and they lacerate your hands when you try to tighten them. I like the one that came with the printer better but one won't do much good for a dual extruder printer.

I have a metal version of this one. It so far is the best I have owned and when paired with Simplify3D it out performs you 3 Grand plus models.

I am running Simplify3D also. I am not printing through USB right now but I do get the gcode from simplify3d and print from the card. It will be nice to dig into this printer a bit and see how best to improve it. That is for a later date though, I need to just keep this one running until I get the wedding printing done.

Linky link?

http://www.ebay.com/itm/331626621883?_t … EBIDX%3AIT

This is a black PLA that came with the unit printing off of the SD Card. All that was done to the printer was a bed level before printing. Pretty impressive.

So I went with the cheap ebay CTC creator clone. This thing has some pretty awesome out of the box quality. I know i'm not the first one to buy this printer. I am not a huge fan of the print area but I think it will do for most of my prints. It came with black PLA and was pretty much calibrated from the start. The only issue that I have is that one nozzle hangs a bit lower than the other. I think I can have that fixed and level in about 5 minutes as soon as this print finishes.

I have a metal version of this one. It so far is the best I have owned and when paired with Simplify3D it out performs you 3 Grand plus models.

I just give you my input, which is worth not much, but here ya go :

My poor SD3 was messing up recently, and I had to take it all appart again, and mods mods mods to come... To do those mods, I had to print some parts naturally, but the poor SD3 was not going to help, wobble was horrible, just regular wear got it.

I was crusing on craigslist, and I found a powerspec 3D pro for 500 usd, with a shit load of ABBS and PLA (7-8 full rolls). This is a copy of the FF pro, very good machine, with a smaller print area than the SD3, but has dual extruder, and has very small work to get it working out of the box. Put in the sailfish firmware, and it'll read Gcode. level the bed, do a Z shim, and glass bed holder, and here ya go, with high quality and reliable prints.

for this price point, it's unbeatable. A lot of people think that 3d rpinting is awesome, they run to the store, and buy one, and after a little bit, they get tired of it, because it is very far from being a inkjet or laser paper printer. all of them need tinkering... So people usually end up selling them on craigslist for the price they paid it, claiming it's brand new, but you just shoot them an offer, wait for a little bit, they all will come back to you as you are their last chance to recover a little money from their investment.

I hope my advice will help you, and I know you are very capable (even better than I am) at recovering a semi Used machine into a good reliable printer.

Best of luck to you, and keep on going with your great input !

cheers