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Topic: Need help with bed calibration and printing

Just got the printer yesterday and nothing but problems, the print out the box is far from the truth.
I have managed to do two prints and now I can not print anything.
My problem is in three parts.

1 every time the table is lowered the calibration goes off a lot as an example the table was calibrated to 245,236,239 and was doubled checked showing 253,242,257 on the second pass.
Table was dropped and raised and the readings are 89,91,243 it does this all the time, I have spent so many hours getting the table calibrated to have a fail on the print which is my second problem.

2 When I start to print the 1st layer goes down very thin and then nothing, the head moves around but nothing is coming thru the nozzle, I have cleaned it, removed the filament and reinserted it with a show at the nozzle but as soon as I go to print it does the same again. The 1st layer goes down and then nothing. It looks like the nozzle is to close to the table and is stopping the flow but the calibration is in the correct range.

3 The table is not flat and has a bevel upwards in the middle, can this be correct?

Any help would be apprecaited.

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Re: Need help with bed calibration and printing

bevo09 wrote:

Just got the printer yesterday and nothing but problems, the print out the box is far from the truth.
I have managed to do two prints and now I can not print anything.
My problem is in three parts.

1 every time the table is lowered the calibration goes off a lot as an example the table was calibrated to 245,236,239 and was doubled checked showing 253,242,257 on the second pass.
Table was dropped and raised and the readings are 89,91,243 it does this all the time, I have spent so many hours getting the table calibrated to have a fail on the print which is my second problem.

2 When I start to print the 1st layer goes down very thin and then nothing, the head moves around but nothing is coming thru the nozzle, I have cleaned it, removed the filament and reinserted it with a show at the nozzle but as soon as I go to print it does the same again. The 1st layer goes down and then nothing. It looks like the nozzle is to close to the table and is stopping the flow but the calibration is in the correct range.

3 The table is not flat and has a bevel upwards in the middle, can this be correct?

Any help would be apprecaited.


Once you get the table calibrated, use the manual calibration method stickied in this section. Follow it to the letter and never run the byilt in calibration again. It is wrong. If your bed is high in the middle all you can do is try to reach a comprimise between the high spot and low spots that will allow for printing. The reason your extruder stopped was it was to close to the bed and picked up glue. Run a load filament step from the menu and try pushing the filament by hand if it is not feeding.  If that does not work try the little wire cleaning tool. If that fails you will have to take it apart and clean it.

The bed can be ordered from XYZ for about 60 bucks. The issue is finding them in stock. They might replace it if you can show them pics that accuratly show the issue.  They may also tell you to send back the entire printer. Their support department is very strange.

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Re: Need help with bed calibration and printing

Once you get the table calibrated, use the manual calibration method stickied in this section. Follow it to the letter and never run the byilt in calibration again. It is wrong. If your bed is high in the middle all you can do is try to reach a comprimise between the high spot and low spots that will allow for printing. The reason your extruder stopped was it was to close to the bed and picked up glue. Run a load filament step from the menu and try pushing the filament by hand if it is not feeding.  If that does not work try the little wire cleaning tool. If that fails you will have to take it apart and clean it.
The bed can be ordered from XYZ for about 60 bucks. The issue is finding them in stock. They might replace it if you can show them pics that accuratly show the issue.  They may also tell you to send back the entire printer. Their support department is very strange.


Tanks for that,
I have tried the manual calibration. I will give it another go and leave the auto calibration alone