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Recommendations for a Plug-n-Play / Walk-Away 3D-Printer (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 day ago by dohpaz42@lemmy.world to c/3dprinting@lemmy.ml
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I have cut my teeth on the Ender 3 Pro v2 printer by Creality. Neat little printer; it works wonders when/if it’s perfectly dialed in. The thing is, I don’t have the interest to dial it in like it needs to be. I just want to turn it on, send it a print, and walk away. I do t want to spend all morning (like this morning) trying to “auto-level” 🙄 the bed, just to not have it be level.

When I try to manually level the bed it’s worse: I can measure one corner 5 times in a row, and get 5 wildly different heights each time. And I’m even using the Creality BL Touch sensor!

I have upgraded the springs, and I’m using the wide knob’s, and spent days trying to tune in my printer. I’m also using the Jyers Marlin firmware (15x15).

It’s exhausting and not fun. Help me Make Printing Fun Again. 😩

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[-] fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 day ago

I gave up entirely on my Ender 3 pro. No amount of tweaking could get it to print more or less flawlessly every time. There was always an issue that needed tweaking every time I fired it up. Everything I changed to make it better only made it worse.

But somehow my newer Ender 3 S1 pro has been mostly flawless. Calibration has taken a while, but its built in bed leveling actually works. You'll still need to do the initial leg work. But now that that's done I just periodically run the bed leveling and mostly just fire it up, start a print, and let it go. I'm never again going to touch a custom firmware.

this post was submitted on 29 Apr 2025
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