I am a big fan of the Monoprice Ultimate 2 3d printer. As a fully enclosed and fast 3d printer with a direct extruder, I believe it is a good value for the price. This is not a printer you are going to modify or upgrade, it is more of an appliance. The auto bed leveling works quite well and the printer performance and quality are excellent. The printer speed is similar to my Prusa i3 Mk3 and much faster than my Creality Ender 3 or 5.
I started by using the Monoprice supplied version of Cura which I believe was version 3.3 but soon moved to the current version of Cura by manually copying the settings into Cura version 4.4.
The primary limitations of the printer are a relatively small print volume at 200 mm x 150 mm x 150 mm, a print head temperature limitation of 235c, and proprietary firmware. The printer does include support for firmware upgrades and I have done this twice successfully.
The strong advantages of the printer are ease of use, speed, and quality when printing with support filament types.
While the auto bed leveling on the printer has worked perfectly, printing directly on the glass with a bit of MagiGoo, some of my viewers have had difficulties. The ABL requires a properly adjusted print bed and if your printer came from the factory with a print bed that was not aligned properly it will fail. Here is a link to a tutorial on manually adjusting the print bed and then for setting the Z offset.
Please leave your comments below.
Irv
I started by using the Monoprice supplied version of Cura which I believe was version 3.3 but soon moved to the current version of Cura by manually copying the settings into Cura version 4.4.
The primary limitations of the printer are a relatively small print volume at 200 mm x 150 mm x 150 mm, a print head temperature limitation of 235c, and proprietary firmware. The printer does include support for firmware upgrades and I have done this twice successfully.
The strong advantages of the printer are ease of use, speed, and quality when printing with support filament types.
While the auto bed leveling on the printer has worked perfectly, printing directly on the glass with a bit of MagiGoo, some of my viewers have had difficulties. The ABL requires a properly adjusted print bed and if your printer came from the factory with a print bed that was not aligned properly it will fail. Here is a link to a tutorial on manually adjusting the print bed and then for setting the Z offset.
Please leave your comments below.
Irv
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