Official Creality Ender 3 V2 3D Printer with 32 Bit Silent Board Carborundum Glass Platform Integrated Structure Design and Resume Printing, 3D Printer for Beginner, 220x220x250mm

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The Ender 3 Max is the go-to choice for a large 3D printer, but if you’re not planning on printing super-large projects, it’ll be down to these next factors that affect your choice of Ender 3 3D printer: Build Speed And for a generally improved and more relaxed 3D printing experience, opt for the Ender 3 V2 and its slew of useful upgrades. To test the Ender 3’s print quality at higher speeds, we printed these two little sink drains at two different speeds.

The spool-holder dowel is held in place on the spool holder with a plastic nut, about an inch in diameter. The nut comes attached to the dowel and should unscrew from it in a manner similar to opening a child-proof cap to a pill bottle. Try as I might, though, I couldn’t get the nut to budge by hand. I ultimately had to remove it using a wrench that could open wide enough to securely grasp it. Creality's Ender-5 Pro, which I tested concurrently with the V2, uses the same dowel-and-nut combo, but I was able to separate them on the first try, no wrench needed.

A lot of people get this wrong and wonder why their firmware seems to build for the wrong printer and why they don't see the right environments showing up. The user interface has also been updated, with a new detachable color screen which makes controlling the device much easier and clearer.

This comes in handy if you have a large collection of models but the names are difficult to discern the models from.

For the first print, I attempted one of the test prints included on the memory card. I used a third-party PLA filament; the print came out brittle and poorly cohesive. I tried again, this time using Ender filament, but try as I could, I couldn't get it to extrude. I expected that the extruder might be clogged, so I preheated the extruder to PLA melting temperature and took the long, very thin needle that Creality includes with the printer and poked it into the nozzle a few times. This cleared out the problem, and from then on the V2 extruded normally. In retrospect, I suspect the problem wasn't with the filament, but that the nozzle was set a little too close to the print bed, touching it in places so that filament wouldn't come out and causing the clog.