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Z axis printing problem
Posted: Fri Oct 05, 2018 5:51 pm
by Nasir13
Hello,
I have a newly purchased and assembled i3 Pro W, and am encountering issues with the Z axis.
After I prepare and calibration z axis with bed and starting the printing, z axis take position higher than bed 0.3!!
which affect the printing.
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How i can solve that and make z axis good position during the printing?.
I need your advise
Re: Z axis printing problem
Posted: Sat Oct 06, 2018 3:31 am
by keyser187
Hi,
How did you calibrate the z axis?
Going by the pics, your first layer height is 0.3 but it looks like your nozzle is too high from the bed.
Re: Z axis printing problem
Posted: Tue Oct 09, 2018 1:45 am
by Nasir13
Hi Keyser187,
Actually i have did calibrate with piece of paper.. and when i set home, the nozzel be perfect level with bed. But the problem when starting printing it will start with 0.3! And that really big gaps between nozzle and bad
Re: Z axis printing problem
Posted: Tue Oct 09, 2018 11:38 am
by _kaktus_
Hello.
Did you check the position of the model in Slicer?
Re: Z axis printing problem
Posted: Wed Oct 10, 2018 1:49 am
by Nasir13
How?
Re: Z axis printing problem
Posted: Wed Oct 10, 2018 11:38 am
by _kaktus_
Re: Z axis printing problem
Posted: Wed Oct 10, 2018 9:53 pm
by keyser187
also if you have Manual Bed Leveling on, try turning that off and try again (you probably wont have this feature unless you have updated firmware to marlin 1.1.8)
Re: Z axis printing problem
Posted: Fri Oct 12, 2018 5:46 pm
by Nasir13
hello keyser187,
I have try upload marlin 1.1.8 but! get error!?
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Re: Z axis printing problem
Posted: Sat Oct 13, 2018 6:01 am
by keyser187
viewtopic.php?f=82&t=61011
Try this 1 that I got working on my pro w
Also update arduino version to upload or it dosnt work
Re: Z axis printing problem
Posted: Mon Apr 08, 2019 10:31 am
by vujsa
I'm having the exact same issue. I can't say for sure the gap between the printer nozzel and the bed but 0.3mm looks about right.
I tried uploading the firmwareversion from the previous post but the results were the same...
2 days ago I decided to update my firmware. I simply used the firmware .hex file supplied on the download page of the geeetech website.
Prior to this, I was successfully printing models but they were pretty rough. I was hoping a firmware update might improve the print quality. Yeah, I'm pretty new at this! I wasn't planning to become proficient in Pronterface and Arduino today!
This wasn't a problem until the initial firmware update.
I've used different models and different slicers but the result is always the same.
Now support just messaged me after a day and a half telling me to set my Z axis offset to -0.5mm.
No clue how to do that to be honest but I'll dig into it.
In the meantime if someone knows how to resolve the issue I'd very much appreciate the information.
Thank you!
