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Hi,

I am wondering what is the idea feedrate to travelrate. I have a Monoprice 3d printer, dual extrusion and I am wondering what is idea? I am printing pla at 220 on a baseplate at 110.

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I also have the Monoprice dual printer. For PLA, try using a print head temp of 200, and the build plate should be about 70 or 75. 110 is too hot for PLA. My federate is 40 and travel federate is 55. I leave those at the defaults.

This website is very helpful: How To Succeed When 3D Printing With PLA Filament | MatterHackers

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Turn off your heatplate completely. PLA doesn’t need it, in fact it does bad things to PLA. heat plates are for ABS, Nylon, and other high temp materials. Personally I print 190-195 depending on color (lighter prints cooler). Print on blue painters tape, or upgrade to glass (I still use tape it works fine)

Travel speeds I personally run around 40-60 on print, and 90 when not printing.

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Hi Jonathan,

I am helping a friend with the Monoprice 11614 with dual extruders. We’re just concentrating on one right now but we’re having issues with the print losing grip midway. I would love to adjust or turn off the heated bed as we’re using stock PLA provided by Monoprice. I couldn’t find the settings in ReplicatorG and the machines settings seems to refer to preheat settings only. I suspect the Gcode will override those settings once a print begins. Can you tell me where I can find the settings or will I have to edit the Gcode manually?

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I haven’t used replicatorG in some time. I recommend using maker not desktop if you want free and easy, or simplify 3d for more options. Also update to the sailfish firmware, the general instructions were not hard to follow. Either of these options shold give you full bed control, but I know both together do. (Try the makerbot software first)