I have a K8400. Quality seems pretty good, and most prints work fine. With Marvin there’s a problem. I think you can see the problem from the attached picture of a cancelled print. After a while the belly and back of Marvin begin to curl up, in a way that the nozzle starts hitting it on subsequent layers.
Already did the suggestion to change the E step from 200 to 150, and now when I extrude 100mm, exactly 100mm comes out.
I tried various speeds, 50mm/s, a suggested 30mm/s, all at 190C. Any ideas are welcome.
Also had a similar issue when trying to print a hollow tube, at the point where the carriage turns around from clockwise to counterclockwise and vice versa, there’s too much material, causing a bump that gets higher with every layer added.
I’ve had similar issues with my K8400. And solved most of it by experimenting with my first layer. I used to print the first layer at 200µm, but my printer always scraped over the previous layer and made grooves in it. And with every new layer it went worse.
So what i did is set my first layer extrusion to 80 - 90% and height to 300µm. The first layer wasn’t ‘squashed’ on the bed anymore, and i had a nice even layer, which was a lot better to build layers on top of it. My default extrusion multiplier for the rest of the layers is 95%, with the calibrated 150 E steps/mm. So if your first layer looks something like this, try fixing that first. Or set your multiplier to 90 - 95%. As long as you see no signs of ‘underextrusion’, you should be fine doing that.
I also got ugly results when printing 100% material extrusion. It’s much too much material, thats always pushed to the borders and after some layers, the noozle hits the print, servos can’t hold it position gets lost and the print is destroyed. After doing a lot of prints with different less material, i got 80% extrusion as an optimal value.
I recognized another thing:
It’s never a problem, if material isn’t filling the layer to 100 but to 99,9%… you won’t get see in result… but it will become a problem, if material fills the layer with 100,1%, as the 0,1% will add itself on each layer and will cause the crash after maybe many layers…
So, don’t try to match the 100% exactly, but try to stay some little below the 100%.
Printing the Marvin caused another problem with me at the top ring… use full ventillation on object fan at this point, or even print out some fan extension (thingiverse) to bring the air nearer to the noozle…
In Repetier host Cura settings -> filament->feedrate, I took the default value of 90% and layer height of 0.2mm, and set the 80% at manual control (2nd item below speed). I couldn’t yet get the right value for setting the …filament->feedrate correctly and let feedrate in manual control at 100%, as the 80% of the 90% (72%) in filament settings are much too low then… so, these two parameters are in anyway not calculated in the same proportion… most accurate value i could find, was about 85% instead the 90%… but have to do more finetuning on this value…
