Great news! But, does anybody knows why PLA is not included in the list? 
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I strongly disagree with your take on this. An example is a car manufacturer, they cant void your warranty if you use some other brand gasoline and a part such as transmission breaks. But if that other brand gas was not up to standards and clogged your fuel injectors they would be within their rights to deny the warranty claim on the fuel injectors.
Same with zortrax not replacing the hot end under warranty if a 3rd party filament caused it to jam. But if something like the motherboard or heated bed stopped working they can not deny that claim because of 3rd party filament being used.
I guess Z-Temps will go to the wall now?
Ha, that’s what I was thinking! But they still have other great mods like the Z-mon that I use to detect when filament runs out and pauses the printer. It’s already paid for itself a few times over saving print jobs from failing for my hubs orders.
There’s also a mod that lets you ditch the perf plate if you want to say print flex materials w/o a raft (which you still couldn’t do even with the new z-suite options).
And I hear good things about z-temp’s alternative hotend.
But yeah, their core product just bacame obsolete.
Thanks, I know about it. I’d rather just have it in z-suite, and I figure if Zortrax is already unlocking everything else, why not this as well?
Zortrax ABS is really affordable and has good quality. I perfectly understand the manufacturer decision to limit options to make their printer more reliable. I will use a 3rd party filament only if it offers something that I don’t get from a Zortrax filament.
I have some carbon fiber abs that prints great under the standard Z-ABS settings!
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Have you actually tried running PLA through their hotend? It doesn’t work well at all except a few brands. Check the ztemp site and see for yourself. PLA is not included for a reason…
It’s totally a 3D printing system, just as reliable as an Industrial type machine.
Good point, no I haven’t. I generally don’t print PLA since most of my jobs are for functional engineering applications. The z-temp team has a lot of success printing PLA on Zortrax but I believe most of that is when using their own hotend, not the OEM.
12 days later
A really important thing they left out of Z-Suite is the “air gap” setting.
Some “even Zortrax” filaments are extremely hard to remove. Especially if you have large horizontal radius “dome shaped” surface.
Actually, the Magnuson-Moss Act does consider this argument. While the first part of your argument is true, in the US a manufacturer cannot void a warranty based solely on the usage of aftermarket or 3rd party products, it does however still allow a manufacturer to refuse warranty coverage to any damage specifically caused by the use of said aftermarket or 3rd party products.
So in this example, if you run a 3rd party filament and let’s say your LED display fails under the warranty period, then Zortrax would have to honor the warranty since the filament likely had nothing to do with the display failure. However, if you ran a 3rd party filament, and that filament jammed up your hotend then they would have grounds to not replace your hotend under warranty, but the remainder of the warranty would remain intact. This pretty much aligns with Marta’s comment above which seems an appropriate response from Zortrax.