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Hi, I just purchased a Creator Pro and I’m trying to print the test print that comes with the SD card. It is being printed in ABS at 220 Celcius. The print is not sticking at all and ends up becoming that tangled ball of filament. What do I do?

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Hi HighlyAdaptive, are you sure the bed is calibrated correctly? Assuming the bed is heated to an appropriate temperature (around 100C for ABS), which it should be if it’s new and printing the test print, the most likely explanation is that your nozzle(s) are too far from the print bed; the filament is coming out, not hitting anything and simply collecting around the nozzle like toothpaste squeezed from a tube.

Run through the calibration steps again, and make sure the bed is even across all the points and in the central final point. The test card should feel quite firm resistance to being moved when the distance is right.

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I would agree on the bed height. I run ABS at 110 bed and 230 extruder.

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I just got mine a week ago and I have had no problems with it. I print ABS with a 110c bed temp. and a extruder at 230c. You might want to check the bed level again even though they come pre leveled and my was leveled.

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Question #1: are the sample models that came on the SD card printing well. IF so, it is your software setttings. IF not, it is your bed leveling.

There is another question on the board today that I answered, that explains how to level your bed with paper.

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@Perry_1 the original question said that the problem occurred when printing from the SD card, which is why it sounds like bed levelling…

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Sorry for not clarifying. The sample ones print quite well. Trying to print a pokeball and it keeps getting unstuck. Seems to be a temperature issue. IT’s sticking better when I make the platform 75 celcius and the nozzle 245 celius. Seems I just need to work a bit on the temperature and it should be good.

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It felt kinda firm… I will recalibrate and try again. Maybe the hard effort I had to put in removing the samples and then bringing the printer downstairs messed up the calibration?

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Update: Recalibrating seemed to fix the not sticking issue. Just a quick question, I have my printer set t print at a nice and easy 30 mm/s. At times for about a second or two it seems to speed up way faster then that, then it goes back to the nice easy print speed, is this normal?

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You dont want to run your printer above 230. The PTFE liner in ffpro will deteriorate rapidly at temps above 230 degrees.

This is a bed adhesion problem. Search about that. Get your bed closer to extruder for first layer. Squish it! It should stick fine to the ffpro buldtak blue bed.

For ABS, you want your bed at 110, your extruder at 230.