I bought my 3D Printer recently and only know how to make and print things. It’s a relatively cheap printer, and it has many problems. It printed great for a while. Then it started clogging every print. I figured that out and fixed it, but now the home axis is off. The hotend is far too low and scrapes the printer bed every print. I did some research and was about to try calibrating the printer bed. I try to turn my printer on, but little happens. The screen lights up, just black, and I can’t do anything. Any tips or help? Thanks in advance.
J0ram
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That are a lot of problems…First of all, to solve those problems it would help a lot if you specify the printer, software and settings you use.
The clogging can have multiple causes. First thing to check would be the temperature of your extruder, this should be between 210 - 250 for ABS and between 190 and 230 for PLA. Printing at a too low temperature will clog your nozzle after a while. Printing too ho will burn the plastic and also clog it.
Clogging sometimes is also caused by dust on your filament, this builds up and clogs your nozzle. Placing your printer in a ‘clean’ environment helps a lot.
When your printbed is not calibrated correctly, the nozzle will hit the bed and might damage your nozzle and block it.
Calibrating the printbed is not really hard. Your bed has probably 4 screws at the corners witch you can use to adjust the height. The nozzle should be about the thickness of a paper sheet above the printbed at all corners. Before calibrating you should heat up the bed and nozzle because they will expand.
The other problems are harder to solve and we need your printer, software and settings for that. So if you can tell us what you use, we might be able to solve your problems
