Review on Creality 3DPrintMill Infinite Continuous Upgraded by Allen Hart

This is my third 3D printer in about 9 years (PrintrBot Simple XL in 2013 and Hictop something else in 2016) so my frame of reference is skewed for some features. Restarting on power failure and restarting on filament exhaustion is a miracle! First the cons: It prints a bit slower than a standard regular Cartesian printer, partly because the default speed is slow, and partly because the bottom "wall" slows down separately. The orientation is strange. There's no other way to say it. I did what I normally do (reached the dipstick, set the initial offset, then shook my head to level the bed) and. Bird nest. What worked for me was aligning the L/R bed and then adjusting the Y-stop so the nozzle barely drags across the belt. Then print something, and if the first layer doesn't hold, move the tape up. That means all the cool stuff you upload that has a slanted base is ugly. The first layer is one side of the print, so anything that doesn't have a straight leading edge won't adhere well. Bowden extrusion that constrains flexible filaments so safely. You could probably switch to direct drive without sacrificing print speed, as it's very slow by default. Pros: Parts are detachable from the bed. I'm used to having to tear things down so a 500mm Z hauler to drop the parts in the bucket doesn't get old. I can't split the Z axis into one part. (My hictop just broke because the hotend hit the top of the part. Repeat the marks. Start printing for one part and tell the printer "make six of these, yeah?" will be more than 45 degrees from vertical. It will go horizontal to the nozzle. Advantages over Cartesian. Next for me is octoprint as starting new parts is the only thing it doesn't do by itself. EDIT 8/31/21Y octoprint has been working since a week for me and holy smoke buy octoprint if you buy a continuous print plugin made for this printer (which allows you to queue gcode files) the arc weld plugin works too (basically compresses the gcode that Octo sends to the printer, which speeds things up.) Even if something doesn't work, you can check it from almost anywhere, and harvesting spaghetti basically means a Z (belt) 200m m to run and start over. I save came from Creality Tape Cutting. It's not bad, but IdeaMaker is just great. The calipers are smarter, cut faster, and work for your Cartesian printers too. The Nak3D profile for the IdeaMaker works really well, setting the margins to 200mm to start printing, keeping everything in place.