Review on 🚀 Enhanced Precision with the Voxelab Industrial Structure Precision Extruder by Andrew Gomez

This is a solid, well built printer. It comes pre-assembled and ready to use. Unpacking takes a few minutes as it is very well packaged. The printer comes with a set of tools required for most 3D printers. I found the printer very easy to start up and use. The LCD display is large, clear and intuitive. During printing, the LCD displays a large icon that allows you to easily adjust the table temperature, hot-end temperature, print speed, and z-shift. The included software is easy to use. It seems to be the same as FlashPrint. I have used this software on other printers with great success. This is probably one of the best software packages for beginners. During printing, the motors are very quiet. In addition, the hot-end fan turns off when the hot-end is not warm, reducing unnecessary noise. The fan is noisy, but not louder than most 3D printer fans. This printer has the extruder mounted at the rear, with a long PTFE tube feeding the filament to the hot end. This makes it very easy to mount and feed the filament as long as you can easily access the back of the printer. This long filament travel can cause tension problems if the feed length and speed are not set correctly. The front USB port is easily accessible. A big plus of this printer is that it comes with a high-quality glass bed. I prefer glass beds on all my printers. It also had built in clips which is a really great feature. This printer is designed so that the platform moves up and down along the Z axis instead of the hot end. Its construction enables significantly faster printing, since the heavier hotend is fixed. The downside to this design is that platform alignment is even more important when printing. I have found a few issues with this printer that prevent me from giving it five stars. In fact, my actual rating is 3.5 stars, but I had no doubts and gave it a 4 (instead of 3). The first problem has to do with the orientation of the bed. I already mentioned that I always use a glass bed. I don't use glue or other materials to improve adhesion. Anyone who has been printing for a long time knows that the secret to successful printing is getting the first layer perfect. Getting the perfect first layer depends on two things. First of all, the bed must be level. Secondly, the gap between the bed and the die must have the ideal distance. This printer has the platform attached at the rear with two adjustable screws at the front. On the positive side, the handles are easy to adjust and the spring tension is perfect. The problem is that the bed leveling mechanism uses a three-point leveling technique. When leveling, the pressure moves the nozzle to a point in the middle of the back of the bed and you can adjust the distance via the LCD. In the next step to the two front points, you will be asked to adjust using the buttons under the bed. In my experience, the 3-point alignment mechanism is difficult to use and leads to many first-level errors. I have found this to be the case for this printer. If you are careful when leveling the platform and level it more often, you will end up with good first layers on this printer. The second problem I found with this printer is that the LCD touch screen is problematic. I think that's because the screen is set back by about 1cm, making it harder to touch the menu items on the edge. I struggled with this constantly until I finally started using a small pen. It seems to be working very well. I'll probably attach a string to it and hook it up to the printer so it doesn't get lost. I'm not sure if this is related, but I also found that when leveling the bed with just a touch of the LCD, the Z offset value jumped in big increments, even when using the stylus. This added to the frustration of trying to level the bed. The third issue I encountered was the inability to connect to Wi-Fi. I couldn't get it to work on two different Wi-Fi networks. I'm not sure what the problem is, but I suspect it has to do with the special characters in the SSID and password. I created a temporary SSID with a simple name and password and was finally able to connect it. However, once connected, I had to restart the printer to establish a network connection. The last problem I had was loading and unloading threads. In both directions, the filament stepper shakes the extruder and the housing so hard that a loud noise is produced. I checked that nothing was loose and found no problems. Despite some of these issues, I find this to be an inexpensive printer that prints well. This printer may be suitable for beginners, but with any printer you should understand the strengths and weaknesses and you will get great prints.