So I’ve owned the printer about 4 days… On a scale of 1 to 10… 10 Being an engineer able to troubleshoot all manner of printers, and 1 being a crouton placed on top of a printer. I’m a strong 3)… I know enough to be dangerous… I can troubleshoot extremely simple issues. As I type this it LOOKS like I’ve managed to find a workaround to the problem I have, but I want to share the info anyway.
Printing out of Orca Slicer to the K2 or even out of Creality Print to the K2… My hungry little printer is chewing up the first layers left and right. (See photos: WARNING Graphic Content… It’s ugly)
Now, at this moment (While Typing this), I am looking at a successful first layer. Sadly, I am missing a step (did so many things, I don’t remember one crucial step)
What I did that CAUSED the issue:
Model in Fusion export as STL
Drop on the Orca Prepare screen. Slice and then press SEND TO PRINTER /PRINT
The printer would bed level before printing and then begin to chew up everything once it started.
Here’ is what’s working:
Went to the small touch screen on printer
Found the model in LOCAL memory. (That must have been sent there by Orca)
Went to the calibration screen and selected calibration (I did NOT use Calibration connected to the print job)
When finished went back to file list… Selected the model / job in the local menu.
Selected PRINT and UNCHECKED the Calibration box before starting
Good print
This result is a very good first layer for me. But of course, I’d RATHER print out of Orca Slicer or Creality… Right now, I’m just glad this is clearly a software issue, and there is some way to get a good print. If people know about this and can advise me on, I’d be very grateful. (I’ve yet to successfully print this model COMPLETELY, but the 2nd layer just finished and it looks wonderful, I am pretty confident I’ll be okay)
