Second day working on our new K2 Pro. This is a week later then expected because the first one was damaged in shipping. Unboxing and set up was easy. Printed a Benchy from the control with PLA. Was super quick and came out very good. Started messing around with Creality Print slicer for “real” work. We plan to use this for product prototype development and wanted the temperature and engineering filament capabilities. I printed one of the parts in PLA with the default settings. It came out very nice but slightly oversize dimensionally. Then we switched over the the Hyper PA612-CF which is what this is all about. I modified some of the setting to be in line with what we expected to use for the print quality we are looking for. The first print attempt was looking good but ended up failing when it broke free of the plate. I attribute this to how much it was shaking the table it was on. We moved it over to a steel and granite table that is, no pun, rock solid, and it ran through. One thing I did notice is that it started printing when the bed was at 41 not the specified 50 degrees. That needs to be fixed in the firmware. Dimensionally it was spot on. After post processing I would put it on par if not actually better than prints from an HP laser sintering printer! Way better than we expected. Is it as fast, no, but it’s 1/200th of the price. My other big issue is with all of the time that the printer seems to spend… doing nothing in the print cycle. I am starting another print right now, it ran the calibration as requested and is at the target temperatures and now just sitting doing nothing. No feedback other than “printing” but the head is just parked in back. No ideas what it is waiting for. We are now almost 20 minutes into what should be a 16 min print and it has not even started printing. That seems to be the big issue right now.
From my understanding, it’s waiting to get a homogenous temperature value on all the bed..so it waits at 50-60°C 10-20minutes (I don’t have the exact value, I didn’t have the chance to look at the klipper macros atm ![]()
Is there a way to set the printer to keep the bed and chamber at a certain minimum temperature all the time? This would save the heating and cooling cycle time.