My K2 Plus (really Minus if you ask me) has been nothing but a nightmare from the day I got it. Out of the box it flagged System Errors CM2798 & XS2001 and would not complete the startup menus. Luckily I found a YouTube video that explained the issue was loose cabling in the component cabinet. To resolve this issue I had to open the printer and reseat the cables (Not exactly what I’d call a pleasant first time user experience). It would have taken Creality 2 days to get a resolution to me, I guess that’s what you sign up for when you buy a printer form China, should have realized that if the printer was not reliable I would become a Creality Tech Support Technician. Constantly having to report issues to them and then having to expedite the repair/rework solutions they provide is a full time job that puts a serious crimp in my workflow and ability to produce parts.
Suffice to say I was underwhelmed from the start, but remained hopeful that I could get beyond these issues and learn to master the machine. I was expecting that these newer generation of printers would no longer require constant tinkering and baby sitting, I was obviously wrong about that.
In the 2.5 months I’ve had the K2 Plus, I’ve replaced 3 nozzles 3 extruder shells, and have had to disassemble the extruder close to 30 times to resolve multiple errors relating to extruder jams. Just this morning I had to take apart the extruder 5 times, and just installed my 3rd extruder shell, some of the jams where so extensive because the molten PETG bonded to inner extruder filament path destroying the tensioner, and the extruder shell itself.
I currently use all Creality Hyper Filaments.
This is not a machine I would recommend to anyone needing to produce dimensionally accurate parts, Its a nightmare owning operating and maintaining this machine, without stellar support your screwed.
I recently acquired an Sovol SV08 which also has its issues, but after replacing the motherboard and purchasing a MicoSwiss hotend it prints reliably but the Auto Bed Leveling is poor so you need to baby sit the first layer. The problem with that machine is it does not do multi material printing, as a result you spend a lot of time removing support material often leaving scaring on the part making it dimensionally inaccurate.
This is not my first run with 3D Printers, got my first machine in 2015 the Folgertech FT5, learned a lot from building that machine, but it too fell short of expectation and so my dream of building and designing is now fading, I don’t have the time or the energy any more to deal with this.
Perhaps I’m being called to a new path, I really feel the need for an American based company to emerge that can produce consumer/engineering grade 3D printing products.
After spending all day working on this machine its now producing Filament sensor detector errors, I did take the extruder apart once again, I checked the filament path, and cleaned the sensor, still getting the same error after putting it back together again, I’m thinking the 3pin JST connector has been fatigued from being removed so many times its ruined, and again I don’t have the time or the energy to work with this POG any more. anyone need a K2 paperweight?