Hi All
My Ender 3 V3 KE is about 3 months old and updated to the latest firmware.
Since I’ve had this printer, I’ve had issues with pausing and resuming prints. I have a number of models that require me to pause to insert magnets or change filament. Frequently, after resuming from a pause, the print quality degrades substantially, ruining the print.
- This happens inconsistently, but more often than not.
- The issue occurs with all filaments, I had this issue on PLA, PETG and SBS
- Issue occurs for GCODE pauses and also when manually pausing from the touch screen.
- Running a full printer calibration prior to the print doesn’t resolve the issue.
- Printing slower doesn’t resolve the issue.
- Playing around with different temperatures doesn’t resolve the issue.
- Happens with prints from different slicers (I tried Creality Print and Orca).
- The duration of the pause also makes no difference, I’ve had this issue after pausing a print for only 20 seconds.
I found one other person online with the exact same issue, but on the K1, and he does a great job at explaining the issue and also included some photos that also reflect my experience. Please have a look at his post here: https://www.reddit.com/r/FixMyPrint/comments/17p9ki0/inconsistent_extrusion_after_pause_and_resume_on/
Does anyone here knows of this issue or possible fixes/workarounds?
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Same problem. I would also like to solve it. But I have a feeling that all those Enders have it. It always does it to me.
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Please send me your printed file 3mf, and I will let the engineer verify it. Thank you
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Hi, no specific 3MF file, this can happen with ANY print after a pause. It happens at random.
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Look at the reddit link in the original post, I get the exact same issues.
Same here. Ender 3 v3 KE and after pause and resuming I would say 90% of the prints fail with what looks like extrusion issues.
It is so bad that I cannot use the print and have to retry. Also tried everything I can think of. Orca creality etc renders same result. I would also like to solve this as I need to do color changes on certain levels of many of my prints.
Attach is a test print. Green came out perfect. After the pause the silver is all messed up
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Ich habe exakt den gleichen Drucker und exakt das gleiche Problem.
Meist konnte ich es durch Aus- und Einschalten für ein … zwei… drei Drucke beheben. Ich konnte Filament wechseln und er hat top weiter gedruckt.
Ich erkenne kein Muster, wann das auftritt und wann nicht. Es sieht bei mir immer so aus, als würde der Drucker beim Fortsetzen komplett die Flow-Werte vergessen. Viel zu viel Filament, es zieht dann fette Fäden und bekm Layerwechsel gibt es dicke Kleckse. Man kann dann nicht gegensteuern. Der Druck ist quasi hinüber.
Exactly the same! Random, i fixed it by turn off and after a while turn on. Then start printjng again and sometimes the prints are perfect… but sometimes same error. Overextruding the next layers … Same as in your photos.
… i think there is bug. The gcode is always the same, and it’s equal if only manual pause/resume or by gcode to change the filament.
50% of all pause/resume ends with over extruding and stringing.
One thing helps to 99% … If i see next layer (with new filament for instance) will fail (long string during traffic move) and the nozzle is OVER the print object, i hard switch off the printer, then switch on … And resuming the print wil result perfect.
After that i can print several objects with pause/resume… till (from hell) then it failes again
… that there is no solution, it goes not in my mind 
I just started to have this issue, and I don’t know why this happens, It’s always after a pause, I evend did a test just pausing the print, didn’t even chsnge filament, just hit play after the pause and it looks like the Z moves a little bit up in My case
https://www.reddit.com/r/Ender3V3KE/s/c87ri5GL5v
Thanks for the info. I just checked my right z-rod and it also has play. Will defnitly try the fix.
Thanks for the info. I just checked my right z-rod and it also has play. Will defnitly try the fix.
