13.1 Info menu overview

System information about the printer can be found in the information menu. This is usually used for customer support.

 

1

 Enter the settings menu by pressing the settings button (1).
 

2

 Enter the information menu by pressing the information button (1).

Press the back button (2) to go back to main menu.
 

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On the information screen the following can be seen (1):

·         The printer model

·         The unique name of the printer.

·         Printer’s BIOS version.

·         Printer firmware version.

 

Press the back button (2) to go back to the settings menu.

12. Manual control

If needed, it is possible to manually control the movement and heating of the printer

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Enter the manual movement menu by pressing the manual movement button (1).
 

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Use the arrows (1) to move the print head around the workspace.

Press the Home button in the centre (1) to bring all it axes to their “home” (zero) position.

 

Move the bed up and down by using the Z axis arrows (2)

 

Extrude or retract filament using the print head control arrows (3). (Note that these buttons will be disabled if the print head temperature (5) is lower than the target temperature (6))

 

Start manual heating by on the temperatures (5 and 6).
If manual heating is started (the printer is keeping or reaching for a temperature), the button will have a red outline. If no manual heating is enabled the outline is green.

 
 

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Set the target temperature by pressing the down arrow (1) and up arrow (4).

 

To confirm the target temperature and start heating press the confirm button (7).

 

The status of the heating controller can be seen on the status label (6), which will show IDLE when not heating, and HEATING when heating.

Additionally, the lights inside the printer will be white if the heating control is OFF and Purple if the control is ON.

 

To stop the heating, either go back to the Main menu, or reduce the target temperature (3) below 30 oC (it will show “—”) and click Confirm (7)

 

Press the back button (5) to go back to the manual movement screen.

Press the back button again to go in Main menu.

11.3 Pause menu

The pause menu can be accessed at any time during the print

 

1

 During a print, access the pause menu by pressing the pause button (1).
 

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From the pause menu it is possible to:

Change the temperature (1).

Change filament (2) refer to chapter 7.

Resume printing (3).

To abort the print, press the cancel button (4).

 

11.2 Print over Wi-Fi

Printing via Wi-Fi is started directly from the GP EinlagenDruck module in the GP Manager and the file is automatically transferred to the printer’s internal memory.

 

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Open the GP EinlagenDruck module and select the relevant job from the job list. Select a side. Check if a printer is idle in the printer list on the left side. Make sure that the printer is prepared for printing. See chapter 10.

Start printing via the Start printing via Wi-Fi button.

The printer indicates that a print via Wi-Fi is started.
 

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The printing screen shows status of the printing process while printing:

(1) shows if the printer is currently heating or printing.

(2) shows the current and target temperature.

(3) shows the time remaining of the print job to be done.

(4) shows if the print was started over Wi-Fi.

(5) shows the progress of the printing in %.

(7) shows the filename of the object being printed.

 

To pause the print, press the pause button (8). For more information see section 11.3.

To abort the print, press the cancel button (6).

 

11.1 Print from USB

If the service allows for it, the printer can print directly from a USB flash drive.

 

1

 Enter the print menu by pressing on the print button (1).
 

2

 A list of all available print files will be shown (1). The arrow indicates which files is currently selected. To select a file, press on it (if not already selected) and then press on it again to accept the selection.

Press the back button (2) to go back to main menu.
 

3

 On the print preview screen, it is possible to see the filename of the selected file (1).If a different temperature than the one set in the print file is required it can be changed by pressing the temperature (3).

 

To start printing press the continue button (4).

Press the back button (2) to go one step back.
 

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The printing screen shows status of the printing process while printing:

(1) shows the status of the printer.

(2) shows the current and target temperatures.

(3) shows the time remaining of the print job to be done.

(4) shows if the printer is reading the print file from USB. In this case do not remove the USB flash drive from the printer, because this will stop the print job.

(5) shows the progress of the printing in %.

(7) shows the filename of the object being printed.

 

To pause the print, press the pause button (8). For more information see section 11.3.

To abort the print, press the cancel button (6).

10. Before starting a print

Before you start a print, a few things need to be inspected.

  • Printing surface is placed on the print bed
  • Bed is empty
    Make sure there is nothing on the printing surface (for example another printed object)
  • Bed is clean
    If the printing surface is dirty (dust, grease, etc), the extruded material will not stick to the surface. Inspect that the surface is clean. For more information, see section 14.1.
  • Enough filament
    Open the filament chamber and verify that there is enough filament left on the spool.
  • Clean nozzle
    From the previous usage, there might be material stuck to the nozzle of the print head. If this is the case, remove it with tweezers. For more information, see Maintenance section 14.2

9.2 Connecting printer to Wi-Fi

After the configuration file “wifi_config.cir” is generated, place it on the root folder of a USB flash drive and do the following steps:

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Power up the printer
 

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Plug the USB into the printer.
Important: The USB flash drive must be a FAT32 file format.
 

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Open the Settings menu (1)
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Select Network settings (1)

 

Press Back (2) to go back to main menu.

 

 
 

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Select Reconfigure (4)

 

Find the configuration of the printer in the network in (2).

Press Cancel (1) or Back (2) to go back to main menu.

 
 

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If successful, a confirmation message “Wi-Fi connected” will appear on the screen. At this point, the printer will be connected to the selected network, and the Nickname will appear on the printer LCD.

 

 

9.1 Generating a Wi-Fi config file

1 Open the module GP EinlagenDruck in the GP Manager.

 
 

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Click on the cogwheel in the upper bar.
 

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Fill out the fields:

1. The network you want to connect the printer to (printers support only 2.4GHz networks).

 

2. The password to connect to the network.

 

3. The nickname with which the printer will be visible on the network.

 

4 Click on WiFi-Config.cir -> USB. A file named “wifi_config.cir” can now be found on the desktop, which is the configuration file needed to configure your printer.