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Important safety advice

Your printer has been built with user safety as main concern, yet it must NOT be used by individuals with reduced mental 
or physical abilities.

This printer is not a toy, is meant to be used by fully responsible and knowledgeable people and printing 
area must be kept locked in presence of children or people with serious mental problems.

Safety issues to be considered:

Risk of fire: don't turn on printer close to flammable substances. Don't use any flammable substance to

clean the machine inner parts. Do not use any spray product inside printer. Allow 
correct printer ventilation: don't obstruct air inlets and outlets, keeping them free from 
dust and other contaminants. 

Risk of toxic fumes: wrong temperature settings may cause toxic fumes emissions. Be sure to follow 

guidelines and settings from supplier of your filament. Use printer in a well vented 
room. If possible use machine smoke exhaust  port.

Electrocution: do not use in presence of condensing moisture and/or conductive dusts. Disconnect AC 

power cord before accessing inner parts. Do not attempt any maintenance work on 
electric or electromechanical parts. Promptly report any electrical malfunctioning 

Electromagnetic compliance: this is a class A product. In a domestic environment this product may 

cause radio interference in which case the user may be required to take adequate 
measures.

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Summary of Contents for A4v3

Page 1: ...User manual 3d printers A4v3 A2v2 V 201015 1...

Page 2: ...l teach you all the use and maintenance duties you could face during the entire lifetime of our printer s should you find any inaccuracy or simply need more information feel absolutely free to contact...

Page 3: ...products above are in compliance with the essential requirements of directive EN 60335 1 2012 01 safety of household and similar electrical appliances 2006 42 EC machinery directive 2006 95 EC low vol...

Page 4: ...inter ventilation don t obstruct air inlets and outlets keeping them free from dust and other contaminants Risk of toxic fumes wrong temperature settings may cause toxic fumes emissions Be sure to fol...

Page 5: ...ditional collateral as defined below 3 Shall be substantiated with proof of original purchase including the serial number of the product D Handling of complaints 1 Jdeal Form will repair or replace ha...

Page 6: ...and exclusive remedy by the end user against Jdeal Form where permitted by law and subject to paragraph h Except for this limited warranty Jdeal Form provides no other warranties express or implied wi...

Page 7: ...risk piercing the packaging therefore damaging content Follow this procedure 1 Remove plastic straps using scissors To open wooden box don t use crowbars use a screwdriver to remove cover and side pan...

Page 8: ...contains USB cable AC power cord 3mm ABS spool 3mm HIPS spool Spare cooling fluid Hex keys Filament feeder with PTFE piping Spool holders Inside the printer you will also find the test report don t di...

Page 9: ...chanical parts below lower plate therefore DON T LIFT the printer alone with forklift or manual lift trucks Before connecting AC power you must mount the supplied devices procedure is the same for bot...

Page 10: ...er you can mount them on the printer feeding the piping thru the rear openings just above each feeder position Each feeder has a mandatory position refer to below drawing to understand feeder placemen...

Page 11: ...mandatory position please refer to fig 7 and 8 for respective printer models Mount all filament feeders Plug cables to each feeder Feeder 1 rightmost when looking at rear side of printer has longer ca...

Page 12: ...gled Front side extruder is the 1 therefore has to be fitted with leftmost PTFE piping looking from frontal printer area Connection is performed simply inserting PTFE pipe into tube holder pushing it...

Page 13: ...g a PC to better understand basic machine use Just be sure to route USB cable away from sources of electrical noise such as power transformers electric motors and other high power high frequency devic...

Page 14: ...ers from this site http www ftdichip com Drivers VCP htm Please refer to above web site for installation instructions on you specific PC architecture After making sure that your PC is connected to the...

Page 15: ...periperals connected to your PC inkjet printer mouse webcam camera smartphone the printer will be connected to a surely different port number You can use the REFRESH PORTS button to force an immediat...

Page 16: ...b Kill we recommend to leave ON this option Otherwise should your print process finish Friday night and you leave you printer ON for the weekend you may be getting extruder jam requiring a nozzles cha...

Page 17: ...extruders available on your printer and each nozzle diameter standard supply is 0 4mm but other sizes are available IMPORTANT be sure to change preset color of each extruder default is yellow for eac...

Page 18: ...table Xmin Xmax Pds Ymin Ymax Pdd Largh Prof Alt A2 0 610 0 0 350 0 610 350 500 A4 2 ex 0 300 0 0 200 0 300 200 200 A4 3 ex 0 300 0 0 175 0 300 175 200 Be sure that ALL the Home X Y Z settings are set...

Page 19: ...es that speed up polymer degradation Remove spool from packaging and fit it on spool holder Secure the spool applying some friction to avoid the spool to unwind out of control tangling To prepare the...

Page 20: ...sure on the feeding roller more pressure will improve traction but will increase the chances of ruining the filament The pressure is set correctly when during feeding and retraction the handle is not...

Page 21: ...quired temperature is reached grab the feeder handle and lock it open 3 Pull and remove filament from machine Filament removal running machine When machine is running if you need to replace the empty...

Page 22: ...color is changing if new filament color is different need to change temperature set extruder temperature to match the needed one for new filament Wait for extruder temperature to settle 5 Feed 50mm a...

Page 23: ...the heated print plate magnets will align and lock automatically Tray printing surface needs to be clean and free from remains from previous prints the film coating should be intact otherwise you shou...

Page 24: ...update requesting immediate reboot Print is lost if someone unplugs USB connection printing thru SD card Pros printing unharmed by communication issues maximum printing speed being free from USB slow...

Page 25: ...the tray surface Each time you remove a print check the integrity of the protective film and or airspray or any other adhesion agent and replace refresh if needed Nozzle change The procedure is really...

Page 26: ...body twisting until you have 1mm between hex part of the nozzle and the heater body Fig 29 3 Extruder has two mounting options NORMAL when printing temperature won t exceed 255 C PLA PVA HIPS Elastom...

Page 27: ...Wait for cooling at room temperature of ALL parts 4 Move the plate at Z 100 to gain easy access to nozzles 5 TURN OFF PRINTER DON T go on with a powered on machine 6 Push on release collar 1 while pu...

Page 28: ...rew 6 12 Now all the extruder assy 7 can slide downwards from holding part 13 Put back the new extruder assy in the holding part sliding it up position will be higher than normal Gently lock the screw...

Page 29: ...polymer traces but also from fingerprints dirt sweat grease may prevent proper polymer adhesion to the tray Use alcohol based cleaner to degrease the tray isopropyl alcohol would be great but also th...

Page 30: ...t approaches Solvent cleaning put the nozzle in a small glass jar with selected solvent Process may be slow hours or days Not all polymer can be diluted with solvents or need very aggressive chemicals...

Page 31: ...extruders remove machine cover 2 turn off machine and follow procedure to remove PTFE piping from extruders 3 unplug the 1 feeder be sure to pull the connector NOT the cable 4 Route the feeder cable t...

Page 32: ...lockrings 11 Plug the motor connector into SPFU 12 Feed the supplied 6x4 PTFE pipe thru the opening on the back used to route the existing 1 piping 13 Feed the soft polymer filament into 6x4 PTFE pip...

Page 33: ...above check you can proceed to the calibration procedure please remember that each procedure step is meant to be performed on ALL extruder mounted on your machine 1 Check that there is at least one m...

Page 34: ...it of A4 copy paper between nozzle and printing plate paper must not pass 13 Gently screw in the pipe adapter it will pull up slowly the extruder assy stop as soon as paper will find enough clearance...

Page 35: ...ot alignment differences 2 Download and unzip it in your STL directory the calibration file http 3ntr eu wp content uploads 2015 08 xy_align zip 3 Import the downloaded files into KISSlicer use mouse...

Page 36: ...tal same logic as the DX arm just remember that you must subtract if position found is on the LEFT of the zero notch or add if on the right of the zero notch 11 Update the offset values two options FI...

Page 37: ...u will end up with a printer that can t use older gcodes generated with previous offsets This approach is the recipe for a nightmare if you have multiple machines Just enter the correction values in t...

Page 38: ...e cover The liquid reservoir should be filled up to 4 5mm from the top To check the level you must remove the upper left part cover be sure to remove the AC cable before attempting cover removal If ne...

Page 39: ...221 and version 4 7 15 as from Fig 42 5 If the machine has a firmware much older than the one available please consider the update you can look at the changelog to see improvements and new features a...

Page 40: ...website Second text box device must be set to Mega ATMEGA2560 USB port COM port must be the same you used so far to connect to the printer with the control software I e Repetier Host Baud Rate will be...

Page 41: ...boot enter User pi Password raspberry At system prompt insert startx When graphical user interface is loaded at the right upper corner you sill see the familiar wifi icon Click on it to configure acc...

Page 42: ...e can be changed anytime when the above screen is shown just turning the front panel jogwheel SD During printing from SD card tells the percentage of the printin process performed so far 1 100 Q00 13...

Page 43: ...ow Flow1 Flow2 Flow3 Change Filament Back to main menu Speed setting the feedrate printing speed Same as turning the jogwheel when info screen is displayed Nozzle Nozzle 1 Nozzle 2 Nozzle 3 sets nozzl...

Page 44: ...move X or Y axis at 10mm steps Move 1mm can move X Y Z or current extruder at 1mm steps Move 0 1mm can move X Y Z or current extruder at 0 1mm steps CONTROL menu Main Temperature Motion Store memory L...

Page 45: ...print area cooling fan speed 0 Off 255 Max speed PID P I D H1 H2 H3 heating profile DO NOT ALTER THOSE SETTINGS if you aren t absolutely confident with what you re doing PREHEAT PLA ABS GUM CONF sets...

Page 46: ...back to previous menu ACCEL XY acceleration during print VXY JERK speed increase machine can perform without acceleration on XY VMAX X Y Z max X Y Z speed VMIN minimum printing speed XY VTRAV MIN min...

Page 47: ...Check the connector to be fully seated Check cable integrity You may want to change extruder for a new one Feeding roller setting screw is loose Tighten it using a 2mm hex key 2 Part won t stick to t...

Page 48: ...e jam see point 1 of this list Part is at nozzle level if printing as PC peripheral Problem with Usb connection cable near electrical noise sources such as motors power transformers change cable routi...

Page 49: ...INIT SD CARD or CHANGE SD CARD options from LCD panel Defective SD card Replace SD card 10 Printed part looks squashed print plate Z movement is jerky Motherboard cooling fan is dead Replace fan Conne...

Page 50: ...into bowden PTFE pipe feed to extruders ANY POLYMER Filament diameter is too big change spool Excessive pressure on feeding roller filament is squeezed relieve pressure PLA Using heated chamber PLA wi...

Page 51: ...nt tray surface reconditioning 29 Feeding roller cleaning 30 Extruder cleaning 30 Fitting the soft polymer feeding unit SPFU 31 Nozzle Z leveling 33 XY nozzle calibration 35 Planned maintenance 38 Hea...

Page 52: ...oesn t stop and collides 48 7 Temperature readout is high 378 C even if nozzle is cold 49 8 Printed part has falling sides molten 49 9 Can t find files on SD card 49 10 Printed part looks squashed pri...

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