Prusa Mk4 🇬🇧

In September I told you how and why I started 3D printing and my reasons for buying a cheap machine 2½ years ago. Despite the many upgrades I had installed to my vanilla Ender 3, I thought about getting a new printer for some time. When I saw the release video of the Prusa Mk4, I came to the conclusion: this is it! The load cell for bed leveling is just genius … and the prospect of getting „off the shelf“ input shaping for fast and high quality prints was also great. So I put in an order for a kit one week later … and received a late birthday present by the mid of August, waiting just for four months 😅

Assembling the kit was not a difficult task, but it took me four workshop afternoons. With the detailed instructions and included gummy bears it was great fun. However, there was one small printed part for the extruder missing – for that, I received one surplus item of another part. Printing the missing piece on the Ender 3 in black PETG was easier than trying out the praised Prusa support.

The first prints came of fantastic with no special adjustments required. Instead of the 0.4 mm Nextruder nozzle, I installed a V6 adapter and Chinesium 0.6 mm high-flow nozzle (CHT clone) straight away, which has also been working fine. The firmware upgrade with input shaping came out not long after I received the printer … and boy, is it fast! 🤓

So … I got, what I've asked for: a tool that does not require constant attention and just works without headache. But sometimes, I have to admit, I miss the tinkering … 😁