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  • Page 1 Geeetech prusaI3 pro C User Manual...

  • Page 2: Safety Instructions

    Safety Instructions Building the printer will require a certain amount of physical dexterity, common sense and a thorough understanding of what you are doing. We have provided this detailed instruction to help you assemble it easily. However ultimately we cannot be responsible for your health and safety whilst building or operating the printer, with that in mind be sure you are confident with what you are doing prior to commencing with building or buying.

  • Page 3: Software Resources

    ShenZhen GETECH CO.,LTD www.geeetech.com Software Resources 1.1 Repetier-Host We use the latest Repetier host 1.6.0 as the printer control software, here is the link for download: http://www.geeetech.com/wiki/index.php/Repetier-Host#Download After downloading and installation, it can be used. 1.2 Driver Connect the printer to computer with USB cable, the motherboard driver installer will automatically appear.

  • Page 4: Arduino Ide

    ShenZhen GETECH CO.,LTD www.geeetech.com Download and install, you can find the corresponding serial port in the Windows "Device Manager": 1.3 Arduino IDE In the process of using the printer you may need to re-upload the firmware, and the software you need to use is Arduino.
  • Page 5 ShenZhen GETECH CO.,LTD www.geeetech.com Select corresponding COM port of the printer and baud rate as 250,000 in the drop-down menu. Click Apply after the setting. Shown as below.
  • Page 6 ShenZhen GETECH CO.,LTD www.geeetech.com After setting, click the button in the top left corner of Home Page. When the button turns green and changes into , the printer connection is successful.

  • Page 7: Printer Setting

    ShenZhen GETECH CO.,LTD www.geeetech.com Printer Setting 3.1 Printer Speed Set the running speed of printer as 1000 in the printer settings in order to avoid collision because of high speed during the test. After follow-up tests are completed it can be changed back to the original value.
  • Page 8 ShenZhen GETECH CO.,LTD www.geeetech.com 3.2 Number of Extruder and Nozzle Diameter The number of extruder is set as 1. The diameter of print head is set according to the actual size, here is 0.4mm. The distance between two extruders on X direction is 32mm, then set offset X -16 and 16mm. (You...
  • Page 9 ShenZhen GETECH CO.,LTD www.geeetech.com...
  • Page 10 ShenZhen GETECH CO.,LTD www.geeetech.com 3.3 Printer Shape Here the printer shape of I3 pro C is Classic Printer; For home position, choose Min; The printer's maximum printing volume 200 * 200 * 180 (length / width / height)
  • Page 11 ShenZhen GETECH CO.,LTD www.geeetech.com If the object which is being printed is not in the center of the hot bed, you can adjust the following two values to compensate for the distance deviation of X / Y direction: Bed Left...
  • Page 12 ShenZhen GETECH CO.,LTD www.geeetech.com After setting, click Apply>OK The interface after setting is as following:...

  • Page 13: Printer Function Test

    ShenZhen GETECH CO.,LTD www.geeetech.com 4 Printer Function Test When we are testing, we can test through LCD control panel or we can also do the test on Repetier Host. The methods are as followings. 4.1 Use Repetier Host to Test 4.1.1 Motor Direction Test...
  • Page 14 ShenZhen GETECH CO.,LTD www.geeetech.com towards the endstop. After they hit the endstop they will move back for a short distance and then stop the movement. The origin location should be in the right front corner of the printer platform. If the moving direction is reversed, you can change the motor direction in firmware.
  • Page 15 ShenZhen GETECH CO.,LTD www.geeetech.com Meanwhile you can see the temperature changing at the bottom of Repetier. If the hot bed or extruder can not be heated, please refer to FAQ。...
  • Page 16 ShenZhen GETECH CO.,LTD www.geeetech.com 4.1.3 Extruder Test Please note: The extruder will not begin working until the temperature reaches above 170 ℃. Heat the extruder to 200 ℃, and then insert the filament into hotend via push-in fitting. When you are pushing the filament, press the handle with one hand and push the filament with the other hand.
  • Page 17 ShenZhen GETECH CO.,LTD www.geeetech.com...
  • Page 18 ShenZhen GETECH CO.,LTD www.geeetech.com After pushing the filament into the bottom of hotend, use the feeding button on Repetier (as shown in following picture) to do manual feeding. If the nozzle can extrude filament fluently, the extruder is working well. If not, please refer to FAQ.
  • Page 19 ShenZhen GETECH CO.,LTD www.geeetech.com 4.2 Use LCD Control Panel to Test 4.2.1 Motor Direction Test Functions of the knob on LCD: 1. Press the knob: OK or enter the sub-menu 2. Turn the knob: to scroll through the options, or change parameters...
  • Page 20 ShenZhen GETECH CO.,LTD www.geeetech.com After learning about the functions of the knob on the LCD, press the knob to enter sub-menu and choose Prepare： Choose Move axis： Choose Move 1mm： （ Note: the extruder can only support two options: Move 1mm and Move 0.1mm. The 10mm...
  • Page 21 ShenZhen GETECH CO.,LTD www.geeetech.com Choose the axis that you want to move by using Move X/Y/Z options. Turning the knob can make each axis move left and right or back and forth. After testing each axis, you can choose Prepare>Auto home in the menu to make it back to home...
  • Page 22 ShenZhen GETECH CO.,LTD www.geeetech.com If you want to manually move the motor, you can unlock the motor. Unlocking method: Prepare>Disable steppers： 4.2.2 Heating Test In the Control menu, you can select temperature setting of hotbed and extruder. Choose control:...
  • Page 23 ShenZhen GETECH CO.,LTD www.geeetech.com Choose temperature： Select the temperature you want to set: After setting, you can choose Prepare> Preheat PLA to preheat hot bed and extruder.

  • Page 24: Hotbed Leveling

    ShenZhen GETECH CO.,LTD www.geeetech.com So far, functional tests of the printer are done. 5 Hotbed Leveling Before printing, we need to do hotbed leveling. Only after this step can quality of printed parts get improved. Otherwise the un-leveling gap between the hotbed and extrusion head will affect the filament adhering to the hotbed thus cause poor print quality or even not printing.
  • Page 25 ShenZhen GETECH CO.,LTD www.geeetech.com 5.2 Coarse Tuning of distance between the nozzle and the hotbed For dual-extruder printer, you can do leveling by taking the distance between hotend 1 and hotbed as a reference, and then do leveling for two extruders in subsequent steps.
  • Page 26 ShenZhen GETECH CO.,LTD www.geeetech.com 5.3 Fine Tuning After the initial adjustment, home the printer. sable the stepper motors( , manually move the extruder to the four corners of the hot bed and fine-tuning the wing nut at each corner to level the distances between the extrusion head and four corners.

  • Page 27: Slice Settings

    ShenZhen GETECH CO.,LTD www.geeetech.com 6 Dual-extruder leveling I3 pro C uses MK8 dual-extruder, so you only need to adjust the two screws which are marked in following picture. You can take hotend 0 as a reference when you are doing the adjustment. Loosen the nut clockwise to increase or decrease the height of hotend 1.
  • Page 28 ShenZhen GETECH CO.,LTD www.geeetech.com You will be presented with the following interface:...

  • Page 29: Printing Setting

    ShenZhen GETECH CO.,LTD www.geeetech.com 7.1 Printing Setting Set layer height and the first layer height in the Print setting tab. Generally speaking, layer height can be set as 0.1-0.3mm. Considering of accuracy and speed, 0.2mm is the most appropriate layer...

  • Page 30: Filament Setting

    ShenZhen GETECH CO.,LTD www.geeetech.com 7.2 Filament Setting Set filament diameter and print temperature in the Filament setting tab. Filament we use here is 1.75mm PLA. Usually the temperature of the extrusion head is 195-210℃，and the temperature of hotbed is 60-70℃. Here we separately set them as 200℃ and 65℃.
  • Page 31 ShenZhen GETECH CO.,LTD www.geeetech.com 7.3 Printer Setting Set printer’s hardware parameters in the Printer setting> General tab. Shape of hotbed: Rectangular Size: 200*200 Number of extruders: 2 Offset on X direction: Extruder 1: -16mm, Extruder 2: 16mm...
  • Page 32 ShenZhen GETECH CO.,LTD www.geeetech.com...
  • Page 33 ShenZhen GETECH CO.,LTD www.geeetech.com Meanwhile set the extrusion head diameter as 0.4mm (input the actual diameter of your own printer):...
  • Page 34 ShenZhen GETECH CO.,LTD www.geeetech.com...
  • Page 35 ShenZhen GETECH CO.,LTD www.geeetech.com 7.4 Other Settings In addition to the above parameter settings, parameters like the speed of the printer are also very important to print quality. It requires user’s long-term using experience and exploration. Here we’d like to give you a setting for reference, click to download the config.ini.
  • Page 36 ShenZhen GETECH CO.,LTD www.geeetech.com Find “I3C PLA config.ini” file in the dialog box and open it.
  • Page 37 ShenZhen GETECH CO.,LTD www.geeetech.com Then you can successfully import the config.ini file. Click the Save button to rename and save it.

  • Page 38: Begin Printing

    ShenZhen GETECH CO.,LTD www.geeetech.com 8 Begin Printing So far, all the preparatory work is completed. The next step is to import the model file for slicing and printing. For 3D printer, the file format of the model is generally .stl file. We can download for free and print those models which are shared online , and you can also design your own creative objects for printing.
  • Page 39 ShenZhen GETECH CO.,LTD www.geeetech.com familiar with the whole process you can try to use dual-extruder. Here we print a simple plate. You can download model file here: plate.stl. 8.1.1 Load Print Model In the main interface of Repetier host, click the Load button Choose the file you download and open it.
  • Page 40 ShenZhen GETECH CO.,LTD www.geeetech.com 8.1.2 Model Slicing After the file is loaded, you can use the following buttons to enlarge, shrink or rotate it. choose the extruder.
  • Page 41 ShenZhen GETECH CO.,LTD www.geeetech.com After the size setting, choose the slicing parameters which were imported previously in the drop- down menu, and click slice with slic3r.
  • Page 42 ShenZhen GETECH CO.,LTD www.geeetech.com In this way, .gcode file which can be recognized by the printer is generated. Last step, click button to print.

  • Page 43: Print With Dual-Extruder

    ShenZhen GETECH CO.,LTD www.geeetech.com 8.2 Print with Dual-extruder Actually dual-extruder print is to load two separate objects, and then separately print them with the assigned extruder. Thus you can print objects with two colors. Click here to download stl files which are used for dual-extruder printing: two_colour_cube.stl.
  • Page 44 ShenZhen GETECH CO.,LTD www.geeetech.com The two models loaded are separate. First we adjust their locations to combine them together. Click Object Group 1, choose object 1, and then click centering button...
  • Page 45 ShenZhen GETECH CO.,LTD www.geeetech.com The object is now in the center of the hotbed. Put object 2 in the center of hotbed in the same way. After the setting, what you will see is shown as below:...
  • Page 46 ShenZhen GETECH CO.,LTD www.geeetech.com Then assign extruder for each object:...
  • Page 47 ShenZhen GETECH CO.,LTD www.geeetech.com Then click Slice with Slic3r:...
  • Page 48 ShenZhen GETECH CO.,LTD www.geeetech.com If there is a warning, you can neglect it and choose no.
  • Page 49 ShenZhen GETECH CO.,LTD www.geeetech.com Click to begin printing. The finished object is shown as bellow: 7.3 8.3 Stand-alone print with SD Card If you want to print Stand-alone , you can save the .gcode file in SD card for printing.
  • Page 50 ShenZhen GETECH CO.,LTD www.geeetech.com Note: The printer only recognizes .gcode file in the SD card, and the file can not be placed in any folder! Steps are as follows: 8.3.1 Save Click Save for SD Print, select the save button in the dialog box.
  • Page 51 ShenZhen GETECH CO.,LTD www.geeetech.com 8.3.3 Print Insert the SD card into the SD card slot at the back of the LCD control panel, and choose the corresponding .gcode to print. Press the knob on LCD, rotate the knob to enter the main menu and choose Print from SD option.
  • Page 52 ShenZhen GETECH CO.,LTD www.geeetech.com Heating When heating is completed, it begins printing automatically.
  • Page 53 9 FAQ If you encounter any problems during use, you can come to our forum: http://www.geeetech.com/forum/, and there are detailed solutions in the forum. Common problems are as follows: 9.1 How to upload firmware? The motherboard of the printer is already burned with firmware when it leaves the factory. If you have firmware problem when you are using the product and need to upload firmware, you need to use the Arduino IDE to burn.
  • Page 54 ShenZhen GETECH CO.,LTD www.geeetech.com The way of uploading firmware, please refer to: http://www.geeetech.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=17181 Firmware download address, please refer to: http://www.geeetech.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=17046 Common parameters settings of firmware, please refer to: http://www.geeetech.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=17194 9.2 How to change the motor direction in firmware? In the configuration.h tab of firmware, find the following codes. Change the true of corresponding axis into false or false into true, and save the firmware and burn into the printer.
  • Page 55 ShenZhen GETECH CO.,LTD www.geeetech.com 9.3 User manual of Repetier Host For detailed user manual of Repetier Host, please refer to Wiki: http://www.geeetech.com/wiki/index.php/Repetier-Host 9.4 Possible causes for motor’s non-action http://www.geeetech.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=17038 9.5 Extruder does not work normally http://www.geeetech.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=17097...

  • Page 56: Lcd Error： Max/Min Temp Error

    ShenZhen GETECH CO.,LTD www.geeetech.com 9.6 The hotbed or extruder can not be heated http://www.geeetech.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=17039 9.7 LCD error： MAX/MIN TEMP error http://www.geeetech.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=17030 9.8 No information or displaying black square on LCD http://www.geeetech.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=17040 9.9 Time.h/endstop hit or other abnormalities http://www.geeetech.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=17037...

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