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  • Page 1 Shenzhen Getech Technology Co.,Ltd Geeetech A30 3D Printer User Manual...

  • Page 2: Table Of Contents

    Shenzhen Getech Technology Co.,Ltd Content 1 Attentions ..........................3 1.1 Safety Instructions ....................... 3 1.2 Factory Test Before Delivery ..................3 2 Printer Display ........................4 3 Assembling ..........................5 3.1 Main Frame Assembling ....................5 3.2 Wire connection ......................6 3.3 Check the Power Input Mode..................

  • Page 3: Attentions

    Shenzhen Getech Technology Co.,Ltd 1 Attentions 1.1 Safety Instructions Please switch to the correct local voltage (110V-220V) before turning on the printer. Be sure the switch is in the correct position or it will damage the power supply unit (PSU). Be sure all wires are correctly connected before turning on the printer.

  • Page 4: Printer Display

    Shenzhen Getech Technology Co.,Ltd 2 Printer Display (Picture 2-1) (Picture 2-2) Please check the parts/accessories when you receive the printer (Refer to picture 2-3). If any spare parts are missing, please contact your sales representative. (Picture 2-3)

  • Page 5: Assembling

    Shenzhen Getech Technology Co.,Ltd 3 Assembling 3.1 Main Frame Assembling Main frame consists of gantry frame, base, T- shaped plate, spool holder, control box and screws. 1) Assemble the gantry frame and base from bottom with 4 M5x20 screws and 4 spring washers M5 as shown in picture (3-1), (3-2).

  • Page 6: Wire Connection

    Shenzhen Getech Technology Co.,Ltd (Picture 3-4) 3) Assemble filament spool holders and fix to the corresponding screw holes on the top of control box, with 2pcs M3x6 screws, as shown in picture (3-5). (Picture 3-5) 3.2 Wire connection Insert the Teflon tube into the quick-insert connector of the extruder as shown in picture (3-6).
  • Page 7 Shenzhen Getech Technology Co.,Ltd (Picture 3-6) Plug extruder wire into molex socket. Be sure plug is firmly seated into socket. See picture (3-7). (Picture 3-7) Connect extruder motor wires of E0. See picture (3-8). (Picture 3-8) Connect the wires of X axis motor and end stop. See picture (3-9).
  • Page 8 Shenzhen Getech Technology Co.,Ltd (Picture 3-9) Connect the wires of Y axis and end stop. See picture (3-10). (Picture 3-10) Connect the wires of Z1 axis motor and Z1 end stop. See picture (3-11, 3-12).
  • Page 9 Shenzhen Getech Technology Co.,Ltd (Picture 3-11) (Picture 3-12) Connect the wires of Z2 axis motor. See picture (3-13).

  • Page 10: Check The Power Input Mode

    Shenzhen Getech Technology Co.,Ltd (Picture 3-13) Connect the wires of hot bed and extruder on the back of control box from top to bottom. See picture (3-14). (Picture 3-14) 3.3 Check the Power Input Mode The factory default voltage is 220V. Please choose the correct voltage according to your local voltage standard.
  • Page 11 Shenzhen Getech Technology Co.,Ltd of the control box. See picture (3-16, 3-17). (Picture 3-16) (Picture 3-17) Filament is bent, therefore it needs to be straightened by hands and trimmed to make it easier to insert filament into extruder. Press down the lever handle of the extruder and insert the filament into the feeding tube until it reaches extruder head.
  • Page 12 Shenzhen Getech Technology Co.,Ltd (Picture 3-19) (Picture 3-20) Please observe the nozzle , to be sure there is no filament stuck and that filament is coming out smoothly.Then stop filament feeding and clear the nozzle with tweezers. See picture (3-21). (Picture 3-21)

  • Page 13: First Print

    Shenzhen Getech Technology Co.,Ltd 4 First print 4.1 Leveling hot bed The first layer is the key to a successfully printed model, which would directly affect the quality of printing model and achieve a good bed adhesion. In order to avoid scratching nozzle and hot bed, the factory default setting is a little high.
  • Page 14 Shenzhen Getech Technology Co.,Ltd (Picture 4-3) Please click the position in order from 1-4 at each corner, use the adjusting nuts under the bed to set the distance between nozzle and hot bed to about the thickness of a piece of paper (Slide the paper back and forth to see if you feel a slight resistance).
  • Page 15 Shenzhen Getech Technology Co.,Ltd a. Too high: If the distance between nozzle and hot bed is too far, filament will not stick to the bed well. See picture (4-6). (Picture 4-6) b. Too low: If the distance between nozzle and hot bed is too close, it prevents filament from coming out, causes the extruder gear to click or grind on filament and even worse, it would scratch nozzle and hot bed.

  • Page 16: Sd Card Printing

    Shenzhen Getech Technology Co.,Ltd “OK” to save its data, you can use then knobs to adjust the hot bed at the 4 corners. When viewed from the above, turning the knobs clockwise, the hot bed will rise, and vice versa. Avoid the nozzle touching the bed;...
  • Page 17 Shenzhen Getech Technology Co.,Ltd (Picture 4-12) (Picture 4-13)

  • Page 18: Introduction Of Touch Screen Menu

    Shenzhen Getech Technology Co.,Ltd 5 Introduction of touch screen menu 5.1 Tree diagram (Picture 5-1) 5.2 Main Functions 5.2.1 Main interface: (Picture 5-2)
  • Page 19 Shenzhen Getech Technology Co.,Ltd 5.2.2 Printing status Interface: (Picture 5-3) One submenu for printing status interface: 1). Clike the icon of hot bed temperature/ extruder head tempearture/printing speed to enter the interface of tempearture and speed setting. See picture (5-4). (Picture 5-4) 5.2.3 Main functions of control menu:...
  • Page 20 Shenzhen Getech Technology Co.,Ltd (Picture 5-5) Six submenus at control menu homepage: Click “Home” to its interface, see picture (5-6). (Picture 5-6) Click “Move” to its interface, see picture (5-7).
  • Page 21 Shenzhen Getech Technology Co.,Ltd (Picture 5-7) Please choose its precision firstly before moving axes. There are “30/10/1/0.5/0.1mm” available. And control every axis moving. Moreover, when the bottom right corner motor status is in the "Enable" state, motor is locked. When “Disable” releases, motor is unlocked, you can move every axis by hand.
  • Page 22 Shenzhen Getech Technology Co.,Ltd (Picture 5-9) Two submenus at leveling interface： a. Click “manual leveling” to its interface. See picture (5-10). (Picture 5-10) Please choose its precision firstly before manual leveling. You can choose “0.05/0.5mm”. Then adjust z axis height according to the actual situation. And click “Ok” to save its settings. b.
  • Page 23 Shenzhen Getech Technology Co.,Ltd (Picture 5-11) First, you need to select the type of auto leveling, 3D Touch or CAS. Click the bottom icon to select and then click the upper switch to turn on the auto leveling function. If you choose “3D Touch”, click “Push-pin up/Push-pin down”...
  • Page 24 Shenzhen Getech Technology Co.,Ltd Click “Speed” to its interface. See picture (5-13). (Picture 5-13) 5.2.4 Interface of printing list: (Picture 5-14) Please choose the model file at printing file list, and click “Print” and then start printing. 5.2.5 Interface of setting:...
  • Page 25 Shenzhen Getech Technology Co.,Ltd (Picture 5-15) Six submenus at setting interface: Click “Add-on” to enter its interface. See picture (5-16). (Picture 5-16) Click “lock password” and you can set the password. This function provides you for a safe printing experience. It prevents other people from operating your printer without your permission. See picture (5-18).
  • Page 26 Shenzhen Getech Technology Co.,Ltd (Picture 5-17) Click “Language” to its interface. See picture (5-18). (Picture 5-18) Click “Screen Cali” to its interface. See picture (5-19). (Picture 5-19) Click “About” to the device information. See picture (5-20).
  • Page 27 Shenzhen Getech Technology Co.,Ltd (Picture 5-20) If you click “Yes”, it will restore factory settings. See picture (5-21). (Picture 5-21) Click “Detector” to its interface. See picture (5-22). (Picture 5-22) There is no display at printing interface if no opening. Only printing interface opens, it shows filament.

  • Page 28: Software Setting

    Details of USB printing are as follows: Firstly, turn on the printer, and connect the printer to computer with a USB cable. Normally, the computer will automatically search the install drive. The newest communication chip of A30 is CH340. See picture (6-1).
  • Page 29 If it shows the exclamation mark as picture below (6-2), then you need manually install the driver. (Picture 6-2) Download link for CH340: https://www.geeetech.com/index.php?main_page=download&download_id=40. After the driver is installed, check the “Device manager” and see if it is same as the picture below (6-3). If so, it means the driver is successfully installed.

  • Page 30: Install Slicing Software

    Shenzhen Getech Technology Co.,Ltd (Picture 6-3) 6.2 Install slicing software Repetier-Host is the default slicing software here. Download address: https://www.repetier.com/download-software/) Set printer parameter When Repetier-Host is installed, turn on the printer and open the Repetier-Host. Repetier-Host supports several languages. You can choose your native language from Config>Language (Picture 6-4 for details).
  • Page 31 Shenzhen Getech Technology Co.,Ltd English interface as picture (6-5): (Picture 6-5) Using the Repetier-Host for the first time, printer parameters need to be configured before connecting. Click “Printer settings” on the top right corner, see picture (6-6). (Picture 6-6) It pops up the content as the picture below (6-7). Write down the relevant info accordingly. (Pay attention to the highlighted parts).
  • Page 32 Shenzhen Getech Technology Co.,Ltd (Picture 6-7) b. Printer dialog (Picture 6-8) (Picture 6-8) c. Extruder head dialog: Picture (6-9).
  • Page 33 Shenzhen Getech Technology Co.,Ltd (Picture 6-9) d. Printer shape dialog (Picture 6-10) (Picture 6-10) Now the printer parameters are set. Note: The baud rate is still 115200, Mac OS, Repetier Host are the same.
  • Page 34 Shenzhen Getech Technology Co.,Ltd Setting slicing parameter After setting the printer parameters, click “Connect” on the top left corner. The color of the icon changed to green means the printer connects to the Repetier-Host successfully. Click it again to “Disconnect”. See picture (6-11). (Picture 6-11) After successfully connected, choose “Slicer>...
  • Page 35 (“Geeetech A30 PLA high.rcp”). You can import it according to the steps as follows. The following is an example of parameters for PLA (Picture 6-14): Click “Print>Import”. See picture (6-14). (Picture 6-14) It pops up the dialog as below. Choose “Geeetech A30 PLA high.rcp” and open it. See picture (6-15).
  • Page 36 Shenzhen Getech Technology Co.,Ltd (Picture 6-15) Now, the configuration file is imported, click “Save”. See picture (6-16). (Picture 6-16) Click “Filament”>“Import”. See picture (6-17).
  • Page 37 Shenzhen Getech Technology Co.,Ltd (Picture 6-17) It pops up dialog as below (Picture 6-18); choose “Geeetech A30 PLA high fi.rcf” and open it. (Picture 6-18) Now, the configuration file is imported. Click “Save”. See picture (6-19).
  • Page 38 Shenzhen Getech Technology Co.,Ltd (Picture 6-19) Choose “Geeetech A30 PLA high” as print configuration and “Geeetech A30 PLA high fi” as printing material setting. Details see picture (6-20) below. (Picture 6-20)

  • Page 39: Usb Printing

    Shenzhen Getech Technology Co.,Ltd Now parameters setting are finished. 6.3 USB printing You can start USB printing when the parameters setting finished. The model file format is .stl for 3D printer. You can download free models from websites such as thingiverse.
  • Page 40 Shenzhen Getech Technology Co.,Ltd out or rotate the model. (Picture 6-23) Adjust model’s direction trying to let the model plane touch hot bed, which will make printing easier. (Picture 6-24) Note: If the model loaded is too big and beyond the printing platform, you need to zoom out the model.
  • Page 41 Shenzhen Getech Technology Co.,Ltd (Picture 6-25) Or zoom in/out them separately. See picture (6-26). (Picture 6-26) Model slicing When the size and direction are set, choose the imported slicing parameter, and click “Slice with Cura Engine”. See picture (6-32).
  • Page 42 Shenzhen Getech Technology Co.,Ltd (Picture 6-27) (Picture 6-28) You can find the model information such as estimated time, the amount of filament needed, etc. Click “Print” to start USB printing. Refer to picture (6-29). The printer will heat to the target temp and then start printing. Under high temperature, the filament will flow out of the nozzle, which is normal.

  • Page 43: Sd Card Printing

    Shenzhen Getech Technology Co.,Ltd (Picture 6-29) 6.4 SD card printing When all parameters are set, click “Save for SD print”. It will pop up a dialog, then click the save button to generate a .gcode file. Copy the gcode file to the TF card. See picture (6-30). (Picture 6-30) Insert the TF card into the slot.
  • Page 44 Shenzhen Getech Technology Co.,Ltd (Picture 6-31) Choose the corresponding gcode file to start printing. Click “Printing” and it will start printing automatically. See picture (6-32). (Picture 6-32) Note: The printer can only read gcode file and the file name should be English letters, a space, an underscore or their combination.

  • Page 45: Function Introduction

    7 Function introduction 7.1 Power -resuming capability A30 has the power loss-resuming capability. When power recovery starts, it will pop up a dialog to ask if continuing the unfinished print caused by power outage, choose “Yes” and it will resume printing.

  • Page 46: Filament Run-Out Sensor (Optional)

    Shenzhen Getech Technology Co.,Ltd 7.2 Filament run-out sensor (Optional) Before using this function, please check fialment whether it is installed or not. And then, connect wires, and check the function whether is turned on or not. Choose “Setting”> “Filament”>“Detector”. See pictures (7-2, 7-3, 7-4). (Picture 7-2) (Picture 7-3) (Picture 7-4)
  • Page 47 Shenzhen Getech Technology Co.,Ltd (Picture 7-5) It will pop up the notification “Err: No Filament” when the filament is run out during printing and the printer will stop. See picture (7-6). (Picture 7-6) And at picture (7-7), if the “Filament” shows red, which indicates “No Filament”. (Picture 7-7) Press the extruder handle, remove the remaining filament before loading the new filament.

  • Page 48: Touch For Auto Bed Leveling (Optional)

    This printer supports auto bed leveling. Refer to the link below to know how to install the 3d touch sensor. Youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RtsZDbR2po&t=66s Visit our official forum: http://www.geeetech.com/forum/ 8 Printing Parameters Printing technology: FDM Printing volume: 320*320*420mm Printing accuracy: 0.1mm Position precision: X/Y: 0.11mm Z: 0.0025mm...
  • Page 49 Shenzhen Getech Technology Co.,Ltd Operating system: Windows/Mac/Linux Slicing software: Repetier-Host, EasyPrint 3D, Cura File format: .gcode Electrical Parameter Power input: 110V/220V Power output: 24V/18.8A Connectivity: TF card, USB Touch screen: 3.2 -Inch Full-color Touch Screen Mechanical Parameter Printer size: 508x615.5x630.5 mm Package size: 670x560x300 mm Net weight: 11.7kg Gross weight: 14.6kg...

  • Page 50: Contact

    Shenzhen Getech Technology Co.,Ltd 9 Contact Official site: https://www.geeetech.com/ Facebook Group: Email us for technical support: https://www.geeetech.com/contact_us.html...

  • Page 51: Faq(Frequently Asked Questions)

    Shenzhen Getech Technology Co.,Ltd 10 FAQ(Frequently Asked Questions) 10.1 Abnormal extrusions The filament is tangled. The nozzle temp is too low to reach the melting temperature required. There is carbonized residue inside the nozzle, please use another nozzle. Insufficient heat dissipation of radiator of the extruder head causes the filament in the tube to melt in advance and the extrusion strength is insufficient.

  • Page 52: Print Stopped

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  • Page 53 Shenzhen Getech Technology Co.,Ltd Shenzhen Getech Technology Co.,Ltd www.geeetech.com...

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