Assembled Printrbot simple metal for the president of our company.

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Assembled @Printrbot simple metal for the president of our company. I must say it looks much slicker then my personal wood simple.

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I like the look of the Printrbot kits. How have you found their overall quality?

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I have not printed with the metal simple yet but it looks quite solid. My personal printer is an older wooden Simpler maker edition (upgraded to the 2014 model, and then modified ) and it prints great (I do not use the auto leveling probe since my table glass over a heat-bed) Once they got away from the string and moved to belts the quality improved massively in the simple line. The metal simple seems like it will work perfectly out of the box and it doesn’t have any of the wire management issues of the maker edition (probably because it’s larger). I do prefer the maker edition due to how easy it is to mod, but I wish I had the metal YZ carriage instead of the wood one. Now that I see how the metal is setup I may CNC out something similar for the maker edition.

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It much sturdier and has great speed and quality. There is a reason why i have 4 of them.

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I second that. Printrbot Simple (first beta version than three upgrades to the 2014 model and I soon will buy the new metal head…) Compared to its price its a superb printer and after upgrading it prints like a charm. I do use the auto leveling probe and I am thinking its the single most usefull add-on a printer can have :slight_smile: (though it’s not usable with a glass + heated bed - maybe a different probe with a bigger detection range?). I modified the print bed (was very easy) to print 140cm at x-axis.

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There are some really nice bed alternatives with great adhesion properties that have metal flaked throughout for the probe to sense.

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Is the probe in some way capacitive, or laser? I assumed it would be some kind of pressure depth probe.

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It’s an inductive sensor - like this one: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B008MU1GEY/ref=oh_details_o00_s00_i00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

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Ah, well no wonder it won’t work on glass. I’d seen auto-leveling probes in the past, and never really considered how they work.