3D printing

Congrats, Welcome to the wonderful world of making your own things, and a economical way of bring your own idea's to life.
Keep in mind the Ender is very much so, a China made low budget printer, So problems will accrue, nonetheless do not let that discourage you, With a little time you will be making your own improvement parts, or use parts that others have made. First things first once out of the box and assembled, Watch this video and update the firmware. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAKyZd63_ns&t=130s Also Tom is by far one of the most knowledgeable reference for all 3d printing noobies! I highly recommend you pay close attention to the content on his channel.

Normally people that start printing, start with PLA filament due to its easy of use, you can easily have more printing success with your prints, however I did the opposite, I started off with the hardest to print, once I mastered those, because of that experience and knowledge of trouble shooting, there is no filament I cant print I very literally printed all the different kinds of filaments out there . Start with ABS, Polycarbonate...... . If you can get your hands on a product call 3dlac, you will thank me in the long run. Printing

noobies mistakes: Printing with a layer of painters tape! time and time again is see people suggesting it and it is by far a no no! after that! the messy glue stick! Trust me save yourself the head ache and Get 3dLac or wolfbite adhesion. Next is to learn how to Calibrate your ESteps VERY VERY important, this will help you set your printer for every new roll of plastic you use, it is one of the easiest thing to do that will improve your prints. Plenty of good video's out there but this is the one that explains it best. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_Wb0i0-Qvo

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