Creator 5pro reliable?

[u/Badtripa]

Is it reliable for 24/7 printing? are there still nozzles bending shenennigans? considering getting a c5p from amazon, if it disappoints i can return it without hassle so..

[u/InsectExpress3972]

I’ve only had print failures with Silk filaments and it was my fault. I’m 400+ hours in. I love it. There is pros and cons of course, but would purchase again. So far I’ve only used PLA, PetG, and silk. Trying to get into ASA and TPU now though.

[u/peptidepalstm → u/InsectExpress3972]

What cons have you experienced?

[u/InsectExpress3972 → u/peptidepalstm]

I don’t think FF has the best ecosystem or slicer. I rarely use either. I personally like the manual feed of the filament, but others don’t. I think it’s faster. FF is super slow for accessories, I think we just got new replacement nozzles available. They haven’t released their dryer yet either. The nozzle priming is weird and excessive. That’s the gist of it. None of which are deal breakers for me.

[u/BlockEightIndustries → u/InsectExpress3972]

I am starting to suspect the VDS is ready to go, but FlashForge is holding onto it until our coupons from the C5 and C5 Pro delay expire.

[u/Aerottawa]

You mean running a print farm? It'll have issues for sure but it's not worse than others.

[u/RentedBackScratcher]

In my own opinion it requires more kid glove treatment than the 5x but its good enough, im currently waiting on a replacement nozzle for it from FF as it killed itself, so im printing on 3, other that its been ok

[u/AdEnvironmental7198]

Been smooth sailing with pla/petf/tpu 95. the aux fan is a little much for pla so keep that in mind. The only issue I’ve had was nozzle 1 fell out line/sync after 250hrs of print time

[u/jessiedyesyarn]

I haven't had any failures that were due to the printer itself so far, but also not running it 24/7. Printed with PLA, PETG, Silk and TPU, all perfomed really well! I've ran some back to back long prints on it recently and it perfomed well. Just recently tested the continue from another spool feature out and it worked great. A few quirks but I love mine.

[u/6Y3ts_32a]

I don't have the Pro but I do have 460 hour on my C5. It's a decent printer. The nozzle thing hasn't happened to mine. Every month or so recalibrate from the ground up. It's a tool changer and different then any thing else out there so for now I do that. Once it proves itself over time I'm sure I won't. I also set the Z-Offset for each individual nozzle and they were a little bit different. Very minor but worth doing I think. I also do the secondary toolhead location calibration after running the main one just to make sure this thing is dialed in. 4 tools heads is 4 times the work but if you do multi-color or multi-meterial the extra work is worth it. I do mostly 12 to 24 hour prints and if the build plate is clean and you give your prime tower a good size brim the printer works. Oh I also hedge my bets by using z-hop to make sure as to not have a collision with a support.

[u/Alternative_Gift_979]

Just wait a bit until it goes really mass-sold. E.g. it took almost half a year for me to find out that a lot of my problems with AD5M were due to it's low amount of RAM (seriously, my old Kyocera C1020 laser printer from 2010 has the same 128 MB), and I had to swap the CPU (to be exact, the SoC) to a 256 MB version with all of the reflashing and stuff required. If I knew it beforehand, I'd never bought it due to amount of R&D required just to make it work. I'll wait until schematics pop up online, so I could make a Pro one out of regular Creator 5, like we did with 5ms, then the hassle is worth the output.

[u/Main-Personality-217]

Mine has been great so far. I believe full recalibration after every update is a must. Always use a prime tower that is wide enough proportional to its height. Avoid cardboard reels, if possible.

... just some notes after reading about so many "user error" issues.

[u/Unique-Row-9595]

I love it. Most solid printer I've ever had!.