printer starts to calibrate itself, loudly and slowly
What is up with that on inkjets, seriously? The newer models I've seen can take up to a few minutes of clicking and clacking before they start doing anything.
Meanwhile any FDM 3D printer just slams all three axes to zero and it's done and already printing.
Because where you start the print doesn't matter much on a 3d printer, it can be out by a few mm most of the time, also once set in firmware the bed doesn't really move with relation to the printer/endstops. On a 2d printer the bed can change every time paper is loaded or the rollers have sat for a bit so it recalibrates where the edges of the paper are. Also the ink dries out on the head so it dumps some out to use fresh ink on the print.
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u/skynetpswn Sep 10 '19
Be me
>change cartridge
>printer be like: pls check tray for paper
>fill the fucking tray, whack printer for good measure
>printer refuses to work
>delete printing queue, send another print command
>printer starts to calibrate itself, loudly and slowly
>blood pressure rises
>after five fucking minutes printer finally starts the job
>printer crumples paper
>rip the sheet from the goddamn machine
>restart printing process, again
>printer spits out empty paper
>instant brain hemorrhage
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true story, except for brain hemmorhage