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submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by 4lan to c/3dprinting
 

I finally got multi-color working on my Creality K1 Max using the 3D Chameleon.

Decided to make a 2 color benchy and scaled it down to 75% to save time, along with 0.25mm layer height.

So far the Chameleon has been pretty picky with filament, but when it works it works well! This print is with silk gold and matte black. I have even gotten 95A TPU to print with it surprisingly!

I modified the color-change code so it takes 1 minute less, which makes a big difference when you have hundreds of color changes.

Next up, 4 color benchy. Probably will be 10 hrs lol

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[–] 4lan 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Overall I love it. If you are into tinkering, which it sounds like you are, you'll like it.

My K1 is about 4x faster than my modded ender 3. I print at 420mm/s max speed on my K1 with 20k mm/s2 max acceleration. It is amazing how fast things finish. Overnight prints are now day prints.

You can get near-perfect prints out of the box, but will want to do some calibration to get better results. There are built in calibration tools in the Creality slicer. There is a VFA problem, but it seems to go away if I print walls above 220mm/s. Printing with polycarbonate is now fully possible and I love it. I print most replacement parts for the printer in PC.

being able to use volcano nozzles is way better than anything proprietary. They are dirt cheap and you can get them in all different sizes.

This thing is fully able to be modded, which I love about it. I've added:

  • second side aux fan
  • lighter printed hotend housing
  • side-spool mounts
  • tramming bed knobs
  • 270deg door hinge
  • lid-riser with LED strips inside
[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Thank you! That's very helpful!

Do you have to use creality slicer or can it still work with Cura or Prusaslicer? And can I still use octoapp to watch/tune from my phone? That seems to be the biggest drawback I was able to sus out of their marketing materials is that it seems to be a lot more locked down to the creality ecosystem than prior models, I'm hoping that's changed or I was just interpreting it wrong.

Thanks again, appreciate the insight!

[–] 4lan 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

You can use any slicer you like. I have mine connected to Cura, Creality and Prusa slicers with the ability to send and start a print right from the slicers.

I never once set mine up with their Creality cloud app, you can skip that during setup and just do LAN and USB prints.

The key is to root it, which is really easy, then you can install Fluidd and have way more control during prints. You can even change your pressure-advance on the fly. There are tons of mods you can do after rooting such as these

from the looks of this post you can now use octoeverywhere on K1 printers

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

That's great, thanks so much! Pretty much seals the deal for me.

[–] 4lan 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Just don't pay MSRP! They often go on sale for $700. Got mine for $680 before tax!

If you do pull the trigger, here is my Creality slicer profile for quiet, yet fast, printing

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Dude, you're awesome! Yeah I actually just saw that Microcenter has them for $699 rn, matches full retail for the Bambu P1S and $100 cheaper than the Prusa Mk4 self-assembled kit, which are the other two I've been looking at. Pretty sure my search is over.

[–] 4lan 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I don't think you'll be disappointed. The size of the max has been useful already. did 298mm tall print that would be impossible on those printers. Literally printed myself some small trash cans lol