Bug: Firmware limited minimum Z height should fail a print, not proceed silently
 
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Elizabeth Greene
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Bug: Firmware limited minimum Z height should fail a print, not proceed silently

The Prusa MK3S+ has a built-in firmware limit that prevents the Z axis from moving below Z=0.15mm.

You didn't know that?  Yeah, neither did I.  🙁

Here's the problem with that. If you are using a tiny nozzle and change your first layer height to 0.1mm, the printer moves to Z=0.15mm and silently continues. This causes severe under extrusion and print failures because the slicer calculated extrusion values for a lower layer height.

I understand the reason for this limit. It protects the build plates. That makes perfect sense.  The problem is the way it fails.  If the printer beeped and showed a minimum z-height error, that would have saved me hours.  Instead, I burned a silly amount of time fiddling with flow rates, z offsets, and questioning my own sanity.

I suggest that this should throw an error instead of silently continuing.

Postato : 10/03/2026 9:39 pm
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