How to Maximize Speed
I run a makerspace, we have a XL5T and a couple of Creality K1Maxs ....The creality machines are much faster ... a 1.4 hour print on the creality is estimated to be over 5 hours on the XL ... single color. Both sliced using OEM slicers with default settings. Is there something I'm missing in the Prusa setup or slicer configuration?
I presume you have one of the later XLs with the 0.4mm nozzles. If so then the easy way is to fit a 0.6mm or 0.8mm nozzle on just one toolhead for rapid, uncritical, single filament prints and keep the others for slower multimaterial work.
Cheerio,
RE: How to Maximize Speed
Hi,
Maybe you have to Set the Maximum Extrusion rate of the Filament Higher?
https://help.prusa3d.com/de/article/maximale-volumengeschwindigkeit_127176
RE: How to Maximize Speed
Is your XL in stealth mode? Little triangle b2 bomber icon in the top right of the LCD.
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RE: How to Maximize Speed
It is not.
RE: How to Maximize Speed
it has 4mm nozzles .. as does the other printer ... I'm looking to understand why the standard printer, with default slicer settings, using the OEM slicer produces such wildly different printing times ... the XL is 2.5 to 3x slower ... is the max printing speed of the XL 200mms? If not what is it?
RE: How to Maximize Speed
The XL is slower than most of it's newest competitors.
Getting an HF nozzle will boost single prints, but you then hit the upper limits of the Hot end.
It's only 40W and has a very short melt zone.
Fastest Nozzle combination for it would be an 0.6mm HF nozzle, beyond that the HOT end can't keep up.
Mechanically, Prusa are conservative with their speed limits valuing quality over speed. I've found you can comfortably crank up print speeds to 150% from stock settings on parts where it's less critical.
*I'm running an enclosure and HF nozzles.