The Sprite direct-drive extruder is a design that we've been very pleased with, and makes it much easier to print flexible materials such as TPU. The 45 degree angle was harder than we expected to get used to, especially if you, like us, are already experienced with designing and orienting 3D prints on standard 3D printers. Since 2004, I have worked on PCMag’s hardware team, covering at various times printers, scanners, projectors, storage, and monitors. x 10”) build volume as the older Ender 3 series printers, but adds a direct drive extruder, high speed printing, and an improved user interface. The Ender 3 max also has 50mm less of vertical build volume than CR-10 series printers, but we have found that most parts do not require this extra height in our experience.

I'm not sure if it was because of this peculiar configuration, but I had trouble getting the extruder and plate the proper distance from each other. Another new addition to the Creality Ender 5 Pro 3D Printer is a highly durable metal extruder frame. The Creality CR-30 is a unique printer in that it has no limit to the length of parts you can print on it, which it accomplishes by printing parts onto a moving Belt, similar to a treadmill.

In our experience, it takes less than an hour to set up a new Creality printer and do the basic calibration steps before trying a test print.

inches) and both wider and deeper than the Editors' Choice award-winning Original Prusa i3 MK3S+ (9. Clearly, the nozzle and print bed were too close together in the center of the bed, even though the corners had appeared properly aligned. Both the Ender 3 V2 and Ender 5 Pro come in DIY, semi-assembled kits and take roughly 20-30 minutes to piece together even for first-timers. Here is a spell overview of the differences between the Ender 5 Pro and the original Ender 5 3D Printer. For example, if you are planning to print with flexible or soft filaments you might want to swap to a direct-drive filament extrusion system.Firstly, you get the same cube frame, well-proportioned 220 x 220 x 300 mm build volume and the nippy bed heating of the original Ender 5. The backlit LCD is not a touch screen; it has a knob that you turn to scroll through menu items and press to make a selection. Today’s head-to-head showdown pits two of Creality’s long-standing top sellers – the Ender 3 V2 vs Ender 5 Pro, as well as a comparison to the new Ender 3 Neo. The Ender 5 Pro benefits from a resume printing functionality that lets you restart a print job exactly from where it left off after a power interruption.