Nicodema

Ah, now that's interesting. I installed Cura on a PC, again v 5.5.0 That works, no problem. On my MacBook it doesn't The Mac is a M2 Max running Sonoma 14.1.1

Hi all, I have a S5 which I have been using for years connected directly over ethernet to Cura. However I've got some BASF Ultrafuse ASA on the way and so I downloaded the profile from the Marketplace and when I go to sync profiles with the printer Cura makes it clear that it needs me to connect via Digital Factory to do so. I added the S5 to Digital Factory, entering the PIN etc. It shows up fine in the DF portal, I can see the materials loaded and view the onboard camera no problem. When I log Cura into the cloud, I don't get the pop up of "these printers found" and when I do the profile sync, I still get the "No printers found" error. Printer firmware is 8.2.0.0 (set to use Stable releases) Cura is 5.5.0 Any ideas? I'm stumped.

Am I the only one who is still getting this font rendering problem on 4.0.0? I put in a hack for it (to use Arial) on the 3.x I was using, but during the upgrade to 4.x I lost all that, but assumed that with it being a new code base it wouldn't have the same achilles heel. Unfortunately that was my optimism getting the better of me. Just like in 3.x though it is intermittent, but looks very similar to the garbling that leliep was seeing above. I've done the Arial fix again, then switched back to the Noto Sans and all is fine. When it goofs again I'll post a screenshot. ETA: This is a MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Mid 2014) 2.8 GHz Intel Core i7, NVIDIA GeForce GT 750M + Intel Iris Pro

Ahhh, interesting. Thanks for that info. I hadn't appreciated there was that post print retraction. So I guess the distortion of the filament end I'm seeing is actually occurring at the end of the print, rather than at the unload event. That does reassure me somewhat. I was quite surprised that I was seeing such deformation without any sounds of struggling from the feed mechanism. These are almost all First Party materials, I've only used a HIPS from Innofil, the rest are UM. I guess some of these retractions end up leaving a bit more contamination in the hot end than ideal. I've done a few hot and cold pulls when changing material types considerably on the same print core. I will keep an eye on what I get out to see if there are any culprit materials that like to get stuck in the hot end.

I can't seem to find any other reports of this odd behaviour, but on my S5 when I want to change filaments, hitting unload doesn't cause the hot end to heat up, it just goes straight to yanking the filament out of the print core, cold. This often causes a necking and snapping of the filament end, leaving a slug of old filament in the core, which then takes quite a while to flush through. This can't be right, can it? I also find that now and then the UI can get stuck waiting to detect something, like a new print core installation, which doesn't trigger. I've ended up having to power cycle the machine and try again to get it to spot the new core. Firmware is 5.1.8.20181207