PeterWhite76

I use an S5 for work, but have an X1C at home, and the difference in quality and ease of use is noticeable. Not to say the Bambulab is perfect: the AMS is just as quirky as the Ultimaker Material Station at times, particularly withdrawing filament, but the way the X1C handles faults is brilliant, and print saving. I believe that the bigger players in the market have to rush to catch up. Saying that, most issues I get with the S5 are user errors (I still make those even after five years of experience! ALWAYS check your previews before sending to print!), and the S5 is a proven workhorse where the X1C is still new... But if I was compiling my additive manufacturing project now, I'd be looking at an X1C over an ultimaker every time.

I have used RSPro 1.75mm normal PLA Filament on my Anycubic Kobra at home, and it prints quite nicely. The finish is sometimes a little bit shiny compared to some cheaper brands. However I have no experience of their 2.85mm filament. I can't imagine it prints any different in an S5. I can't comment for their other filaments unfortunately

We've had our S5 pro bundle for about two years. There has been one or two bugs that can be annoying, (most notably was when the bowden tubes were popping off the collets every so often, but that was fixed with new printable clips) but by and large its been reliable. It isn't the fastest printer around, that much is true (I think the latest printers on the market from bambu labs and snapmaker leave the S5 for dust in the speed department from what I can google), but ours has been bulletproof. I've only replaced things for wear and tear (filters, hot ends, bowdens and silicone socks) but otherwise its been decent. Had one incidence of the hot end hitting a finished print, and some odd ringing when using both extruders on a part, but by and large its been reliable enough.

Hi there. If this is McGybeer's snake, I have printed a few of these, and his wonderful articulated dragon on my Creality printer at home, and had lots of similar issues with the first layers and noticed that the adhesion benefits A LOT from having quite a lot of "squish" and plenty of 3dLac or equivalent (or hairspray!). Also I print the first layer quite slow, compared to the rest of the print. I don't know how easy it is to adjust z offset on an Ultimaker printer (I don't have to do it at all on the work S5) so I guess its a case of experimenting. It will look sooooo cool when you crack it though.

I have had this problem a couple of times in the past, and my reseller advised me that it may have been down to warping. It only seems to happen at the very end of a print, so I'm very interested in the outcome of this thread

Hope you guys can help. We've had our S5 for about eleven months and when I'm printing parts with holes or features in, I'm often getting an artifact similar to a layer-shift just in the layers with the hole or features in; once the holes are printed it returns to its original routing.. I've been in contact with my reseller's help desk and after their advice I've checked the short belt tensions, checked the squareness of the pulleys as best I can and the x/y rails are freshly oiled. I was using a custom profile too, but the only things I've ever changed from the recommended settings are wall thickness, top/bottom layers and infill patterns. (The reseller suggested that the recommended settings may remove the issue. I'm still in conversation with the reseller on the subject in the mean time). I've never fiddled with print speeds so I've always kept them as per the profile. Not everything I print comes out with these artifacts though, it mainly seems to occur in the front third of the print surface. smaller parts right in the middle seem to be unaffected. I rarely print much that goes to the back of the bed. The part I have in the pictures is one that I threw together in fusion 360 to attempt to show up the issue. I'm using Ultimaker Tough PLA and the "fast" setting in recommended settings. Has anyone come across similar issues and how did you solve it when you did?