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It's called a "tower". You can disable it. It's a checkbox.
I usually leave it. Yes it wastes material but you get a cleaner print. When one nozzle is inactive it leaks for the first 60 seconds or so and extrudes a tiny little sausage. When it starts printing again that "sausage" gets attached to the print. If you don't care about those you can disable the prime tower.
Alternatively you can change the location of the tower to make it closer to the print to save a little time.
Thank you, I had just discovered that somehow that option got turned on. I have had very clean prints without it so turning it off makes me happy, I had just never needed it before and therefor unaware of it.
Thank you.
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It's called a "tower". You can disable it. It's a checkbox.
I usually leave it. Yes it wastes material but you get a cleaner print. When one nozzle is inactive it leaks for the first 60 seconds or so and extrudes a tiny little sausage. When it starts printing again that "sausage" gets attached to the print. If you don't care about those you can disable the prime tower.
Alternatively you can change the location of the tower to make it closer to the print to save a little time.
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