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Printing Different Color Text: Resurrecting Old Thread For Improvements
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· Printing Different Color Text: Resurrecting Old Thread For Improvements
So I went back and looked at this. The red letters are exactly 0.1mm thick. It's just a single layer. And cura was set to have initial layer height 0.1.
I'd print 3 clips at a time where each red text was different. After the red layer is printed and the first print "finished" I would clean things up with an exacto if there were strings. Sometimes even pulling off the red skirt. OFTEN I would deem the initial red print a failure and start over - losing maybe 2 minutes as the first print is about 2 minutes.
Then I'd print the same gcode file on top which had 3 white clips spaced exactly 40mm apart to line up with the red letters. It was a separate print and always had a flat bottom. The white clips were sliced with a 0.3mm bottom layer.
The most important things to understand:
1) red letters 0.1mm thick - some colors fade a bit since this is so thin so try different filaments
2) White print bottom layer 0.3mm thick in cura.
3) White model does not have anything subtracted. That's why in this picture below the white diagonal lines are continuous. THIS IS EASY TO MISS. LOOK AGAIN. Click on the image. Which layer of the white print is it printing? How do you know? Really - how do you know this is the bottom layer? How do you know that I didn't subtract the red text from it?
The other details are easy to figure out e.g. maybe keep the skirts away from each other. Make sure retraction is enabled on the bottom layer (not default I think). Don't let the bed cool much between first and second print. Purge the filament well. Possibly check "use thin walls" for red print. Use Arial or other sans serif font if letters are quite thin. I think I used a Gothic font for the larger letters. Maybe play with line thickness for the letters. A 0.4 nozzle can do 0.3 line width just fine it that helps the letters look better.
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So I went back and looked at this. The red letters are exactly 0.1mm thick. It's just a single layer. And cura was set to have initial layer height 0.1.
I'd print 3 clips at a time where each red text was different. After the red layer is printed and the first print "finished" I would clean things up with an exacto if there were strings. Sometimes even pulling off the red skirt. OFTEN I would deem the initial red print a failure and start over - losing maybe 2 minutes as the first print is about 2 minutes.
Then I'd print the same gcode file on top which had 3 white clips spaced exactly 40mm apart to line up with the red letters. It was a separate print and always had a flat bottom. The white clips were sliced with a 0.3mm bottom layer.
The most important things to understand:
1) red letters 0.1mm thick - some colors fade a bit since this is so thin so try different filaments
2) White print bottom layer 0.3mm thick in cura.
3) White model does not have anything subtracted. That's why in this picture below the white diagonal lines are continuous. THIS IS EASY TO MISS. LOOK AGAIN. Click on the image. Which layer of the white print is it printing? How do you know? Really - how do you know this is the bottom layer? How do you know that I didn't subtract the red text from it?
The other details are easy to figure out e.g. maybe keep the skirts away from each other. Make sure retraction is enabled on the bottom layer (not default I think). Don't let the bed cool much between first and second print. Purge the filament well. Possibly check "use thin walls" for red print. Use Arial or other sans serif font if letters are quite thin. I think I used a Gothic font for the larger letters. Maybe play with line thickness for the letters. A 0.4 nozzle can do 0.3 line width just fine it that helps the letters look better.
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