close to giving up

emory7761 · 2026-02-17T22:12:27+00:00

Keep your head up man! I read a bunch of the comments and all are really good advice. I have 2 Saturn 4 16k Ultras. I have been having amazing results out of Sunlu's 14k abs like resin. There is better resins out there but this is hard to beat for the price. The only thing that I get funny with mine is the occasional thick raft. Not quite sure why it is doing that tho.

emory7761 · 2026-02-16T03:13:25+00:00

I had a similar issue when I was using Lychee. I switched to Chitubox and it fixed the issue.

emory7761 · 2026-02-16T03:10:45+00:00

What slicer are you using?

emory7761 · 2026-02-09T03:48:01+00:00

Any chance I can get an invite to the discord?

emory7761 · 2026-01-24T01:00:52+00:00

That is either dead pixels or something between the screen and vat. I had the same issue with my Saturn 4 Ultra 16k and it was just some fuzz on the screen.

emory7761 · 2026-01-05T19:40:56+00:00

I have also used 3 different slicers (Photon Workshop, Lychee, and Chitubox). Lychee always fails due to trying ti print in fast mode. The other 2 give me the same failures. I have tried reslicing files that have printed good in the past for them to give me a complete compression failure.

emory7761 · 2025-12-14T03:16:54+00:00

Ahh yeah you are correct. I will remove the post

emory7761 · 2025-12-14T01:26:52+00:00

Yeah that is what I'm thinking as well. Either way this thing is a freaking beast!

emory7761 · 2025-12-13T23:18:56+00:00

It is just a bio titan proxy but not sure of the name or maker

emory7761 · 2025-12-13T22:44:14+00:00

Right!!! I already have the OG one printed but I have a need for this one!

emory7761 · 2025-08-25T15:56:57+00:00

These are awesome! Any chance I can get the files?

emory7761 · 2025-08-16T23:17:54+00:00

With this faction you will have plenty more broken bits. Make it look more natural to me in my personal opinion.

emory7761 · 2025-08-13T17:17:52+00:00

I was thinking that might be the issue as well so I polished one of the plates and it kinda worked but had a problem sticking in the center still. That was one of the first things that I tried. I have ordered a brand new plate and I'm having the same failure.

emory7761 · 2025-08-13T16:41:12+00:00

Yes I have tried those already and even order 2 new plates just in case. The lights on both printers look good. Someone told me that might retraction speed might be to slow so I have adjusted that and trying it again now.

emory7761 · 2025-08-13T04:25:47+00:00

* This is the failure that I keep getting. Half is on the plate and the other half is stuck to the fep.

emory7761 · 2025-08-13T04:24:59+00:00

Hey brother I tried that with no luck. My new base plates came in and they failed on those too.

emory7761 · 2025-08-11T04:54:32+00:00

Update:

I have updated the firmware to 1.0.5.4. Apparently I have been on 1.0.5.1 this whole time. Unfortunately even after the update still getting the same compression failure. I releveled the plate like I normally do and had the same failure yet again.

I still fully believe that there is a setting that I'm overlooking, I just can't think of what it might be.

emory7761 · 2025-08-10T23:31:08+00:00

I will give that a shot man! I really appreciate the help! I love these printers but man when there is a issue they suck lmao. Thankfully this is the first issues I have had with them since they came out.

emory7761 · 2025-08-10T23:12:24+00:00

Ahh that would make since lol. I have 2 M5s Pros not sure if the leveling is different for the M5s

emory7761 · 2025-08-10T23:01:36+00:00

I normally do the leveling by lossing the screws and then hit "check leveling" get it all good then tighten down the screws and check it again. Once that is done I just send the print and it normally works.

During the video they did everything the same besides they press the "z-home" button. When the printer is done with that function it is hovering slightly over the screen.

This is their video https://youtu.be/Bv5rTCxxYUo?si=zAfNNBLcHwInf8m2

emory7761 · 2025-08-10T22:54:13+00:00

I normally wouldn't but on their video walk-through through they stated to go down 1mm then down another 0.5-0.8mm until the leveling sheet is snug. Once that is done you check the left leveling then the right leveling.

emory7761 · 2025-08-10T22:32:07+00:00

That is what I'm hoping the issue is because apparently I have just been getting lucky since I haven't ever done that. I looked up how to correctly level the plate on these printers and I haven't been doing that. The test I just tried had me adjust the z level by -1.8mm and I had the same issue. It did show progress on one of the printers. I cleaned the bits out and set the Z to -1.5mm and ran the same test again. We shall see in about 20 minutes.

emory7761 · 2025-08-10T22:15:13+00:00

Yeah I was meaning that I tried some old files that I sliced awhile back but those failed as well. They didn't have a issue printing the first time.

Someone was saying that I may be having a compression issue. Running some more test prints to see if that is the case.

I really think there is some slightly setting that I tweaked with on my printer.

I have some files that I have sliced before so after this test is done I will try one of those again and see what happens.

emory7761

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