Hy guys, pretty fresh printer here, everything works fine, did some prints and they looks decent, but Im not completely satisfy.
My question is, how to take out the best from a standard k8200?
I dont have the money for an upgrade, but I want to try to find out how to improove the quality.
Is there a particular setting for spped, z axis or temperature that you guys suggest?
Also Is it possible that other software works better with the k8200? Im talking about programs like Cura, or 123 Autodesk etc.
Im opened to suggestions
thx 
[quote=“Bigskill”]Hy guys, pretty fresh printer here, everything works fine, did some prints and they looks decent, but Im not completely satisfy.
My question is, how to take out the best from a standard k8200?
I dont have the money for an upgrade, but I want to try to find out how to improove the quality.
Is there a particular setting for spped, z axis or temperature that you guys suggest?
Also Is it possible that other software works better with the k8200? Im talking about programs like Cura, or 123 Autodesk etc.
Im opened to suggestions
thx :)[/quote]
The biggest improvement at low cost will be a flex coupler for the z axis threaded rod.
It will give you much less z wobble.
You can even print one from thingiverse, but i think those out of machined aluminum will work better.
With the stock machine you can raise the retraction speed to 150,/s to reduce stringing.
Temp and speed heavily depend on your part and the used filament. That needs constant experimenting.
I personally use repetier 1.0.6 which comes with the curaengine addittional to slic3r.
Most parts i print sliced with cura engine. It’s way faster and makes less unneccesary moves.
cheers,
Christian
+1 on the above post.
If your printing PLA use black as much as you can (ABS may be the same, I don’t know I haven’t used it yet). It is by far the easiest of the colours to print, more forgiving than other colours. Whilst this won’t get you to the ultimate settings for your machine, it will give you chance to mess about with the settings and still get useable prints. I lost two weeks printing time with a roll of blue and didn’t print a thing. I put it to one side (sealed up in a plastic bag with desiccant, as the filament is hydroscopic) and came back to it a month later with more printing time under my belt and can now get decent prints from it (you will only understand when you have done the same).
