Adventures in UV Printing - Eufymake E1

jessenator said:
Eesh, will good to know
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Yeah speed was one of the big complaints from people that have actually printed before. The print quality is excellent, the machine is very user-friendly, but compared to any other UV printer out there it's slow as hell. It's probably the only machine I have that I don't sit and watch because it's not very exciting lol

But I have the app on my phone so I'll get a notification when a print finishes. I'll generally hit start then go work on something else, then as soon as the notification comes I head over and pick up the print.
 
I am so tempted to hit on one. I have literally just bought an Xtool F2 laser engraver and it does a stellar job - I had no idea Eufy where bringing this 😢

The deal breaker for me is size. My work room is small and with the F2, 3d printer and a lot of other shit, I’m not sure where I would put it.
 
ac30irons said:
I am so tempted to hit on one. I have literally just bought an Xtool F2 laser engraver and it does a stellar job - I had no idea Eufy where bringing this 😢

The deal breaker for me is size. My work room is small and with the F2, 3d printer and a lot of other shit, I’m not sure where I would put it.
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Yeah size is a thing, especially if you're using the full-size bed and not just the compact bed. It's also a lot fussier than some other machines, so placement is a thing.

My laser (settled for the F1 ultra) and CNC can happily run in the garage, and my 3D printers live in the workshop right next to the furnace, but the UV printer has both temperature and humidity requirements, so I needed to find a safer space.
 
jessenator said:
Man, they're finally going on general sale, but it's too wide for my space (590mm / ~23") according to the one source I found. Is that about right?
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I'd have to measure it when I get home, but that sounds about right, it's a big boy. Also if you're using the full size bed you'll need to have a bunch of clearance on both sides, so it ends up taking a substantial amount of space. If you're just doing one pedal at a time you can probably get away with the compact bed most of the time, in which case it all stays within the machine's footprint, but you do need to be able to open the door to get stuff in and out.
 
vigilante398 said:
Also if you're using the full size bed you'll need to have a bunch of clearance on both sides
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Yeah, I figured :/ The top of a Kallax shelf might've worked, but at a bit over 15" not enough. Though I could do what I did with my standing desk and just adhere a wider base to it… it's long enough to accommodate the larger bed at least.

Have a snugly fitting jig array for 1590B though
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Virtually no play at all
 
jessenator said:
Weird question, but does the gantry generate a lot of torque vibration? i.e. does it have enough weight to jostle around like my Ender 3 does?
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Nope, that is one thing is there isn't much torque vibration. The print is reasonably slow, but even my older faster UV printer didn't move much because it's just inkjet printing, nothing is touching the material surface, so torque from the gantry doesn't transfer to the bed. It's audible, but it's not loud, and it doesn't vibrate the bench like an FDM printer.
 
I keep waffling about it. They go on general sale next week, so thinking about claiming any of those pre-sale offers they have. A whole set of ink is over $300, so might be wise to go in early.

The review on tom's hardware mentioned the best practice is to leave it on(?) and then it spits up about 1ml of ink to keep the jets flushed/wet. Not a lot, but getting on top of ink might be good?
 
jessenator said:
I keep waffling about it. They go on general sale next week, so thinking about claiming any of those pre-sale offers they have. A whole set of ink is over $300, so might be wise to go in early.

The review on tom's hardware mentioned the best practice is to leave it on(?) and then it spits up about 1ml of ink to keep the jets flushed/wet. Not a lot, but getting on top of ink might be good?
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Yeah part of what usually sucks about UV printers is maintenance, one of the big selling points for me was the self-maintenance. I printed really heavy like two days a month with my old machine, and that meant once a month I was purging the lines and printhead to clean out the hardened ink and pulling fresh ink through. The Eufy has a cleaning/waste cartridge where everything is handled internally, so it's constantly cycling liquid through to keep it from drying out, and if you're not going to print for a while you can put it in moisture mode (or it will automatically go into it after a few days) where it purges the lines and replaces the ink with cleaning fluid.

The downside there (that a lot of people in the facebook group are complaining about) is that means there is another consumable. If you only print occasionally like me, you'll go through a cleaning cartridge a lot faster than a set of inks. Most people printing occasionally (myself included) said the cleaning cartridge was done after about 3 months, even though the ink was still 60-70% full. My use case means the machine is still worth it even with an extra $160-ish per year of maintenance expenses, but some people were upset about it.

So there are enough "little things" going on with the machine that it isn't a 100% slam-dunk I would recommend to everyone, but if you either have UV printing experience already or if you've done some research and are sure it's something you want to get into, I still think it's probably the best option on the market.
 
Some great info here, I love my F2 - it’s bloody amazing - I would just like a colour option, and it is a like - not need. I only do a few colour cases and for those I am still on water slide from my laser jet. I have mostly transitioned to black from the F2 on either bare metal or painted/powder coat. Down side, a complex image can take an eternity. I did a 1590bb (biggest it will take) and it took 2.5 hours.

Oh what to do ???

In reference to to the cleaning system, I have heard that there is a way to flush it out. The is certainly a lot of chatter about the consumable costs.
 
Damn, needing it to be warm would be a challenge for me. My building is on an old hydronic system so I can’t control that without running bullshit space heaters. 😡

On the plus side I don’t pay for heat.
 
Nostradoomus said:
Damn, needing it to be warm would be a challenge for me. My building is on an old hydronic system so I can’t control that without running bullshit space heaters. 😡

On the plus side I don’t pay for heat.
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No issues there for me, it would be going in my spare room next to a bloody tumble dryer 🤣
 
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