Firstly: My U1 arrived yesterday and it’s freaking amazing! Just for fun, I wanted to compare the print time and quality of the reference dragon between the U1 and my Creality K2 Plus. Here are the stats:
on the Creality: nearly 23 hours print time, 590+ grams of waste from color change poop
on the U1: around 3 hours print time, practically 0 waste (just the initial filament load poop)
NOW, I started printing a model I’d printed before on my Creality. It prints on two plates.
What I am baffled by is that the first plate on the U1 is taking over 11 hours while it took around 5 hours on the Creality. There is some color changing, but only really in the first 40 layers or so. The rest is all black.
The Creality has a max toolhead speed of 600ms and the U1 is 500ms. But, I can’t imagine that difference accounts for an 6+ hour difference!
I’d love some feedback on why there’s such a massive difference in print time. FYI: While the included screenshots below are estimates, I’ve now printed this model on both printers and the estimates are pretty spot on.
Here’s a screenshot from the Creality slicer: Creality Print time
Here’s a screenshot from the Snapmaker Orca slicer: Snapmaker U1 Print Time
(ALSO, sidebar: why does the forum limit to 1 embedded image and 2 links per post?)
