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My Print Farm

While I primarily print my own products for sale on Etsy, Ebay, Amazon, etc., I do offer 3D printing services for those in the Central Florida area. Contact me for details.

In 2025, I added 6 new printers to my little print farm with further expansion planned for 2026 as production needs increase. Here is the list for those of you who are interested. Feel free to ask questions about printers in general, especially these models I am most familiar with. (list of printers is in reverse order from my newest to my oldest). I am open to exploring other printer brands and models for review so contact me if you would like information.

My Printers

  • Ender-5 Max – aka Jayne (The Big One). The largest printer in my farm, the Ender-5 Max by Creality is a 400x400x400mm printer. It is definitely a beast – but a big, fast one letting me print multiple smaller items or larger ones with ease. A bit complicated to put together, but not too bad. I will have a video on it soon.
  • K2 Pro Combo – aka Kosh. I had wanted one of Creality’s Flagship printers, but their first model, the K2 Plus, was just too heavy for me to be able to manage. So I opted instead for the K2 Pro with it’s 300x300x300 build volume – my ideal size for most of my products. I got it with a CFS for multicolor/material printing which gives me 2 CFS units. I can use both on 1 printer or 1 on each which is my usual setup making loading the color for a product when it is ordered a snap. Video coming soon.
  • Elegoo Centauri Carbon – aka Londo. My first core xy, first enclosed, and first non-Creality printer. While only 260x260mm build volume, the Elegoo Centauri Carbon has proven to be a good printer for the price. Video coming soon.
  • Creality Hi Combo – aka Inara (The Fancy One). My first multicolor printer with it’s CFS, the Hi Combo has been a real workhorse with over 1500 hours on it and very few issues – only a few small jams and 1 extruder replacement. I do not print a lot of multicolor but having my product colors pre-loaded is a bonus as well as being able to use up the last bits of filament thanks to auto-refill. This is one of the printers I highly recommend for those looking to get their first printer. It’s easy to setup and easy to use. I did a setup video when I first got it in March and will be doing a follow-up review on it soon.
  • Ender-3 V3 Plus – aka Simon and River (the siblings as I have 2). This was my first pick when I decided to add newer, faster printers to my 3D printing business. I loved the first one so much, I added a second. The 300×300 print volume of the Creality E3V3Plus is ideal for my products. It’s easy to setup and use and highly recommended for those needing a single-color printer without an enclosure.

The printers above are the main production printers of my business running pretty much 24/7. Then there is the second team. These are my older, slower, but still very capable printers that I use for prototyping new products, printing fun/useful things for myself, or any time I need to print slower such as printing on fabric. At some point, I probably will be replacing them with newer models. They also print from SD cards while all my other printers connect via wifi.

  • CR-10S Pro V2 – aka Badger. I bought this one used from Facebook Marketplace due to it’s 300×300 build volume. While it prints well when it plays nice, the CR-10 is the most annoying printer in my farm (hence it’s nickname iykyk) needing far more attention and re-leveling (even though it has a BL Touch) than any of my other printers. It does give me a 5th 300mm printer though when I get a rush in product orders.
  • CR-6SE – aka Zoe, Wash, and Kaylee. The first 2, I purchased from Creality’s Kickstarter campaign around 2020 and instantly fell in love with this printer. While it’s build volume is smaller than I would get now at 255x255x250 mm, it is a workhorse – so much so, I bought a 3rd from Facebook Marketplace. Before I launched the business, I would go weeks if not months between printing anything and I could just turn them on and print with no fussing required.
  • Original Ender-3 – aka Mal. This was the printer that started it all and brought my crew together. I bought it in 2016 as my first 3D printer. It still runs beautifully even though the 220x220x250 build volume and slow 90mms speed means it doesn’t get as much use as it used to. I just cannot bring myself to retire it.

My Software

Here are the programs I currently prefer.

  • Creality Print – My current preferred slicer. Since the majority of my printers are Creality, I find Creality Print has better profiles than Orca Slicer which I used for about a year and Cura before that. I find their pathing and other features work smoother for their own printers which is why I use it as my primary slicer now.
  • Elegoo Slicer – Unfortunately, Creality Print does not have a profile for the Elegoo Centauri Carbon so I currently only use Elegoo Slicer for this printer. While it is similar and both it and Creality Print are based on the same core slicer Orca is, each have slight tweaks for their brands that work better for me.
  • Lightwave 3D Modeler – Not your typical CAD or 3d printing modeling software, Lightwave 3D is the program I learned and taught way back in the 1990s and still my preference. I have been dabbling a bit in Blender and FreeCAD, but keep going back to Lightwave as I much prefer it’s interface. Designed more for 3d animation, it is overkill for most and if you are just starting, I recommend learning Blender as it will be able to handle any modeling you might need from CAD to organic modeling.
  • Inkscape – A free alternative to Adobe Illustrator or CorelDraw, this vector drawing program is what I use to create SVG files I can easily turn into extruded logos and other projects in Lightwave or directly in the slicer. Inkscape has many great features including a trace bitmap I use frequently to convert logos into 3D models for clients.

My Filament

I use a variety of mostly PLA filament with the occasional PETG. Some of my current favorites are:

  • Elegoo Matte PLA – This is the filament I use for most of my products. It prints smoothly across all my printers with the colors I need. I believe Deeplee is a sub-brand of Elegoo as their matte colors are perfect color matches for the Elegoo.
  • Eryone Dual Silk Filament – The vibrant colors of the Eryone filament is very easy to print. I have used several colors including their blue/black, red/black, and burnt titanium gold.