Since I installed the latest firmware update on my three X1C printers, there are two new and very annoying behaviors related to running out of filament mid-print.
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When I put a new roll in and tell the machine to resume, it will always give a fake feed error. As soon as I press continue a second time, it goes away and prints normally. But it’s annoying to have to deal with this ghost error. If I forget, I’ll come back to a print that has been on pause for several hours for no reason.
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After a roll has been changed mid-print, the AMS now loses the material settings for that slot. I have to manually tell it to rescan the roll. Otherwise, if I send a print to the machine, it will print using another spool. If I’ve been printing the same color all day, it’s easy to not pay too much attention to the roll. It should just default to the last one used. But if I have to change the roll mid-print, the next print will default to a different color. This is new behavior. Previously, the new roll would inherit the settings from the old roll, so that subsequent prints would continue using that roll.
Probably half a dozen times in the last week, I’ve accidentally printed something in the wrong color because I haven’t caught that it sneakily switched rolls. Yes, I could pay better attention, but I didn’t have to until this last firmware update.