Need some advice on reducing Filament purging

[Chris1974]

This is my advice to you… Just my opinion.

The counter productive pursuit of speed

This is something I needed to get off my chest. I know it is a thing to get the most speed out of your printers and cut corners to save printing time and fillament. I am just here to say: DON’T! To clarify why I say that, here is where I come from. I was first introduced to 3D printing through my job at a medical device company. In 2013 we bought an Ultimaker 2 and some rolls of fillament. At first I wasn’t that interested in the machine, but soon I recognized it had some great potential! Un…