Eager day as I hit Refresh on the UPS Tracking page a buzillion times… by the time I got home at about 6:30 there was still no printer at my door. Took Charlotte to Music Lessons, got some groceries, filled up on gas, and when I got home, there was a box on my doorstep!

I took it inside and began opening it.

It contains a box of accessories, a reel of white filament, and the printer, plus paperwork.

The “Unpackaging” sheet showed how to remove the two shipping clips and the rest, and the “Installing” sheet showed how to attach the spool holder, and how to feed the filament into the head and calibrate the nozzle to within .2mm of the print plate.

I then boldly selected an object I downloaded from Thingiverse, and scaled it down to about 1 inch in height (for a very fast print) and set the print preferences (to fine) and hit Print!

And I watched the action. I took several video segments of the 22 minute print, which I hope to edit together at some point.

But here is what it looked like part-way printed.

And here is the final result after the removal of some support material and some X-Acto knife fine cleaning.

Keep in mind that this is my first print, and the object has a lot of modeled detail, but I printed it at only one inch in height. So the detail that’s there is actually quite good!

I got the package at about 8:30pm. Opening it (carefully, methodically) and getting it set up to print, selecting a print object, upgrading the software (I had installed the software earlier to get familiar with it) scaling the object, hitting Print to cleaning, it was done by 10:15pm.

The print took about 22 minutes. Larger objects will take 4 or more hours, depending on size of course.

It is now the next morning. It’s 7:04am and I just set it going to print a very early version of an Amphi-Cat ATV (used in the TV show Space:1999) that I modeled in Maya. I have a ways to go before the model is really ready, but I wanted to see what it would do with this version in one solid body piece. Will show that later.