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Some Notes About 2017 Holiday Shipping Deadlines
Some tips for ordering in the 2017 Holiday season and key deadlines. Read more...
Installing Marlin 1.1.6 (and now 1.1.7) on your CR-10S with mesh bed leveling
Installing Marlin 1.1.6 (and now 1.1.7) on your CR-10S with mesh bed leveling
We talk you through every setting you will need to modify to get your CR-10S up and running with Marlin 1.1.6 Read more...
New Lower Prices and Change to Shipping Policy
Printed Solid has lowered the prices on some of their most popular 3D Printing products and has made some changes to their shipping policy. Read more...
A Solid Foundation For: Infill - Definitions
A Solid Foundation For: Infill - Definitions
Sometimes, infill is visible through the surfaces of a print. Even when the plastic is opaque enough not to show the infill by translucence, the infill pattern can sometimes be... Read more...
Smoothing 3D Printed Parts - Polymaker Polywood and Acetone
Smoothing 3D Printed Parts - Polymaker Polywood and Acetone
 A few days ago, I read a post on the 3D Printing Facebook group from Steve McGarr where he shared a beautiful print of an Einstein bust that was baby butt... Read more...
A Solid Foundation for: High-Quality Corners
A Solid Foundation for: High-Quality Corners
There are two main opposing types of errors that can produce poor corners: ringing and corner swell. To achieve high-quality corners, certain parameters must be matched to the printer’s physical... Read more...
Daniel Halvorson - New Guest Blogger
Daniel Halvorson - New Guest Blogger
If you are active on any number of Facebook 3D Printing groups, there's a good chance you've had a positive interaction with Daniel Halvorson.  I'm active on a lot of... Read more...
How to recover a failed or paused 3D Print. - Draft
Home user?  Design, slice, print, wait...  wait...  POWER OUTAGE!  swear your head off.  Start from the beginning.     Happened to you? Institutional user?  Student comes to you with a print, you start it, then realize that the day is almost over, there are still two hours left in the print, and you're not allowed to leave the printer running unattended.  Read more...
3D Printed Nerf Blaster Accessories
Did you come here looking for 3D Printed Nerf Blaster Parts and accessories? Yeah, we get that a lot.  We don't make any parts like that, but some of our friends do.  It just so happens that they have a similar name.  We are Printed Solid and specialize in 3D Printers, filament, and upgrades.  If you'd like to design and 3D Print your own parts, we'd be glad to help. Our friends run a business with a nearly identical name called...  3D PRINTED SOLID and they 3D Print custom Nerf... Read more...
Printed Solid 3D Printing Store GRAND OPENING and Open House Maker Festival!
Printed Solid 3D Printing Store GRAND OPENING and Open House Maker Festival!
We’ve been spending the last several months working hard to get our new warehouse and showroom ready to open. On May 15th, 2016 from 10-4 we will be celebrating with... Read more...
A few pictures from Midwest Reprap Fest 2016
A few pictures from Midwest Reprap Fest 2016
I had a great time attending Midwest Reprap Fest 2016.  It was a lot of fun to meet online friends in person and see the amazing work that reprappers are... Read more...
Davinci Meets ColorFabb
Davinci Meets ColorFabb
Kyle had approached me through a friend of a friend (said friend being a SeeMeCNC Rostock Max V2 owner and the one who printed Kyle the awesome MIDI box) about... Read more...