Printers known to ship with broken or unsafe firmware, or broken electronics

[foosel]

A list of printers with known-to-be-problematic stock firmware or electrical issues, based on years of user reports and fielding support requests.

Please note: This list is not exhaustive. Just because your printer isn't listed here doesn't mean it has safe, well implemented firmware and electronics, it just means nobody has yet tried and added their experiences here. So please test and update accordingly with your results to help others in the future, thanks

ANET

• A8:
  • OctoPrint tells me that my printer's firmware lacks mandatory safety features, what does this mean?

Anycubic

• i3 Mega:
  • I cannot successfully print on my printer running a firmware identifying itself only as "CBD make it" or "ZWLF make it"
  • OctoPrint tells me that my printer's firmware lacks mandatory safety features, what does this mean? (prior to January 2018)

Creality

Warning

Considering the sheer amoung of issues observed in this community with Creality stock firmware and electronics, at this point we can only strongly recommend to flash your own Marlin and either apply the 5v pin mod or better yet swap out your printer's controller.

• Creality communication issues; weird signs in terminal

• CR-6 SE

  • OctoPrint doesn't show a temperature graph for my Creality printer with stock firmware
  • Printers known to have backpowering issues
  • there have been reports of 24V exposed on the USB connector

• CR-10S:

  • OctoPrint tells me that my printer's firmware lacks mandatory safety features, what does this mean?

• CR-10S Pro:

  • OctoPrint doesn't show a temperature graph for my Creality printer with stock firmware

• CR-10S Pro v2:

  • Printers known to have backpowering issues

• CR-X:

  • OctoPrint doesn't show a temperature graph for my Creality printer with stock firmware

• Ender 3:

  • OctoPrint tells me that my printer's firmware lacks mandatory safety features, what does this mean?

• Ender 3 v2:

  • OctoPrint doesn't show a temperature graph for my Creality printer with stock firmware
  • Printers known to have backpowering issues

• Ender 3 Pro

  • OctoPrint doesn't show a temperature graph for my Creality printer with stock firmware
  • My Creality printer ignores its endstops when homing from OctoPrint
  • Printers known to have backpowering issues

• Ender 5 Plus

  • My Creality printer shows a heater failure when connected to OctoPrint
  • Printers known to have backpowering issues

• Ender 5 Pro

  • OctoPrint doesn't show a temperature graph for my Creality printer with stock firmware
  • Printers known to have backpowering issues

• Ender 6

  • OctoPrint doesn't show a temperature graph for my Creality printer with stock firmware

Lulzbot

• Workhorse:
  • My Lulzbot Workhorse locks up when OctoPrint connects to it

Malyan

• M150:
  • OctoPrint tells me that my printer's firmware lacks mandatory safety features, what does this mean?
• M200:
  • OctoPrint tells me that my printer's firmware lacks mandatory safety features, what does this mean?

Micro3D:

• OctoPrint tells me that my printer's firmware lacks mandatory safety features, what does this mean?

Monoprice

• Maker Select (equal to Malyan M150):
  • OctoPrint tells me that my printer's firmware lacks mandatory safety features, what does this mean?
• Select Mini V2 (equal to Malyan M200):
  • OctoPrint tells me that my printer's firmware lacks mandatory safety features, what does this mean?

Qidi

• Tech X-One2:
  • I cannot successfully print on my printer running a firmware identifying itself only as "CBD make it" or "ZWLF make it"
• X-Pro:
  • I cannot successfully print on my printer running a firmware identifying itself only as "CBD make it" or "ZWLF make it"
• Probably more (maybe all) models:
  • I cannot successfully print on my printer running a firmware identifying itself only as "CBD make it" or "ZWLF make it"

Tronxy

• D01

  • I cannot successfully print on my printer running a firmware identifying itself only as "CBD make it" or "ZWLF make it"

• X5SA Pro

  • I cannot successfully print on my printer running a firmware identifying itself only as "CBD make it" or "ZWLF make it"

• X8

  • OctoPrint tells me that my printer's firmware lacks mandatory safety features, what does this mean?

• Probably more models:

  • I cannot successfully print on my printer running a firmware identifying itself only as "CBD make it" or "ZWLF make it"

Wanhao

• Di3 (equal to Malyan M150):
  • OctoPrint tells me that my printer's firmware lacks mandatory safety features, what does this mean?

Xinkebot:

• Orca 2 Cygnus:
  • I cannot successfully print on my printer running a firmware identifying itself only as "CBD make it" or "ZWLF make it"

[MambaRoja]

I bought a new CR-10S Pro V2 that had a grinding noise, one of the cables for the Z stepper was loose, plugged it, problem solved! Still waiting to hear from the seller...

[alg42]

While it already says "probably more (maybe all) models:" under Qidi, I can confirm that that "Fix CBD" plugin has to be installed for the i-mate(s). Otherwise using a USB-TTL cable with rx to tx and tx to rx works great.