Please check the parts/accessories when you receive the printer (As shown below). If any
spare parts are missing, please contact your sales representative.
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4 Printer Display
(Picture 4-1) (Picture 4-2)
(Picture 4-3) (Picture 4-4)
○1Gantry frame;② Right limit switch plate;③ Right photoelectric limit switch;④ Touch screen;
⑤Y axis;⑥Hot bed height adjusting nuts;⑦Left photoelectric limit switch;⑧Left limit switch
plate;⑨ X axis limit switch;⑩ Spool holder;⑪Teflon feeding tube(Bowden tube);⑫Extruder
head;⑬Hot bed;⑭Z axis top assembly;⑮X axis motor;⑯Z axis motor Z1;⑰Y axis limit
switch;⑱Z axis motor Z2;⑲Extruder E1;⑳Extruder E0;㉑Extruder socket;㉒Power socket;㉓Power switch;㉔Right T-shaped plate;㉕Power voltage selector switch;㉖USB port;㉗TF card
slot;㉘Left T-shaped plate
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Gantry kit
Bottom kit
T-shaped plate component
(2 sets)
Spool holder component
(2 sets)
Gantry and base
installing screws
5 Assembling
5.1Main Frame Assembling
Main frame consists of gantry kit and base, T- shaped plate, spool holder and screws.
1) Assemble the gantry frame and base from bottom with 4 M5x30 screws and 4 spring
washersM5 as shown in picture (5-1).
(Picture 5-1)
2) Fix the gantry frame and base with T-shaped plates. See picture (5-2, 5-3).
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(Picture 5-2)
(Picture 5-3)
3) Assemble filament spool holders and attach to the top of the frame, with 2pcs M3x6 screws
and 2 T- nuts M3, as shown picture (5-4).
(Picture 5-4)
5.2Wire connection
1) Insert two Teflon tubes into the quick-insert connector of the two extruders as shown in
picture (5-5).
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(Picture 5-5)
2) Plug extruder wire into molex socket. Be sure plug is firmly seated into socket. See picture
(5-6).
(Picture 5-6)
3) Connect extruder motor wires of E0.See picture (5-7).
(Picture 5-7)
4) Connect extruder motor wires of E1.See picture (5-8).
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(Picture 5-8)
5) Connect the wires of X axis motor and limit switch. See picture (5-9).
(Picture 5-9)
6) Connect the wires of Y axis limit switch. See picture (5-10).
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(Picture 5-10)
7) Connect the Z1 axis motor and the Z1 axis limit switch wire. See picture (5-11).
(Picture 5-11)
8) Connect the Z2 axis motor and the Z2 axis limit switch wire. See picture (5-12).
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(Picture 5-12)
5.3Check the power input mode
The factory default voltage is 230V, please choose the correct voltage according to your local
voltage standard. See picture (5-13).
Note: Be sure the switch is set for the correct voltage.
(Picture 5-13)
5.4Load the filament
Put filament on spool holder, please pay attention to the feeding direction of the filament. See
picture (5-14), (5-15).
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(Picture 5-14)(Picture 5-15)
Filament is bent, therefore it needs to be straightened by your hands and trimmed to make it
easier to insert filament into feeder. Press down the lever handle of the extruder and insert the
filament into the feeding tube until it reaches extruder head. Extruder E0, E1 with arrow shown
in picture (5-16),(5-17).
(Picture 5-16)(Picture 5-17)
Please set the target temperature of nozzle about 190-210℃ when printing PLA. Control the
extruder feeding on touch screen after the nozzle temperature is stable. See picture
(5-18),(5-19).The extruder will feed automatically until the nozzle material is flowing. Please
select extruder E0, E1 in turn.
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(Picture 5-18)
(Picture 5-19)
Please observe the nozzle , to be sure there is no filament stuck,and that filament is coming out
smoothly and switching the colors of filament smoothly. Then stop filament feeding and clear the
nozzle with tweezers. See picture (5-20).
(Picture 5-20)
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6First print
6.1Leveling hot bed
The first layer is the key to a successfully printed model, which would directly affect the quality of
printing model and achieve a good bed adhesion. In order to avoid scratching nozzle and hot bed,
the factory default setting is a little high. Users need to level the hot bed and set the distance
between the nozzle and hot bed before printing. After the first-time bed leveling, users don’t
need to level the bed again. Details as follows:
1) Rough leveling
Please click the “Home” to enter “Leveling” interface on the touch screen. See picture (6-1). If
you click “manual level”, it shows“manual level” interface shown as picture (6-2).
(Picture 6-1)
(Picture 6-2)
Put a piece of leveling paper or A4 paper between hot bed and nozzle, Click the middle "5"
button, and select the appropriate precision (0.05mm/0.5mm) in the lower left corner to adjust
the height deviation value in the Z-axis direction until the distance between the platform and the
nozzle is about one sheet of paper. The thickness can be about 0.1~0.2mm, Slide the paper back
and forth to see if you feel a slight resistance. If yes, it means that extruder head is in the right
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place. See picture (6-3). After adjusting the height at position “5”, click “OK” to save current
value.
(Picture 6-3)
Please click the button in order from 1-4, At each corner, use the adjusting nuts under the bed to
set the distance between nozzle and hot bed to about the thickness of a piece of paper (Slide the
paper back and forth to see if you feel a slight resistance). Now rough leveling is finished. See
picture (6-4).
(Picture 6-4)
1) Accurate leveling
If you level hot bed with A4 paper, the first layer might be too high, too low or moderate.
a. Too high: If the distance between nozzle and hot bed is too far, filament will not stick to the
bed well. See picture (6-5).
(Picture 6-5)
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b. Too low: If the distance between nozzle and hot bed is too close, it prevents filament from
coming out, causes the extruder gear to click or grind on filament and even worse, it would
scratch nozzle and hot bed. See picture (6-6).
(Picture 6-6)
c. Moderate: Extrude filament properly and evenly. Stick to the hot bed. See picture (6-7).
(Picture 6-7)
In case of too high and too low, please adjust knobs under the hotbed slightly until you achieve
proper height. It may take some trial and error to achieve the best result. An example of good
first layer, see picture (6-8).
(Picture 6-8)
Note:
1) Be sure to adjust the height at center point (position5) on the touch screen, after clicking
“OK” to save its data, you can use then knobs to adjust the hot bed at the 4 corners.
2) When viewed from the above, turning the knobs clockwise, the hot bed will rise, and vice
versa.
3) Avoid the nozzle touching the bed; use a piece of A4 paper. Or it will scratch the bed.
6.2TF card printing
Insert TF card into the slot. See picture (6-9).
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(Picture 6-9)
Click “Printing” on touch screen to enter Print model menu. See picture (6-10).
(Picture 6-10)
Click on the in-built.Gco file in the TF card, Click the “Print” button. See picture (6-11), the
machine will automatically start printing, as shown in picture (6-12) and picture (6-13).
(Picture 6-11)
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(Picture 6-12) (Picture 6-13)
7Introduction of touch screen menu
7.1Tree diagram
7.2Main Functions
(Picture 7-1)
7.2.1 Main interface:
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7.2.2Print status Interface:
(Picture 7-2)
(Picture 7-3)
Two submenus
1) Click the hot bed temperature/extruder head temperature/speed to enter the interface of
temperature and speed. See picture (7-4).
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(Picture 7-4)
2) Click the “Fixed ratio mixer “to enter the interface of mixer setting, see picture (7-5).
(Picture 7-5)
The fixed scale of mixer and specified scale change or position mixer are not available to open at
the same time, either-or.
The fixed scale of mixer : Please check the feeding scale of Extruder E0 and E1 when adjust
printing, which could achieve the effect of mixed two-color printing.
Specified scale change or position mixer: Please adjust extruder feeding percentage and
corresponding height according to the direction of start /end, which can gradient from one color
to another in one height.
7.2.3Main functions of control menu:
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(Picture 7-6)
Six submenus at Control menu homepage
1) Click “Home” to its interface, see picture (7-7).
(Picture 7-7)
2) Click “Move” to its interface, see picture (7-8).
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(Picture 7-8)
Please choose its precision firstly before moving axes. There are
“30/10/1/0.5/0.1mm”available.And control every axis moving. Moreover, when the lower
right-hand corner motor status is in the "Enable" state, motor is locked. When “Disable” releases,
motor is unlocked, you can move every axis by hand.
3) Click “Motion Parameter”, it will enter motion parameter interface. See picture (7-9).
(Picture 7-9)
This page only displays every motion parameter, if no special condition, it doesn’t to modify.
4) Click “Leveling “to its interface.(7-10).
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(Picture 7-10)
Two submenus at leveling interface
a. Click “manual level “to its interface. See picture (7-11).
(Picture 7-11)
Please choose its precision firstly before manual leveling. You can choose“0.05/0.5mm”. Then
adjust z axis height according to the actual situation. And click “Ok” to save its settings.
B. Click “auto level” to its interface. See picture (7-12).
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(Picture 7-12)
First, you need to select the type of auto leveling, 3D Touch or CAS. Click the bottom icon to
select and then click the upper switch to turn on the auto leveling function. If you choose “3D
Touch”, click“Push-pin up/Push-pin down” and “Alarm Release” to test whether the 3D Touch
function is normal before leveling.
And click the “Measure “icon, when the extruder head has moved to the center measure
position, click “Offset Interval“to select the appropriate offset accuracy, and adjust the difference
of height to set a available range between the bottom of 3D Touch pin and nozzle. And then click
“Save”, the parameter of auto leveling is finished.
5) Click “Filament” to its interface. See picture (7-13).
(Picture 7-13)
A30M has 2 extruders; therefore it can control feeding in and out and heat operation of E0 and
E1.
Clean filament:
Please keep clean to extruder head in order to have long printing time. Avoid plugging, we
suggest keep clean on a regular basis. Click its button, Extruder E0 and E1 will cycle alternately of
feeding to achieve cleaning.
6) Click “Speed” to its interface. See picture (7-14).
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7.2.4 Interface of printing list:
(Picture 7-14)
(Picture 7-15)
Please choose the model file at printing file list, and click “Print “and then start printing.
7.2.5 Interface of setting:
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(Picture 7-16)
Six submenus at setting interface
1) Click “Add-on” to enter its interface. See picture (7-17).
(Picture 7-17)
After the screen lock button is turned on, the machine screen will enter the lock screen of Picture
(7-18) after the set lock time to prevent others from operating the machine by mistake. The
factory default is off, and the initial password is: “0000”.
(Picture 7-18)
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After resetting the password, if you forget the password, you can connect the machine to the
computer and modify it with the PC software. As shown in Picture (7-19), after the machine is
connected to the computer, enter "M2139 P2 W *" in the G-Code command input box of the
manual control page on the right side of the software. (Note: **** in this command is the reset
4-digit password)
(Picture 7-19)
2) Click “Language” to its interface. See picture (7-20).
(Picture 7-20)
3) Click “Screen Cali” to its interface. See picture. (7-21).
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(Picture 7-21)
4) Click “About” to the device information. See picture (7-22).
(Picture 7-22)
5) If you click “Yes”, it will restore factory settings. See picture (7-23).
(Picture 7-23)
6) Click “Detector “to its interface. See picture (7-24).
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(Picture 7-24)
There is no display at printing interface if no opening. Only printing interface opens, it shows
filament. When the picture is green, it can test filament. When the picture is red, it cannot test
filament. See picture (7-25), (7-26).
(Picture 7-25)(Picture 7-26)
8Software setting
8.1Install USB drivers
Two printing choices of A30M: TF card printing and USB printing.
TF card printing:
Insert TF card into the slot after leveling, and choose a .gcode file to start printing. No USB driver
is required.
USB printing:
Connect the printer and computer with a USB cable to control printer with slicing software such
as Repetier-Host. Because of some unstable factors such as signal interference, the USB printing
prone to fail. So we suggest choosing TF card printing.
Details of USB printing are as follows:
Firstly, turn on the printer, and connect the printer to computer with a USB cable. Normally, the
computer will automatically search the install drive. The newest communication chip of A30M is
CH340. See picture (8-1).
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(Picture 8-1)
Check whether the driver is automatically installed successfully or not. Click to choose “My
computer>Property>Device manager”.
If it shows the exclamation mark as picture below (8-2), then you need manually install the driver.
After the driver is installed, check the “Device manager” and see if it is same as the picture below
(8-3). If so, it means the driver is successfully installed.
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(Picture 8-3)
8.2Install slicing software
Repetier-Host is the default slicing software here. Download address:
https://www.repetier.com/download-software/)
1) Set printer parameter
When Repetier-Host is installed, turn on the printer and open the Repetier-Host. Repetier-Host
supports several languages. You can choose your native language from Config>Language (Picture
8-4 for details).
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(Picture 8-4)
English interface as picture (8-5):
(Picture 8-5)
Using the Repetier-Host for the first time, printer parameters need to be configured before
connecting. Click “Printer settings” on the top right corner, see picture (8-6).
(Picture 8-6)
It pops up the content as the picture below (8-7). Write down the relevant info accordingly.
(Pay attention to the highlighted parts).
a. Connection dialog:see picture (8-7)
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b. Printer dialog(Picture 8-8)
(Picture 8-7)
(Picture 8-8)
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c. Extruder dialog(Picture 8-9)
d. Printer shape dialog(Picture 8-10)
(Picture 8-9)
(Picture 8-10)
Now the printer parameters are set.
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Note: The baud rate is still 115200, Mac OS, Repetier Host are the same.
2) Setting slicing parameter
After setting the printer parameters, click “Connect” on the top left corner. The color of the icon
changed to green means the printer connects to the Repetier-Host successfully. Click it again to
“Disconnect”. See picture (8-11).
(Picture 8-11)
After successfully connected, choose “Slicer> CuraEngine” and open the configuration menu. See
picture (8-12).
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It pops up dialog as picture below (8-13):
(Picture 8-12)
(Picture 8-13)
Printer parameters are important to print quality. Customers need to run tests to find the best
parameters for their printers. Here we provide a configuration file for your reference (“Geeetech
A30M PLA high.rcp”). You can import it according to the steps as follows. The following is an
example of parameters for PLA (Picture 8-14):
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Click “Print>Import”
(Picture 8-14)
It pops up the dialog as below. See picture (8-15). Choose “Geeetech A30M PLA high.rcp” and
open it.
(Picture 8-15)
Now, the configuration file is imported, click “Save”. See picture (8-16).
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(Picture 8-16)
Click “Filament”>“Import”. See picture (8-17).
(Picture 8-17)
It pops up dialog as below (Picture 8-18); choose “Geeetech A30M PLA high fi.rcf”and open it.
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(Picture 8-18)
Now, the configuration file is imported. Click “Save”. See picture (8-19).
(Picture 8-19)
Choose “Geeetech A30M PLA high “as print configuration and “Geeetech A30M PLA high fi” as
printing material setting. Details see picture (8-20) below.
(Picture 8-20)
Now parameters setting are finished.
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8.3 USB printing
You can start USB printing when the parameters setting finished.
The model file format is .stl for 3D printer. You can download free models from websites such as
thingiverse. You can also design your own models.
1) Load the printing model
Open the Repetier-Host and click “load”. Choose a file and open it. See picture (8-21).
(Picture 8-21)
The used complete two-color boat model consists of two molecular models, so we need to
import two sub-models into the upper computer software at the same time. See picture (8-22).
(Picture 8-22)
When dichromatic model is loaded, you can use the buttons as picture below (picture 8-23) to
zoom in, zoom out or rotate the model. See picture (8-23).
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(Picture 8-23)
Adjust extruders to the dichromatic model in the right control frame and check the model plane
whether it touches hot bed or not so as to next printing. See picture (8-24), (8-25).
(Picture 8-24)
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(Picture 8-25)
Then click the gear shape pointed by arrow to enter model info interface. See picture (8-26).
(Picture 8-26)
“Specified model” should be adjusted to the same as other models at picture (8-27).The both
parts of the model are within 6 default groups in our example. See picture (8-28).
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(Picture 8-27)
(Picture 8-28)
At this point, the model window can see the complete model after the two partial sub-models
are merged together. See picture (8-29).
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(Picture 8-29)
If the model loaded is too big and beyond the printing platform, you need to zoom out the model.
You can choose the X/Y/Z together, see picture (8-30).
(Picture 8-30)
Or zoom in/out them separately, see picture (8-31).
(Picture 8-31)
2) Model slicing
When the size and direction are set, choose the imported slicing parameter, and click “Cura
Engine”. See picture (8-32).
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(Picture 8-32)
(Picture 8-33)
You can find the model information such as estimated time, the amount of filament needed, etc.
Click “Print” to start USB printing. Refer to picture (8-34).The printer will heat to the target temp
and then start printing. Under high temperature, the filament will flow out of the nozzle, which is
normal. You can use tweezers to clean up the residual material of the nozzle.
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(Picture 8-34)
8.4TF card printing
When all parameters are set, click “Save for SD print”. It will pop up a dialog as picture below
(See picture 8-35) and then click the save button to generate a .gcode file. Copy the gcode file to
the TF card.
(Picture 8-35)
Insert the TF card into the slot which is on the left side of the machine. Press the knob to enter
the main menu and choose “Printing”.
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(Picture 8-36)
Choose the corresponding gcode file to start printing. Click “Printing” and it will start printing.
See picture (8-37).
(Picture 8-37)
Note:
The printer can only read gcode file and the file name should be English letters, a space, an