{"id":10041,"date":"2017-03-26T23:21:36","date_gmt":"2017-03-26T23:21:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.3dprinterbank.com\/?p=10041"},"modified":"2017-03-26T23:21:36","modified_gmt":"2017-03-26T23:21:36","slug":"had-to-return-my-new-printer-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.3dprinterbank.com\/?p=10041","title":{"rendered":"Had to return my &#8220;new&#8221; printer today&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img src='https:\/\/ifttt.com\/images\/no_image_card.png' style='max-width:600px;' \/><\/p>\n<div>After days of research, I finally pulled the trigger and purchased my first 3D printer; Monoprice&#8217;s Maker Select V2 through Amazon. I was following the instructions step by step when I came upon a small red flag. The instructions said to carefully remove the zip tie that prevented the extruder assembly from traversing the x-axis rods during shipping, but that zip tie was no where to be found. I overlooked the small error in packaging and carried on. A couple of steps down the road, I flipped the power supply on and was about to set the printer for calibration when I switched over to the screen where it shows the collective print time and filament printed. I was shocked at what I saw: 21 days of print time and over 2500 meters of filament printed. I wouldn&#8217;t have been too surprised if it said a couple hours at most if per say Monoprice test prints each printer they sell (which I&#8217;m pretty sure they don&#8217;t do, right?) but that, along with the missing zip tie, made me think that this printer wasn&#8217;t new at all. For no charge, I sent it back to amazon today for an exchange and I&#8217;m hoping that I don&#8217;t have the same problem. I tried searching through the sub to see if anyone had this problem but I couldn&#8217;t find anything. I was a little disappointed, but I&#8217;m hoping that the problem will be fixed with a &#8220;newer&#8221; printer. http:\/\/ift.tt\/2nV4NXm<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After days of research, I finally pulled the trigger and purchased my first 3D printer; Monoprice&#8217;s Maker Select V2 through Amazon. I was following the instructions step by step when I came upon a small red flag. The instructions said to carefully remove the zip tie that prevented the extruder assembly from traversing the x-axis &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.3dprinterbank.com\/?p=10041\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Had to return my &#8220;new&#8221; printer today&#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[7,8,9],"class_list":["post-10041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-3dprinters","tag-3dprinting","tag-discussion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.3dprinterbank.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.3dprinterbank.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.3dprinterbank.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.3dprinterbank.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.3dprinterbank.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10041"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.3dprinterbank.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10041\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10042,"href":"http:\/\/www.3dprinterbank.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10041\/revisions\/10042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.3dprinterbank.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.3dprinterbank.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.3dprinterbank.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}