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I know you can disable the prime tower at a trade off in quality, but why not poop out the priming instead of wasting build plate space?

Am I missing a setting in Orca?

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[–] ExcessShiv@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

All printers made in the past 5 years have a purge chute and wiper.

Uuh...no, not even close to being true. There are still plenty of printers without purge chutes available on the market today.