Pharaoh 3D Printer - Mass Portal Pharao



    3D printer Mass Portal Pharao - the differences between different versions and our experience in its repair.
    Who is he Pharaoh?

    From the darkness of ages


    Since the times of the Union, we all remember the high-quality Baltic electronics - transistor receivers, portable televisions and other high-tech products that were considered the best in the country. Those times are over, the plants have died, the glory has faded and, it would seem, everything is bad in the land of delicious sprats.

    That was five years ago, but something has changed.


    Mass Portal is a privately owned company developing, producing and selling desktop 3D printers, founded in April 2012 and located in Riga, Latvia. The company took as an example the best samples of existing 3D printers and, having improved their characteristics, developed their own devices.


    Pharaoh's ascent


    In April 2014, Mass Portal unveiled the second generation of its main product - desktop 3D printers based on delta bots technology - the Mass Portal Pharaoh series. Mass Portal 3D printers are faster, quieter, and less susceptible to vibration than traditional 3D printers. Made in a laconic industrial design and with concern for safety, these machines are most suitable for use in educational institutions and offices.



    According to several manufacturers of independent materials (not intended for printers of a particular brand), as of mid-2015, Pharaoh was one of those providing the highest quality 3D printing.



    Pharaoh's reign


    The quality of the Mass Portal 3D printers, both the quality of their assembly, which ensures reliability and uninterrupted operation, and the quality and accuracy of work, which gives the best result when printed, enabled them to spread across several continents and attract deserved attention.



    You can find reviews on this printer, made in different languages ​​in different parts of the world.



    The design turned out so successful that standard stress tests are used simply to look at an amusing extruder dance. With conventional linear drive printers such a trick will not work.



    At this point, the Pharaoh exists in six embodiments: design modifications differ in the size of the print area, the number of injectors in the working head, and several other details.

    The main difference of the ED series, consisting of three modifications: ED 20 , ED 30 and ED 40 - increased attention to print resolution.


    The feature of the XD series, which is represented by XD 20 , XD 30 and XD 40, is the ability to print several materials at the same time.


    More about them all - in the table below. There are also prices in the table, but they are indicative - the price of any 3D printer can both rise and fall, it is better to know the exact price on the website.


    Print quality and the complexity of the available forms paint is not particularly necessary, see:






    The peculiarity of delta bots, as compared with linear constructions, is great simplicity and reliability, safety and ease of repair, and they also look, often, much prettier.



    Disease and cure


    There is nothing eternal under this sky, even the best have their limits and once they brought to us a pharaoh suffering from serious ailments - Mass Portal Pharaoh XD 30 entered in serious condition. A consilium of our service engineers examined the patient and began treatment.

    The patient was replaced with worn out hard life organs: a plastic feed sleeve, an intermediate ring, a glass surface of the printing table, side windows and a door.


    After surgeries, thinner ones went: of course, such a heavy patient had to perform an accurate calibration of the position of the print head, which was done.




    Already at the finish line, it turned out that, although the apparatus’s electronics was intact, the contents of the “brains” had not been updated since the moment of purchase. Engineers contacted Mass Portal employees and collectively updated the firmware first, and then the working software, to the latest version. The natural continuation was the adjustment of software settings to optimal and subsequent test tests.


    After debugging, test printouts were carried out with different types of plastics through nozzles of different diameters, and the optimum settings for printing were determined by experiment with one plastic, and two, and three — of course, different.

    Even badly battered and worn, the Mass Portal Pharaoh showed commendable will to live and an enviable maintainability. Its repair did not cause any special difficulties, and the quality of the print after the procedures made was in accordance with the standard.

    Briefly summarizing:


    What can be said about Mass Portal Pharaoh XD 30 and its relatives?
    Our “patient” showed the strength and good quality of the structure, which considerably simplified and cheapened the repairs. If his brothers are not different from him, and they have no reason to differ, then we can recommend any of them to be acquired and exploited.

    Frisky and reliable guys.



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