Leapfrog Creatr 3d Printer

The controller boards are useless, they don't last long.
They won't even help you in anyway replacing the board with a better one.
The controller boards they sell you are even worst, they don't last enough before they burn out. Keep away from leapfrog creatr printers

I ran into some print settings issues, I'm trying a filament from a different supplier (Ninja Flex) and needed to adjust settings. Leapfrog seems to have their world wide support centralised, Diana from support helpen me out quick and helpfull. I've been making insane cool prints sine then. Normally I use MAXX filaments sold from their website but a flex material is still not available.

The Leapfrog Creatr is proven to be great added value for my engineering business. It took a while to get the hang of it, but I am now managing to turn out high quality prototypes that help me convince my clients. I was greatly helped by using Simplify3d software instead of the open source Repetier by the way, really improved the quality.

I bought this printer 10 months ago now, and have had an absolutely disastrous introduction to 3D printing. From day 1, I was in trouble, simply getting either a PC or a Mac to recognize it following the out of date manuals was a nightmare. I did get phone help. Then came the first signs of Z-axis problems that were to become much more serious within months. It was impossible to calibrate, the Home position was not recognized, so the glass went too high and jammed against the nozzles. Or, it stopped mm below the nozzles. Eventually some printing started, I print in ABS, sticking was an issue and endless experimentation did not help. The labels supplied more often than not ended up torn because of on going calibration problems. Eventually that Z-axis drive at the back had to be rebuilt, and the 2 Y-axis mounts were also replaced with harder steel. I bought in Australia, expecting Australian warranty, it was handed back to The Netherlands. Long distance arrangements, had my unit sent to Sydney, to a printing bureau when an engineer would do the work. It was not done by the retailer. It arravived back from this work, with only 1 of 2 nozzles functioning, not impressive. Certainly not productive.
I do thank the Dutch makers for at least undertaking that work, but not 3Dprintersuperstores which seemed intend on washing their hands of the problem. And the endless problems getting object to stick continued. More options tried, more time wasted, more calibrations done. Then at least i get to see another printer working, laying down that first layer over the whole print bed, and the penny dropped. I went back to measure the glass surface of my printbed

Have some videos of my machine epic fail. First the cheap Chinese bearings and slides failed and then then a problem with the motherboard. Takes literally weeks to get support and parts under warranty. Certainly not a good investment will save up for something better.

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Absolutely horrible customer support. I would warn anyone away from purchasing a machine from Leapfrog. They can't calculate exchange rates, they have customs problems shipping overseas (with machines completely disassembled), and they do not respond to emails/phone calls/texts. In the process right now of filing claims with the Better Business Bureau from having done business with them.

Great machine now I have it working. Blocked head upon arrival but not hard to fix. One of the better quality machines on the market

Not very happy with this printer, unblocking the print head is a engineering nightmare!

It has been a while after I received this printer. Just want to check everything before I write down this comment. I've used this to print a more than 20 prototypes now. And now I think I have got a good understanding of it.

The leadtime for delivery wasn't short, mainly due to the manufacturer's supplier issue at that period. But I believe it has been fixed already. It comes with a large timber box which is pretty heavy. The printer was well protected during shipping. Inside the box I got 2 free filaments from the manufacturer, and a pack of film. Mark also gave me a free high quality PLA filament with my purchase of material. So I got 6 filaments with the price of 3, which is quite great. Setup wasn't hard at all.

The first print was load and a lot of vibration. I took the side cover off and put the printer directly on the carpet after a few print, and it becomes a pretty quiet machine. The filament feeding device come with the machine wasn't very impressive. The filament got knotted sometimes because of the horizontal orientation. I took the feeding tube off and put the filament on top of the printer with a vertical spool holder, then it works perfect. Also a small maintanence can help getting a good result, such as changing the film, clean the glue from the printing bed with glue remover, level the printing bed, etc. The software for this machine is an open sourced software. A lot of settings to play around to make it faster, better printing quality, etc.

Overall, it is a great machine with decent printing size, good building quality, and also good looking. It is worth the money I spent. And Mark is quite helpful and friendly.

Hope anyone who bought this machine will enjoy it. And also my experience can help everyone.

Good morning,

Our printer has not yet been receive and we are keen to have it so we can get printing.

Will update with further details on arrival.

Thank you.

Received my new Leapfrog Creatr 3d printer a couple of days ago in perfect condition. Printer is pretty much plug and play to get going and is well constructed. I haven’t used it a lot yet but seems to be fairly easy to load and run.

do they have stocks right now or there is certain amount of leading time for me to wait ?

Finally Received the Leapfrog Creatr (1mth lead time), which arrives in a very large box (~30kgs), if you have a small car you might want to consider where you get this delivered! Nice looking product, the software for this is all done via the company's website, which is very straight forward to install. I should be getting my first print off soon!

While you wait for your printer get to know the software (www.repetier.com) and the drivers for the printer come with the Arduino package of software. All of the instructions are available on the Leapfrog website (www.lpfrg.com).

The finished product of this printer is not Super smooth, it has small ridges in it, a simple product of 3D printing, just don't expect to have creations similar to the quality of injection moulded plastic.

The 3D printer staff are very helpful and prompt responding to emails, they kept me in the loop the whole time I was waiting for this printer.

Happy Printing!

its probably best you don't send these automated emails to clients that actually haven't received the goods. still waiting for this product to arrive.