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Printer Creality Ender-5 Plus 3D printer Creality Ender-5 Plus Sovol SV04 3D printer Sovol SV04
Compatible Compatible
Connection methods
  • OctoPrint: Compatible
  • OctoPrint: Compatible
What you need to connect it
  • OctoPrint: A Raspberry Pi running OctoPrint, plugged into the printer with a USB cable
  • OctoPrint: A Raspberry Pi running OctoPrint, plugged into the printer with a USB cable
100+ printers use SimplyPrint 25+ printers use SimplyPrint
August 2019 2021
Made by a company from China China
None listed yet
350 x 350 x 400 mm 300 x 300 x 400 mm
Open frame Open frame
PLA, PETG PLA, PETG, TPU & flexibles
Unknown 120 mm/s
Motion system Other kinematics Bed slinger
No No
1 2
No No
No Yes
260 °C 260 °C
Up to 100 °C Up to 100 °C
SD card, USB SD card, USB
Yes Yes
No Yes
350 x 350 mm 300 x 300 mm
Nozzle it ships with 0.4 mm 0.4 mm
Filament diameter 1.75 mm 1.75 mm
Firmware it ships with Marlin Marlin
Yes Yes
SimplyPrint's rating of the brand, from public sources. How we rate Mostly open 3.6 of 5 for Creality · Why Open 4.3 of 5 for Sovol · Why
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Brand's spool tags (NFC) Whether its multi-material unit can recognise any filament Open: tags for any filament SimplyPrint reads Creality's spool tags and writes them for any filament, so every brand works like Creality's own. How it works None listed yet

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