The Flashforge Creator 5 is an FDM 3D printer with four independent toolheads. It switches between four colors or materials without purge towers or wiping, so it produces no purge waste during material changes. The material says this saves filament and print time, with multicolor printing up to 500% faster than traditional single-nozzle systems.
Multi-toolhead offset calibration is fully automatic, so the toolheads align without manual adjustment. The printer also uses automatic compensation for surface quality and automatic pressure advance (PA) calibration for dynamic flow. It has a 256 × 256 × 256 mm build volume and a 600 mm/s travel speed.
It supports engineering-grade filaments such as ABS, ASA and PA-CF. The build plate is a textured PEI flexible steel plate, and the nozzles are removable.
- Toolheads
- 4 independent toolheads
- Build volume
- 256 × 256 × 256 mm
- Build plate
- PEI flexible steel build plate (textured)
- Auto leveling
- Automatic
- Max bed temp
- 120 °C
- Max nozzle temp
- 320 °C
- Max flow rate
- 32 mm³/s
- Travel speed
- 600 mm/s
- Nozzle diameter
- 0.4 mm standard; 0.25 mm, 0.6 mm and 0.8 mm also listed
- Removable nozzle
- Yes
- Display
- 4-inch 800 × 480 full-color touchscreen
- Flow calibration
- Automatic PA calibration
- Calibration
- Fully automatic multi-toolhead offset calibration
- Filaments
- PLA, PETG, TPU-90A (top external mount), TPU-95A, TPU-64D, PLA-CF, PETG-CF, SILK, PVA, BVOH
- Also supports
- ABS, ASA, PA-CF