Yes. Pei is flexible, not as much as the original surface, but it will work very well on top of Ziflex.

You can watch our tutorial, one video is better than 1000 words!

The value pack with many upper parts allows you to change easily the surface if you damaged it, or once it's too old to be used. The pack with two upper parts has a 20% discount on it, and the pack with five upper parts has a 30% discount on it. 

According to the PLA, yes. We use Colorfabb PLA, and it works very well. But we prefer to use our heated bed, at 50°. 

You'll need to remove the magnetic base. Unfortunately, once it has been stick, you can't use it again. Once it has been remove, you can use acetone to clean the glue remaining on your original build plate. You'll then have to try with another magnetic base, and you can have a look on our tutorial. 

You have two options:

- stick your glass plate with some glue (like UHU) to your aluminum bed, this way you'll have a good flatness without the holding clips.

- remove the glass plate and install the Ziflex directly on the aluminum bed. However, be careful. Sometimes, aluminum beds doesn't have a good flatness, so you have to be sure before printing with Ziflex. 

Not at all. You can directly stick the Ziflex to your usual print bed, aluminum or glass. The only important thing is to stick it on a plate that have a good flatness.

Today, there are four different automated calibration technologies available on the market: capacitive, mechanical, optical and inductive. Ziflex will work perfectly with the first three technologies without any modifications, but the inductive calibration system needs a conductive bed, which Ziflex isn't. You can however use Ziflex but you'll have to turn off the autocalibration and calibrate your printer yourself. When you'll remove Ziflex to remove a print, you'll not de-calibrate your printer like you maybe used too with a spatula or another tool. 

To turn off your autocalibration, called "mesh bed leveling", you need to delete the "G80" line from your start script. 

With our new injected molded case and acoustic foam filling, Zimpure makes little noise. When your printer is on, you will barely notice any noise from Zimpure. Check out this video to see how much noise a Zimpure really makes.

The filters we use are total, they do not let anything pass. 

We’ve made some test in a lab with an expensive instrument to measure nanoparticle and COV, (CPC + mass spectrometer). These are lab equipment and it will be almost impossible to measure anything without these type of equipment. If you want to consult it, please send us an email at hello@zimple3d.com, and we'll send it to you. 

Some suction head printed in PLA or TPU are working well, maybe Nylon and PETG are a bit better. You can use polyamide or silicone isolation around the nozzle to help you prevent any melting of the suction head, but it's not mandatory. The suction head is only in contact with the heat sink and not the nozzle, it's not enough to melt them.

Zimpure filters use some high grade filters which filters almost everything that goes into it, so it will be efficient with both PLA, ABS, and others.

we don’t have a suction head for all 3D printers yet. To allow our customers to adapt or create their own one, we’ve made a little tutorial on how to design yours. We can also send you some source file of an existing one if you want to make small mods to make it fit your printer.
There is a Zimpure Discord channel where you can communicate with the community and us about your specific suction head : https://discord.gg/SzPZyph

The 3D printer we’ve used for testing isn’t fully closed, and has no cover on it, so it will work with your 3D printer without enclosure as long as you do not use too powerful blower to cool down the filament. For example, we recommend to slow down a little the cooling fan of the latest MK3, because the blower used is really powerful.

You'll have to connect to the ventilation grille. It's easy to design and install. The tightness is made with a double-sided tape. The emissions normally emit in the air by the ventilation will now pass in the Zimpure before.

You can throw them in the bin, they can't be recycled, unfortunately.

No, both the the silicone pipe and the suction head are lightweight, and the pipe is very flexible: they do not interfere at all with the mechanics of your printer.

No. The airflow rate is so low that it doesn't affect the overall temperature in the enclosure.

No, we've tested it on different printers, with different materials, and printing quality doesn't change.

In order to make Zimpure efficient, compact, and very silent, 3D printed parts are not enough. Zimpure comes with an injected molded case, vibration absorption foam, acoustic foam, and high quality components that cost a lot if you buy them on your own. Also, we have conducted lots of tests in a laboratory to provide you with an efficient and reliable product. The instruments used for nanoparticles and VOC measurements with the precision we had are rare and expensive.

Contrary to what is usually thought, PLA is also a source of nanoparticle and VOC emissions. Plastic filaments are also never pure ABS or pure PLA. Filaments are made up of a complex mixture of different polymers, in order to provide the best printing quality, layer adhesion, warping resistance, flexibility, and other parameters. Many different toxic compounds can be found from one filament to another. Like most plastics, PLA has the potential to be toxic if inhaled and/or absorbed into the skin or eyes as a vapor or liquid (i.e. during manufacturing processes like 3D Printing).