I bought a Printrbot LC recently and I've printed out a handful of things with it, but the quality was never great. The problem is the filament isn't extruding well. A lot of times nothing come out during the skirt and first few layers, or it comes out in spurts. I was thinking the problem might be the temperature I was using was too low, although I was printing at 192C as recommended by the person I bought the printer from. I was going to try 200C, but then I thought that maybe I had grabbed a reel of ABS instead of PLA by accident so I thought I'd try printing at ABS temp quick (230C) and see if that did it. Was I asking for trouble extruding PLA at 230c? I thought at worst it would ooze out too fast, but instead the extruder started smoking and now I'm unable to print anything at all. Is the extruder toast or is there something i can do to clean it up? I am able to extrude filament fine it's just when i try to print something Pronterface goes into a never-ending countdown, repeating W:5 over and over. Can anyone tell me what that means? I'll get the exact output Pronterface is displaying as soon as I'm back at home. If anyone can help, thanks!
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