Creality Ender-3 Textured PEI Steel Bed, Upgrade 3D Printer Removable Build Surface Platform, 235x235mm (Black)

The original Ender 3 came with a fiberglass (g10) build plate with a sticker with the textured surface. These worked OK, but since fiberglass is a thermal insulator I always felt it affected the heated bed. These build plates are made of steel, which conduct heat much better; making for a build surface that heats up quickly and is more equally distributed. I find these a noticeable improvement.

This bed is something else. It worked fine with resin. It is fairly easy to use and my daughter loves it.

This build surface is the bomb! The OEM glass bed which came with my ender 3 v2 was sort of a pain if youre like me and want to keep the printer chugging along starting another print as soon as the last one is done. The glass bed was awesome if you had time to wait, but if not, you could wreck your bed level by trying to get the print off the bed. This one just peels off the magnet and you flex it one way then the other and pop--off comes your print! Adherence is good because I feel like the texture makes it a little extra sticky. Plus its nice that you dont have to deal with those stodgy OEM metal clips that held the OEM glass bed down. I dont even wait for the print to cool in most cases. I just remove the textured steel plate from the magnetic sticker and flex it back and forth a couple times, then carefully place the plate back on the magnet and get ready to print the next thing. The magnetic sticker was easy to put on. I did it in two tries and was thrilled when Id gotten it a little wonky and was still able to carefully pull it back up to reposition it. The steel plate that goes on can be tricky. I align the left edge carefully while most of the plate is at an angle so it wont snap into position unintentionally, then when I have it pretty good, I slowly let more of the plate stick to the magnetic surface until its all down. If you ever get it wrong, just peel up and do it again. On a scale of frustrations you can have with a 3D filament printer, this thing is in the negatives. Only odd thing is this item is made by Putbuy with the Creality Ender logo on it. Not sure how that works, but its a good product.

This build plate is an ender brand plate. Its coated only on one side where some other brands are PEI coated on both sides. I like the two sided coating in other brands since its essentially two plates. The steel side of this sheet has little appeal to me. Adhesion is good but it does leave a texture on the surface of the item. The ender glass plate leaves a beautiful smooth surface but is much harder to get good first layer adhesion. Ive had some issues getting thin layers off of this plate. Its really only an issue if you have to cancel a print right away or use rafts. I find that printing thicker rafts or printing a couple of layers on top of the stuck item is all it takes to build it up enough to peel off. Dont try to scrape with that little putty knife Ender includes.

PEI flex steel beds are one of the best upgrades you can do to your printer. Cleans with IPA and a paper towel or melamine sponge. Sure, you can flex it and the prints pop right off - but articulated models bend with the plate... so just wait for the bed to cool all the way. The print is just sitting there, lose. Pretty slick

I run a Elegoo Neptune 2S and started experiencing the common issue of print bed warping, so I thought to give this a try. This both fixed the issue and works better than the stock bed, almost too good but that is why I love flex plates. Easy to install and get printing right away, this is definitely a recommendation if youre having any sort of warping or issues with filament sticking to the print bed. Not much more to say, it just works, REALLY well, even my narrow post printed with no worry and was stuck tight to the print bed.

This build plate is better than I thought it would be. Pla sticks to is very well and when you print is done a slight flex and off pops your print. Very easy and useful for 3d printing

I am a 3D printing enthusiast. Im always looking for ways to make my 3D printing setup even better. Ive never used anything else except the magnetic build surface that came with my 3D printer, so I was interested in trying out this steel bed. This 3D printer bed comes with two parts. The steel printing surface and a magnetic sheet with an adhesive backing. This adhesive magnetic sheet is nearly identical to the one that comes with the Ender 3 Pro. And because I have an Ender 3 Pro, I didnt have to use the magnetic sheet. The steel printing surface stuck onto my existing magnetic bed just fine. The steel is a lot stiffer than the magnetic printing surface that comes with the Ender 3 Pro. The steel surface also has a courser texture than the stock magnetic surface. Both the stiffness and course surface made getting consistent prints easier. With the steel printing surface, I had to worry less about unevenness on the surface, and parts seemed to stick better. Removing parts from this surface is easy. A little bend pops the part right off. Im very pleased with this product. However, I wish the surface itself was just a touch bigger. The steel surface is almost exactly the size of the magnetic surface, this makes lining up the steel surface with the magnetic bed difficult. I kept wishing I had just a couple more millimeters all the way around. Given that I rarely print to the edge, I simply shifted the entire plate to the left just a little to catch the plastic primed from the nozzle. Overall, this is a solid upgrade from the stock magnetic build surface. Im glad I picked it up.

I have used the plastic one that came on my printer, did not take long for that one to melt in spots. I have used the glass top, nice, but it never seems to really come clean and it can be very difficult to remove prints. This one has been great so far. Prints hold and then are easy to release. Great upgrade.

I got this to replace my Ender 3 S1 plate. I know other users of this printer are also trying to find the same replacement bed for this model and have issues finding it. This plate is similar but not quite the same though due to the different surface texture. This one does a great job although my prints dont always adhere to it very well, so I have to use glue on small print jobs.