eufyMake Software 5.0: Flexible Maintenance Modes and Interactive Design Flow
Before we introduce the new features, we want to share a naming update.
As software version 5.0 rolls out over the coming week, the eufyMake App will become the Anker Make App, and eufyMake Studio will become Anker Make Studio. Both will have updated logos.
This change is part of Anker bringing its product lines, including eufyMake, together under one brand. Your account, devices and projects will stay where they are. You can keep using the app and Anker Make Studio as you do today.
Now for what is new in 5.0:
- Flexible Maintenance Modes, three modes replacing the single fixed moisturizing rule
- Interactive Design Flow, a guided path from a blank canvas to a finished print, with Jig Printing and the substrate library in Studio
- Cleaning Cartridge Level Estimation, so you can see remaining levels before a cartridge runs out
- Bidirectional Printing in the app, after its PC launch in September
New Maintenance Modes for Different Printing Habits
You might print every day, every few days, or not at all while you are away.
Until now, the E1 used the same moisturizing schedule for everyone. If you printed today and left the printer idle tomorrow, it would moisturize at the scheduled time on the third day.
That protects the printhead, but if you plan to print again soon, the next job flushes out the moisturizing liquid before it has done much good.
With 5.0, you can choose a maintenance mode that better fits your plans.
If you choose Yes in Flexible Mode but do not print after all, the printer still protects the printhead. Enhanced nozzle flushing starts 48 hours after your last print and repeats every 6 hours.
After 72 hours without printing, moisturizing runs at the scheduled time. You can plan around your next job without needing to know exactly when you will use the printer again.
Storage Mode serves a similar purpose to the existing Safe Shutdown Maintenance, but gives you a clearer option to select.
When you return, tap Inject Ink on the device home screen. The printer resumes normal operation and restores the mode you used before Storage Mode.
To choose a mode in the Anker Make App, open Settings, then Maintenance. In Anker Make Studio, go to Printer Setting, then Maintenance and Moisturizing mode.
Interactive Design Flow
For someone making a first UV print, there is quite a bit to figure out before pressing Print.
You have to choose what to print on, design to its size, decide how to produce the effect you want and line everything up.
We know that learning all of those steps at once can be frustrating.
Interactive Design Flow takes you through them in a useful order. You can focus on the step in front of you instead of trying to prepare the whole job at once.
- Choose a substrate. Pick an official preset or one you have saved. You can also enter custom dimensions or scan a substrate of your own.
- Create your design. Work within the substrate outline so you can see where the artwork will sit. If you have a photo rather than a finished design, you can use AI Skill to help create a personalized piece.
- Set up the craft. Preview the design on a 3D model of your substrate and rotate the view on your phone. You can adjust multiple craft layers on the same page. The software also guides your choices, such as turning on sticker mode for UV DTF film or reminding you to use adhesion promoter on smooth substrates.
- Align for printing. The software recommends an alignment method for the substrate. For example, it can recommend zero point alignment for an A4 size board. If you use a snapshot, the design lines up with the captured position.
- Confirm the parameters. Check them after the design and alignment are ready, just before you send the job to print.
The aim is not to take decisions away from you. It is to make the next decision easier to understand, especially when you are still getting familiar with UV printing.
The images below show where you can start a project in the Anker Make App and Anker Make Studio, followed by the guided flow in action.
Jig Printing
For those printing the same item again and again, 5.0 also makes the repeat work easier.
Placing each small magnet or card again for every batch takes time. A jig holds the pieces in set positions, and Anker Make Studio now lets you create a jig project and reuse its layout.
Select a substrate and print bed, then set the number of pieces, their spacing, margins and alignment.
For circles, diamonds and hexagons, you can also choose a nested layout.
Save the arrangement and add it to the canvas again when you make the next batch, rather than laying out every piece from the start.
The screenshots below show the Scan Substrate and Create Jig options in Anker Make Studio. You can set up the layout in the Create Jig screen.
Choose the substrate and print bed, then adjust the number of items, their spacing, margins and alignment. There is also a nested layout option for shapes such as circles, diamonds and hexagons.
When it is time to make the physical jig, you have three options:
- UV print the jig outline straight onto a board, flat or raised.
- Export an STL and 3D print the jig, with the thickness and hole depth set by you.
- Export an SVG of the cut lines and cut it on a laser cutter.
Then you can use the saved layout for the next batch.
Substrate Library
The Substrate Library supports that workflow too. It includes official presets for common substrates and lets you keep substrates you have scanned or customized.
When you come back to a familiar item, you can choose it again rather than measure and set it up from the beginning.
Cleaning Cartridge Level Estimation
It has not always been easy to tell when you need a new cleaning cartridge.
The cartridge holds cleaning solution, moisturizing solution and waste ink, but the hardware does not support direct measurement of their remaining levels. That can leave you unsure when to order a replacement.
Version 5.0 uses your maintenance history to estimate each compartment's level.
Open Parts & Service → Cleaning Cartridge to see Cleaning Cartridge Level.
The Waste Ink Box (available space) shows room left for waste ink, not the amount already collected.
When the estimated level of any compartment reaches 30%, the app recommends replacing the whole cleaning cartridge. This is an early reminder, so you can get a new one before you need it.
If cleaning or moisturizing solution runs out, or the waste ink compartment reaches capacity, you must replace the cartridge before you can use the printer again.
The screens below show a normal estimate, a low level and a cartridge that has reached its limit.
The figures are estimates rather than direct measurements.
The cleaning and moisturizing solution levels are estimated to within about 5%, while the waste ink available space has a wider margin of about ±20%.
As the two solutions are used, they free up shared space inside the cartridge for waste ink.
That is why its available capacity changes and its estimate is less precise. We still recommend keeping a spare cartridge if an interruption to your printing would be difficult.
Bidirectional Printing in the App
Bidirectional Printing was already available in Anker Make Studio. With 5.0, you can also choose it for supported prints you start in the Anker Make App.
The printhead prints in both directions instead of returning without printing after each pass.
If you usually work from your phone, you can now use this option there too.
What 5.0 Means for Your Workflow
We made these changes for different points in your printing routine.
You can choose maintenance that fits when you print, use Interactive Design Flow when you are starting something new, save a jig layout when you are making a batch and check your cleaning cartridge before it stops a job.
As version 5.0 reaches the Anker Make App and Anker Make Studio, we would like to know which changes help you most and where the process still takes extra work. Your feedback helps us decide what to improve next.
