<p>Anet A8 with Cura. First time use. The extrusion temperature is set at 190 °C for PLA but the temperature never quite gets that hot, e.g. 189.2 °C. So the printer never prints.</p>
<p>The bed temperature is fine.</p>
<p>Any suggestions on how to fix?</p>

[{'answer_id': 5394, 'author': 'mac', 'author_id': 9134, 'author_profile': 'https://3dprinting.stackexchange.com/users/9134', 'pm_score': 2, 'selected': False, 'text': '<p>Two common problems to look out for in this situation:</p>\n\n<ul>\n<li>Make sure that your <strong>part fan</strong> (the fan that is supposed to cool the filament you just extruded, and that does not start spinning until the print starts) do <em>not</em> blow air on the hot end of your extruder.</li>\n<li>Make sure that your <strong>hot end is well insulated</strong>.  If available for your printer, silicone sleeves are the best:</li>\n</ul>\n\n<p><a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/7TKQM.jpg" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/7TKQM.jpg" alt="silicone sleeves"></a></p>\n\n<p>otherwise the most common, universal and low-cost solution are cotton pads:</p>\n\n<p><a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/qcwSc.jpg" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/qcwSc.jpg" alt="enter image description here"></a></p>\n'}, {'answer_id': 5403, 'author': 'Carl Witthoft', 'author_id': 2191, 'author_profile': 'https://3dprinting.stackexchange.com/users/2191', 'pm_score': 2, 'selected': False, 'text': "<p>Take a careful look at the thermistor in the hotend. If it's defective it might well not be providing correct temperature information back to the control board.  As a very quick check, try swapping the thermistor from the bed (if possible), or buy a replacement thermistor and drop it in.<br>\nI'm not familiar with the Anet controller but possibly there's a calibration pot on the board; if so it may be causing the digital hardware to mis-read the actual sensed temperature.</p>\n"}, {'answer_id': 5601, 'author': 'Tobias Zech', 'author_id': 10135, 'author_profile': 'https://3dprinting.stackexchange.com/users/10135', 'pm_score': 2, 'selected': False, 'text': '<p>It could be as Carl Witthoft said, that the thermistor is broken. But it looks like the PID is not calibrated correctly. It probably can reach higher T\'s but stops, because the P portion is not high enough. \nAnyways, before printing use a software of your choice (Repetier, Pronterface...) and perform a PID tuning specified here:</p>\n\n<p><a href="http://reprap.org/wiki/PID_Tuning" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://reprap.org/wiki/PID_Tuning</a></p>\n\n<p>After that everything should work out fine. </p>\n'}, {'answer_id': 8669, 'author': 'Bineet Kumar', 'author_id': 15134, 'author_profile': 'https://3dprinting.stackexchange.com/users/15134', 'pm_score': 0, 'selected': False, 'text': "<p>Please check that the power supply's (SMPS) output voltage is 12&nbsp;V (while loaded). </p>\n\n<p><strong>Note: Be careful while measuring, as there is a hazard of shock.</strong></p>\n\n<p>In my case, the voltage was 10&nbsp;V with one supply and 8&nbsp;V with another supply. I bought a new one with 12&nbsp;V and the printer is now running fine.</p>\n\n<p>My printer Tronoxy i3 (Prusa i3 Mk-II).</p>\n\n<p>Hope it helps you too.</p>\n"}, {'answer_id': 18794, 'author': 'Carson Tracy', 'author_id': 32805, 'author_profile': 'https://3dprinting.stackexchange.com/users/32805', 'pm_score': 0, 'selected': False, 'text': '<p>Often it is the filament. Most PLA filaments start melting at 190 °C and have a good print consistency up to about 220 °C. If filament is ever getting stuck in the extruder, up the set temperature.</p>\n'}, {'answer_id': 19181, 'author': 'Tue Nhan Bhikkhu', 'author_id': 33681, 'author_profile': 'https://3dprinting.stackexchange.com/users/33681', 'pm_score': -1, 'selected': False, 'text': '<p>I had the same problem.</p>\n<p><em><strong>If</strong> your mains supply is 110\xa0V</em>, then make sure that the voltage selector switch of your PSU is set to 110\xa0V... it should then print.</p>\n<p>If the voltage selector switch is set to the default of 220\xa0V, <em>and the mains supply is only 110\xa0V</em>, then the PSU will not provide enough current.</p>\n<hr />\n<p>Note: If your mains is 240 V then changing the voltage selector to 110\xa0V will damage your PSU or worse.</p>\n'}]
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