CHR Print Designs

12/10/2026

We’ve taken the popular Dummy 13 articulated figure and scaled it up to a massive 700% of its original size!

It is approx 1 metre tall with articulated limbs and hands. Custom colour combinations available.

As this is a large print it requires approx 1 week to print and assemble.

Price: $250, includes local delivery.

Interested in having one made? Like one but at a smaller scale? Send CHR Print Designs a message and we’ll be happy to discuss your options!

10/10/2026

Watch one of our 3D printed phone holders come to life.

Available in a range of colours, all for just $8.95 each. Message CHR Print Designs to order yours.

10/10/2026

Another customer order ready to go from CHR Print Designs!

This batch of 3D printed phone holders is a great example of how 3D printing can be useful for everyday things, not just decorations and figurines.

Perfect for keeping your phone upright on your desk, kitchen bench or bedside table. They’re compact, lightweight and available in a range of colours.

At just $8.95 each, they’re a cost-effective addition to your workspace.

Whether you need one for yourself or a few for the office, we’re happy to help!

10/10/2026

We’ve been busy printing batches of these little glow-in-the-dark ghosts and aliens, 20 at a time in high-quality luminous filament.

They’re small and perfect for a bit of harmless mischief!

Hide a ghost on someone’s desk, leave an alien lurking on a bookshelf, or scatter a few around the house for someone to discover. The best part? Once the lights go out, they glow!

Price: $17.95 for a batch of 20 in either design.
Other designs or different sizes available on request.

Interested in getting your hands on some? Send us a message!

08/10/2026

A sneak peek of an upcoming project...🎃

08/10/2026

PROJECT: NEPTUNE 4 MAX | PART 4

The 480 mm test.

After all the repairs, modifications, firmware changes and calibration, it was finally time to see what this machine could actually do.

The Neptune 4 Max has a build volume of 420 × 420 × 480 mm, so I wanted to test just how close we could get to using its full height. This was also an important test of whether tall and narrow prints can be achieved without sacrificing quality or dealing with errors like layer shifting.

The result was this slightly ridiculous 480 mm tall cube, printed in vase mode. 😂

It’s obviously not the most useful thing I’ve ever printed, but that wasn’t really the point.

Printing something this tall is a good test of the machine. Any problems with the bed, movement, calibration or stability have a lot of time to show themselves as the print gets higher and higher.

Considering where this printer started, and everything it’s been through since, watching it reach the top was pretty satisfying.

From the blob of death and rebuilding the printhead, to custom firmware, cooling modifications, troubleshooting and a lot of calibration, it’s taken a fair bit of work to get here.

There’s still more tuning to do, and I’m sure this printer will find some new way to keep me occupied, but for now I’m calling the 480 mm test a success.

Now we need to put all that build volume to use.

What should we print on it next?

07/10/2026

PROJECT: NEPTUNE 4 MAX | PART 3

At some point, repairing it turned into upgrading it.

After the blob of death took out the original printhead, I had a choice. Put everything back to stock, or use the opportunity to make a few improvements.

Naturally, I chose the second option. 😂

The printhead was rebuilt with a new cooling setup, including dual 5015 part cooling fans, and the large auxiliary fan assembly that originally sat across the gantry was removed.

But the hardware was only the beginning.

I also decided to move away from the original Elegoo firmware and install OpenNept4une, a community-developed firmware built around Klipper.

That turned into a project of its own.

Getting everything working meant digging into configuration files, sorting out communication with the USB-C toolhead, configuring the probe, fans, lights and sensors, and doing plenty of troubleshooting along the way.

Once everything was finally working together, I could start properly tuning the machine.

That meant calibrating the huge 420 × 420 mm print surface, getting the Z offset dialled in, running resonance testing and input shaping, and gradually getting the printer to behave the way I wanted it to.

There were definitely a few moments where I wondered why I’d gone this far down the rabbit hole. 😂

But that’s also part of the fun. Instead of simply getting the Neptune working again, I’ve ended up learning a huge amount about the machine and turning it into something a little more customised along the way.

After all of that, there was really only one thing left to do.

See if it could actually use that enormous build volume.

Next up: the 480 mm print height test.

06/10/2026

PROJECT: NEPTUNE 4 MAX | PART 2

The blob of death.

In Part 1 I mentioned that getting our Neptune 4 Max back into shape hasn’t exactly gone smoothly.

This was probably the biggest setback.

For anyone who hasn’t seen one before, this is what’s commonly called the “blob of death” in 3D printing.

Essentially, molten filament escapes around the hotend instead of going where it’s supposed to. If it isn’t caught quickly, the printer happily keeps feeding more filament into the mess.

And more filament.

And more filament…

By the time this one was discovered, the filament had completely engulfed the hotend and worked its way around the wiring and other components.

Unfortunately, this wasn’t going to be a simple case of heating it up, cleaning off the plastic and carrying on. Not only had the hotend become buried in plastic but the blob itself caused irreversible damage to the original brackets. Unfortunately it was time for a replacement.

As frustrating as this was, this ended up changing the direction of the whole project.

Instead of simply buying a replacement part and putting everything back to factory condition, I decided this was a good opportunity to make a few improvements while I was at it.

That meant a different printhead setup, better cooling, some hardware changes and eventually going much further down the rabbit hole than I’d originally planned. 😂

Next up: rebuilding and upgrading the Neptune 4 Max. 🔧

05/10/2026

Want something 3D printed, but don't have a 3D model? No problem. You don't need to know how to design one yourself!

There are thousands of free 3D models available online, covering everything from practical household items and organisers to decorations, toys, gaming accessories, gifts and plenty of weird and wonderful things.

Here are a few great places to have a look:
🔎 MakerWorld
https://makerworld.com/
🔎 Printables
https://www.printables.com/
🔎 Thingiverse
https://www.thingiverse.com/
🔎 Thangs
https://thangs.com/

Found something you like? Just send CHR Print Designs the link and we'll have a look at printing it for you. We can help with the size, material and colours, and give you a quote before anything is printed.

You don't need a 3D printer. You don't need to know how an STL works. You don't even need to download the file yourself. You find it. We print it. 🙂

Of course, not every model can be commercially printed, so we'll also check the model's licence and make sure it's suitable before providing a quote.

Send us a message to get started.

Send a message to learn more

05/10/2026

PROJECT: NEPTUNE 4 MAX | PART 1

This printer has been a bit of a project.

This is our Elegoo Neptune 4 Max. With a massive 420 × 420 × 480 mm build volume, it’s by far the largest printer we have, and it’s capable of making some seriously big prints.

Getting it working properly, however, has been a different story.

What started out as getting a troublesome printer back up and running has gradually turned into repairing, modifying and upgrading just about every part of it that we could.

We’ve had the printer apart, worked through hardware problems, rebuilt the printhead, changed the cooling setup, installed custom firmware and spent a lot of time getting such a large print bed properly calibrated.

There have definitely been a few setbacks along the way too.

One of those involved the original printhead and a fairly spectacular “blob of death”… 😬

Over the next few posts, I’ll share a bit more about what we’ve done to this machine, some of the problems we’ve run into, and what we’ve changed to get it where it is now.

Eventually, we’ll see what happens when we try to use every millimetre of that 480 mm build height.

For now, here’s a little Benchy sitting in the middle of the build plate for some perspective. 😂

Next up, the blob of death. 💀