How to print from an sd card?

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Printer Model: ender 3 pro
MCU / Printerboard: 4.2.2
Host / SBC btt pi v1.2
klippy.log

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Probably an easy one for someone.

I got 3 printers on klipper and mainsail running off a btt pi v1.2. currently using the virtual sd card to upload and print. However i want to revert back and print from an sd card on all three printers.

Any solutions would be great.

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Hi @Klitter

You can plug an SD card into your Pi using a USB adapter, and change the path parameter in your virtual_sdcard section.

See
https://www.klipper3d.org/Config_Reference.html#virtual_sdcard

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I would not recommend printing from the board’s SD card as this will introduce some drawbacks. The virtual SD card feature has been introduced to exactly avoid these drawbacks.

One solution might be printing from a USB drive. See Print from USB Drive - Draft for a solution I use on my side.

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