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Printer Profiles & Slicers

Printer Profiles

The USB drive shipped with your printer should contain Cura and PrusaSlicer profiles. If you don't have them, you can download them at Anycubic's support page but I'll list and link to them further below also.

However, these profiles most likely need individual tweaking. The settings like print speed, retraction settings, extruder and bed temperature etc. also depend on the type of material you want to use (e.g. PLA/ABS/PETG/TPU). But also for the same type of filament material like PLA the settings often need to be adjusted again if you're using filament of a different manufacturer or even just another spool or colour of the same brand.
There are countless guides about this topic in general, so I'd recommend to dig into it deeper using your preferred sites or specific videos.

You can always set up your own custom profile in your slicer. Just pay attention to the general machine settings, like the bed size and so on.

Set Up Filament Specific Profiles

When you're using more than one filament, it's a good idea to set up a profile for each spool of filament you have. So not only for the type of filament (like PLA, PETG etc.), but also for the different manufacturer, the colour and so on. It happens that you have to use slightly different settings even with the same type of filament from the same brand but just when using a different colour of it.

Try PrusaSlicer

Many users seem to get better results when using PrusaSlicer instead of Cura (I personally switched to PrusaSlicer a long time ago and don't use Cura anymore, so I can't really judge it), so maybe give PrusaSlicer a try if you're using Cura.

Official Profiles

The following list links to the specific profiles from Anycubic's firmware page:

Custom Profiles

Here you'll find links to profiles made by users - if I'm getting aware of them.

Slicers

A slicer is a program you open your STL file with and which needs to be set up with a profile which contain the specific settings for your printer.
When you open the STL file of the model you want to print, you then adjust some settings for how the printer should print the model (like speed, temperature etc.) and then you "slice" the model for getting the .gcode file generated, which then will be taken and processed by the printer.

The most common Slicers are (imho) PrusaSlicer, SuperSlicer, OrcaSlicer and Cura.
You'll find many resources online though where you'll find more information about them. There are many comprehensive YouTube videos out there about this topic as well.

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