Hi everyone,
I'm having a problem printing white PLA and I hope someone can help me.
I have a prusa i3 hephestos with heated glass bed. I use hair spray on the plate. I use Cura and tried both 15 and 2.4. I am thinking this filament I've got requires a higher temperature than the ones I used before so am banking in there being a problem with the extruder temperature.
When unloading or loading the temperature reaches 220ºC. Here the fans are not really going.
When printing the fans go full power and the temperature usually stays around 190ºC even though it shows a target temperature of say 200 or 220.
The problem I am having with the white PLA is:
- In general the filament does not stick to the plate. If I print it very very slow it will but it shows that it even has trouble to have cohesion between layers.
- I was able to somehow have a tiny part be well printed in the center of the printer and even manually increased the speed to like 90mm/s and it would print perfectly.
- When I tried to use Cura 15 multiply to print 12 of the same part, even doing the outline went wrong. In one of the sides, always the same it would come off and be dragged by the extruder.
- When lowering the speed to about 6mm/s the first layer was okay but it ended up dragging everything after some layers.
- This last print was using Cura 2.4 with first layer being 215ºC and 200ºC for the rest. But again. The temperature didn't raise past 190ºC
I suspected clogged extruder but when I tried the same 1 part with another filament it went well. Altough the temperature also didn't reach target.
If anyone could help me I would greatly appreciate it