Good day everybody,
I am operating a Makerfarm Prusa i3v 10". Where everything went quite well to a certain point, I feel that my print quality is decreasing with effort put into trying to increase it.
Here are my specs which seem relevant for the upcoming question:
1. 0.5mm J-Head nozzle.
2. 10"x10" PCB Heatbed.
3. PLA (idk if of relevance: glow-in-the-dark).
4. Slicing: Used Slic3r mostly and Cura sometimes.
5. Data connection: Used Pronterface.
6. Using PLA: Printbed@80°C and Nozzle@205°C. Comment: As soon as going lower with the printbed temperature, shearing becomes a big problem (and therefore warping). I was really wondering how people print PLA w/o any heated bed.
My questions are enumerated to make life easier:
1. When starting a print, my printer's usual path is somehow connected to homing the z direction when the nozzle is hot and filament is already running out the nozzle. When very close to the surface, filament gets pushed out and therefore creates a drop of warm/viscious plastic which effects the print later on. What I mean with that effect is that the nozzle is dragging some of that plastic to the actual print surface which might or might not be a problem for a certain print; this depends on how big the previous drop-like mess was. How do I avoid that?
2. I suffer from some non-stick issues on my heatbed. Changing the first layer height on the other hand, I come to the problem that filament is only released in small drops so that I don't get a nice filament output. I assume it could be due to a bad flow setting in my slicer.
I am kind of scared of having a semi-clogged nozzle. Can you find any evidence for that in my explaination?
I am thanking you 1000-times in advance,
mardy3d
