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John Meacham
For very large format printers a somewhat related practice is used since there is pretty much no chance of a large bed being flat. A sacrificial piece of polystyrene foam is placed on the build plate and the z axis is set with zero being a few millimeters below the surface of the sheet. The print head just melts into the foam and makes its own flat surface as it gos. The foam is single use of course and has to be removed from the part after.