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Re: HELP- Terrible print quality - Prusa i3 - 9 years ago

My prints are 100 times better have little tweaks to do but thanks for your help.

by Glenelg96 - Printing

Re: HELP- Terrible print quality - Prusa i3 - 9 years ago

I have found that my nozzle had an imperfection as well as my x-y beam (which was 3d printed) was skewed. Both parts have been replaced so no longer have a slip with the filament when being fed and now the filament flows much better still having some issues with print quality but things are looking up I am currently printing some test prints, when they get finished I will update (and probably a

by Glenelg96 - Printing

What causes this ? - 9 years ago

Im using a prusa i3 running on GT2560, Im unsure why im getting this finish however the dimensions are accurate. Thanks in advance

by Glenelg96 - Prusa i3 and variants

Re: HELP- Terrible print quality - Prusa i3 - 9 years ago

I have tweaked a lot and got my prints a lot better. However the extruder motor keeps jumping which is the main issue preventing me from getting good accurate prints, the print sizes are all correct on a 20mm cube. I ab getting areas in the print which have over extruded and other part which have neXT to no extrusion. Thanks again

by Glenelg96 - Printing

Re: HELP- Terrible print quality - Prusa i3 - 9 years ago

I'm unable to work on it for the next few nights but how do I go about enabling that in the firmware? Wasn't a thing I knew I had to enable. Thanks I have looked more into it and does anyone know a way of getting the current firmware back, as my board came pre-configured with marlin.

by Glenelg96 - Printing

Re: HELP- Terrible print quality - Prusa i3 - 9 years ago

Ive got a much better print now still needs a lot of work though. I only changed the print speed to 20 and changed the steps per mm E to 93 I have done the paper method by putting paper under the head at each corner and in the centre. I'm not sure if I've done it correctly though. When I save to eeprom the next time I turn on the printer or a print finishes the settings have been restored to

by Glenelg96 - Printing

Re: HELP- Terrible print quality - Prusa i3 - 9 years ago

This is my current settings. I'm not really sure what I should change. I think it is the extruder causing the issues so, I altered the E steps and got a better looking test print however it did not save after turning off the printer Thanks again for your help

by Glenelg96 - Printing

Re: HELP- Terrible print quality - Prusa i3 - 9 years ago

Where can I find that information ? Sorry if that's a stupid question but I'm very new to this.

by Glenelg96 - Printing

HELP- Terrible print quality - Prusa i3 - 9 years ago

I have recently build my first 3D printer, however I'm having issues with my prints.I think I have the bed levelled properly. I'm using cura 15.04.3, with the following settings: Quality Layer height 0.1 Shell thickness 0.8 Fill Bottom/Top Thickness 0.6 Fill Density 17 Speed and Temperature Print Speed 100 Print Temp 190 Bed Temp 60 No Support Filament Diameter 1.75 Flow 95 Machine Nozzle si

by Glenelg96 - Printing