Rate my prints - How are these?

Feek · 12 Dec 2021 at 12:18

My Prusa MINI+ was delivered on Friday and of course, it's been running almost continually since.

How do these look?

Is that what I should expect from first and last layers?

Remember these pictures are close up and with the light angled to show most detail.

First layer

Last layer

Sides are pretty good

This is the clip, I printed at 0.15 and 40%.

Printed using Prusament PLA

Feek · 12 Dec 2021 at 12:34

That’s interesting, thanks. There is a very easy adjustment for the z axis. I’m already at -1.685 so I’ll wind it a bit closer.

Feek · 12 Dec 2021 at 17:46

Scougar said:
Is the red meant to be joined?

At the clip end? No, neither of them are joined there, the clip can open.

andy_mk3 said:
Yup that's the one you want. If you find your first layer starts getting lumpy at all then it's probably too close. It's one of those things you just get an eye for with experience.

Have dropped it a fraction further and it's looking better, thanks.

Feek · 17 Dec 2021 at 15:09

Actually just lowering it a fraction further made a huge difference, thanks. I've not calibrated e steps - The printer instructions say it shouldn't be needed out of the box and I don't really have any way to accurately measure it anyway.

Feek · 13 Jan 2022 at 22:20

Diagro said:
Generally z layer heights are done in 0.04 intervals.

Oh, that's interesting. I had no idea, thanks.

Prusa slicer only lists these, should I add some manual ones?

Feek · 13 Jan 2022 at 22:21

Dr Who said:
physically adjust your Z-Offset.

Sorry, I missed your reply. I've done this and it's much, much better now. It's very easy to tune it on the printer itself.