Bad prints




​so my printer has been printing beautifully. I switch to clear petg and it printed great. Next print looked like ■■■■ and so has any other with pla petg and abs. Whats could be causing this. Im new so dont think im stupid. Lol. Thank you
They all look like this.




That’s a legit question and there’s nothing stupid about it

#1 wash your build plate with dish soap and hot water

#2 dry it off

#3 and this is an extremely important step because of the build plate you are using, make sure that if there’s any air bubbles between the plate and the build plate decal that you get them all out

I’ve washed and dried mine several times now and every time there has been an air bubble, sometimes I can simply use the applicator tool I printed off from the internal memory to push the bubbles out but a few times I’ve actually peeled the decal up and placed it back down because the bubbles were being stubborn

Odds are that after you wash the plate you will get an air bubble or 2, that being what it is I’m still on my first decal and the only time I’ve needed to wash it is when there’s too much glue on the plate

That is 100% where I would start because it was printing fine previously with the settings you are using and I see all that glue on your build plate

Remember…dish soap, hot water, nice and dry and nooooooo air bubbles

I bet if you do that your machine will be printing like new again

Good luck and keep us posted :metal:

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Cant say it enough! Dish soap and HOT WATER. Dry with lint free towels.

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Thank you so much. This helped 100%. Im on my first print afterwards and it seems to be going good. Ive been using Geeetexh JT17 glue. I print alot of abs automotive parts and going to try the PAHT-CF next part. Its great for keeping the part down and not warping.Some times it seems I have to use it to get a good print but it does last 4-5 prints. I will say it is a pain to get it off the plate. Not sure if its good to use it on the cool plate or not. Have any experience with these glues? Thanks again

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Did just that. Working great so far.

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Honestly for my cool plate I just use washable Elmers glue stick, I try to use the purple stuff because it’s easier to see where it has been applied

Washable because its supper easy to get off the plate when cleaning it

I have been using the Bambu glue stick a bit but only because I might as well because it came with my printer

More often than not though it’s the good ol Elmers glue because I’ve got so much of it lol

I also like the purple glue because it goes down purple then goes regular white, then once you get it wet to wash your build plate it goes purple again making it easy to get all the old glue off

But regular Elmers glue stick works exactly the same minus the purple color when you apply it or wash it off

I’m stoked that you’re up and printing again !

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It’s the most recent firmware, I have had nothing but issues with it. I can’t get any prints to stick to the plate since updating.

The biggest issue I see regarding the new firmware possibly disrupting the Z offset after it does the bed leveling is how difficult it is to determine if it is simply the buildplate itself, a mechanical issue or the firmware itself

Some have had great success by doing maintenance or cleaning, I see others now adjusting the Z offset in the startup code

I also see a lot of frustrations and get that especially when the printer was operating fine then just starts to sh*t the bed out of the blue

My X1C has not been flawless and regardless of what people say the perfect printer out of the box does not exist

Most of my issues have been self inflicted but a couple of minor issues were slicer related with the defaults which is in my eyes completely acceptable due to the various differences in materials and their colors

As for the possibility of a firmware related issue it is my belief that when the printer scans the bed it does not always recognize the type of buildplate yet allows the print to start without error

I’m still watching and learning myself :nerd_face:

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My X1C has been unbelievably reliable until the most recent update. Since then nothing sticks to the build plate. I downloaded SoftFever and did my own pressure and flow calibrations and my machine is running great again. I didn’t wash my build plate, I didn’t dry my filament, I didn’t do anything other than use my own calibrations through SoftFever. This 100% confirms it’s their update that caused our printers to brick overnight.

Ok yeah that make sence that what mine is doing. My second Machine I ordered just came in two days ago. The first print didnt stuck at all until i put JT17 bed glue