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People accept different qualities I guess, if you're satisfied and it works then there's no reason to change things. I would say there's significantly more things that need tuning than just z offset.
Please indulge me.
With a result like yours I'd honestly just start from the top of Ellis guide and follow through to the end, that should help you fix this and get a significantly better print quality. There's likely a lot of things that are less than ideal, fixing only one or two won't be enough.
Just jumping in here, the first layer does look kinda shitty, at least theres a lot of room for improvement.
Here's a little guide to improve on a multitude of things by teaching tech.
Cool cura feature thou :)
Thanks. It’s an Orca feature. Not Cura.
Oups misread that