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Added a PEI plate for my Artillery Genius using bull clips, and after leveling the leveling/adhesion test print comes out like this. Is this just me leveling the bed too close to the nozzle, or is it the pei plate not heating up as much as the original glass bed? It's at 60c btw

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[–] ExcessShiv@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Looks like you're still way too close to the bed, I'd (numerically) increase Z-offset so you have more distance between the nozzle and the bed

[–] nieceandtows@programming.dev 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Thanks for the feedback. I'm doing it by the paper method, so I might be guessing the right amount of friction wrong. Is there a trick to figuring out the right amount of friction using the paper?

[–] ExcessShiv@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 5 days ago

Just get it in the ballpark and microstep it during printing to fine tune and then save that value.