NozzleDesk

Print-ready STL files and 1-hour live 3D printer support. Files you can actually print. Help when the machine fails.
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Your first layer is not a bed-temp problem

Most Ender and Bambu owners I talk to do the same thing when the first layer fails: they add 5°C to the bed. Then 5 more. Then they buy a new PEI sheet.


Nine times out of ten the nozzle is 0.1 mm too high, or the plate is greasy, or they are printing PLA on a 70°C bed that is warping the corners off.


Do this instead:

  1. Wash the plate with dish soap. Not IPA as the first move.

  2. Live-level or run auto-level, then baby-step the nozzle down until the line is slightly squished, not round.

  3. PLA bed at 55–60°C. PETG a little higher. Stop guessing with 80°C.


If it still fails after that, it is a Z-offset or a clog — not “the bed is cold.” That is the whole session I run in an hour.