Hello all,
I just got my Printrbot Simple five days ago. So far it has been churning out prints with exceptional quality and really smooth walls, but on my most recent project it has been giving some pretty severe Z banding.
Using Cura 15.04.6
In the picture, the left one is the first one printed at 205 using AMZ3D PLA, 30mm/s print speed, 0.1mm layer height, at 100% flow.
The middle one I increased temperature to 210.
On the third one, I tightened the X and Y belts, decreased temperature to 200 and decreased extrusion to 80%.
All of the setting tweaks seemed to do nothing to change the banding, so I'm suspecting a hardware problem. It seems too new for any wear to happen. Does anyone have some suggestions as to what I can do to fix this? I'm considering ordering the Z Lead Screw upgrade in case the lead screw is funky.