Problems with esun pla+ sticking to the bed  

Problems with esun pla+ sticking to the bed

Hello all,

The past couple of days have been a nightmare with regards to printing esun pla+.

I have a few rolls of this material in different colours. I tried printing a phone stand for my sister and it took a few tries, some parts were just not sticking. I fiddled a little with the print settings and thought that the best settings for that material were setting the bed temp to 75 degrees Celsius with the textured sheet. Everything went well, the texture was awesome etc. I then tried to print this with the purple filament, and after a few tries it just couldn't stick. I tried cleaning the bed, adjusting the bed temp up to 85, and nothing worked. Then, using the same settings, I tried with the white esun pla+. It almost worked, apart from a small layer shift. Tried again with the blue colour, and it didn't stick again. The prusa pla didn't have a problem, and neither did the prusa petg, all with the stock settings and at the same spot (different model tho).

I reached my wit's end trying to troubleshoot it. I was almost ready to open a thread asking for a solution, and then it dawned on me that for the past two months I've been printing with petg and on the textured sheet. I switched to the smooth one today with the stock settings for esun pla on the slicer  and so far so good, it's reached farther than any other attempt without a hitch.

I guess I wrote all this just to help anyone having the same issues and just to vent I guess. Also if you have any advice for making the filament stick to the textured sheet would be welcome, because, I can't stress this enough, I really like the texture of the textured sheet.

Thanks for reading so far.