First Prints and first problems (x-axis misalignment, supports)  

First Prints and first problems (x-axis misalignment, supports)

Hi,

First of all i want to introduce myself since i'm new to Prusa and the community

I've just finished mounting the printer and so far it's awesome, i had another printer (cheap one) and it's like changing my shoes for a Ferrari. 🙂 It's a world of a difference.. :-O

I've done a few test and i've got pretty good quality

• First Print: Pusa Logo (BiColor). Perfect print
• Second Print: Triceratops Skull. Not that good, i had 2 main problems: Layer Shifting and support really hard to remove
• Third Print: Thanos (from Myminifactory). Mainly one problem: Layer Shifting

I'm looking some info in the knowledge base and mainly i found this 2 articles but still have some doubts

https://www.prusa3d.com/layer-shifting/

https://help.prusa3d.com/article/v40kdhc9rk-layer-shifting

First Layer:

Seems pretty good but it would be nice to have some input if it's not completely right

Supports

I had a really hard time removing supports but finally i got it done, not sure if it's supposed to be that way or i had something wrong, for instance i was thinking that maybe the layer shifting may cause the supports to stick more than they are supposed to :-?ç

The photo is once i removed the supports, in the layer shifting section i have photos with eyes, mouth, etc... supports removed but those were eay to removed, the problem was with the base supports.

Layer Shifting

I still have to apply the recommendations from the links i pasted earlier but my first guess is to try 2 things but not sure if i'm properly looking at it 😕 For instance i'm pretty sure that the problem is X-Axis (Thanos was printed looking to the front of the printer):

• Check X Axis pulley. I'm thinking that it might be too close or far for the motor since i had the same issue with the y axis, it was hard to move and realigning it solved it, it's not the exact same case since x-axis moves pretty well, maybe a bit hard, but it might
• Check tension on the belt. I'll check the numbers (LCD menu -> Support -> Belt Status) to see how are them, it's a common problem i had with my previous printer... i'm never sure if it's too loose or tight.. 😕

Those are may main ideas to check, seems right? I should look somewere else? 

Triceratops:

Thanos ( as seen in the third photo the back is perfectly smooth so i'm assuming Y-axis is fine)

It's a long post but i think i've explained myself, hope so, and maybe with your help i can nail the setting even though for a first print i think it's a pretty good result! 🙂

Thanks a lot!