misaligning colors
I'm trying to print white PLA text on/ in a black PLA item.
On the build plate side the printer leaves gaps in the text ('technisch beter') and on the upper side the text ('ROVC') is (rather smeared then) printed out of place.
It used to print such items perfectly as can be seen in the knob beside the misprints.
I've already calibrated everything a thousend times and tweaked and turned every parameter, but still with unsatisfying results.
Thickness of the text is 0.5 mm and the layerthickness is 0.10 mm (Fast detail)
What went wrong and how can I fix this?
Gaps in the text are common when the text size is small - the effective printing resolution, the 'dots per inch' of a 0.4mm nozzle is around 56, your dot-matrix or laser printer probably describes anything under 300 dpi as draft quality and defaults to something at least double that...
So: 10mm high, roughly 40 point text, on your XL will print as clearly as 3 point text on your 720dpi dot matrix.
Any smaller text requires careful choice of fount; you need one where all the strokes are the same weight and then select a size where those strokes are represented by simple multiples of your extrusion width.
If you want us to diagnose the displaced and smeared text save your project as a .3mf file
Files > Save Project as
Zip the .3mf and post it here. It will contain both your part and your settings for us to diagnose.
Cheerio,
RE: misaligning colors
Thank you for your reply.
The text on the knob is much smaller and printed perfectly, so I don't think is just the font size.
Je can also see that the upper half of the text leaves the gaps.
The text on the upper side ('ROVC') is even bigger but printed with an offset. You can see the outlines printed in black.