<p>I got my Ender 3 a couple weeks ago. Within a couple days of test prints, I was able to get it working pretty well. Prints looked great. However, I installed <a href="https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:2959991" rel="noreferrer">a more permanent solution to my X-Gantry binding issues</a> and now print quality is down again.</p>

<p><a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/P5yjv.jpg" rel="noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/P5yjv.jpg" alt="Layer separation issues"></a></p>

<p>The bottom .25" of the calibration part looks absolutely terrible, with hideous layer separation issues, while the upper .75" looks flawless. I have little idea what could be causing this issue.</p>

<p><a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/G5lab.jpg" rel="noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/G5lab.jpg" alt="Macro closeup on layer separation"></a></p>

<p>The only possible failure mode I can think of is that the bed isn't the right distance from the print head, but even fiddling with the knobs doesn't yield any better print quality than the print on the right of the first image. What can I do?</p>

<p>I slice with Cura and can make my profile available if it would be useful.</p>

[{'answer_id': 6665, 'author': 'Fernando Baltazar', 'author_id': 4454, 'author_profile': 'https://3dprinting.stackexchange.com/users/4454', 'pm_score': 2, 'selected': False, 'text': "<p>Well, you have several problems with your print. One that could be affecting your print is the nozzle temperature. The print looks wavy and has a lack of adhesion, so the filament is not flowing properly, causing under extrusion and will provoke a clogged nozzle. </p>\n\n<p>Try to increase the temperature by 5°C and do a small test, don't wait to waste material and try another 2-3°C more. </p>\n\n<p>Try to reduce the printing sped; try reducing the feed rate on your printer to 90% or less. While printing you can reduce the feed rate to see which speed works better at your printing temperature. I prefer to do this first rather than change the temperature; If you notice that your print gets better at lower feed rate <em>then</em> change your temperature higher to print a higher speed.</p>\n"}, {'answer_id': 6717, 'author': 'ifconfig', 'author_id': 12377, 'author_profile': 'https://3dprinting.stackexchange.com/users/12377', 'pm_score': 3, 'selected': True, 'text': '<p>The answer now seems brain-dead obvious now. <em>Hindsight is 20/20, amirite?</em></p>\n\n<p>I had a decent filament clog in the extruder past the end of the Bowden tube. This was resolved by sticking a <a href="https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B078HXTLX8" rel="nofollow noreferrer">nozzle cleaner rod</a> up and down the filament path from the top of the extruder block several times and clearing the filament jam from the bottom of the Bowden tube. The printer works flawlessly now.</p>\n'}, {'answer_id': 11443, 'author': 'Len Newton', 'author_id': 19262, 'author_profile': 'https://3dprinting.stackexchange.com/users/19262', 'pm_score': 0, 'selected': False, 'text': '<p>I had a real problem with what I was poor bed adhesion and layer separation on my 6month old Ender 3 pro. this problem started all at once, I checked the bed height several times and layer height, temperatures etc still the problem was there.\nThen I noticed the filament guide pinch roller was at a slight angle and on further inspection the plastic arm on removal was fractured so instead of holding the filament against the toothed drive it was metal to metal causing a slip on the nozzle feed.\nI ordered a replacement aluminium feed roller kit at £6.99 the machine is working as it did when I first got it.\nSo it’s worth removing the pinch arm and inspecting.</p>\n'}]
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