Ender 3 V3

Ender-3 V3 Printers Creality Ender-3 V3 (Regular)
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Firstly I am new to this so excuse if I miss something or ask a bunch of questions.

I bought my Ender 3 V3 about a week back, and it has been a very exiting journey without any hiccups …… until yesterday.

My 1st layer especially the very thin layer when printing articulate designs does not stick properly, I have been through a bunch of steps like cleaning the plate, setting the z offset. running the self check for bed leveling doing this it might print once and then just end horribly the next. At first it was only those extremely thin layers but now all of my prints are not adhering, or leaving point which get picked up by the print head and pull apart.

I have read a bunch of threads on how to fix this and tried a lot of them, ultimately should a new printer have issues like this after around 10 prints. I am not saying I made a mistake but I have spoken to multiple friends with different printers who did not have any issues for months after buying their printers, and even then it was a quick fix.

So for now I am lost and a bit frustrated, hopefully there is something I am doing wrong, so it is not the printer and someone can point me in the correct way.

PS. Using the textured PEI plate that came with the printer and Creality PLA filament.

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If you have 10 good prints and the next one fails… why changing the Z-offset?

You say you cleaned the bed, tell us HOW?

When the nozzle is too close to the bed it can’t extrude, and you have the posibility to get a clogged nozzle, clean is before you start the next print (heat the nozzle to a higher temp than you use to print and push through the filament manualy… If you can push it through easy you are in the clear)…

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Z offset is very important for a descent print.
You must set it correctly, as well as your esteps.
But first of all, have your bedplate clean.

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YEs the bed was clean I used Isopropyl alcohol. Adjusted the Z offset by -.025 only a little (No it is not touching the bed) and slowed down my initial print speed a lot to 40mm/sec, also checked all screws and tensions. Filament is going through perfectly. All is well after these steps and the printer is working fine.