Topic: Vertical banding /stripes / moire reduction
I'm sure this is covered elsewhere but I just wanted to share a recent improvement on my printer.
The following/attached picture is the result of two small changes. The first was a ~10% change in the extruder steps/mm to reset my multiplier back to 1. The second was to set all of my acceleration values in my RH printer settings to 2000. Speed is around 60 mm/s. The idea is that most of the banding/moire is actually coming from vibrations in the x-y plane as the extruder is moving around and causing jerks which then cause the bed to slide-bounce in the x-y direction. I'm entertaining the idea of putting another z slide right up front to reduce this. It would mean pulling prints out from the side of the printer but that's something I can live with if the quality is there.
This is also with the OEM 5/16" diameter Z. I'll eventually swap for an M5.
Sauce:
http://forums.reprap.org/read.php?292,2 … msg-234781
*Edited to actually attach the picture
