Printrbot simple metal, the one on the left was sent wirelessly with octoprint, the one on the right direct connect. Why does the one on the right look like oatmeal?
The one on the left looks badly over-extruded. Slicer calibration issue? Different filament diameter?
Which raspberry pi are you using. I had an issue like this when running from a computer that was having major software issues. It was delaying commands to the printer witch causednit to stop the hot end from moving around or it was very jerky. This caused spotsnwhere the pressure of the extruder was forcing plastic out while the hot end wasn’t moving.
Also what layer heights are you using? It looks like the height you are using isn’t matching up with the stepper/lead screw pitch. Try .2064 layer height. I usually use that and set first layer to .254. Completely gets rid of the banding.
I’ll try it out, it’s rasp pi B+
Ryan everything is the same, except I moved my printer from my desk to me closed garage
Hmmm I don’t have any issues with my RaPi 2. Is it the latest version? Could also be the SD card. May be too slow to pull data and send to printer.
Someone suggested that I may have a screw lose somewhere, I will check them after this print
@Rigo_Arevalo Two things different then? Office vs garage and wireless vs direct?
That is the only change
Easy way to check is to print again directly from computer. If you get the same bad results then it is most likely hardware and not linked to the RaPi
Both sucked…
That is the reason i print from sd card only. I had a similar thing with a print from a netbook via usb. The machine was displaying the slices as they where printing and the extra processing caused massive noise on the print, when i minimised the graphic on the machine printing cleaned up. I have a picture of it will post a link. https://plus.google.com/+MichaelScholtz1/posts/FWBbvQ7nMvD
Could it be that the garage is at a totally different temperature? And how about humidity?
My buddy had print differences due to ambient temperature change at one point. Made a similar move from room to garage. The garage was colder and had a draft of air moving through. It meant the plastic was extruding differently, oozing differently and cooling differently. Ever so slightly, but the result was some subtle yet noticeable differences to overall print quality
Maybe try removing a variable. Try a print with it wireless but sitting in its old location. Or vesa versa, direct connected but in its new location
Uneven heat (heater block temp ups and downs might be causing it??) it looked like it…
This also depends on the slicer. If the generated gcode is less verbose, then you have less issues with octoprint.
@Michael_Scholtz this is exactly why I was saying. I had a similar issue when trying to display the 3D slice info as it was printing. It was a very high poly model sonic stuttered like crazy.
I figured it out, the belts were loose …