I increased the print speed and printed without a raft. I was amazed that this worked as in the past printing without a raft just resulted in a messy goop of plastic, however with the higher temperature it seemed to adhere to the plate better. I had the benefit of having a thin layer of support structure underneath each component which acted as a very basic raft, without the need for an actual raft. This had the added benefit of significantly reducing the print time. I went from having a fairly poor and error riddled component taking 34 minutes to print, to having a virtually error free component take only 22 minutes to print. If I had printed all 36 components with the rafts this would have equated to nearly six hours of printing things which were destined for the bin, since I managed to stop having to print rafts half way through, I saved myself nearly 3 hours of printing.
Printing straight on support structures without a raft.
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