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I've never been able to get a clean first layer with this machine. I have given it a beacon probe and it just made it much faster to get the same problem to happen again. Where am I going wrong?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I think that was a change made a few years ago by the klipper devs. You'll need to load the bed mesh explicitly in your print start macro before printing

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

should I have it remesh each time, save, then load the mesh at the start of each print or should I just have it recall a saved mesh?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Thats up to you, if you have a beacon or cartographer, scanning before each print should be pretty fast, though you shouldn't need to save and load it in that case. The mesh is loaded automatically on finishing the renesh. The change I mentioned from a few years ago is that on restart Klipper doesn't load a mesh by default, so you're expected to load it before printing if you don't remesh.