So earlier today we were making a door hanger for our friend’s son and the entire print came out about half an inch to the left (ending up off the board - PG medium walnut) the cut was the final step so it wasnt blatantly obvious it was going to be that far off it was too late. Wasn’t paying attention to the print position relative to the sticker at the time otherwise it would have been more obvious. Attached is the app image from the post print bed capture…
After this we did the beta calibration app run, this resolved this issue (but still amazed it was needed after barely a week or moderate use… After this, we re-ran the previous print with a few tweaks to improve the results (didn’t catch the engraves were set to draft, so bumped them up to SD) and we made the text a bit bolder to be more clear to read… Only to run that print and find that the proof grade sticker prevented the engraving from half the project from coming out…
We are obviously quite new to Glowforge but isnt the whole point of the proofgrade so these inconsistencies dont happen (not the position issue but the engraving isssue). I have not found anything in the forums the says the proof grade labels should be pre-removed (infact, GF says they should be clearly visible for the app to read them so you cant/shouldnt remove them?
At this point we’ve burned 2 proof grade medium walnuts on this project – being is for a friend’s son, we’ll probably flip over the 2nd board and just do the engraving on the back since the cutouts aren’t affected by this, but we’d like to understand why the stickers are a problem (in some cases?) if they are not meant to be removed.
Top board is the 2nd print, sticker was on the right hand side partially covering the end of the words and the car. Bottom board sticker was top left, so blocking only part of the truck but came out better than the 2nd one still despite the 2nd being done with higher quality settings.