Okay to preface: the other day I thought my laser was done for – it was going through the motions, but barely leaving a mark on the material for any type of score, cut or engrave. Tried cleaning everything, using different materials, etc. and nothing worked. I was about to reach out here to seek advice, because I don’t have any proofgrade material and I knew that would be the first thing Glowforge support would ask me to test. But then I found some 1/8" mdf I had on hand, so figured I’d try the gift of good measure. First print, terrible. Second print… perfect.
So that’s been the pattern now: every time I turn my Glowforge on or try to use it after it’s been idle for a while, the laser barely fires at all. I’ll try my designs a couple times, then give up and switch over to the gift of good measure on faux-proofgrade draftboard. The first print will continue to have issues, the second print will be totally fine, and then the laser will work great until the next time I turn it off or leave it idle.
Has anyone else had this issue? To be clear I’m not making ANY adjustments between GoGM prints, just running them back to back. I’m completely flummoxed.
