We were told the horrible speed and performance would be fixed but we weren't told that it would cost us more!

[enzo]

Can you please point me to an official statement from glowforge that says premium does not make the machine preform faster?

[dklgood]

From the September 2020 Announcement:
Fast Lane print prep - Glowforge Premium users get our fastest, ultra-high-performance “Fast Lane” cloud servers. These astonishingly powerful supercomputers are exclusively reserved for Premium members. These accelerate your print preparation by up to 4x over the Glowforge Print servers (which we upgraded for free last month, too ).

Note: Print preparation

[dklgood]

September 2020 Update: More free features + Glowforge Premium!

It’s time for some big announcements today - the release of some fantastic new features for Glowforge Print (the free, lifetime membership that comes with your Glowforge), plus the official launch of Glowforge Premium, which lets you subscribe to get amazing designs, all new software features, and more. I’ll start with a short overview, then get into the details! Overview: Your free, lifetime subscription to Glowforge Print continues to get better. We’re adding some new free features today: Ex…

[jbmanning5]

@enzo

Can you please point me to an official statement from glowforge that says premium does not make the machine preform faster?

Conversely, can you point to where they say that premium does make the machine/motion system faster? No marketing person ever would say, “premium does not make the machine perform faster,” but a marketing person would say something like, “premium membership increases your print speeds by 3x compared to Glowforge Print software.”

The only thing you’ll find about “faster” is the fast lane processing.

[Jules]

@enzo, under normal operations, and using the same settings, the machine does not process jobs any faster or slower once you hit the Print button…the only thing that speeds up for Premium users is the amount of time that the GF software “thinks about how to process the design”, before the Print button lights up.

So…

If a previous engrave processed in 15 minutes but later took 45 minutes, you obviously have some other problem going on here. Possibly related to unstable Wifi, or a change that was made to your machine accidentally when the switch over happened to non-subscription. Or maybe you rotated the design, because the limiter to how long things take on engraves is the vertical height that the head has to travel. Or possibly the settings were changed accidentally…increases in LPI will cause it to take a lot longer for the same engrave. (Or maybe there is something going wrong with your machine physically. Cables do wear out. Let’s hope that’s not it.)

I’d suggest you let Support take a look at the logs to see if there is anything they can do for you, and you will want to tell them the date and approximate time of the engrave that caused you problems so they can locate it in the logs for your machine. (Along with the date and time of the original if you can narrow it down. If you have more than one machine, let them know which one it was as well.)

That will speed up the resolution for you. (And they’ll probably want to see some photos, but you can work with them on that.)

[Rita]

Thank you community for the answers and references regarding Glowforge Premium.

I just inspected the logs for your Glowforge carefully to attempt to resolve this without asking further questions, but I couldn’t locate a print done during your trial and after that had different print times. I’m going to send an email in just a moment with some details from your account to see if we can clear this up, and I’m leaving this post open for now in case you prefer to continue here.

[enzo]

Thanks, I’ll look for the email.

[Rita]

Thanks! Based on our email conversation about settings, I’m closing this thread now.