Today, I spent most of the period fixing the 3D printer, which was severely over-extruding and "stringing", producing long strands of extra plastic rather than printing normally. The problem turned out to be a combination of build plate adhesion (I had forgotten to place glue on the build plate) and a too-low print speed, which can be adjusted in Cura. I ended up downloading Cura onto my own laptop, where it runs smoothly - Cura runs extremely slowly on the computer that is set up on for the printer - I cannot stress enough that the entire system will be much easier to use with a different computer at the printer! We might even be able to use the live print monitoring functions of Cura, which currently do not work because of the extreme slowness.
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