I’ve had a MK4S for over a week now, and 100% of the prints I’ve tried to make on the textured sheets have partially or totally failed. PLA prints beautifully on the smooth sheet, but PLA, PETG and ABS, I think I could print on the surface of a 10 inch tank of oil with more success than the textured sheet. Plastic doesn’t stick to it. I’ve wiped it with isopopyl, I’ve washed it with dawn…it’s a bad print surface and I want my money back.
Yeah its been better than the smooth one, but I long ago got into the habit of using hairspray on every print.
I’ve been using hairspray for years too. I don’t get how people prefer chunky glue sticks or $80 “specialized” bed adhesion fluid over a nice uniform spray from an $8 bottle of Suave unscented.
I find the smooth one works adequately for PLA. I don’t have a satin one, and I think I’d have better luck printing on an inch deep tank of cod liver oil than the textured sheet.
I’ll go back to printing on glass and glue stick before I start fucking around with hair spray.
I’ve tried all 3 and found hairspray the absolute winner of bed adhesion and it’s not even close.
I’ve printed PETG on glue stick on glass since Obama was president and until this week I would have told you PETG doesn’t peel the corners up like ABS does.
The only times I’ve had that happen was when the sheet wasn’t clean enough (which yours definitely is if you’ve scrubbed it with dishsoap), bed temps too low or first layer being too close to the bed (though the textured sheet wants more squish)
The satin sheet is imo their best sheet, buildtak does some great surfaces in that size (pei sheet is great for even abs, their new surfaces are great too). I moved to using fr4/garolite sheets (I use this on my former mk3s, have a larger one for my voron too), not really found I needed adhesive for petg or pla on that.