Thanks for that its good to know that is not that bad of a print.
I think I may need to build a enclosure for the printer as the temp where it is goes up and down quickly and its on average around 13C. I zits seem to be on layer changes whats why I tried the coasting and the retraction which is currently set to 15mm and speed of 80. You can see them more on a benchy I will take a picture when I back home on Monday.
Regarding the mesh I know the mesh is super detailed for this. Fusion360 says there is 225532 triangles could the model be the issue?
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This is a pretty good print. You can do better but there's nothing really easy to fix here. This is a typical quality.
Horizontal banding is usually caused by Z issues where the Z axis isn't moving consistently. On an old machine this means it's time to clean the Z screw. It can also be caused by fluctuating temperatures - watch the temperature while you print. If it varies by more than 3C then that will cause banding issues.
But this is pretty good - I don't think you can get this better without buying all different Z hardware. maybe increasing stiffness of bed.
The zits - I think I know what you mean. Those look pretty damn subtle. I don't know if you can fix that. I would try cura 15.X to see if that fixes the "zits". There are so many changes in cura and it changes so fast -- I think there might be a setting to help with those but not sure anymore. I think cura 15.X might give you a better surface.
It's possible (check layer view) that your model has too many triangles coming all to the same point near those zits. if so you could remesh the model. do you have a mesh view of your STL that shows all the triangles in it? I'd like to see that in the area of the "zits".
If you have the issue I'm thinking of you will see one point on your model with hundreds of lines emanationg out from it. When cura slices near here it creates dozens or hundreds of line segments all within 1mm. Printing 10 or 100 line segments within 1mm will give you "zits". it should be smoothed out - line segments should be at least .3mm long for the most part. Preferably mostly at least 1mm long.
That's 2 of your issues - maybe you could zoom in and circle an issue as we might be talking about different things.
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