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This is one of those "good news, bad news" things.

The good news is the Ender 3 with even a 0.4mm nozzle can print *beautifully* at 0.08mm layer height.

At this definition, it is difficult to see or even feel the layer lines.

Unfortunately, the bad news is the filament I used obviously needed a higher temperature to get good layer adhesion at this resolution!

Removing the supports (and there were a LOT of supports) broke the figurine in various places, making it a waste.

Took 10 hours too :O

Ah well, we live and learn!

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So I will bump the nozzle temperature up to 210c and see if it helps adhesion. The risk here is that it might ooze more.

In future I will likely try a smaller nozzle size to increase resolution horizontally, while of course increasing print times even further.

While you can get better prints, faster with resin, it also costs more and means dealing with toxic goop, so I am quite pleased how this $200 machine performed!

Even more surprising, it was only after removing the print that I realized the bed had some wobble. I had to tighten the eccentric nuts. No visible layer shifts in the print though :)

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