printing without raft

[Geoff]

I understand when to use the raft but I cannot get anything to stick without it. I maybe wrong on this but it seems like when the raft is first being printed that first layer is very slow. Above it was said I should slow my first layer down. In the flashprint software I have found how to make it smaller but not slow down just the first layer

Base layers are usually printed at 40% of your printing speed...

So if you are printing at 70ms feed rate, it will be like 30ms for the first, layer, ie very slow. There are ways to change this with proftweak

Is the first layer printing really nice but by about layer 2 or 3 it starts to lift? this is your hot bed material or heat settings.

IF the FIRST layer is peeling off literally as it's printing, you most likely are not printing close enough to the bed.

RAFTLESS prints need to be SUPER close to the bed