Just got my Flashforge Creator Dual and here are my first prints

[repman]

Try increasing the build speed to 90mm/s extrude and 150mm/s travel

also heated bed is not required, and only causes more heat - heat is PLA's enemy

mounting a small fan to aid cooling the part as its printed will also help, PLA being of low density retains heat easily and needs help to get rid of it

these printers being makerbot copies are optimized for ABS, so you may get better results by using ABS, with these settings, but still increase the extrude and travel.

Keep it up

[Dargonfly]

Ok; second try:


Here's the album: http://imgur.com/a/U9DPU

I increased the layer height to 0.18mm; my idea here was that this would make the extruder extrude more material and thus have less issue with not having material the first 1-2cm of extrusion time.
And it worked! I got material right away!

I decreased the bed heat to 30 Celcius (pretty much disabling it; but the disable button didn't work in Makerbot(?)) as suggested by Repman -
I also placed a large fan to the side of the machine aiming at the bed + extruder.

This resulted in more accurate first layers and less drooping (the eyes here are somewhat comparable to the Marvin ears.)

New problem; the bottom sticked too much to the surface; I damaged a bit of the yellow material (kapton?) in the process
Eventually I had to heat up the bed; and then I could remove it (though I did bent all the arms of the Octopus while heating + trying to remove it - even though the print came out really straight.)

Though once again; I'm pretty satisfied (And surprised) by the result - that's why I now started a 5 hour print that used dual extrusion of both ABS + PLA.
It's looking good so far.


Also a question directed at Repman's comment regarding the travel speed for PLA extrusion:
I'm guessing you're advising me to increase the speed to allow less heat to get into the material.
What is better:
Faster travel speed + high temperature (being heated for low amount of time)
Lower travel speed + low temperature (being heated for a long amount of time)