noob- Prusa cheap knockoff, printed great demo, but cant get anything else to work

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Well the NOOB was strong with me, there is a setting for CURA on the SD card that came with the printer. I loaded it and all is as close to perfect as I could have hoped for. My first print was 100% from the SD card ( i said i loaded it in CURA first, i didnt) that came with printer (so all correct settings) all the others where loaded in CURA at defaults. I must admit I may be reading speed wrong, im at 30, the 150 was Retraction Speed. So this was all on me, many thanks for suggestions it did steer me in the correct direction.

There is no doubt bed leveling is what i expected, time consuming, and while not hard in theory, but is a real skill, change one corner and all others need tweaking. I can see where this part could really discourage somebody. Every change i made required more, it didn't seem like it was going to end. Otherwise I must admit i think I am having a better then normal experience. I have a knockoff (A6 ANET, was suposed to be a A8, love those Ebay listing with two models listed in same ad, one is huge letters and one in tiny print in specs, again my own fault) It was cheap so my plan is to see how this goes (3-D printing) and upgrade to the REAL prusa (which was the plan to start but is a 3-4 week wait right now).

Oh well rambling mostly because I'm dang happy with the results so far. and again thanks for the help I am sure I will be back for more.