Quick update on this problem:
As suggested, I turned on one-wall in the slicer. That eliminated the holes.
However, I also turned on ironing and that seems to have created black smears in the white letters: it looks like black material that got picked up by the white nozzle at the edge of the letters and got dragged across.
I know it’s ironing because it’s just at the surface and it scratches off easily with the tip of an x-acto knife.
So, I think ironing may not be such a great idea with such small bi-color features. Maybe the smearing is acceptable on the edge of a large features with another color, but those letters are 10mm so it kind of ruins them across the entire width.
Apart from that, there are gaps between the black and the white material on the right-hand edges of the letters. But it only shows under the microscope: they’re not really visible, and certainly don’t stand out like the black holes right in the middle of the letters like before.
So for the next print, I’ll turn off ironing and see how it goes. I think one-wall alone will do nicely.
Thanks for the tips everybody!
Just checking on things, no offense intended for anything I asked and I apologize if it came off that way.
The voids we’re seeing look like possible under extrusion and I didn’t see that mentioned before. If you haven’t changed any of those settings that is likely not the issue. All of the printers I’ve worked with do just fine with default settings.
Do you have infill set at 100%? I may have missed that detail. What pattern is selected for the infill? Some patterns work better than others.
How tight are the rollers for all three axes? They should be just tight enough to prevent any wobble in each direction. Too tight and the print head might be restricted.
Last thing for this round: Since you’re getting smudges of the other color, your temps may be set too high.
Just some late night thoughts for now. Hopefully something might ring a bell.
The voids comme from the arachne perimeter generator - since that’s what the slicer uses in the letters, because they’re too small to contain anything but perimeters. You can even see them in the slicer’s rendition:
There seems to be a way to eliminate then - in the slicer anyway - by increasing the perimeter transition threshold angle from 10° to 40°, but I haven’t tried it yet:
One-wall looks better anyway, so I’ll try it again, without ironing this time.