Added a PEI plate for my Artillery Genius using bull clips, and after leveling the leveling/adhesion test print comes out like this. Is this just me leveling the bed too close to the nozzle, or is it the pei plate not heating up as much as the original glass bed? It’s at 60c btw
Looks like that’s a magnetic spring steel bed. You need to use a magnetic plate below that that’s glued to the bed below.
The magnet will pull the spring steel bed flat.
Looks to me that you could try raising the nozzle a fraction. Your extrusion looks flakey though, so it could be the nozzle as well. But on the other hand, if your nozzle is too close to the bed, that will inhibit extrusion as well.
Yeah turns out the plate got bowed during shipping and was not exactly flat. After making it flatter and some cleaning, it’s looking a lot better.
Those spring steel sheets are designed for magnetic beds that pull them flat so that makes sense. Happy printing!