# First layers spread (Form 2)
**URL:** https://forum.formlabs.com/t/first-layers-spread-form-2/24822
**Category:** Form 2
**Created:** [September 28, 2019, 1:30pm UTC](https://forum.formlabs.com/t/first-layers-spread-form-2/24822 "2019-09-28T13:30:02Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@frowin](https://forum.formlabs.com/u/frowin)
#### Post date: [September 28, 2019, 1:30pm UTC](https://forum.formlabs.com/t/first-layers-spread-form-2/24822/1 "2019-09-28T13:30:02Z")
Hi together,
recently our Form 2 has problems with the first layers it prints (with Raft and with printing directly to platform). Please have a look at the photos. It could be an issue with the height adjustment?
On the photos one can see many individual parts with raft. For some reasion, they are all connected to together, like there is another beneath the raft.
Do you have any ideas? Thanks in advance for your help!
  
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### Author:  [@Walter\_Gillespie](https://forum.formlabs.com/u/Walter_Gillespie)
#### Post date: [September 28, 2019, 1:32pm UTC](https://forum.formlabs.com/t/first-layers-spread-form-2/24822/2 "2019-09-28T13:32:24Z")
I have the exact problem on my older Form 2. I’ve been fighting it for months. I tried raising the Z axis but that doesn’t seem to help.
RIght now I’m running a job with the Z axis at -.1mm to see if that helps. +.2mm didn’t work at all.
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### Author:  [@frowin](https://forum.formlabs.com/u/frowin)
#### Post date: [September 28, 2019, 1:37pm UTC](https://forum.formlabs.com/t/first-layers-spread-form-2/24822/3 "2019-09-28T13:37:09Z")
Good to hear that somebody else has the same issues. Please update me when your print finishes!
Do you know, whether you changed sth. before it started? We use the printer quite often and sometimes replace build platform und resin tanks… but I don’t have in mind whether the error correlates to these changes.
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### Author:  [@Walter\_Gillespie](https://forum.formlabs.com/u/Walter_Gillespie)
#### Post date: [September 28, 2019, 1:51pm UTC](https://forum.formlabs.com/t/first-layers-spread-form-2/24822/4 "2019-09-28T13:51:02Z")
I rotate 3 build plates between 2 Form 2 printers. Doesn’t happen on the newer printer so it’s the old printer that has the issue. It creates a membrane of resin that appears squashed out from the bottom of the support base.
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### Author:  [@kpinhassi](https://forum.formlabs.com/u/kpinhassi)
#### Post date: [September 28, 2019, 7:15pm UTC](https://forum.formlabs.com/t/first-layers-spread-form-2/24822/5 "2019-09-28T19:15:45Z")
Hey guys,
Had this problem too 2 months ago. A cleaning of the mirror ans the Galvo mirror solved this issue immediately.
Just contact the support and they will walk you through + will send a free cleaning kit if you like.
Its simple to perform, takes up to 30 min and it will save you resin.
Keep us posted.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.formlabs.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [October 5, 2019, 7:15pm UTC](https://forum.formlabs.com/t/first-layers-spread-form-2/24822/6 "2019-10-05T19:15:47Z")
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