Hello friends! I tried to label my cookie cutter but am at a loss. I uploaded my STL made using COOKIECAD into Tinkercad to put text on it but when I went to print it didn’t turn out! Clearly, I’m a newbie and I am hoping someone can help.
You might be printing a little close to the bed so the filament is squishing and closing the holes. You can try backing off a little to see if that helps. You can also try a fatter font or making the letters a little bigger.
It definitely sounds like a bed-leveling or text-resolution issue, especially when working with smaller details like lettering on cookie cutters. Besides raising your Z-offset a bit, try increasing the thickness of the text extrusion so you’re not relying on a single layer to define each letter. Thin fonts almost always get lost on curved surfaces.
When I first started labeling my prints, I had the same problem, anything small would either merge into the surface or come out unreadable. What helped was switching to bolder text and previewing the slicer layer by layer. You can instantly see if the lettering is too thin to survive the first few layers.
Since you’re creating cookie cutters, you might also consider adding raised text instead of engraved text. Raised labels generally print cleaner on PLA and need less fine-tuning. I use raised markings for most of my kitchen-safe prints, and it’s much more reliable.