I’ve read that SD prints are always better than printing over USB, but unfortunately my SD card reader does not function as I assume it should, i.e. doesn’t recognize that a card is inserted (Help on that would be secondary, but much appreciated!).
*In short, this is the problem: When my laptop is plugged into the wall, the printer clicks often and offsets each layer randomly. If you know how to resolve the issue right away, you might not need to read the below ramble. I don’t know, Maybe you should. 
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So the effect of the issue, which has been going on for two weeks or so, is while printing any part, you could hear infrequent clicks coming from the printer head once every 5-30 seconds or so, and consequently, the layers would shift from 0.1mm up to as bad as 2mm! Only yesterday I believe I targeted the issue. That day I brought the laptop off the charger into my printer room on mostly full power, and started printing off a couple small parts, and they were turning out perfectly fine; I cranked out four separate parts and was working on a fifth, printing only one part at a time, because I was speculating that the layer shifts were a result of printing multiple parts in one print, and while printing that fifth one, I plugged my laptop into the wall so it wouldn’t die, and right away the printer started clicking like crazy, every second about, and before it finished printing the layer it was working on, (that layer was off by more than two mm!) I killed the print.
That gave away the problem right away; apparently I can’t print while the laptop is charging.
That will offer some consequences, such as prohibiting prints that take longer than the life of one battery running on it’s own.
Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Jonathan
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