My printer (well, PrusaSlicer) always starts with a line around the object I am printing. See (1) in the image. --Why? What does that do?

There is also this line (2) at the front of the bed. --Why? What does that do?

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[–] 17 points 2 years ago

The second part is a nozzle cleaning. It wipes the nozzle on a part of the bed that won't be used for printing to get debris off of it before printing. Cura does the same thing on my tevo tornado and actually sends a message saying what it's doing so when I'm logged into reprapfirmware it says "cleaning nozzle"

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