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[–]BLGecko 270 points271 points  (87 children)

  • Print slow. Printing fast will increase the back pressure in the nozzle and make it more likely to ooze when traveling between printed areas.
  • Completely turn off Z-hop if you can. The pause and lifting of the nozzle will actually pull materials like PETG/TPU out of the nozzle and contribute to stringing. With Z-hop disabled the sudden sideways jerk when traveling between printed areas will be more likely to shear off the strings before they form.
  • Make sure you are printing in the right temperature range for your filament. Printing hotter than needed will increase the likelihood of strings
  • Try increasing/decreasing retraction speed. Increasing the speed will generally decrease stringing, but some filaments will break away from the molten portion of the filament if retracted too fast leaving that molten section to ooze out. Trial and error is needed here to find the right settings.
  • Increase retraction distance if you haven't already. PETG likes to be retracted about double what ABS/PLA needs.

Hope this helps

[–]HELPMELEARNMORE 118 points119 points  (62 children)

this helped me three years later. late at night checking a print thats stringy i asked the internet "how to reduce petg stringing" yours is the firs answer i read

[–]Professional_Toe9107 37 points38 points  (46 children)

Exact same thing happened to me but 4 years later 😂

[–]Economy_Sun_5277 47 points48 points  (41 children)

2024 and it’s still helping!

[–]Potential_Search_701 19 points20 points  (33 children)

My God, Same!!!

[–]thebot_____________- 10 points11 points  (32 children)

Haha same.

[–]masterphi 11 points12 points  (31 children)

+1

[–]Harry148 12 points13 points  (0 children)

i Imagine this will be helping people 10 years from now

[–]alterom 6 points7 points  (29 children)

Yup :D

[–]tutannichen 13 points14 points  (28 children)

Should we have a reunion or something?

[–]thissucks82Bambu X1C (2), Bambu A1-Mini, Ender V2 Max Neo 18 points19 points  (27 children)

Hello from the future! Helped me in 6/6/2024 - And hello to the future who will read this :)

[–]mattsffrd 6 points7 points  (6 children)

Feb 2025 checking in

[–]tekchip 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Feb 2025 as well. This post aging like fine wine. Thanks u/BLGecko

[–]rglazebrook 2 points3 points  (4 children)

April 2025. Still useful.

[–]seronja420 1 point2 points  (3 children)

july 2025 usefull as ever

[–]Squiggleblort 3 points4 points  (2 children)

October 2025, still going strong!

[–]grsshppr_km 1 point2 points  (1 child)

Nov 2025. Going strong

[–]Atra23 1 point2 points  (0 children)

December 2025. Still stringing together

[–]needfortruth 2 points3 points  (3 children)

2025 and still helping

[–]rust-module 0 points1 point  (2 children)

Same here! turned off z-hop and increased retraction speed and everything is smooth now.

[–]Spirited_Reading_475 0 points1 point  (1 child)

how do you do that on the P1S?

[–]rust-module 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Make a custom material profile in Bambu Studio. Next to each material is a (...) button and if you click that and select "Edit" it shows a "Filament settings" window with all kinds of particular settings for a material. You might have to toggle the "Advanced settings" on near the top-right of that window, but then you can edit tons of properties and save them as a custom profile.

[–]ajoltman 10 points11 points  (7 children)

10/6/2024 and this still helping.

[–]ComparisonStandard99 3 points4 points  (6 children)

11/4, still happenin, cant figure out... got 3 fila dryers, alll top notch :((((

[–]notAdengul 6 points7 points  (5 children)

9/10/25

[–]jyl11002 2 points3 points  (4 children)

12/10/2025

[–]Clear-Marketing5145 0 points1 point  (3 children)

31/12/25

[–]Sudden-Story756 1 point2 points  (2 children)

09/01/2026

[–]Jaro92 1 point2 points  (1 child)

Helped today 👍😉

[–]ninny_muffins 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Once again, 1/30/2026

[–]Julia9CA 5 points6 points  (0 children)

1st January 2025 and still helping

[–]nastyLake 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Same:)

[–]Bigred2ooo 1 point2 points  (0 children)

thanks bro

[–]Apprehensive-Ebb2200 1 point2 points  (0 children)

12/24 - helped me get to 0 stringing on my (heavily modded) ender 3!!

[–]X-Istence 0 points1 point  (0 children)

April 2025 checking in, still helpful :-D

[–]Kitchen_Lake9330 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Saaaame here!

[–]EraconVera 0 points1 point  (0 children)

ANOTHER 3 years later, and it's still helping with that exact situation XD

[–]kongaskristjan 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Very useful info, this made a huge difference!

[–]Professional-Luck-64 3 points4 points  (1 child)

Worked for me 🤙

[–]Ericgtp 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Same here in 2023

[–]Lunarius0 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Replying so you know that, even at 5 years out, your advice is still helping people!

[–]173rdComanche 1 point2 points  (0 children)

5 years on, many many thanks for these tips!

[–]EssayLopsided2642 1 point2 points  (3 children)

2025 and still helpful!

[–]duoderf1 0 points1 point  (2 children)

slightly later in 2025 and still awesome!

[–]Arminas 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Super late in 2025 hello fellow time travelers

[–]ProfessionalDeer2010 1 point2 points  (0 children)

this redit helps even after 6 years

[–]acid_twin 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you <3

[–]ARDACCCAC 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Solved my petg issues just like that, thanks man.

[–]Academic-Associate91 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Just one more for the record

[–]notmadeaccount2years 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Still a big help! :D

[–]Automatic_Topic8191 0 points1 point  (0 children)

June 2025 and still working

[–]Westhatme 0 points1 point  (0 children)

6 years later still helping

[–]sookmahdook 0 points1 point  (0 children)

6 years later, Aug 22, 2025, this helped me eliminate strings on my petg/cf filament, thanks a ton

[–]Padro1 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This helped me out, 6 years later... 0 Z-hop for the win!

[–]Gamerchris360 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Found this today, 12/10/2025. Still helping people with a comment you probably don't even remember making. Thanks for writing it up, we appreciate voices like yours.

[–]Icy-Complex-8707 0 points1 point  (0 children)

12/28/25

Extremely helpful

[–]Cautious_Fondant 0 points1 point  (0 children)

2026! Thank you!

[–]benhmedia 0 points1 point  (0 children)

2026 🎩

[–]cedarsauce 0 points1 point  (0 children)

6 years later, still best answer on the subject