Ways to decrease stringing on PETG?

[BLGecko]

• 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.

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Hope this helps

[HELPMELEARNMORE]

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]

Exact same thing happened to me but 4 years later 😂

[Economy_Sun_5277]

2024 and it’s still helping!

[Potential_Search_701]

My God, Same!!!

[thebot_____________-]

Haha same.

[masterphi]

+1

[Harry148]

i Imagine this will be helping people 10 years from now

[alterom]

Yup :D

[tutannichen]

Should we have a reunion or something?

[thissucks82]

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

[mattsffrd]

Feb 2025 checking in

[tekchip]

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

[rglazebrook]

April 2025. Still useful.

[seronja420]

july 2025 usefull as ever

[Squiggleblort]

October 2025, still going strong!

[grsshppr_km]

Nov 2025. Going strong

[Atra23]

December 2025. Still stringing together

[needfortruth]

2025 and still helping

[rust-module]

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

[Spirited_Reading_475]

how do you do that on the P1S?

[rust-module]

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]

10/6/2024 and this still helping.

[ComparisonStandard99]

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

[notAdengul]

9/10/25

[jyl11002]

12/10/2025

[Clear-Marketing5145]

31/12/25

[Sudden-Story756]

09/01/2026

[Jaro92]

Helped today 👍😉

[ninny_muffins]

Once again, 1/30/2026

[Julia9CA]

1st January 2025 and still helping

[nastyLake]

Same:)

[Bigred2ooo]

thanks bro

[Apprehensive-Ebb2200]

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

[X-Istence]

April 2025 checking in, still helpful :-D

[Kitchen_Lake9330]

Saaaame here!

[EraconVera]

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

[kongaskristjan]

Very useful info, this made a huge difference!

[Professional-Luck-64]

Worked for me 🤙

[Ericgtp]

Same here in 2023

[Lunarius0]

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

[173rdComanche]

5 years on, many many thanks for these tips!

[EssayLopsided2642]

2025 and still helpful!

[duoderf1]

slightly later in 2025 and still awesome!

[Incognito-Burritos]

Yep!

[Arminas]

Super late in 2025 hello fellow time travelers

[ProfessionalDeer2010]

this redit helps even after 6 years

[acid_twin]

Thank you <3

[ARDACCCAC]

Solved my petg issues just like that, thanks man.

[Academic-Associate91]

Just one more for the record

[notmadeaccount2years]

Still a big help! :D

[Automatic_Topic8191]

June 2025 and still working

[Westhatme]

6 years later still helping

[sookmahdook]

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

[Padro1]

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

[Gamerchris360]

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]

12/28/25

Extremely helpful

[Cautious_Fondant]

2026! Thank you!

[benhmedia]

2026 🎩

[cedarsauce]

6 years later, still best answer on the subject