Bed is thoroughly cleaned with dishwasher soap and scrubbed with a brush, but when I do a first layer test it appears that the nozzle is too high in some places and I don’t get a good squish. I do leveling on each print, so I’m wondering if tramming the bed as per the guide will solve what you see in this photo? I must admit, if the bed wasn’t level I would expect a more consistent gradient/area of offset.
I was hoping not to have to do it in case I make things worse.
At the risk of sounding like all I have is a hammer, are you drying your filament?
I’m not, but it’s only about 2 months old and is stored in a cerial box when not used?
I could try with my white filament which is brand new? Would that be a likely cause then?
You could but new filament can arrive with too much moisture already. It’s a crapshoot of sorts but read some threads about print problems and you’ll soon see most filament arrives not so dry.
But different filament could behave better. Even with dry filament, people notice different behaviors sometimes likely due to the pigments. PLA in general is more tolerant of moisture than other filaments like PETG.
These printers that print so fast seem to be more susceptible to water problems than other printers. I didn’t even know careful storage was necessary with my old printer. It was slow but printed well without drying PLA. The Bambu requirements were a bit of a surprise.
Also, I don’t know your issue is water. I just mentioned it since you hadn’t.
That’s really useful, thanks. I’m the same as you, I had a Neptune Pro 3 and left some Elegoo Grey PLA connected to it in my shed for months and never had any issues!
I’ve now got Grey, White and Black PLA (hence why I then invested in the Mr T cereal boxes to store them when they’re not loaded), but it sounds like it wouldn’t hurt to try a dryer I guess!
