What are the instructions on how to print Bambu Lab PLA Glow on the A1?
I’ve been researching it for the past few days and came up with nothing.
Thank You in advance :]
You haven’t exactly explained why it is such a troublesome issue.
I have to make some assumptions.
You bought the filament, have Bambu Studio and can’t work out how to select PLA Glow from the filament list. You may have even tried to create or choose suitable values for its needs.
Chances are you haven’t noticed you can add new Filament categories.
- In Bambu Studio
- Press the cog icon next to the Filament caption on the far left of the screen.
- It will produce a screen with a list of all supported filament types.
- Locate Bambu Lab PLA Glow and tick it.
- Confirm the window
- You can now choose PLA glow from any filament’s drop-down you added to the filaments list.
Selecting this will then match it when you go to print. Nake sure your printer also has the filament listed correctly.
For A & X series printers, you can do this on the printer’s display.
For A, P & X series printers, you can also do this within Bambu Studio in the device tab.
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Sorry for not explaining that much,
I’ve done the steps you’ve explained here.
I’ve taken a screenshot here, I believe I’m doing something wrong here but I’m not sure what I’m doing wrong.
You have the filament chosen and selected, you have the model in that colour.
What is stopping you from pressing the Slice button (top tight) and then printing it?
You have at least one option on the Support Tab, which likely means you have enabled support, so the print shouldn’t fall over.
I am lost as to understand WHY you cannot print.
Please, detail what stops you or what issues you have when you try.
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I’ve sliced it here,
I think the part my brain is just stuck at is what I do to put the filament into the Print head (mainly what slot I put it in and if i use PTFE tubing or not, since im putting the PLA Glow on the external spool that came with the printer, since on bambu lab’s website they say AMS Lite is not recomented with PLA Glow)
The first problem, there is an outage in most places right now with printing.
When that is resolved…
- When using the external spool, remember to uncheck the Use AMS option in the print window.
- Your printer came with a PTFE tube that you connect in front of the external spool on the body of the printer
- The other end goes in any hole on the top of the print head, it does not matter which.
- Add the spool to the external spool holder with the filament coming from the bottom and towards you, and push it into and through the PTFE tube.
- On the printer’s display, use the filament option and swap to the external spool tab.
- Use the LOAD button
- The printer will head the hot-end and be ready to push filament in when it gets hot enough, above around 210ºc
- The screen will ask you to do this and to confirm filament is coming out.
- You only need to see it some coming out, you can use some pressure to push it through, nothing too much
- Tell the screen when you have by pressing the button
- Then tell the printer to print
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I am unsure of what you mean as “the print window”
The window that appears when you press the “print” button.
Yes, it looks like you need to press the refresh button as the servers are working now and that window hasn’t completed showing all the info needed to print.
Have you printed anything before in Bambu Studio?
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yes I have printed stuff before with Bambu studio I’m just new to the Bambu ecosystem since I swapped over the to the A-1 after a disastrous fail with my old Ender 3
Aye It works! Thank you for the help : D much appreciated!
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