The Bambu store is currently out of marble PLA. I tried some Duramic 3D PLA Plus today and it jammed my nozzle (or something did). If we assume that marble filaments have bits mixed with it that would be responsible for this, what would your advice be? Do I slow down the printer, or increase nozzle temp, or something else. Thanks for any advice.
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I print Bambu Marble with their preset, all other Marbles I use 215*.
On the Amazon page it says to print at 220* +10…so 220*-230*.
Yes, I should’ve mentioned that I was using the default setting of 220. I left a message for Bambu to let me know when they have some more of their brand. Maybe that will make the difference. Meanwhile, I’ll try some heat and travel changes. Thanks
Did you ever figure this out. I just got my A1 and printed almost a whole spool of 3D Fuel PLA PRO PLUS and it was flawless. First print I tried with Duramic 3D PLA PLUS (white marble) has clogged. Cleared it, printed a benchy that looked pretty good with it…tried another print and it failed again saying extruder clogged.
Any tips to get this filament to work better?
Print Marble 5*-10* hotter.
Thank you very much for the quick response.
For an absolute newbie …if it’s not too much, could you tell me a quick run down on how to do that.
When I try to change the filament that’s on say spool 3 …all of the options I see(in Bambu studio) have a set min and max temperature that I cannot change.
Or is there any chance you could send me a profile for my A1 ?
The other filament I used (3D Fuel) has downloadable profiles which was awesome and it’s worked flawlessly l.
I’m not sure if you’re addressing this to me. My answer to “Did you ever figure this out?” is as follows. I printed various brands of marble for years with my two Creality Ender 3s with no more nozzle issue than I had with non-marble filaments.
So I was surprised when my new Bambu Lab A1 and P1S would clog quite quickly with the Duramic brand marble filament. I had never used that particular brand before. I just ordered it because Amazon didn’t have my usual brand at the time. So, I’m stuck with two rolls of it and I don’t dare use it with my Bambu printers and I no longer have the Ender 3s.
So, it could be the filament. I would have to order another brand of marble to test that theory. Or, maybe there’s something about the BBL printers. Maybe one of the many features that makes BBL a superior printer somehow causes it to clog with marble filament.
I really hate it because I love the marble look. I could use a larger nozzle, but the quality of the print would suffer.
One of my theories is that the cheap (brass?) nozzles on the Ender 3s was soft enough to quickly erode themselves to allow the marble chips to go through.
I guess I’m just going to have to break down and order another brand of marble filament from Amazon, a brand I’ve used many times, and see what happens. If it clogs, I’ll own three rolls of filament I cannot use. Another option would be to order one of BBL’s marble filaments. It’s quite expensive. If it clogs with their very own filament, I’ll have to assume it’s something to do with BBL printers.
Now that you’ve brought it up again, I think I’ll write the Voxel people and see what they have to say. They’re old school in the sense that they actually answer email in a personal way. Very unusual these days. I’m not sure they stock marble. I’ll give that a try.
You can change it in the filament settings, you can either save it (rename it) or hit the undo arrow to change it back.
This is what Voxel had to say about it:
"Hello Bill,
Thank you for contacting us. We recognized that marble tends to clog nozzles, and “VOXEL Marble” is in the making. We expect it to be available in Q1 or Q2 of next year. Our goal is to make one that looks good and doesn’t clog your nozzle.
The reason for the clog is the black particles that are added for the marble effects; they tend to build up in the nozzle and clog the small 0.4mm hole. In the meantime, you might want to look into a larger nozzle 0.6mm or 0.8mm, it should clog less."
That still doesn’t explain how my Ender 3 could print through 0.4 nozzles all day long while BBL printers can’t.
Since you never used that brand with your Ender, you can’t really compare. Maybe it is just an issue with the brand.
Good point!
I did allow for that possibility, and said so. 
Not sure if any helpful, but I got Duramic PETG marble and it worked well on my new Mini (stock .4mm nozzle). I haven’t adventured into PLA marble yet.
Yep. Probably nothing wrong with the brand.