Weak/incomplete supports - P2S

I have a P2S which has been working flawlessly since I bought it. I am trying a new-to-me use - printing miniatures with a 0.2 mm nozzle and have run into an odd issue. While the print itself looks great, the supports are printing poorly and often break mid-print. This leaves me with great prints that are missing arms or other parts as their supports failed.

The supports themselves have gaps (see attached picture). I’d suspect under-extrusion, except that I’m not seeing similar defects in the print itself - only in the supports. I am not having this issue when printing with the 0.4mm nozzel with the same model and filament.

Im printing with generic PLA, using the default settings for both the filament and the slicer profile.

Slow down support print speed and increase support wall loops to 2.

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Makes sense- I’ve dropped the support wall speed by a third and added two support loops. We’ll see (in 14 hours) if that fixed the issue.

Thanks for the speedy reply!

Arrg, it’s even worse with 2 walls. I tried turing up the temp on the extruder by 5C and that seems to have smoothed everything out (no broken supports…yet)

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