bambulab said its probably normal, am I overreacting
Do you have an X2D? does yours print good?
I am having the exact same issue. I have tried Bambu support for months with little to no help and absolutely no success. I was the first person to buy the x2D in Ohio when they came out at MC.
I contacted them immediately after 12 hours seeing extreme z banding. Support took days and even weeks at a few points to reply. This exhausted my return window. My printed parts are for customers and I do this for a living. Providing them with these parts with this quality is something that I cannot do.
Prints look like wash boards on the surface but keep the tolerances and dimensional accuracy. I have tried everything on the general side to fix z banding. Does anyone know how to fix this. It is a legitimate problem..
bands are the exact width of the screw spacing
‘‘ATTENTION’’ I have returned that printer, and they have sent me a brand new X2D, thankfully I am facing the exact same problem with the layers. Im out of options now, PLEASE HELP @Bambu_support
Sorry if I missed something. This thread is pretty long, and I really did try to read through all the comments.
If you’ve switched to a completely different printer and the exact same issue is still happening, it might be time to talk about the most obvious possibility: maybe the filament itself has gone bad.
I’d start there before diving any deeper. If the problem follows the filament across different machines, there’s a good chance that’s the common denominator. Moisture, age, or just a bad spool can cause all kinds of weird issues.
…and now it’s the third printer. What do all three have in common? Your filament. Or, as others have already mentioned, you might not be using the filament manufacturer’s recommended settings correctly. That alone can cause all sorts of issues.
The other possibility would be that you’re using some really wild settings, but honestly, that’s not the first thing I’d assume.
I don’t usually recommend this, but in your case I’d buy a single roll of Bambu filament, let the printer detect it automatically via RFID, leave everything on the default automatic settings, and just run a print. Then see what happens…