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First time printing with TPU. Another problem I had was that it didn't stick to the textured print bed, had to go for smooth PEI which I read (and now can confirm) is not ideal. Would satin be better?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not necessarily. If you don't hear any sizzle like little pops when extruding you are fine.

Also watch out for retraction amount and speed. You don't want more than 1 or 2 mm of retraction at 15mm/s and try to only print that slow as well.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't go above 20 mm/s for any print setting with tpu.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

All depends on your extruder. A decent extruder should have no problems with 200mm/s+

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Just because you can't get it working doesn't mean it's impossible. Vez is printing tpu benchys under 6 minutes, so it's clearly possible.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't know what you are talking about. I make real things out of tpu that get used everyday for years. I don't know who pez is and I'm not interested in bench speed runs.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I get that speedbencys aren't functional objects but as long as you're not running out of flow rate the material properties shouldn't differ between 20mm/s and 200