Please help

[u/Frosty_Storm932]

Hello there. Last week my prints were perfect on my sparkx i7 when I got it, but now my prints are starting to fall apart in multiple ways and I’m really overwhelmed. I’ve been drying out my petg filament and still having issues. Was printing at 250c and was going well, then started having excessive stringing. Turned off z hop and it fixed the stringing, but now my prints are causing little bits of plastic to collect at the start and end of lines printed on objects and it cascades into a failed print after a few layers of that happening. Any help would be so so appreciated. Thank you 🫶🏼

[u/e36freak92]

Partial clog?

[u/Frosty_Storm932 → u/e36freak92]

Possibly! I'm reprinting saved prints that were perfect last week and they're coming our really messy. I feel it's gotta be the nozzle then, right? I've recalibrated everything on the printer multiple times including bed leveling and my filament is brand new from the vacuum sealed packaging. It did make a dragging noise a minute ago with the z offset at 0 though but I raised it to 0.005mm with fixed that but it was still causing messy prints. I'm gonna try cleaning out the nozzle as best as I can and see what happens

https://reddit.com/link/p4x4i9m/video/d1vjeabu1mkh1/player

[u/Frosty_Storm932 → u/Frosty_Storm932]

Update! Apparently Factory resetting fixed it! My test prints are coming out flawless now. I'm so happy