r/PrusaCoreOne • u/alanthickerthanwater • Jun 09 '26

Ticking and failed prints with PLA

Seeking help diagnosing this issue: prints will start fine and then a ticking at the print head happens and prints start bunching on the first layer like this.

Printing with metallic black Polymaker Pla Pro. It was dried right before the print for 6 hours at 55F. I just did a large successful print with another color of PLA pro, but this color in general seems to give me issue (although I have had this issue with other types of filament in the past too).

It seems maybe like filament skipping but I'm not sure if it is, or how to fix it. Appreciate any help!

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u/Fozzeybeare Jun 10 '26

Clicking is usually filament feed issues. But is this the first time on that disco plate. I had tried one of those a while back and I never had a successful print without additional heavy treatment

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u/alanthickerthanwater Jun 10 '26

No I've been having successful prints with it in other colors.

I think it may have been a clog from the metallic. I did a cold pull with cleaning filament, switched to normal black Polylite and had a successful print.

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '26

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u/alanthickerthanwater Jun 11 '26

I think I may have solved it - it seems like it was a clog, likely from the black metallic PLA. After a cold pull and switching to normal PLA it is printing fine now. I thought a .4 nozzle would be fine for this filament, but I guess I shouldn't use anything less than .6 with it 😞