Travel speed
How fast the nozzle moves when it goes from one spot to another without laying plastic. The faster it goes, the less time it has to drip and the fewer strings it leaves.
How it works
To get from one area of the layer to another, the nozzle makes a travel move: it moves without pushing out plastic. During that move, the plastic left in the tip drips, and that dripping leaves strings and blobs. A fast travel move is shorter and drips less; that's why fast printers (Bambu ones among them) travel at 500–700 mm/s.
It doesn't change the quality of the printed lines: only the total time and the amount of stringing.
When to change it
- Most parts: leave 700.
- A printer on a light piece of furniture that shakes or gets very loud on every jump: lower to 400.
- Several small parts spread across the plate (a chess set) that come out with strings between them: leave 700 and check retraction and temperature.
Typical values
| Value | What for |
|---|---|
| 400 | Quieter |
| 700 | Defaultdefault |
Watch out for
- If you set more than the printer can do, it caps it at its own maximum.
- Stringing is fought mainly with retraction (when the printer pulls the filament back so it doesn't drip) and with temperature; travel speed helps, but it isn't enough on its own.
Goes well with
What Bambu Studio saysits help card, quoted
What Bambu Studio says
Speed of travel which is faster and without extrusion
Bambu Studio tooltip for this setting · AGPL-3.0
Read more at the official source
In your profile0.20mm Standard @BBL A1 · 700 mm/s
In Bambu Studio, the profile 0.20mm Standard @BBL A1 sets it to700 mm/s
In other slicers
- Orca Slicer
- TravelSpeed › Travel speed
- PrusaSlicer
- TravelSpeed › Speed for non-print moves
- Cura
- Travel SpeedSpeed
Names taken from each program's code (Orca Slicer 2.4.2, PrusaSlicer 2.9.6, Cura 5.13.0). Credits