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Why do my TPU prints look like this?
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That looks like a moisture issue to me. Some TPU filaments will absorb so much water from the air that when heated, the water boils out and creates awful bubbling and pitting in the printed part.
Any recommendations? I dried it using a filament dryer before printing.