{
  "opening": "These ranked rows list 190–260 °C (374–500 °F).",
  "question": "How should I store filament?",
  "slug": "storage",
  "useCase": "drying",
  "useCaseLabel": "Drying",
  "updated": "2026-10-17",
  "shortAnswer": "Put opened spools in a gasket bin, a vacuum bag, or a cereal box with desiccant. A dry box holds filament after it is dried. Drying temperatures live on the drying guide, not in these storage threads.",
  "recommendedMaterials": [
    "pla",
    "petg",
    "tpu"
  ],
  "printerConsiderations": [
    "On r/3Dprinting 1r9dhbx the poster is in Arizona and calls the humidity low. A score-35 comment uses 80 qt Sterilite bins with a gasket and desiccant beads. Another comment uses vacuum bags kept in the original boxes. A third says a container holds up to 16 rolls with desiccant packs.",
    "On r/BambuLab 1bb97vz the poster stores spools in IKEA zip bags with one or two reusable desiccant pucks. A comment uses cereal boxes with desiccant packs. Another comment leaves filament out in the open.",
    "On r/BambuLab 11j8dhj the filament was already in a dry box and the walls were still poor. Storage did not fix that print. The comments move on to outer-wall speed and pressure advance."
  ],
  "pros": [
    "The sealed-bin, vacuum-bag, and cereal-box methods are each tied to a thread.",
    "Drying temperatures stay on the drying page and on the ELEGOO row, which is the row that actually lists a time."
  ],
  "cons": [
    "No thread here measures a humidity target or a desiccant mass. The 80 qt size and the 16-roll claim are those comments.",
    "Prusament PETG and TPU 95A do not list a drying temperature. A storage page cannot invent one."
  ],
  "community": "r/3Dprinting 16hlz25 asks for dry-box brands. The retrieved comments talk about the cost of a purpose-built dryer versus a food dehydrator, and about keeping the dehydrator usable for food by printing walls instead of wrecking the trays. r/3Dprinting 1r9dhbx asks for a storage solution. The poster mentions low Arizona humidity and both open racks and airtight boxes. Comments show gasket bins with desiccant, vacuum bags, and a bin for up to 16 rolls. r/BambuLab 1ug1uxp asks what to do with opened PLA and PETG. The leading comment uses cereal containers with printed lids and a filament pass-through. Another uses reusable vacuum bags for engineering filament at work and leaves PLA out at home. r/BambuLab 1bb97vz prefers zip bags plus desiccant pucks. r/BambuLab 11j8dhj is a P1P wall-quality print of Bambu filament that was already in a dry box.",
  "related": [
    "drying",
    "pla_print",
    "petg_print",
    "filament_quality"
  ],
  "faq": [
    {
      "q": "Does a dry box replace drying?",
      "a": "The storage threads describe where a spool sits. ELEGOO PLA Basic still lists drying at 50 °C (122 °F) for 8 h, written on the product page as 50 ± 5 °C (122 ± 9 °F). The drying guide is the temperature page. A dry box on r/BambuLab 11j8dhj did not fix poor walls."
    },
    {
      "q": "What did people in a dry climate say?",
      "a": "The poster on r/3Dprinting 1r9dhbx lives in Arizona and calls humidity low all year. A reply from Tokyo describes a much wetter season. The gasket-bin comment is on the Arizona thread, and it still adds desiccant beads."
    }
  ],
  "sources": [
    {
      "title": "ELEGOO US PLA Basic 10 kg product page",
      "url": "https://us.elegoo.com/products/pla-basic-filament-1-75-mm-colored-10kg",
      "kind": "manufacturer"
    },
    {
      "title": "Prusament PETG technical data sheet",
      "url": "https://www.prusa3d.com/file/3464616/prusament-petg-technical-data-sheet.pdf",
      "kind": "datasheet"
    },
    {
      "title": "Prusament brand site",
      "url": "https://prusament.com/",
      "kind": "manufacturer"
    },
    {
      "title": "Open Filament Database, Prusament TPU 95A",
      "url": "https://api.openfilamentdatabase.org/api/v1/brands/prusament/materials/TPU/filaments/tpu_95a/index.json",
      "kind": "other"
    },
    {
      "title": "Community source, r/3Dprinting 16hlz25",
      "url": "https://www.reddit.com/r/3Dprinting/comments/16hlz25/",
      "kind": "reddit"
    },
    {
      "title": "Community source, r/3Dprinting 1r9dhbx",
      "url": "https://www.reddit.com/r/3Dprinting/comments/1r9dhbx/",
      "kind": "reddit"
    },
    {
      "title": "Community source, r/BambuLab 1ug1uxp",
      "url": "https://www.reddit.com/r/BambuLab/comments/1ug1uxp/",
      "kind": "reddit"
    },
    {
      "title": "Community source, r/BambuLab 11j8dhj",
      "url": "https://www.reddit.com/r/BambuLab/comments/11j8dhj/",
      "kind": "reddit"
    },
    {
      "title": "Community source, r/BambuLab 1bb97vz",
      "url": "https://www.reddit.com/r/BambuLab/comments/1bb97vz/",
      "kind": "reddit"
    }
  ],
  "recommendations": [
    {
      "rank": 1,
      "note": "ELEGOO PLA Basic lists drying at 50 °C (122 °F) for 8 h on the US 10 kg page, stated as 50 ± 5 °C (122 ± 9 °F), with a nozzle of 190–230 °C (374–446 °F) and a bed of 35–65 °C (95–149 °F). The storage threads do not name this spool. The drying figure is the catalog.",
      "brand": "ELEGOO",
      "product": "PLA Basic",
      "material": "PLA",
      "url": "/brand/elegoo/pla-basic",
      "nozzle": "190–230 °C (374–446 °F)",
      "bed": "35–65 °C (95–149 °F)",
      "pricePerKg": null,
      "datasheetUrl": null,
      "affiliateUrl": null
    },
    {
      "rank": 2,
      "note": "Prusament PETG lists a nozzle of 240–260 °C (464–500 °F) and a bed of 70–90 °C (158–194 °F) on its technical data sheet. Drying is not stored on the row. r/BambuLab 1ug1uxp is the thread that names opened PLA and PETG together.",
      "brand": "Prusament",
      "product": "PETG",
      "material": "PETG",
      "url": "/brand/prusament/petg",
      "nozzle": "240–260 °C (464–500 °F)",
      "bed": "70–90 °C (158–194 °F)",
      "pricePerKg": null,
      "datasheetUrl": "https://www.prusa3d.com/file/3464616/prusament-petg-technical-data-sheet.pdf",
      "affiliateUrl": null
    },
    {
      "rank": 3,
      "note": "Prusament TPU 95A lists a nozzle of 220–240 °C (428–464 °F) and a bed of 55–75 °C (131–167 °F). Drying is not stored on the row. The dry-box thread is about dryers in general, not this TPU.",
      "brand": "Prusament",
      "product": "TPU 95A",
      "material": "TPU",
      "url": "/brand/prusament/tpu-95a",
      "nozzle": "220–240 °C (428–464 °F)",
      "bed": "55–75 °C (131–167 °F)",
      "pricePerKg": null,
      "datasheetUrl": null,
      "affiliateUrl": null
    }
  ]
}