What to do!

So gluestick is disgusting and leaves a gloppy mess on the bed that has to be painstakingly cleaned up periodically and leaves the bottom of prints gross. Hairspray makes beautiful prints, but makes my whole printer look absolutely disgusting due to overspray. Anyone have a solution to this? I currently use PEI, and I don't need to use any sort of adhesive for PLA, but I don't only print in PLA.

I just use gluestick personally.
I dont have a mess of it and it cleans up real fast under some warm water.

I also use glue stick and it's easy to clean. You might be applying too much glue?

For ABS you can use "ABS juice" , for nylon I use sanded bakelite without any kind of glue.

If you get it to stick it to the bed, simple white paper is good for most materials but then again you will have to glue it and is a pain to remove from prints.

If you ever find the best solution let me know.......

Have you ever thought about why you have to use glue to get prints to stick?

Are you looking for another magic formula or a real solution to the problem?

Are you willing to spend the money and apply the effort to actually fix the problem?

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Ultra MegaMax Dominator 3D printer: [drmrehorst.blogspot.com]

Agreed. Keep the printer ridged and aligned well and go from there.
Even as "tight" as my printer is I can lean on my glass desk and see about a .001"-.003" deflection on my print bed with a indicator on the X carriage.

Id end up spending more on mods than my printer is worth so for me glue works good and I never have a print let go.