HATCHBOXMatte PLA 3D Printer Filament, Dimensional Accuracy +/- 0.03 mm, 1 kg Spool, 1.75 mm, Gray

The appearance and printability of the Hatchbox matte black is amazing. Using a .3mm brass nozzle on an Artemis, small parts come out super clean. At first I did not realize they recommend 210c or hotter, so I printed at 200c and it did not work so well. At 210c, the results looked fantastic, but putting some shear force on it cause it to delaminate, so I upped it to 220 and it was much stronger. I have not yet printed enough to know if there will be abrasion wear on the nozzle. Bridging is as good as one could hope for at .35mm extrusion width and .2mm layers. I have been using Hatchbox white for years, so I expected high quality and was not disappointed. Update 7/4/2023: As nice as it looks, the interlayer adhesion is not that great, even when printed at 230c. It reminds me of how most silk filaments are weak interlayer. If you print something that is thick with dense infill, it can be fairly strong, but anything that is hollow with thin walls will break easily.

Like many other people have mentioned, this PLA does not print like most other kinds of PLA. It's stiffer and requires a higher temperature, a larger extrusion multiplier, and less retraction. If you try to use a normal PLA profile it will not turn out well. With the right settings it prints great, and looks fantastic. It's way more matte than any other white filament I've used.

I wish I printed more stuff so I could use more/different filaments from hatchbox, but this is my second spool from Hatchbox and it prints the best out of the 8 brands i've tried

Hatchbox filaments in my experience have been one of the most simple versions of "you get what you pay for". Are you paying a more premium price vs some of the competitors, sure, but I personally have not had one issue in the 10+ spools I have ordered from them in the last year. Some other brands I tried to save a buck with were spooled poorly, less quality, or straight didn't play nice with my printer.Anytime I need a new spool, hatchbox is the first brand I am going to look at every time because I have had nothing but consistent and good results.

Long story short: To me it seems this matte filament is great quality for printing high detail display pieces, not for strong/structurally sound prints due to brittleness. The color and texture is great!The matte hides layer lines really well especially if you're printing at small layer heights. The terracotta color from Hatchbox is so beautiful and as described. However, matte filament is VERY brittle (not just Hatchbox brand but other matte filaments seem to have this caveat) so not good for structural/force-bearing prints, just objects that are meant to be looked at and not handled much. Also, adhesion with this stuff is CRAZY good to the point where its actually a problem (again an issue with matte filaments, it sticks like gum to my printbed and is hard to remove the finished print).

Never had any issues with hatchbox with this roll and matte PLA looks great in my opinion. Never had any quality issues. Avoid transparent PLA for now. Humidity control issue for 3 rolls I got.(Same price directly from hatchbox (at time of review) so if you don’t need it next day I would order from them. That’s when i do my bulk orders.)

My wife won’t let me buy any other filament for her prints. She paints them using tabletop miniature paints and loves the texture and how it holds on to the paint. I think it looks great straight off the printer. I use a PEI covering a magnetic steel plate, but if I let the print sit till everything is room temp I don’t need anything but to tap it and it comes right off. Don’t have a problem getting it to adhere either, just print with normal PLA settings.But, this filament absolutely hungers for brass nozzles. I got a new Ender3 with the Sprite extruder. I printed about 1/4 a roll of ABS before this, so relatively new nozzle going in. Printed 2 relatively large busts, taking up 65-80% roll each, in a row. We set up Cura on her computer and decided to try a smaller print to test her settings. Could not get the first layer to adhere for anything. Finally, I extruded about 2cm and used calipers to measure the width. .57mm on what was supposed to be a .4mm nozzle. That’s almost 50% gain. Printing with that size of nozzle when you sliced for .4 won’t extrude enough filament to adhere, and I’d be surprised if it didn’t cause delamination or other under-extrusion problems. Replacing the nozzle with a fresh .4 one, and verifying that what’s coming out is actually .4mm fixed all my problems.If you don’t have a hardened nozzle, have some extras on hand when printing this filament, it WILL eat them, and fast. But if you can get a hardened nozzle, do it. You’ll save yourself some headaches.

I have used Hatchbox PLA, specifically this gray since 2018 in my Ender 3. Once I had my settings dialed in I have always loved the results. I bought 2 rolls in October/November to finish a large project. Opening the first box I could feel the material was different/softer. I had multiple prints fail die to under extrusion. I troubleshoot every possibility. Occasionally a small print would be fine, but my extruder would be covered in shavings. I finally gave up & sent the rest of the project to a friend to print.Months later I decided to just do top to bottom maintenance and try again. I got one small print to not be terrible but each after under extrusion. I grabbed the last bit of Hatchbox PLA I had from a previous roll, barely anything left. The print came out perfectly. The issue is the Hatchbox PLA I bought at the end of 2022 is too soft & gets chewed up by the extruder making it difficult to extrude the pla constantly.I’m going to have to switch brands because I can’t even return these two rolls as I had to open the second one to check if it had the same problem.

Good filament

Filamento de gran calidad y fiabilidad.El aspecto mate es espectacular.

This was the first time I had bought this brand of PLA and I was not dissapointed.The PLA performed consistently well under many hours of repetitive printing on the Ender 3 producing good results.

This product is an excellent option for those who are tired of shiny finishes. The quality is exceptional, and I have not encountered any issues with printing at 205 degrees Celsius.

Unable to print with this PLA. Normally I have no problem with "glossy" PLA. With this PLA, the nozzle gets stuck after a few layers of printing.