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W**Y
Not the easiest filament to get dialed in, but once you find the settings...
It took me about 30 minutes to get everything dialed in on my SOVOL SV01 (direct drive). This filament seems happier when it is cooled faster. I was able to get it to print as intended with a 50C bed temp + aquanet hairspray, turning the bed off after the first few layers and a nozzle temp of 215C. When I tried printing at 220C-225C, it was causing the nozzle's ironing effect to drag uncooled filament on the print, making what looked like waves. On the other side, 205C-210C looked like it was underextruding a little.Because of how this filament seems to like to dry, you will get curling if it is drying too slowly. You can correct this by increasing your line WIDTH by 50% (i.e. a 0.35 line width on a 0.4mm nozzle would be a new line width of 0.525mm with this filament). I also suspect that I may be able to get this to print at a 40C bed temp or even with the bed turned off as long as I'm using the aquanet hairspray on my textured glass bed. The print was welded to the bed at the settings below.TL;DR====Bed = 50C, turn off after first few layers (slicer can do this automatically)Nozzle = 215C (watch and adjust on the fly at the beginning of the print)Fan = 100%Line Width = 50% wider (1.5x your normal line width)
W**L
Extremely unreliable printing material
I honestly have no idea what everyone else is talking about. I have now made 20 attempts with various setting combinations to get this stuff to reliably adhere to the bed and it has failed, in one way or another, every single time.I do a lot of 3d printing, but I'm not a deep hobbyist. I'm not printing because it's fun (though it is sometimes), I'm printing because I need something to come off the bed. I get absolutely no pleasure out of tooling around to find the right temperatures and settings. I want to hit print, and come back in 4 hours and take the finished model off the bed. As such, I look for the lowest maintenance and highest reliability filament I can. I use an Ender 3 with a tempered glass bed that has an adhesion surface on it. I don't use glue sticks or additives or anything like that, because I'm not supposed to have to, and maybe that makes the difference here. But as far as I'm concerned, if the filament can't stick to the surface designed specifically for filament to stick to (and which every other filament has stuck to pretty much flawlessly), then it's just not good filament. So far this is the first filament I've used in which no combination of settings or temperatures seems to help anything at all. Even turning off the heated bed after the first layer, as some have suggested, doesn't appear to do anything of value. It's curling up at the edges by the 3rd layer always, and if it even gets that far, it's completely come loose or dislodged by the 6th layer.I hate this stuff. Of the dozens of varieties I've tried, this is hands down the worst filament I've used. If you print for utility, and not for the fun of tinkering around, then don't buy this garbage. It's not worth the money or the time.All that been said, I added a star because the spool has a gauge for how much is left on the roll and that is a clever idea. Not that it will matter, there's no way I'm even going to be able to print an entire spool of this stuff. It's literally worthless.
K**S
Surprisingly Great PLA
Don't be fooled by that fact that this is essentially a brand new company with no track record, and has arguably the cheapest quality Filament on Amazon. I cautiously bought this filament and having just completed a 36 hour print on my Ender 3, I was pleasantly surprised by the end result.Despite the fact that this $14 filament this PLA is made just as well if not better then PLA by Amazon, Tianse, or Hatchbox. There was no stringing, clogging or tangling on the spool, and no discoloration, or noticeable diameter defects--which we all know will lead to a significant drop in print quality. The spool is also well constructed with a gauge sticker on both sides to give a rough estimate of what is left, and the built in loops are incredibly helpful for storage.Provided this quality continues, I suspect I have found a great new source for PLA, and will be buying a new spool soon!
B**M
New Go-To filament
This stuff is the bomb! I have a small machine shop and print farm and mostly us the 3d printer for making fixtures and jigs in addition to lots a prototyping. This is by far the best stuff I have laid hands on. I have been through at lest 20 other brands hunting for easy to print tough PLA. I also bought Matterhackers Tough PLA and the stuff beat it at 1/3 the price. No smell!Wish they had a wider assortment of colors at least the basics.Print temp 230bed 50 for 1st layer then 0cspeed 60 on Ender 3purple glue stick on a mirror
M**N
Replacement roll sent. Tested again 2+ months later.
The roll I purchased just would not print. Tried it on 3 printers, multiple settings, so many failed attempts. Seller sent me a replacement roll.Replacement roll tried out on the same 3 printers with so-so prints. I shelved the filament for a few months while updating my home built 3d printer. Today I got my pride and joy fired up for the first time since October. I still had the Duramic replacement roll above my printer ready to go so I figured why not. What better test for my custom built beast then filament that has been a pain in my ass.End result.....this stuff printed beautifully this time around. Not sure why, but I pumped out 3 prints to test it and all were superb. My stock tevo tornado hates this filament. My linear rail cartesian printer with e3d v6 hotend and bondtech extruder loves this filament. Maybe leaving it sitting in the warm dry printer room for a couple months helped the filament, I honestly don't know.Rating will be changed to reflect the prints I am getting now. I might have to try another roll to test it.
J**L
Great printing so far.
The media could not be loaded. This is by far my favourite PLA and my go-to for high-quality filament. This pla can be printed at around 210 at the nozzle and 60 bed temperatures for a perfect finish. I am knew to 3d printing so I have not learned of all the tuning yet, but out of all the filaments this has worked the best for me. I've done a little bit of tweaking and initially printed at a much higher temperature but I found that at around 210 degrees it prints the best. The filament has a great variety of nice colours and is not as finicky as other filament brands. While I have not tweets my printers it is already printing way better than all of the other brands that I've tried out of the box. I primarily print larger 1/6 scale figures, and the prince are always really good. I've gotten better and tweet some settings as you can see some of the prince that I've managed to pull off have greatly improved. Adhesion is good and the strength of the ple plus is considerably stronger than regular pla that I've printed. One nitpick is that daramic sometimes puts the sticker on the real where you can't see it while it is printing in about 50% of the rules that I purchased the sticker is placed on the wrong side. My advice to daramic is that the place the label sticker on both sides to avoid this issue as it can be a little bit irritating when it's placed on the opposite side and I am unable to determine how much grams of filament are left in the role since I'm printing large projects.
B**R
Great filament all around!!!
Duramic is a newer company to the filament game and quickly have won me over with pricing vs quality. I'm the type of geek who wants to have the best when possible but also wants to save money. I bought this stuff on a whim looking for a good PLA PLUS and was quickly surprised and won over. The look, strength and adhesion are all good compared to other top brands which I use them all. Also making toys for my son has shown the true strength.
R**L
Purchased this PLA for printing a RC Plane
My previous purchase of Red was from ERYONE Filament. Eryone Red is a glossy finish and on very flat surfaces with a "Wall line count" of 1 it really shows up a lot of unwanted details. However for printing miniatures, It is great for more complicated models.This DURAMIC Red is more of a Flat Red and looks amazing on flat surfaces and is very good hat handling Stringing as well with only a "Wall line count" of 1. As this is a used to print out a RC Plane Wing which has to be very lite and strong This filament does an excellent job!
K**N
best pla+ ever!
Easy to print you can see it with the first one it's an amazing quality. I have no difficulty to print it with my Ender 3 pro -225 nozzle -70 bed -hairspray for adherence. If u put hairspray It won't come out easily so I will need put it in freezer and wait 10-15 min it will pop out by it self. It didn't came out with moisture in and feels really like play+ cause it's way more stronger than regular one, I made a regular Ender 3 silencer fan at 25% infill and could have not break it with my hands. I will definitely buy more. Yes it's a bit expensive but good product aren't always cheap.
A**R
All I wanted
Prints well at 230°C on my Ender 3 (as recommended in the other reviews). Other printers are likely lower since the Ender 3 is 5° inaccurate. I keep the bed at 60°C for the whole print. I tried 50°C for the first layer (and unheated for the rest) but part corners peeled off the plate.The smell is slightly worse than PETG; It's far from bad but I'd prefer to not spend significant time in the same room. The stringing is similar to PETG, but I haven't tested it on lower temps.The tolerances seem as good as regular PLA, printing a 9.3mm cylinder had a diameter ranged between 9.30 and 9.39. No elephant's foot effect.Great layer adhesion, it resists cutting decently and doesn't snap at the layer lines. The plastic turns white if it gets elongated.
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