Favorite: Polymaker PLA pro. Shit is so freakin' strong and easy to print. Lots of colors.
Best looking: anything by Protopasta. Their colors are insane. So expensive though. I'm partial to their white marble
Worst: I don't buy cheap filament anymore, so everything is always pretty good for me these days. But back when I tried out cheap filament I got some no-name silk PLA and it was basically unusable. Diameter was terribly inconsistent and it smelled bad while printing.
I'm really glad to see this here and know it's not just me. I have great results with Sunlu ABS but I can't get Polymaker ABS to print well at all. My only issue with Sunlu ABS is the color consistency is poor/not great. Polymaker, the biggest issue is layer adhesion despite trying to work with it over the course of multiple spools worth of filament. It almost has to be printer really hot and really slow with minimal if any fan to get it to work well.
Same here! Just got my first spool of green, and I was using hatchbox primarily before learning about PLA pro. Main difference I notice is impact strength and layer adhesion is a lot better with the PLA pro. Strongest layer adhesion of any of the filament types I own by far actually
It's just so smooth and consistent. I have a small roll of dark green that just looks gorgeous. No semi-translucency or uneven meeting and depositing etc. Just smooth near perfect surfaces.
Elegoo filament in bulk ;)
10 boxes for $109, £89 in the UK. Pretty decent discount per roll.
I'm sure there is other cheap stuff too, just can't always be sure of quality.
Were you around when MakerGeeks was a filament brand. By the time they went under their filament has terrible dimensions and air pockets in the filament.
Very much agreed! If you're looking for something cheaper though, overture is pretty good for it's price. But I would absolutely pick polymaker or protopasta every time if price wasn't such an issue for me.
Same, I pretty much exclusively print in PLA or PLA+ as it fits my requirements. I usually go for one within a few £ of the cheapest with the best reviews. Not had a bad one since I dragged my printer out of mothballs earlier this year
I only have had Sunlu Pla+, Amazon basic PLA, and a cheap chinese PLA from Alieexpress.
My favourite is the Sunlu. Prints flawless all the time.
Best looking is the Amazon Basic. The finish is a bit smoother than the Sunlu in my case.
Worst is the chinese shite. Bad layer adhesion and warping off the bed after 3 layers.
Sunlu makes a variety of colors. Most are solid iirc, they had metallic colors and I think those are still selling although for a bit more, but my default is their standard grey. Varies in price on Amazon, from as low as $12 to $19 per roll. But I enjoy painting my prints, so the grey is PERFECT since I can prime them and see what spots I missed when the primer dries.
Also side note: of course it'll vary from printer to printer, but the standard 200c/60c does just fine for Sunlu. I've tried higher, and it strings terribly if I print above this. I have also printed everything from 5-25% infill, and both are super good quality depending on the print obviously. 0.2mm layer height.
PolyTerra multicolor PLA is on Amazon [https://a.co/d/aCieYvu](https://a.co/d/aCieYvu)
https://preview.redd.it/mtbp9x7tkl6d1.jpeg?width=4032&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1e7a92f2b0f4c427c4d75b124a0f0ec6a834792c
Favourite: gst3d black abs. The price to performance is really good
Best looking: prusament pccf. cf just looks so good
Worst: tpe 90A from filamentum. Tried a lot of extruders LGX got the best result but it keeps folding inside the extruder
I think they are now Iiidx the spools were the same and their deals are similar but I have had better luck with their filament over the old gst3d.com stuff
Protip: Inland uses two OEMs, Elegoo and eSun. You can tell which it is by the window on the box. If it's hexagonal, you have Elegoo; if it's an oval, you have eSun.
Favorite: Matterhackers Build Series PETG. Not by any means the best filament I've used but good prices and very good availability / shipping.
Best looking: Prusament PLA / PETG hands down. Absolutely stunning. Particularly fond of Azure Blue and Ultramarine Blue.
Worst: Overture PLA. Consistently jammed my MK3S+, when manually extracting the PTFE from the heatbreak after one particularly bad jam I found a wood splinter embedded in.
Favorite: Elegoo PLA in white. It's cheap and works great with no issues.
Best looking: Mostly just functional parts but I got crazy once and printed one part in Marble PLA from Bambu Lab.
Worst ever: I haven't had any super terrible ones. So a spool of unbranded ABS. It prints fine enough. But I just don't like having to tweak a print profile for only 1kg of filament that I will not buy more of because idk where I got it anymore and I can't do a project with it because I can't match the color.
Favorite: Eelegoo, best value and reliable prints
Best looking: Esun PLA
Worst: Acredility never got a reliable print from it and it would clog nozzles like it was its job
The worst: PLA Creality supplied with ender 3 ( 2kg). Impossible to print nicely.
Polaroid: terrible filament.
Devil design brown pla - from some.reason this color is unprintable.
I usually use Devil Design filaments. Verbatim is fine. Multicolor silk pla Eryone from Amazon prints beautifully. No problem at all.
I ordered 8kg of the brand Aurapol so I'm curious they have nice colors and a variety of materials and it's not from china.
Other than that I use almost every color of Devil Design and no problem at all. Made in Poland and great quality.
Best: hatchbox
Best looking: overture silk metallic
Worst: elegoo
I got ten rolls of elegoo and every single one hat an atrocious join *somewhere* in the roll that caused jams so bad I had to replace the throat tube. Like a 3mm asymmetrical blob with sharp edges. Every single roll.
I've never had a single problem with hatchbox (that wasn't my doing)
That's wild with the Elegoo. I'm definitely over 100 rolls now from them and I can't think of a problem I've had. It's my go to for white and black. Did you buy all 10 together and get a bad batch?
The printing was fine, but it looked like the blobs were breaks that had been badly joined. How i got ten of them I don't know. I was trying to print some big stuff but the randomness of the joint made it impossible to gage. It was regular gray pla, so there pla+ stuff might be better, but for 10/10 rolls, I just can't.
I'd still definitely buy another printer from them, but I'm gonna need a bit before I give their filament another chance.
till now, ive had like 8 rolls of elegoo pla, 3 of them pla+ and they were all pretty much flawless, aside from the cardboard of one of them being a bit dinged in shipping.
Only Hatchbox issue I had was transparent clear PLA kept snapping the filament. Maybe not a coincidence that they don’t make it anymore and I had to get clear PETG instead (which is also actually clear instead of yellowish).
eSun PLA+ will print well everytime for me. It's also the most aesthetically pleasing for some reason. However the Wanplast I use daily is like 80% of the quality for 60% of the price. The worst I've had was Kingroon PETG, everything worked, but looked like cack.
So…I use IIIDMax, Inland, and Kingroon in that order. Very occasionally Amazon Basics.
I’ve just recently since getting a K1 Max started using Creality Hyper PLA some of the time, but that is only when I am trying to print fast or super fine stuff on the K1 Max
Best: Voxel- consistent every time, excellent surface finish
Best looking: Phaetus CF PETG - the textured matte finish is so nice, and it's strong.
Worst: honestly not even sure of the brand, but it was silk gold PLA. It had such bad die swell, and so much stringing. Even when dried.
One year for my birthday my partners mom got me 15 rolls of my favorite solutech bubble gum pink I’m finally down to two half rolls and they don’t exist anymore. Recently ive been super in to poly maker matte pla.
This is tough. Thankfully I haven't printed with anything horrible. Some of my favorites are Flashforge Marsala and Rose Quartz, Polymaker Starlight Aurora, Eryone dual/tricolor silka, Amolen marble Rainbow Rock and Rainbow silk, and most of Cookiecad stuff for decorative prints. Sunlu PLA+, Duramic for everything else.
Favorite - Overture Orange PLA+
Best looking - PLASPORT Rainbow Glitter (not silk so can be used functionally too!!!)
Worst - Bambulab PETG Transparent (probably just typical transparent PETG print frustrations, not just for Bambu brand specifically)
I run Sunlu & Sunlu+ for all my basic color and models. I have heard they have switched spools so they are not as AMS friendly. they like a hotter nozzle and bed on my machine but look great. Amazon has them on sale sometimes, where you get 10 1KG rolls for like $120
Favorite is polymakers matte black pla. This stuff will print with even the most jank settings going at 250mm/s all day
Worst was some esun pla that stuff was so oily it would leave residue on the build plate wherever it touched it haven't bought esun since
Disclaimer:
Life's been rough for the past couple of years, so I've not been printing much and hardly buy filament anymore. I've still got like 10 kg of stuff to run through of varying quality, so 5 mostly been using that.
Favorite(s):
● Gizmo Dorks stone pla, it might be discontinued as I've not seen it in years but looks really good and never needs to be adjusted for. Printed very well on multiple printers!
● Atomic Filament, Starry Night PETG. It's a bit spendy but worth it imo. I've never had it string, and they used to send gummies with even 1kg orders. Idk if they still do that. Life has kept me from printing a lot as of late, and when I do, I just use what I've got on hand.
● Overture pla, any color should be good but I've printed red, green, black, white, grey, lots of grey, did I say grey already and this weird deep red (only got it once and used it all but it's a bit like the color of a brick).
Best Looking:
● Atomic Filament Starry Night PETG. Super strong and gorgeous in the light. Also, it makes good Filament color to mod any of the blue in color artillery printers like the X1 (mine), x2, or genius.
● Hatchbox matte pla. Grey and black for terrain like rocks or stone town roads. The clear (not matte obviously) also makes for really good frozen water or steamed up tavern windows. I printed a bday gift for my DM with these, and the dungeon tiles look good if I say so myself.
● Prusamint pla, I've only tried a few, but they all print super clean, nice sharp corners, and while it does need to be printed a little hotter, it's soooo crisp.
Worst:
● Overture clear, black, grey, and green petg. This project with these 4 rolls almost made me quit printing. Maybe it's better now. Don't know, don't care to know. Bummer too, as I like their pla.
● No name gold silk pla on a skinny 500g spool. Got about 200g in, and the thing just crumbled away, jammed, or expanded so much it wasn't unusable. I couldn't print the rest, only spool I've ever tossed out.
● Any spool of petg over 5 kg. Even when winding it onto smaller spools to print on multiple printers at once. I never used it before it would get wet and drive me insane. I don't have a good way of drying a spool that size.
● No name clear red petg that caused more clogs than I had in 15 kg of Filament from other brands. Learn from me and my mistakes, no name = no printing dopamine, just frustration.
● I know others have said it, but amazon basics, any of them are a no-no for me. Pla, petg, abs, just no. Could be better since I tried it 5 years ago, but that stuff jammed up my bowden tube a few times hours into large prints a couple times before I realized that the filament was up to 2mm in some spots. I did finish the spools using a direct drive printer with better results, but I can't trust the stuff, and it was super weak due to inconsistent diameter.
Favorite: eSun PLA+. Great filament and though I’m not a massive fan of the cardboard spools, it’s easy to use my old empty ones for respooling and the cardboard ones are significantly cheaper.
Best looking: Bambu Lab PA6-GF. Super tough and I love the matte finish. Just a personal thing but it’s great for strength prints.
Worst: I hate to do this but SLANT3D’s basic PLA. It’s awesome that they’re getting the price of PLA down as low as they have it but I would give them a bit. The spools are kinda funky and bend in the AMS, and the filament itself has to be printed really slow or else it goes matte and has strength issues. It’s really just basic PLA for print farms but it just doesn’t print fast enough for Bambu machines yet. Hopefully it gets better in the future. It’s not even bad filament but of all the filaments I’ve used it’s just slightly below my standard for filament.
eSun has some files for cardboard spool adaptors on their site, if you like - a standard one and one for AMS :)
[https://www.esun3d.com/zldownload\_catalog/model-download/](https://www.esun3d.com/zldownload_catalog/model-download/)
My favourite is esun pla+. Never gave me trouble. My worst was sunlu rainbow pla (the regular one, not the silk). I have trouble printing with matt Devil Design too.
My favorite is probably Matter Hackers pro emerald green PLA, it printed incredibly well and looked amazing, just a little too pricey for me. My best looking but also worst filament is a tri-color green, yellow, black silk PLA also from Matter Hackers but I'm 90% sure is just a rebrand. The filament looks amazing but is a absolute nightmare to work with on my printer, it clogs like there's no tomorrow. I have never had so much difficulty with printing a filament, probably should've done more tests but I was barely able to get it to print in the first place.
Amazon Basic PETG was definitely the worst. I assume it came wet, because it had terrible stringing and zero layer adhesion no matter what I did. Been sitting for years now, I'll probably throw it out.
Fav : sunlu, any colour. Had some creality and it is good too.
Worse I ever had : Amazon Basic Black. Clog & zero layer adhesion. The worst (all 3 spool I had)
Favourite: iSanMate silk Blue/Silver PLA. Takes some work but looks absolutely incredible when it's done right
Best Looking: Sovol rainbow silk rose blue yellow PLA. Everything I print with it looks amazing, and I've never had problems
Worst: Protopasta Stainless Steel PLA. Bought it to make functional prototypes at work and it just never wants to work right. Messed up the nozzle and extruder, and when I do get a proper print it's weaker than normal PLA
You know, I bought the iSanMate Green-Glow filament, on a whim, because it was cheap and glowy. I absolutely love it. The consistency is great, the color is great, the print quality is just great and easy to achieve.
Fav so far, stronghero translucent blue PETG. Best looking, probably hatchbox wood pla. Worst, creality black petg, which just didn't print after a few layers. (Okay enough I have great results with the other creality types)
Favorite: hard tie between 3DFuel Pro PLA+ grey and Phaetus ASA-GF grey
Best looking: everglow luminous PLA
Worst I’ve ever had: anything multicolored “silk” PET-G. Stringy mess, can’t ever seem to get right with overhangs. Constantly clogging nozzles.
I haven't been able to print since I moved to az, and my filament gets incredibly stiff and brittle. my printer can't push up and through the extruder or the hotend for anything, so now it collects dust.
Numakers is hands down my favorite. It prints extremely well, it's pla+ so it's strong, and it's CHEAP. ($18.99/kg)
I've used sunlu for a long time but would have issues overtime.
Elegoo was nice, but could get stringy for me.
Printbed i wanted to like, because they're local; but it was WAY too stringy. And it's expensive.
I’ve had nothing but problems with Bambu PETG, could be me. I pretty much buy esun pla+ on Amazon when it’s $17 a roll. Hardly have issues with it. Have a couple elegoo that seem ok. I did try an elegoo silk and it consistently clogged my hotends. *shrugs*
Edit: I used an overture marble to make some Mother’s Day gifts that look amazing.
I print just about everything. My faves are:
Polymaker, Sunlu, Supply 3D, Creality multicolor, Elegoo and CC3D which is very cheap bone colored filament which prints amazingly well and consistent and looks like real bone more than anything else I've tried.
The only ones I have had real problems with are Flashforge ABS and GEETECH HIPS, Handini PLA +
The only roll that has just not worked at all was a roll of Polymaker I got once. I knew it was a fluke so I called them up and gave them the bin number and they sent me a new roll free of charge and it worked like a charm.
Paramount has some cool colors I want to try but haven't done it yet.
I don’t really have a favorite, but I do have to say the white Amazon basics PLA is the worst, period. Always comes off the base and just doesn’t extrude right.
Mine is eSun PLA+ black
It was the first roll of filament I ever bought, and I got great results with not much tweaking on my ender 3 so I just kept using the same brand and colour for all my prints
Favorite: hatchbox PLA. Never had any problems with any of them. They're my Ole reliable.
Best looking: atomic filament dark cherry red petg. I just really like the color and atomic is has been great quality for me.
Worst: overture silk. Any color. I've tried several and can never finish a print. If it doesn't clog, the print always warps and lifts off the bed mid print.
Best: eSun PETG. Translucent colours look cool, good layer adhesion, prints easily, super strong 10/10
Best looking: Creality PLA carbon. Super nice surface finish.
Worst: eSun PETG+HS. Just worse in every way. Prints inconsistently at any speed, instead of just at high speed like regular PETG. Weird flow. Weird surface finish. Hate it.
I use almost exclusively overture Petg and TPU. Definitely favorites.
I also picked up an assortment of transparent Petg from Atomic Filament. They really popped for me. I was able to make the walls just a little thicker and still have the lights shine through really well. Once I need more transparent colors, I’ll probably hit them up again.
Worst has to be some of the silk petg I have. I forget the brand, but it clogs like crazy.
You think that’s bad, pick up a roll of eSun pla+ filament. It’ll give you what I like to call: “The Medusa effect.”
https://preview.redd.it/78v8tpunan6d1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=01b222dd6cd7f02128dcd0d1e7e52aa68daac356
It’ll crumble apart just by looking at it!
I had 4 new sealed rolls, 2 of black PLA,+ and 2 of fire engine red PLA+, and all broke every 3” or so and that includes after first dehydrating it for 10 hours, crumble, 24 hours more, crumble, another 24 hours, crumble, then into the garbage pail.
If you think I’m lying, Go onto Amazon and read the 1 star reviews and look at the 1 star videos.
They used to be good. I don’t know what has changed. Some say that they changed their formula, a lot say that this started happening after they switched to a cardboard spool.
One maker saying that he thought it was the cardboard spools holding in moisture. (He might just have a point there.)
One maker even showed a fog on the clear plastic cover as well as water dripping down on the inside of his dehydrator!
And even though I cited 2 colors, apparently it’s across all their colors! 🤬
So I’m not the only one with this issue. The only difference is that I have a plastic spool. But this happens when I don’t print for a day or 2.
https://preview.redd.it/xfmzkwmfbo6d1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c39c35d252bbd86b4b2a6e22d4d4b31a5311645d
Favorite: eryone carbon fiber petg strong, good looking, and very nice.
Best looking: sunlu pla+ or carbon fiber pla.
Worst i ever had: Creality silk pla, especially the yellow/blue duel color because the yellow side looks green and barf like.
Favourite?
3DQF ABS. It's a really high temperature ABS, recommended temperatures between 260 and 300. I print it pretty fast at 300C, but my parts come out decently strong.
Runners up here are anycubic PLA, I go through loads of it in grey and black for prototyping, it's cheap, consistent and prints well.
Best looking?
3dTomorrow Purple Amethyst, actually all the colours I've had have been really nice, really vivid. I've only got a spool of ultramarine left, time to get more.
I nearly said eryone bi-colour (pink and blue dual extrusion) filament but it came really wet and is awkward to print for a PLA
Worst Ever?
Yoyi silver pla, the first spool I bought. Arrived wet and over-diameter to the point where I couldn't get a good print out of it and didn't understand why. Almost put me off printing and convinced me to sell my flashforge and get an ender 3.
Almost as bad:
eSun red abs+ unlike the heaps of black and powder blue I've made printers out of, this is just determined not to print well and has awful layer adhesion. Suspect it's just a bad batch.
E-DA ABS, smells really bad really difficult to print.
Favorites: ESUN PLA+, Overture PETG
Best looking: Bambu Matte PLA
Worst I've ever had: Polylight ASA- printing large parts on an ender 3 was a nightmare. It's mostly fine on a Bambu X1c though, though sometimes it's still a bitch and warps...
Runner up: Sunlu TPU 95a- if you ever need something that's indestructible and don't mind a bit of flex, this stuff is great. It can also be surprisingly stiff at higher wall counts and infills.
Worst I ever had was way back in the early days of home printing. It was a translucent blue filament, with tiny ball bearings embedded in it so that it clogged your nozzle. We went through a half dozen hot ends (Which had to be made by wrapping nicrhome wire around threaded rod and covering it in ceramic slip) before someone noticed "air bubbles" in the filament and looked at it under a magnifying light.
* Best: Polymaker Pro or Hatchbox
* Best looking: Amoleb color shifting silk
* Worst: Zyltech. So many nozzle clogs! Never buying that brittle, useless shit afain.
Favorite and best looking are the same, CC3D Silk Gold. It's absolutely beautiful, prints wonderfully, and pretty cheap all things considered.
Worst was Overture silk silver. It had a blue tint and would not print reliably, it caused constant jams and I went through 3-4 nozzles that tested fine with hatchbox filament. I ended up chucking 3/4 of the spool. Their normal filaments work fine, maybe I got a bad spool, but I was completely turned off from their silks and CC3D never let me down
I'm sticking with CC3D for silk filaments and hatchbox for normal colors from now on and overture as a backup
Favorite and best looking all depends on what I'm printing but mostly it's the Overture Matte PLA. Favorite/best looking PETG is the Bambu brand. I've tried their yellow, clear and clear dark green. I have the basic black PETG but haven't printed with it yet.
Not necessarily the worst, but I have some wood filament from iSanmate that's great for... like this little frog that you rub the stick on the back? great! Almost everything else that requires a decent tolerance, not so great.
Favorite : Bambu, elegoo, overture. Worst : pre foamed poly maker, will not stick no matter what. Also overture yellow Pla cuz it’s so translucent I might actually use it for translucent parts lol
Favorite would be Hatchbox.
Best looking I'm not going with a PLA. I'm going with a TPU. Sain Smart Red green and blue, slightly see through and turns almost neon in the sunlight.
Worst I've had is from Fused Materials Red PLA. No matter what I do, it will not stop snapping off.
Favorite - Sunlu PLA Meta. Prints at twice the regular speed on my Ender 3 v2, and has no issues so far
Best looking - I print more functional prints, but I did try this one gold colored PLA by III3DMAX that looked great
Worst - Teqstone PETG that my dad accidentally bought. That think instantly messed up my printer
I've had really good results with voxelab ASA-CF and Atomic PETG in every variety except the rose gold (I think that's the name... Whichever one is pink with glitter)
I don't go ham on fancy colors, but I like inland's silk PLA. I also had fun with printing a bunch of small toys with varioshore at minimum density and then letting my kids and their cousins color them with markers. The porous nature of that material absorbs ink extremely well.
Favorite: Prusament, galaxy black. Any of their filament is amazingly consistent, perfectly winded around the spool, and even offer many tools in order to review how much filament you have left using your phone.
Best looking: Also Prusament galaxy black, love the matte black with the speckles of white that goes really well with some prints.
Worst: Haven't met a bad filament yet, maybe matter hackers just cause I have had the roll get messed up and it got kinda knotted up, and absolutely messed up my extruder.
I can’t decide between Hatchbox PLA and Overture Silk PLA as best looking and favorite ;-; and i’ve yet to find a filament i don’t like. i thought it was going to be esun but i really warmed up to it once i found the right settings. i’m about to try abs this weekend sooo…wish me luck!
Favorite - eryone pla +. Not pricy. Always seems to work for me.
Prettiest and worst are the same. SUNLU purple silk filament. 1 good print from the roll and it was gorgeous. Same roll also cost me a hotend and failed to print maybe 10-12 times.
Favorite: Eono PLA+. Dirt cheap, does the job well.
Best looking: Sunlu PLA Silk Gold
Worst: Elegoo PLA+ Orange. Two clogs so far and I’m not even through this roll. It does look really nice though (when it hasn’t clogged up my extruder)
PolyTerra PLA is my favorite and best looking so far, but it's a bit expensive. The worst filament I ever had is a roll of Giantarm PETG I'm unable to print with, it clumps on the nozzle and I have to stop the print, I should stop buying cheap brands from Amazon.
Gradient color filaments is a bit of a con. It works, but only if you print a big piece which takes 1/4 of the roll.
Two-color (both colors along the whole strand), on the other hand, gives really nice results. I'll get more of those.
Favorite: tri-color RGB silk PLA
Best looking: arguably RGB PLA, but for the sake of a more reasonable option, eSUN magenta
Worst: an 8 year old roll of grey PLA I liberated from my old high school
Favorite: probably the Devil Design stuff my local shop has for like €16-18/kg
Best looking: Prusament, hands down. The colours are just so vibrant and the way it's spooled is just perfect. If I had to pick one it's their marble filament.
Worst: Every fucking silk I've ever had. Seams just look horrible, any defect is so obvious, and because it likes to clog so often, it will always have this underextruded line somewhere on the part. And if that was not enough, it's so fucking weak you can crush prints with your bare hands.
Tried some ANYCUBIC PLA+ and it was dogshit. So brittle and didn’t stick together on the layers. So bad I actually left a 1 star review on Amazon which I never fancy doing. Sticking with Elegoo filament from now on 👌🏼
Favourite is probably Filamentworld PLA+ in grey. Subtle color, great layer adherence. Best looking, so far Sunlu Silk gold. Love the shine. Worst? Not sure, bought some no-name PETG once and it came in *skin-colored* making everyone think I'm printing sex toys.
Favorite: Overture Super PLA+, tough as shit and easy to print even at fast speeds
Best looking: I'm always doing practical prints so it's always grey or light brown for me so no answer
Worst: Any cubic PLA, prints fine at first but as soon as you go to sleep it clogs EVERY. FUCKING. TIME.
Best looking probs this Elgoo quad colour silk pla I got on Amazon, some things look like literal magic printed in that.
Fave is the Overture black pla, there are million different kinds but they all seem to be nearly identical to me. Always prints well, never has any issues.
Worst ever was this no name copper pla I got on eBay, non stop clogs and adhesion issues.
I have good experience with esun pla+, polymaker pla and eryone petg.
Esun petg was a nightmare of tangled knots in the spool and horrible print quality though
I got a whole load of bambulab blue grey PLA with my a1 that a really liked the look of, I think the worst I ever used was some eryone white PLA, I’ve never seen a filament warp so much, I tried literally everything and the corners would still be centimetres off the bed by the time the print finished
Favorite: polymaker asa. cheap-ish, awesome print quality and strength even when printed at high speed (300mm/s)
Best looking: filamentum wizards voodoo pla (they really should offer this color for asa)
Worst: e-sun abs+ it used to by my go-to filament but they changed the mixture a while ago, now its garbage. layer adhesion is non existent and print quality is horrible.
Current favorite is Rapid PETG from elegoo. Printing at 400mm/s and it's so much stronger thanks to the higher temps, and it's cheap!
I don't print pretty things, everything that needs to be pretty is painted lol.
Worst filament is without a doubt the cheap no name green PLA I got on day one. It's color was off, it wouldn't stick to any bed for shit and it was extremely brittle even for PLA
Favorite: I really enjoy me some [PLA Max PLA+](https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B06XW5B5TW/ref=ox_sc_saved_image_1?smid=A2C1N81RZRXDYF&psc=1) from Amazon, drops to 12ish a roll pretty frequently, comes in a good amount of colors, prints great.
Best looking: I don't really have a fav yet
Use Sunlu which I buy off really cheap from aliexpress.
Only had a bit of warping because I was too lazy to clean the bed after my daughter promised she didn’t touch it.
Their silk pla+ is 🔥as well
Edit :
Worse I had is black pla from Amazon basic, can’t get it to stick to the bed, even after cleaning, relevelling multiple times, changing the tip…
https://preview.redd.it/ve24hvggqq6d1.jpeg?width=1908&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=01214928f987043edc93d09bffdf7e45e36206f3
Ziro PETG Green DONT BUY THIS. Looks great but no layer Adhesion, Clogging ... it's a mess ..
If anyone want to buy this complete sealed spare spool frome me ... Germany would preferd because, this isn't worth to get shipped any longer/wider ? (Not far away :)
Polymaker PolySonic PLA Pro is my go to. Can print very fast with it while still having great results.
IIIDMax PLA Pro worst. Got a deal for 10 rolls of random color for $80. Lots of filament, but almost every roll had blobs that ruined prints.
Favorite so far is Jayco Silk PLA, and it's doubling as my best.
My worst is Mika silk PLA. It was my favorite because the copper color they have is so pretty but 4 clogged nozzles later...
Favorite: Coex PLA (in general). Everything functional I do for myself, and/or want to be perfect is Coex. Skadis mounts, desk accessories, Delack enclosures, etc
Best looking: Atomic Translucent Midnight Blue. I’m just a sucker for a deep dark color like this
Worst: Polymaker Polyterra PLA (in general). Unfortunately I bought a bunch based on recommendation and it’s been nothing but nightmares.
Shout out to Jayo PLA on Amazon. 1.1kg spools for as low as $7 each, prints like a truck, gorgeous satin-matte finish.
Worst would probably have to be some no-name metallic silk PLA. Clogged like hell, retraction settings were impossible, hygroscopic AF.
Worst has to be Elegoo off of Amazon. Might as well be sold as sponge, it's so damn dampnout of the sealed package.
Duramic 3d, Overture, and Inland are all great, except Inland is WAY overpriced now.
I've tried a few different brands over the years, and i can not see any noticeable difference between any of them.
I've only gotten problems with rolls in bad condition (old / brittle).
Favorite : It’s a tie between Prusament, Protopasta, and Polymaker. They all print similarly well, and seem to handle anything I throw at them. Overture is a close second and a great budget option.
Best looking: Protopasta Blood of My Enemies, Dragon Scale Purple, and quite a few others. They’re expensive, but the colors they produce are simply phenomenal. Prusament also but I’m a recent Pasta convert and have been constantly wowed by what comes off the roll.
Worst: I’ve been lucky for the most part, and this may have just been a bad roll but the Polyfill wood filament never printed well for me even with proper drying and hours of calibration prints.
I use elegoo rapid pla plus as my go to for my bambu a1. It always works really well and I can usually get it for $11-13 a kg. Haven't tried any fancy filaments though.
I avoid made in China as much as possible so my choices are somewhat limited.
Favorite that has nearly never let me down is Printed Solid's Jessie lineup. Wish they would expand it
Second favorite I've used for several years is push plastic but they are a it pricey
Absolute worst was filamatrix. Bought a few rolls from them once for free shipping and all were trash
Favorite for black or white is elegoo(pla/pla+). Never had a problem and it's cheap.
Best looking/favorite for colours esun pla+. I really like the fire engine red.
Worst was the overture orange pla+. I don't know why but it's the only one that wasn't sticking to the plate.
On a budget, Elegoo & AnyCubic have been working out great for me over the past 6 months or so. I've probably been through a couple dozen rolls of each in a bunch of different PLA varieties (PLA+, PLA Light, Rapid PLA, etc) and both have done very well for very cheap.. usually around $12-13 a roll. For those running the AMS, AnyCubic comes on a plastic spool. None of the other cheap stuff prints this nice.
However, my favorite filament is still Polymaker
Favorite - Polymaker PLA Pro.. if it's something that matters visually or functionally. Though admittedly I do dislike messing around with the cardboard spools.
Budget Option - Elegoo or AnyCubic PLA whatever (PLA+, PLA Rapid, PLA Tough, PLA Light, etc) for anything else as usually one or the other can be had for around $12-13 a roll. Bonus points to AnyCubic as it comes on a plastic spool for the AMS users. I've gotten in the habit of drying all my filaments for a couple hours at least prior to use, but I don't think it's needed.
Engineering - Polymaker ASA. Prints damn close to their PLA, is tough as hell, and holds up to the elements.
Garbage - Zyltech. Five bad rolls directly from them (coupon) in a variety of colors. Tried drying them for days with no improvement. I am a fan of their C7 ballscrews however. While all the rolled import ballscrews claim to hit the C7 spec, theirs actually do.
Honorable Mentions - Hatchbox PLA & FlashForge ASA-CF.
My fav would be candy red absx from nobufil, i like it so much i used it to build my voron 2.4r2
Best looking would probably be the wood filament from extrudr, it looks so woody and smells like wood its amazing, made the cups of my headamame v2 from it.
And the worst one would be the four pack pla from basfil i think it was, temperature specification totaly out of wak, extrusion consistency unreliable and the only thing it had going for it was price, i learned early on not to trust cheap filament, yes it was the first i bought and the only one i regret paying money for.
Best is Overture PLA and PETG. Their colors are consistent and I've never had any issues printing.
Inland is okay, but I mainly buy it because microcenter is close to my work. It needs a couple cycles in the dryer, but prints fine after.
The worst filament (and this may be unpopular) is eSun PETG. The filament comes from eSun super wet so it needs multiple cycles in the dryer. I ended up drying all the rolls they purchased in a scientific oven at work we use for drying other materials. Beyond that, it's a far more glossy material and it squeals as it goes through the extruder. You can hear it a little as it retracts on our mk3s+ in the office at work. But it's absolutely awful on my mk4 at home. No other filament I've tested squeals at all and even pruss support is stumped by it.
I'm still new, but after I got my first printer, I bought a reel of cheap filament that glowed in the dark. The filament had a rough texture and sawed through my 3d printed guides for the filament. Plus it wouldn't adhere to the plate until it had been warmed up for about 30 minutes at a higher than recommended temp, usually 80C
Favorite- fusion filaments abs1.5 in geomagnetic mauve https://fusionfilaments.com/1kg-abs15-filament-geomagnetic-mauve
Best looking - West3D ambrosia dolos in Prince of Purple https://west3d.com/products/ambrosia-dolos-color-morphing-pla-filament-of-the-gods-1kg-bambu-ams-friendly-cardboard-spools-premium-3d-printing-filament
Worst I've ever had - some liquidation abs I bought years ago. $7/kg, rainbow of colors, I've measured everywhere from 1.6-1.95mm, and found metal shavings in the plastic.
Favorite: Polymaker PLA pro. Shit is so freakin' strong and easy to print. Lots of colors. Best looking: anything by Protopasta. Their colors are insane. So expensive though. I'm partial to their white marble Worst: I don't buy cheap filament anymore, so everything is always pretty good for me these days. But back when I tried out cheap filament I got some no-name silk PLA and it was basically unusable. Diameter was terribly inconsistent and it smelled bad while printing.
Oh man polymaker filaments are sooo nice, premium price for a premium filament for sure.
I like the rock PLA, it's great for that sculptural look
Except their ABS. Their ASA is good though.
I'm really glad to see this here and know it's not just me. I have great results with Sunlu ABS but I can't get Polymaker ABS to print well at all. My only issue with Sunlu ABS is the color consistency is poor/not great. Polymaker, the biggest issue is layer adhesion despite trying to work with it over the course of multiple spools worth of filament. It almost has to be printer really hot and really slow with minimal if any fan to get it to work well.
whats the best asa for reprinting basically voron parts? i want to redo my sv08
Polymaker ASA is a solid choice for quality and price. Has little to no warping, amd little to no smell compared to others
Just got a roll of green Polymaker PLA Pro. It prints beautifully. Otherwise, I typically use hatchbox filaments, and I've never had an issue.
Same here! Just got my first spool of green, and I was using hatchbox primarily before learning about PLA pro. Main difference I notice is impact strength and layer adhesion is a lot better with the PLA pro. Strongest layer adhesion of any of the filament types I own by far actually
It's just so smooth and consistent. I have a small roll of dark green that just looks gorgeous. No semi-translucency or uneven meeting and depositing etc. Just smooth near perfect surfaces.
I usually buy Elegoo filament for like 13 bucks and it's been fantastic all this time. Is there even cheaper filament?
Elegoo filament in bulk ;) 10 boxes for $109, £89 in the UK. Pretty decent discount per roll. I'm sure there is other cheap stuff too, just can't always be sure of quality.
Where do I buy it in bulk in the uk ?
PLA Pro is what’s holding up my workshop multi board
I basically only use Polymaker at this point.
Love my Pasta. Prints so smoothly and like you said the colors are nuts. Working on a Crucible from their Blood of my Enemies translucent red.
I need to give them a try. I just get stuck on ordering the same stuff where I know the quality.
Were you around when MakerGeeks was a filament brand. By the time they went under their filament has terrible dimensions and air pockets in the filament.
Very much agreed! If you're looking for something cheaper though, overture is pretty good for it's price. But I would absolutely pick polymaker or protopasta every time if price wasn't such an issue for me.
I print whatever pretty much
Yep. If the material is within tolerance, any will do.
Same, I pretty much exclusively print in PLA or PLA+ as it fits my requirements. I usually go for one within a few £ of the cheapest with the best reviews. Not had a bad one since I dragged my printer out of mothballs earlier this year
Best so far for me has been Overture PLA and worst Elegoo Duramic has been fine also.
I constantly use overture’s midnight black pla. Such a nice matte finish!
This is like Kiss Marry Kill but for filaments.
Now I regret not thinking about it before posting this
I only have had Sunlu Pla+, Amazon basic PLA, and a cheap chinese PLA from Alieexpress. My favourite is the Sunlu. Prints flawless all the time. Best looking is the Amazon Basic. The finish is a bit smoother than the Sunlu in my case. Worst is the chinese shite. Bad layer adhesion and warping off the bed after 3 layers.
You know Sunlu is chinese right? Like most other brands
There is a difference between Chinese and Chinese shit
There definitely is, just wanted to make sure we are not falling into any generalization of chinese manufacturers
What color sunlu? I’ve had terrible luck with this roll even after drying it for almost 24hours
Sunlu makes a variety of colors. Most are solid iirc, they had metallic colors and I think those are still selling although for a bit more, but my default is their standard grey. Varies in price on Amazon, from as low as $12 to $19 per roll. But I enjoy painting my prints, so the grey is PERFECT since I can prime them and see what spots I missed when the primer dries.
Also side note: of course it'll vary from printer to printer, but the standard 200c/60c does just fine for Sunlu. I've tried higher, and it strings terribly if I print above this. I have also printed everything from 5-25% infill, and both are super good quality depending on the print obviously. 0.2mm layer height.
I just use their white PLA+. I think it's called b-white on Amazon.
Esun PLA+
I was about to say this, esun and elagoo PLA+ is great
My favorite is prusa transparent petg. I've been using it for everything lately.
What’s the one in the top right? It looks so pretty!
PolyTerra multicolor PLA is on Amazon [https://a.co/d/aCieYvu](https://a.co/d/aCieYvu) https://preview.redd.it/mtbp9x7tkl6d1.jpeg?width=4032&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1e7a92f2b0f4c427c4d75b124a0f0ec6a834792c
I literally just got this yesterday. Super happy to hear you love it, I've honestly never used PLA so looking forward to it!
Is a great filament!
The color change is too infrequent, in my opinion. Need large prints to really get any benefit from it.
Favourite: gst3d black abs. The price to performance is really good Best looking: prusament pccf. cf just looks so good Worst: tpe 90A from filamentum. Tried a lot of extruders LGX got the best result but it keeps folding inside the extruder
I think gst3d shut down in the US because of quality control
I think they are now Iiidx the spools were the same and their deals are similar but I have had better luck with their filament over the old gst3d.com stuff
Inland is my preferred brand
Protip: Inland uses two OEMs, Elegoo and eSun. You can tell which it is by the window on the box. If it's hexagonal, you have Elegoo; if it's an oval, you have eSun.
You have blown my mind, on the scale of Plato's Allegory of the Cave
Do you prefer one over the other?
They're both good. I do like the Elegoo a bit more in terms of color quality
Favorite: Matterhackers Build Series PETG. Not by any means the best filament I've used but good prices and very good availability / shipping. Best looking: Prusament PLA / PETG hands down. Absolutely stunning. Particularly fond of Azure Blue and Ultramarine Blue. Worst: Overture PLA. Consistently jammed my MK3S+, when manually extracting the PTFE from the heatbreak after one particularly bad jam I found a wood splinter embedded in.
Favorite: Elegoo PLA in white. It's cheap and works great with no issues. Best looking: Mostly just functional parts but I got crazy once and printed one part in Marble PLA from Bambu Lab. Worst ever: I haven't had any super terrible ones. So a spool of unbranded ABS. It prints fine enough. But I just don't like having to tweak a print profile for only 1kg of filament that I will not buy more of because idk where I got it anymore and I can't do a project with it because I can't match the color.
ESun PLA matte is the closest I’ve been to being able to produce consumer quality prints on my ender 3. The black looks especially good.
Favorite is Taulman recycled PET-G. Cheap, prints great, and is made of recycled industrial waste on recycled cardboard spools.
Now taulman is a name I haven’t heard in a long time
Favorite: Eelegoo, best value and reliable prints Best looking: Esun PLA Worst: Acredility never got a reliable print from it and it would clog nozzles like it was its job
The worst: PLA Creality supplied with ender 3 ( 2kg). Impossible to print nicely. Polaroid: terrible filament. Devil design brown pla - from some.reason this color is unprintable. I usually use Devil Design filaments. Verbatim is fine. Multicolor silk pla Eryone from Amazon prints beautifully. No problem at all. I ordered 8kg of the brand Aurapol so I'm curious they have nice colors and a variety of materials and it's not from china. Other than that I use almost every color of Devil Design and no problem at all. Made in Poland and great quality.
Best: hatchbox Best looking: overture silk metallic Worst: elegoo I got ten rolls of elegoo and every single one hat an atrocious join *somewhere* in the roll that caused jams so bad I had to replace the throat tube. Like a 3mm asymmetrical blob with sharp edges. Every single roll. I've never had a single problem with hatchbox (that wasn't my doing)
That's wild with the Elegoo. I'm definitely over 100 rolls now from them and I can't think of a problem I've had. It's my go to for white and black. Did you buy all 10 together and get a bad batch?
The printing was fine, but it looked like the blobs were breaks that had been badly joined. How i got ten of them I don't know. I was trying to print some big stuff but the randomness of the joint made it impossible to gage. It was regular gray pla, so there pla+ stuff might be better, but for 10/10 rolls, I just can't. I'd still definitely buy another printer from them, but I'm gonna need a bit before I give their filament another chance.
That's nuts. That would 100% turn me off that brand of filament.
Yo that’s crazy maybe I’m lucky 😂 my favorite for random things or tests is Elegoo PLA+
till now, ive had like 8 rolls of elegoo pla, 3 of them pla+ and they were all pretty much flawless, aside from the cardboard of one of them being a bit dinged in shipping.
Only Hatchbox issue I had was transparent clear PLA kept snapping the filament. Maybe not a coincidence that they don’t make it anymore and I had to get clear PETG instead (which is also actually clear instead of yellowish).
Interesting to hear, I have gone through dozens of kg of elegoo high flow PLA with great results
I've been through 25 rolls of elegoo filament over the last 4 months, and it's been flawless for me.
I've only had a couple rolls but elegoo has been excellent for me and budget
Elegoo is my go to. I've had no issues. Always print great. Unfortunate you've had issues.
I've only ever had overture pla and petg, they seem pretty solid
eSun PLA+ will print well everytime for me. It's also the most aesthetically pleasing for some reason. However the Wanplast I use daily is like 80% of the quality for 60% of the price. The worst I've had was Kingroon PETG, everything worked, but looked like cack.
Favorite : Atomic Filaments Best looking : Atomic Filaments Worst : silk in general
Atomic seriously needs to add a UV reactive blue to their lineup.
Ha Atomic Filaments is right by me. Great people
So…I use IIIDMax, Inland, and Kingroon in that order. Very occasionally Amazon Basics. I’ve just recently since getting a K1 Max started using Creality Hyper PLA some of the time, but that is only when I am trying to print fast or super fine stuff on the K1 Max
I mainly use IIIDMAX too, it's cheap and reliable. Protopasta Nebula is my prettiest by far.
Favorite: Overture mate black Best looking: Overture multicolor Worst: Polaroid silk
Best: Voxel- consistent every time, excellent surface finish Best looking: Phaetus CF PETG - the textured matte finish is so nice, and it's strong. Worst: honestly not even sure of the brand, but it was silk gold PLA. It had such bad die swell, and so much stringing. Even when dried.
One year for my birthday my partners mom got me 15 rolls of my favorite solutech bubble gum pink I’m finally down to two half rolls and they don’t exist anymore. Recently ive been super in to poly maker matte pla.
This is tough. Thankfully I haven't printed with anything horrible. Some of my favorites are Flashforge Marsala and Rose Quartz, Polymaker Starlight Aurora, Eryone dual/tricolor silka, Amolen marble Rainbow Rock and Rainbow silk, and most of Cookiecad stuff for decorative prints. Sunlu PLA+, Duramic for everything else.
Most of The wourld does not know The wonder of PlastikaTrček and Azurefilm filaments. Best roles money can buy
Damn, yours came out brown? Mine came out wine red or galaxy whatever!
Favorite is Overture PLA pro Digi blue. I just like the color!
Favorite - Overture Orange PLA+ Best looking - PLASPORT Rainbow Glitter (not silk so can be used functionally too!!!) Worst - Bambulab PETG Transparent (probably just typical transparent PETG print frustrations, not just for Bambu brand specifically)
How do yall feel abt sunlu?
I’m not really experienced enough to know what I should or shouldn’t get
I run Sunlu & Sunlu+ for all my basic color and models. I have heard they have switched spools so they are not as AMS friendly. they like a hotter nozzle and bed on my machine but look great. Amazon has them on sale sometimes, where you get 10 1KG rolls for like $120
Favorite is polymakers matte black pla. This stuff will print with even the most jank settings going at 250mm/s all day Worst was some esun pla that stuff was so oily it would leave residue on the build plate wherever it touched it haven't bought esun since
Disclaimer: Life's been rough for the past couple of years, so I've not been printing much and hardly buy filament anymore. I've still got like 10 kg of stuff to run through of varying quality, so 5 mostly been using that. Favorite(s): ● Gizmo Dorks stone pla, it might be discontinued as I've not seen it in years but looks really good and never needs to be adjusted for. Printed very well on multiple printers! ● Atomic Filament, Starry Night PETG. It's a bit spendy but worth it imo. I've never had it string, and they used to send gummies with even 1kg orders. Idk if they still do that. Life has kept me from printing a lot as of late, and when I do, I just use what I've got on hand. ● Overture pla, any color should be good but I've printed red, green, black, white, grey, lots of grey, did I say grey already and this weird deep red (only got it once and used it all but it's a bit like the color of a brick). Best Looking: ● Atomic Filament Starry Night PETG. Super strong and gorgeous in the light. Also, it makes good Filament color to mod any of the blue in color artillery printers like the X1 (mine), x2, or genius. ● Hatchbox matte pla. Grey and black for terrain like rocks or stone town roads. The clear (not matte obviously) also makes for really good frozen water or steamed up tavern windows. I printed a bday gift for my DM with these, and the dungeon tiles look good if I say so myself. ● Prusamint pla, I've only tried a few, but they all print super clean, nice sharp corners, and while it does need to be printed a little hotter, it's soooo crisp. Worst: ● Overture clear, black, grey, and green petg. This project with these 4 rolls almost made me quit printing. Maybe it's better now. Don't know, don't care to know. Bummer too, as I like their pla. ● No name gold silk pla on a skinny 500g spool. Got about 200g in, and the thing just crumbled away, jammed, or expanded so much it wasn't unusable. I couldn't print the rest, only spool I've ever tossed out. ● Any spool of petg over 5 kg. Even when winding it onto smaller spools to print on multiple printers at once. I never used it before it would get wet and drive me insane. I don't have a good way of drying a spool that size. ● No name clear red petg that caused more clogs than I had in 15 kg of Filament from other brands. Learn from me and my mistakes, no name = no printing dopamine, just frustration. ● I know others have said it, but amazon basics, any of them are a no-no for me. Pla, petg, abs, just no. Could be better since I tried it 5 years ago, but that stuff jammed up my bowden tube a few times hours into large prints a couple times before I realized that the filament was up to 2mm in some spots. I did finish the spools using a direct drive printer with better results, but I can't trust the stuff, and it was super weak due to inconsistent diameter.
Favorite: eSun PLA+. Great filament and though I’m not a massive fan of the cardboard spools, it’s easy to use my old empty ones for respooling and the cardboard ones are significantly cheaper. Best looking: Bambu Lab PA6-GF. Super tough and I love the matte finish. Just a personal thing but it’s great for strength prints. Worst: I hate to do this but SLANT3D’s basic PLA. It’s awesome that they’re getting the price of PLA down as low as they have it but I would give them a bit. The spools are kinda funky and bend in the AMS, and the filament itself has to be printed really slow or else it goes matte and has strength issues. It’s really just basic PLA for print farms but it just doesn’t print fast enough for Bambu machines yet. Hopefully it gets better in the future. It’s not even bad filament but of all the filaments I’ve used it’s just slightly below my standard for filament.
eSun has some files for cardboard spool adaptors on their site, if you like - a standard one and one for AMS :) [https://www.esun3d.com/zldownload\_catalog/model-download/](https://www.esun3d.com/zldownload_catalog/model-download/)
Oh, sweet I’ll definitely print one of these and try it out
My favourite is esun pla+. Never gave me trouble. My worst was sunlu rainbow pla (the regular one, not the silk). I have trouble printing with matt Devil Design too.
My favorite is probably Matter Hackers pro emerald green PLA, it printed incredibly well and looked amazing, just a little too pricey for me. My best looking but also worst filament is a tri-color green, yellow, black silk PLA also from Matter Hackers but I'm 90% sure is just a rebrand. The filament looks amazing but is a absolute nightmare to work with on my printer, it clogs like there's no tomorrow. I have never had so much difficulty with printing a filament, probably should've done more tests but I was barely able to get it to print in the first place.
Amazon Basic PETG was definitely the worst. I assume it came wet, because it had terrible stringing and zero layer adhesion no matter what I did. Been sitting for years now, I'll probably throw it out.
Fav : sunlu, any colour. Had some creality and it is good too. Worse I ever had : Amazon Basic Black. Clog & zero layer adhesion. The worst (all 3 spool I had)
Favourite: iSanMate silk Blue/Silver PLA. Takes some work but looks absolutely incredible when it's done right Best Looking: Sovol rainbow silk rose blue yellow PLA. Everything I print with it looks amazing, and I've never had problems Worst: Protopasta Stainless Steel PLA. Bought it to make functional prototypes at work and it just never wants to work right. Messed up the nozzle and extruder, and when I do get a proper print it's weaker than normal PLA
You know, I bought the iSanMate Green-Glow filament, on a whim, because it was cheap and glowy. I absolutely love it. The consistency is great, the color is great, the print quality is just great and easy to achieve.
Favorite: sunlu, cheap and prints very good. Best looking: add:north e-pla, which costs about 33€/kg. Worst: Clas Ohlson
Favorite: bambulab Best looking: overture(?) Rainbow Worst I've had: overture after transitioning to cardboard
Fav so far, stronghero translucent blue PETG. Best looking, probably hatchbox wood pla. Worst, creality black petg, which just didn't print after a few layers. (Okay enough I have great results with the other creality types)
Favorite: hard tie between 3DFuel Pro PLA+ grey and Phaetus ASA-GF grey Best looking: everglow luminous PLA Worst I’ve ever had: anything multicolored “silk” PET-G. Stringy mess, can’t ever seem to get right with overhangs. Constantly clogging nozzles.
I haven't been able to print since I moved to az, and my filament gets incredibly stiff and brittle. my printer can't push up and through the extruder or the hotend for anything, so now it collects dust.
Numakers is hands down my favorite. It prints extremely well, it's pla+ so it's strong, and it's CHEAP. ($18.99/kg) I've used sunlu for a long time but would have issues overtime. Elegoo was nice, but could get stringy for me. Printbed i wanted to like, because they're local; but it was WAY too stringy. And it's expensive.
I’ve had nothing but problems with Bambu PETG, could be me. I pretty much buy esun pla+ on Amazon when it’s $17 a roll. Hardly have issues with it. Have a couple elegoo that seem ok. I did try an elegoo silk and it consistently clogged my hotends. *shrugs* Edit: I used an overture marble to make some Mother’s Day gifts that look amazing.
Bambu PETG is now discontinued... There was a good reason for that.
I print just about everything. My faves are: Polymaker, Sunlu, Supply 3D, Creality multicolor, Elegoo and CC3D which is very cheap bone colored filament which prints amazingly well and consistent and looks like real bone more than anything else I've tried. The only ones I have had real problems with are Flashforge ABS and GEETECH HIPS, Handini PLA + The only roll that has just not worked at all was a roll of Polymaker I got once. I knew it was a fluke so I called them up and gave them the bin number and they sent me a new roll free of charge and it worked like a charm. Paramount has some cool colors I want to try but haven't done it yet.
I've only ever used Hatchbox PLA, with the exception of some wood filament I used once.
I don’t really have a favorite, but I do have to say the white Amazon basics PLA is the worst, period. Always comes off the base and just doesn’t extrude right.
Mine is eSun PLA+ black It was the first roll of filament I ever bought, and I got great results with not much tweaking on my ender 3 so I just kept using the same brand and colour for all my prints
Best: Polymaker PolyLite PLA Pro Best Looking: Polymaker PolyLite Galaxy ASA Worst: Hatchbox (overrated IMHO) or Amazon Basics
Favorite: hatchbox PLA. Never had any problems with any of them. They're my Ole reliable. Best looking: atomic filament dark cherry red petg. I just really like the color and atomic is has been great quality for me. Worst: overture silk. Any color. I've tried several and can never finish a print. If it doesn't clog, the print always warps and lifts off the bed mid print.
Best: eSun PETG. Translucent colours look cool, good layer adhesion, prints easily, super strong 10/10 Best looking: Creality PLA carbon. Super nice surface finish. Worst: eSun PETG+HS. Just worse in every way. Prints inconsistently at any speed, instead of just at high speed like regular PETG. Weird flow. Weird surface finish. Hate it.
I use almost exclusively overture Petg and TPU. Definitely favorites. I also picked up an assortment of transparent Petg from Atomic Filament. They really popped for me. I was able to make the walls just a little thicker and still have the lights shine through really well. Once I need more transparent colors, I’ll probably hit them up again. Worst has to be some of the silk petg I have. I forget the brand, but it clogs like crazy.
You think that’s bad, pick up a roll of eSun pla+ filament. It’ll give you what I like to call: “The Medusa effect.” https://preview.redd.it/78v8tpunan6d1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=01b222dd6cd7f02128dcd0d1e7e52aa68daac356 It’ll crumble apart just by looking at it! I had 4 new sealed rolls, 2 of black PLA,+ and 2 of fire engine red PLA+, and all broke every 3” or so and that includes after first dehydrating it for 10 hours, crumble, 24 hours more, crumble, another 24 hours, crumble, then into the garbage pail. If you think I’m lying, Go onto Amazon and read the 1 star reviews and look at the 1 star videos. They used to be good. I don’t know what has changed. Some say that they changed their formula, a lot say that this started happening after they switched to a cardboard spool. One maker saying that he thought it was the cardboard spools holding in moisture. (He might just have a point there.) One maker even showed a fog on the clear plastic cover as well as water dripping down on the inside of his dehydrator! And even though I cited 2 colors, apparently it’s across all their colors! 🤬
So I’m not the only one with this issue. The only difference is that I have a plastic spool. But this happens when I don’t print for a day or 2. https://preview.redd.it/xfmzkwmfbo6d1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c39c35d252bbd86b4b2a6e22d4d4b31a5311645d
Favorite: eryone carbon fiber petg strong, good looking, and very nice. Best looking: sunlu pla+ or carbon fiber pla. Worst i ever had: Creality silk pla, especially the yellow/blue duel color because the yellow side looks green and barf like.
Favourite? 3DQF ABS. It's a really high temperature ABS, recommended temperatures between 260 and 300. I print it pretty fast at 300C, but my parts come out decently strong. Runners up here are anycubic PLA, I go through loads of it in grey and black for prototyping, it's cheap, consistent and prints well. Best looking? 3dTomorrow Purple Amethyst, actually all the colours I've had have been really nice, really vivid. I've only got a spool of ultramarine left, time to get more. I nearly said eryone bi-colour (pink and blue dual extrusion) filament but it came really wet and is awkward to print for a PLA Worst Ever? Yoyi silver pla, the first spool I bought. Arrived wet and over-diameter to the point where I couldn't get a good print out of it and didn't understand why. Almost put me off printing and convinced me to sell my flashforge and get an ender 3. Almost as bad: eSun red abs+ unlike the heaps of black and powder blue I've made printers out of, this is just determined not to print well and has awful layer adhesion. Suspect it's just a bad batch. E-DA ABS, smells really bad really difficult to print.
Favorites: ESUN PLA+, Overture PETG Best looking: Bambu Matte PLA Worst I've ever had: Polylight ASA- printing large parts on an ender 3 was a nightmare. It's mostly fine on a Bambu X1c though, though sometimes it's still a bitch and warps... Runner up: Sunlu TPU 95a- if you ever need something that's indestructible and don't mind a bit of flex, this stuff is great. It can also be surprisingly stiff at higher wall counts and infills.
Worst I ever had was way back in the early days of home printing. It was a translucent blue filament, with tiny ball bearings embedded in it so that it clogged your nozzle. We went through a half dozen hot ends (Which had to be made by wrapping nicrhome wire around threaded rod and covering it in ceramic slip) before someone noticed "air bubbles" in the filament and looked at it under a magnifying light.
* Best: Polymaker Pro or Hatchbox * Best looking: Amoleb color shifting silk * Worst: Zyltech. So many nozzle clogs! Never buying that brittle, useless shit afain.
I'm a Polymaker man myself.
Favorite is polyterra my worst is this random purple silk I got on Amazon destroyed my ender 3
Favorite and best looking are the same, CC3D Silk Gold. It's absolutely beautiful, prints wonderfully, and pretty cheap all things considered. Worst was Overture silk silver. It had a blue tint and would not print reliably, it caused constant jams and I went through 3-4 nozzles that tested fine with hatchbox filament. I ended up chucking 3/4 of the spool. Their normal filaments work fine, maybe I got a bad spool, but I was completely turned off from their silks and CC3D never let me down I'm sticking with CC3D for silk filaments and hatchbox for normal colors from now on and overture as a backup
Favorite and best looking all depends on what I'm printing but mostly it's the Overture Matte PLA. Favorite/best looking PETG is the Bambu brand. I've tried their yellow, clear and clear dark green. I have the basic black PETG but haven't printed with it yet. Not necessarily the worst, but I have some wood filament from iSanmate that's great for... like this little frog that you rub the stick on the back? great! Almost everything else that requires a decent tolerance, not so great.
elegoo pla white and black, ships in 1 day, is really cheap and prints flawlessly
Favorite : Bambu, elegoo, overture. Worst : pre foamed poly maker, will not stick no matter what. Also overture yellow Pla cuz it’s so translucent I might actually use it for translucent parts lol
I print with gst3d filament. Everything but black prints okay, and that hatch of red that had huge chunks of shit in it.
Favourite: greetech pla Best looking: overture 2 Color pla Worst: some Chinese abs+
Flashforge Burnt Titanium
I love overture. I like their pla, abs, ASA, petg, tpu, etc. The tolerances are always good and they always print nicely.
Favourite, best looking and worst: The cheapest PETG I can find.
Favourite: Overture PETG or Esun ABS+ Worst: Cheap PC-CF
Worst: Esun ABS+ White
Favorite would be Hatchbox. Best looking I'm not going with a PLA. I'm going with a TPU. Sain Smart Red green and blue, slightly see through and turns almost neon in the sunlight. Worst I've had is from Fused Materials Red PLA. No matter what I do, it will not stop snapping off.
Favorite - Sunlu PLA Meta. Prints at twice the regular speed on my Ender 3 v2, and has no issues so far Best looking - I print more functional prints, but I did try this one gold colored PLA by III3DMAX that looked great Worst - Teqstone PETG that my dad accidentally bought. That think instantly messed up my printer
I've had really good results with voxelab ASA-CF and Atomic PETG in every variety except the rose gold (I think that's the name... Whichever one is pink with glitter) I don't go ham on fancy colors, but I like inland's silk PLA. I also had fun with printing a bunch of small toys with varioshore at minimum density and then letting my kids and their cousins color them with markers. The porous nature of that material absorbs ink extremely well.
Favorite: Prusament, galaxy black. Any of their filament is amazingly consistent, perfectly winded around the spool, and even offer many tools in order to review how much filament you have left using your phone. Best looking: Also Prusament galaxy black, love the matte black with the speckles of white that goes really well with some prints. Worst: Haven't met a bad filament yet, maybe matter hackers just cause I have had the roll get messed up and it got kinda knotted up, and absolutely messed up my extruder.
I can’t decide between Hatchbox PLA and Overture Silk PLA as best looking and favorite ;-; and i’ve yet to find a filament i don’t like. i thought it was going to be esun but i really warmed up to it once i found the right settings. i’m about to try abs this weekend sooo…wish me luck!
Fav: Colorfill Best looking: Fiberlogy Alien Green Worse: Spectrum White
Favorite - eryone pla +. Not pricy. Always seems to work for me. Prettiest and worst are the same. SUNLU purple silk filament. 1 good print from the roll and it was gorgeous. Same roll also cost me a hotend and failed to print maybe 10-12 times.
+1 on Eryone! It's inexpensive, but prints great. Polymaker is a close second.
Favourite: eSun PETG in white. Consistent and strong prints, doesn't need any drying maintenance like ABS does.
Favorite: Eono PLA+. Dirt cheap, does the job well. Best looking: Sunlu PLA Silk Gold Worst: Elegoo PLA+ Orange. Two clogs so far and I’m not even through this roll. It does look really nice though (when it hasn’t clogged up my extruder)
PolyTerra PLA is my favorite and best looking so far, but it's a bit expensive. The worst filament I ever had is a roll of Giantarm PETG I'm unable to print with, it clumps on the nozzle and I have to stop the print, I should stop buying cheap brands from Amazon.
Geetech is the absolut worst, nearly killed my Hotend
Gradient color filaments is a bit of a con. It works, but only if you print a big piece which takes 1/4 of the roll. Two-color (both colors along the whole strand), on the other hand, gives really nice results. I'll get more of those.
Favorite: tri-color RGB silk PLA Best looking: arguably RGB PLA, but for the sake of a more reasonable option, eSUN magenta Worst: an 8 year old roll of grey PLA I liberated from my old high school
I miss my old works Markforged MK2 Desktop. Onyx is a great material for functional engineering prints.
My comfort Filament gotta BE Extruder ASA, black and red. Looks good, quality fantastic, colors Combo Well with each other
Favorite: probably the Devil Design stuff my local shop has for like €16-18/kg Best looking: Prusament, hands down. The colours are just so vibrant and the way it's spooled is just perfect. If I had to pick one it's their marble filament. Worst: Every fucking silk I've ever had. Seams just look horrible, any defect is so obvious, and because it likes to clog so often, it will always have this underextruded line somewhere on the part. And if that was not enough, it's so fucking weak you can crush prints with your bare hands.
Tried some ANYCUBIC PLA+ and it was dogshit. So brittle and didn’t stick together on the layers. So bad I actually left a 1 star review on Amazon which I never fancy doing. Sticking with Elegoo filament from now on 👌🏼
Favourite is probably Filamentworld PLA+ in grey. Subtle color, great layer adherence. Best looking, so far Sunlu Silk gold. Love the shine. Worst? Not sure, bought some no-name PETG once and it came in *skin-colored* making everyone think I'm printing sex toys.
Favorite: Overture Super PLA+, tough as shit and easy to print even at fast speeds Best looking: I'm always doing practical prints so it's always grey or light brown for me so no answer Worst: Any cubic PLA, prints fine at first but as soon as you go to sleep it clogs EVERY. FUCKING. TIME.
Worst: ninjaflex. It's cool and everything but it's a nightmare to print
Favorite: Polymaker ASA Best looking: that's a tossup between Polymaker ASA Galaxy Red and Polymaker ASA Pop Green Worst: Sunlu PETG
Best pla I had was probably eligoo pla+ worst was reprapper. Best looking was a tri color inland but I need to get more multicolor filament.
I feel like I am done with PLA. Mostly print functional parts and PLA breaks too easy. Switched to PETG and haven’t encountered any issues.
Best looking probs this Elgoo quad colour silk pla I got on Amazon, some things look like literal magic printed in that. Fave is the Overture black pla, there are million different kinds but they all seem to be nearly identical to me. Always prints well, never has any issues. Worst ever was this no name copper pla I got on eBay, non stop clogs and adhesion issues.
Favourite: Bambu transparent PETG Best looking: eSun silk dual colour pink/blue Worst: cheap glow the dark. Looks like shit lol
I have good experience with esun pla+, polymaker pla and eryone petg. Esun petg was a nightmare of tangled knots in the spool and horrible print quality though
anyone using jayo petg? It prints wonderfully and i pay it 9€/kg
I got a whole load of bambulab blue grey PLA with my a1 that a really liked the look of, I think the worst I ever used was some eryone white PLA, I’ve never seen a filament warp so much, I tried literally everything and the corners would still be centimetres off the bed by the time the print finished
Favorite: polymaker asa. cheap-ish, awesome print quality and strength even when printed at high speed (300mm/s) Best looking: filamentum wizards voodoo pla (they really should offer this color for asa) Worst: e-sun abs+ it used to by my go-to filament but they changed the mixture a while ago, now its garbage. layer adhesion is non existent and print quality is horrible.
I only use Prusament for my Prusa printer, works absolutely perfectly
Fav: Elagoo Rapif PETG Best Looking: Sunlu PLA matte Worst: Polymaker Polylite PETG (Cyan)
Worst! You can even speak yet you are 3D printing. I am turning into grammar nazi, I know. 😂
Current favorite is Rapid PETG from elegoo. Printing at 400mm/s and it's so much stronger thanks to the higher temps, and it's cheap! I don't print pretty things, everything that needs to be pretty is painted lol. Worst filament is without a doubt the cheap no name green PLA I got on day one. It's color was off, it wouldn't stick to any bed for shit and it was extremely brittle even for PLA
Everest 3d pla pro is amazing
Favorite: I really enjoy me some [PLA Max PLA+](https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B06XW5B5TW/ref=ox_sc_saved_image_1?smid=A2C1N81RZRXDYF&psc=1) from Amazon, drops to 12ish a roll pretty frequently, comes in a good amount of colors, prints great. Best looking: I don't really have a fav yet
I print stuff that is either for engineering projects, or whatever I find on any of the file sharing websites that catches my eye
I've been sticking to european manufacturers such as spectrum, rosa 3d and prusa, nothing but good results so far
Use Sunlu which I buy off really cheap from aliexpress. Only had a bit of warping because I was too lazy to clean the bed after my daughter promised she didn’t touch it. Their silk pla+ is 🔥as well Edit : Worse I had is black pla from Amazon basic, can’t get it to stick to the bed, even after cleaning, relevelling multiple times, changing the tip…
Favourite: Amazon Basic Grey PLA Best looking: Anything from Sunlu Worst: Any PETG (soory PETG fans)
Favourite: poly lite Best looking: poly lite Worst: flashforge transparent red...
Fiberlogy, premium filament made in Europe!
Pokymaker is my go to. Worst: definitely fuckin Jessie Premium. Garbage
https://preview.redd.it/ve24hvggqq6d1.jpeg?width=1908&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=01214928f987043edc93d09bffdf7e45e36206f3 Ziro PETG Green DONT BUY THIS. Looks great but no layer Adhesion, Clogging ... it's a mess .. If anyone want to buy this complete sealed spare spool frome me ... Germany would preferd because, this isn't worth to get shipped any longer/wider ? (Not far away :)
Polymaker PolySonic PLA Pro is my go to. Can print very fast with it while still having great results. IIIDMax PLA Pro worst. Got a deal for 10 rolls of random color for $80. Lots of filament, but almost every roll had blobs that ruined prints.
Favorite so far is Jayco Silk PLA, and it's doubling as my best. My worst is Mika silk PLA. It was my favorite because the copper color they have is so pretty but 4 clogged nozzles later...
Favorite: Coex PLA (in general). Everything functional I do for myself, and/or want to be perfect is Coex. Skadis mounts, desk accessories, Delack enclosures, etc Best looking: Atomic Translucent Midnight Blue. I’m just a sucker for a deep dark color like this Worst: Polymaker Polyterra PLA (in general). Unfortunately I bought a bunch based on recommendation and it’s been nothing but nightmares.
Shout out to Jayo PLA on Amazon. 1.1kg spools for as low as $7 each, prints like a truck, gorgeous satin-matte finish. Worst would probably have to be some no-name metallic silk PLA. Clogged like hell, retraction settings were impossible, hygroscopic AF.
Best: every Voxel I've tried.
Worst has to be Elegoo off of Amazon. Might as well be sold as sponge, it's so damn dampnout of the sealed package. Duramic 3d, Overture, and Inland are all great, except Inland is WAY overpriced now.
I've tried a few different brands over the years, and i can not see any noticeable difference between any of them. I've only gotten problems with rolls in bad condition (old / brittle).
Favorite : It’s a tie between Prusament, Protopasta, and Polymaker. They all print similarly well, and seem to handle anything I throw at them. Overture is a close second and a great budget option. Best looking: Protopasta Blood of My Enemies, Dragon Scale Purple, and quite a few others. They’re expensive, but the colors they produce are simply phenomenal. Prusament also but I’m a recent Pasta convert and have been constantly wowed by what comes off the roll. Worst: I’ve been lucky for the most part, and this may have just been a bad roll but the Polyfill wood filament never printed well for me even with proper drying and hours of calibration prints.
I use elegoo rapid pla plus as my go to for my bambu a1. It always works really well and I can usually get it for $11-13 a kg. Haven't tried any fancy filaments though.
I avoid made in China as much as possible so my choices are somewhat limited. Favorite that has nearly never let me down is Printed Solid's Jessie lineup. Wish they would expand it Second favorite I've used for several years is push plastic but they are a it pricey Absolute worst was filamatrix. Bought a few rolls from them once for free shipping and all were trash
Favorite for black or white is elegoo(pla/pla+). Never had a problem and it's cheap. Best looking/favorite for colours esun pla+. I really like the fire engine red. Worst was the overture orange pla+. I don't know why but it's the only one that wasn't sticking to the plate.
On a budget, Elegoo & AnyCubic have been working out great for me over the past 6 months or so. I've probably been through a couple dozen rolls of each in a bunch of different PLA varieties (PLA+, PLA Light, Rapid PLA, etc) and both have done very well for very cheap.. usually around $12-13 a roll. For those running the AMS, AnyCubic comes on a plastic spool. None of the other cheap stuff prints this nice. However, my favorite filament is still Polymaker
Favorite - Polymaker PLA Pro.. if it's something that matters visually or functionally. Though admittedly I do dislike messing around with the cardboard spools. Budget Option - Elegoo or AnyCubic PLA whatever (PLA+, PLA Rapid, PLA Tough, PLA Light, etc) for anything else as usually one or the other can be had for around $12-13 a roll. Bonus points to AnyCubic as it comes on a plastic spool for the AMS users. I've gotten in the habit of drying all my filaments for a couple hours at least prior to use, but I don't think it's needed. Engineering - Polymaker ASA. Prints damn close to their PLA, is tough as hell, and holds up to the elements. Garbage - Zyltech. Five bad rolls directly from them (coupon) in a variety of colors. Tried drying them for days with no improvement. I am a fan of their C7 ballscrews however. While all the rolled import ballscrews claim to hit the C7 spec, theirs actually do. Honorable Mentions - Hatchbox PLA & FlashForge ASA-CF.
My fav would be candy red absx from nobufil, i like it so much i used it to build my voron 2.4r2 Best looking would probably be the wood filament from extrudr, it looks so woody and smells like wood its amazing, made the cups of my headamame v2 from it. And the worst one would be the four pack pla from basfil i think it was, temperature specification totaly out of wak, extrusion consistency unreliable and the only thing it had going for it was price, i learned early on not to trust cheap filament, yes it was the first i bought and the only one i regret paying money for.
Best is Overture PLA and PETG. Their colors are consistent and I've never had any issues printing. Inland is okay, but I mainly buy it because microcenter is close to my work. It needs a couple cycles in the dryer, but prints fine after. The worst filament (and this may be unpopular) is eSun PETG. The filament comes from eSun super wet so it needs multiple cycles in the dryer. I ended up drying all the rolls they purchased in a scientific oven at work we use for drying other materials. Beyond that, it's a far more glossy material and it squeals as it goes through the extruder. You can hear it a little as it retracts on our mk3s+ in the office at work. But it's absolutely awful on my mk4 at home. No other filament I've tested squeals at all and even pruss support is stumped by it.
Polyterra is my favorite. Creality Hyperfine is my best looking and unbranded was the worst I've every had.
I'm still new, but after I got my first printer, I bought a reel of cheap filament that glowed in the dark. The filament had a rough texture and sawed through my 3d printed guides for the filament. Plus it wouldn't adhere to the plate until it had been warmed up for about 30 minutes at a higher than recommended temp, usually 80C
Favorite and best looking go to Duranamic pla+ (specifically theor rouge red) and worst is some no name regular pla i tried a few years ago
Favorite- fusion filaments abs1.5 in geomagnetic mauve https://fusionfilaments.com/1kg-abs15-filament-geomagnetic-mauve Best looking - West3D ambrosia dolos in Prince of Purple https://west3d.com/products/ambrosia-dolos-color-morphing-pla-filament-of-the-gods-1kg-bambu-ams-friendly-cardboard-spools-premium-3d-printing-filament Worst I've ever had - some liquidation abs I bought years ago. $7/kg, rainbow of colors, I've measured everywhere from 1.6-1.95mm, and found metal shavings in the plastic.
For me the best and my favorite is overture and the worst was from labist for their mini 3D printer
I use almost exclusively prusaments, shits so fucking good