Well working filament brands working with MM (US/CA)?
After seeing this reddit thread, it seems that white seems kind of a troublesome filament. I'm wondering what PLA brands are out there which are recommendable (specifically tested with MM upgrade). Someone mentioned there makergeeks but in this forum I read, their filament doesn't work that great with the MM upgrade. Obviously the Prusa Filament seems to work really well, however the shipping is great disadvantage (as I'm currently in CA). So what can you recommend?
Do you have i.e. experience with AMZ3D?
Re: Well working filament brands working with MM (US/CA)?
I use Hatchbox. Works great, but you need to drop the temperature a bit to prevent clogs in the steel tubes.
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Re: Well working filament brands working with MM (US/CA)?
I was going to ask what people thought of the following brands. I have a FRY's near by that sell them, but I can always buy from Amazon when I know what to buy.
MakerBot
MG Chemicals
Dremel 3D "poor selection"
SHAXON "Big selection"
There's another thread "Where do you buy your filament in the USA?" under "Original Prusa i3 MK3" section where it talks about this. There are some good comments under there.
They also have eSUN, but Andrew.r4 doesn't like it so much he's thinking of throwing it out. That's why I didn't list it.
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I don't have a ton of 3D printing experience (got my MK2S in September, upgraded to a quad MMU in October), but I've been printing up a storm using MG Chemicals PLA and ABS with no problems. (Their Canadian production/manufacturing facility is 10 minutes from my office, so the price and availability is right.) I have to print it at lower temps than the Prusa stuff (190-200 for PLA, 230-240 for ABS), but I've been very happy with the results.
Oddly, the only filament that has given me any grief is the Prusa Silver PLA that shipped with the MK2; I have to print it at 220 or it jams up on multi-colour prints every time.
I know a few guys that swear by the filaments.ca house brand stuff, but I have yet to try it.
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Of all the filament I've tried on the MMU - PrimaValue, Verbatim, Colorfabb, Prusa, FormFutura - I like FormFutura the best by far, followed by Verbatim. PV is crap and caused a lot of blockages, Colorfabb caused some minor blockage after print but nothing serious I couldnt fix in a minute.
The Prusa roll is the silver one that was included for free, it prints well once it's going but the roll is heavy, big, and the filament is very strong rolled up. I had to fix the spool holder to the table because the extruder would pull it to the printer when printing with silver. And because of that the filament also broke once mid-print, which thankfully wasn't a big issue thanks to "stop print" feature (so cool ;)).
I use both FormFutura, Premium and EasyFil but I like the later slightly better because it's opaq, it's only a 750g roll instead of 1kg and it prints on lower temperatures (180-220) - not very suitable though for Prusa pre-sliced gcode models which print around 215-220).
Verbatim prints at least as well, filament is also a bit strong rolled up and I think it was also 1kg - I definitely prefer lighter rolls with the MMU.
A quick google revealed that imakr.com has both EasyFil and Verbatim for about the same price I pay here in Europe. Grab the natural FF EasyFil (my absolute favorite), print something thin walled and be blown away 😀
I have pretty much stopped using any other filament than FormFutura except for their ABS, some prints I tried with it were of minor quality to say the least, the PrimaValue ABS I had actually printed nicer but I haven't fiddled around much with the settings yet.
happy printing 😉
Re: Well working filament brands working with MM (US/CA)?
3d Solutech and AIO are my go to , because of good OD tolerance.
Re: Well working filament brands working with MM (US/CA)?
I use Hatchbox. Works great, but you need to drop the temperature a bit to prevent clogs in the steel tubes.
Some people on Reddit said that Hatchbox in white specifically seems to have issues: https://www.reddit.com/r/3Dprinting/comments/7fcjj7/any_advice_where_the_lines_on_the_wall_are_coming/dqb01b0/
I haven't seen complaints about any of the other Hatchbox colors
Re: Well working filament brands working with MM (US/CA)?
I use Hatchbox. Works great, but you need to drop the temperature a bit to prevent clogs in the steel tubes.
Some people on Reddit said that Hatchbox in white specifically seems to have issues: https://www.reddit.com/r/3Dprinting/comments/7fcjj7/any_advice_where_the_lines_on_the_wall_are_coming/dqb01b0/
I haven't seen complaints about any of the other Hatchbox colors
Hmmmm.... I do use the Hatchbox white, and really like it. If you are using it MMU with other colors, you will need a larger purge tower, as it will show bleed through if you don't. Last four large projects were with white, and not a snip of problems.
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Re: Well working filament brands working with MM (US/CA)?
I use Hatchbox. Works great, but you need to drop the temperature a bit to prevent clogs in the steel tubes.
Some people on Reddit said that Hatchbox in white specifically seems to have issues: https://www.reddit.com/r/3Dprinting/comments/7fcjj7/any_advice_where_the_lines_on_the_wall_are_coming/dqb01b0/
I haven't seen complaints about any of the other Hatchbox colors
Hmmmm.... I do use the Hatchbox white, and really like it. If you are using it MMU with other colors, you will need a larger purge tower, as it will show bleed through if you don't. Last four large projects were with white, and not a snip of problems.
The complaints on Reddit seem to be about Z-banding and not about color mixing. Some of those individuals say that switching to a different filament completely resolve the Z-banding issues. Like everything else, experiences seem to vary =P It's possible that the Z-banding that they're seeing is caused by intermittent clogging and maybe you've found the right settings to avoid that
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I love MakerGeeks PLA in other printrers or with single material but I had a lot of trouble with MakerGeeks trying to do Multi-Color. I switched to HatchBox and lowered the temp to 200 C and it worked great. Maybe there is a temperature that MakerGeeks would work at but I gave up trying. I will use MakerGeeks for non multi-material prints and HatchBox for Multi material. I also had sucess with MatterHackers PLA and Solutec but I only did small rpints with these two filaments.
Re: Well working filament brands working with MM (US/CA)?
the shipping from Prusa is kinda high but if you order more than 3 spools its not as bad, also you can go to https://e3d-online.com/ and I get it from them in 3-4 days and shipping is not much more than a US site,
also I have used these guys https://filamentinnovations.com/ for PLA and it works well with the Prusa PLA settings.
Amazon is another choice I use as well.
it all depends on what Filament I want, how fast and how much I want to pay for a good filament brand.
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I've been using the MM for the past month or so. So far I've used:
AMZ3D
Hatchbox
Atomic Filament
I think AMZ3D is great for starting out since it is relatively inexpensive. I had color bleeding issues with their white but increasing the color change width in the wipe tower helped out.