Lately I’ve been using inland brand natural Pla. It prints so nice and I find that it adheres to the print bed really well. My go to filament brand used to be Amolen but some of these cheaper filaments have gotten so good in recent years.
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Yeah, “cheap” filament is largely good quality now, and only the unbranded Chinese-made stuff is actually “cheap.”
I also really like Inland (Microcenter) because they use good manufacturers. Esun makes their PLA/+ and Polymaker manufacturers their ASA. I will also buy directly from both of those companies because of my exposure to them via Microcenter’s house brand.
I’m also a big fan of Atomic Filament and Overture and Prusament. Atomic and Prusament can be pricey, but man are they some of the very best I’ve used.
I second Micro Center’s house brand, it’s been really reliable in my Ender 3.
I hate that I’m 5 hours from the nearest Microcenter. At least they ship some items.
I didn’t know that they worked with polymaker for their ASA. I knew that Esun is their PLA/+ manufacturer though. I do miss those esun masterspools since they have switched to the cardboard spools. I’m glad that the spooless filament refills are still available. So far I’ve heard great things about atomic and I’ll have to give them a try. I also like overture a lot for their PLA and their PETG.
The Inland ASA is listed as Inland PolyLite ASA, and PolyLite is a PolyMaker trademark. I read this text on their site like 30 times before I made the connection.
Stay away from Esun’s matte PLA. It is almost impossible to get it to adhere to a PEI sheet, and it STINKS while printing. I love their PLA+, so I was quite disappointed with the matte.
Overture’s matte is great though, and not smelly.
Polymaker polyterra. I especially love their army blue and black filament. They print nice and matte, and the colors print almost identical between their different colors. I always thought polymaker was a more expensive brand, but polyterra hits that 20usd/kg for pla price point that hatchbox and other budget filaments used to dominate
I like the polyterra line too. My favorites are the cotton white and sapphire. I’ll have to give the army blue a try sometime. I’ve tried a spool of their polycarbonate and it was nice though difficult just due to the nature of polycarbonate. I also used to think polymaker was expensive brand but I’m so glad it’s affordable.
Just went from azurefilm to polimaker politerra recently and its amazing
eSun PLA+. It’s easy to print, looks great, and is decently strong for most uses.
PolyTerra Matte
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Matte resins definitely print nicer in my experience. I haven’t tried too many SLA resin bands I mostly just stick to Siraya Tech fast resin because it’s low odor. When you blend your resin do you put it in a new bottle every time or do you reuse bottles?
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I use Copymaster3D PLA most of the time. It’s cheap and locally made. It’s not the best (some colours have some inconsistency issues and white PLA has some crap inside), but it works for prototyping and is very dimensionally stable. I also use their Tough PLA for final parts, it’s more expensive, bit it’s very consistent and prints nicely at higher speeds. Actually it’s main issue is that it’s too leaky so you can’t print it slow - it just sips on its own.
My current go-to is printbed PLA.
I switched to Printed Solid Jessie filaments after my previous bread and butter supplier, 3D Solutech, went out of business. Jessie is been good so far for a relatively low price. I hope they continue to expand their color lineup because they’re still missing a lot of shades I used previously. I’m still searching for a secondary brand to fill those gaps.
Prusament PC for anything functional. I just use Matter Hackers cheap PLA for everything else. They are close enough to me that I get all orders the next day for free.
I’ve been really liking kingroon lately
For all the terrain printing I’ve done over the past 3 years, I’ve stuck to plain Overture PLA. In the Prusa printers I use, they’ve been the most reliable with almost no stringing.
Whatever is cheapest on Amazon. I rarely get a bum roll. Although I did 2x in the last couple of years. Both petg wound too hot I think. It was like a brick of petg in the center.
cheapest bottom of the barrel pla, works well enough, and if it doesn’t atleast it only costs 11 ish $ per kilo
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That’s weird, esun has been my go to easy to use pla+. You could have your temps of by 30c and itl still complete fine.
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That’s true, but it’s on sale pretty regularly to 3kg for 50 where I live. Stil waiting for my kingroon 10kg for €100 shipment to come in.
