Typically I would just buy whatever brand had the cheapest white color PLA (I like to paint my print) and quality wasn’t always top of mind. Now I have several prints that I want to do in all kids of different colors and quality matters. Given the new color and quality requirements, it no longer makes sense to get the cheapest.
What brand is of good to excellent quality that also offers a decent range of colors?
I mostly run my prints through Ender 3 Pros
Edit: Thank you for everyone’s suggestions! Certain brands are being recommended often so I’m going to start experimenting with those! Keep being awesome!
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For PLA, Overture is what I use for my painterly prints and primary colors. Hatchbox for some of their more interesting designy options. Polymaker when neither of the first two is what I want.
Upvote for Overture, my favorite.
Anything locally sourceable. For me it’s a local company called Eureka Technologies that sells filament for a good price, but also in between batch filaments called Random for $8 that’s perfect for prototyping.
Other than that there is a local Canada Computer that sells ANet, Sunlu, and flash forge filament that works well enough.
I have settled on eSun because that’s what my local supplier have… I find polymaker seems to be of better quality, but not all colors are available here…
Polymaker
Love polymaker for the natural filament.
For various colors, I honestly like IID Max PLA+. I’ve never had trouble printing with them. With their bulk ordering you’re looking at about $12/kg
I’ve had a lot of success with atomic filament. It is a little more expensive, but it’s US made. Push plastic is another US based brand I’ve had a lot of success with.
Both are $30 for their 1 kg spools, but they both offer 3 kg spools at a better price point per kg. I personally like larger spools. It helps me avoid the fear of hitting the bottom of the spool as often and I usually only need one color at a time.
I use hatchbox, they have plenty of colors and I haven’t had any quality issues with them. Probably only like 2 bucks a roll more than the cheap stuff anyway
Hatchbox seconded. They’re pretty consistent as far as quality goes. Unfortunately they don’t always have their full selection available.
Sunlu pla plus from Amazon. Has been very reliable through different colors and spools on my ender clone.
Polymaker Matte Cotton White 3kg
Proto Pasta is a really good brand! If you happen to live near their warehouse, you can pick up your order same day
I’ve been pretty happy with the consistency of both Inland and Overture.
Esun pla+ has never failed me although Sunlu/JAYO’s meta pla isn’t bad either
Wooahh this is next level!
