PLA Filament 1.75mm 1Kg spool for 3D Printer,Vacuum Packaging,Blue

I didn't have a very good experience with this PLA. It arrived with no issues and packaging was good. The product itself seemed ok until I came to use it. It was basically unusable. It shatters when feeding into the filament sensor, it shatters when passing along the Bowden tube, shatters when trying to remove it and worse - just shatters when its sat there doing nothing.I don't know whether this was a bad batch as I've had contact with others reporting the exact same problem with this colour. I can vouch that Geeetech Marble PLA works great, so perhaps this was the case.I unfortunately had to return mine as not fit for purpose.If you found this review useful, please click below.

Weight upon delivery: 1.1kg total (spool and filament)My tests were carried out on an Original Prusa i3 MK2, slicing using S3D.During Print Impressions:First print was a 3DBenchy. Settings used were 207C Nozzle 60C Bed. The first layer adhered well to the PEI bed, no glue's needed (your mileage may vary depending on the print surface). At 60mm/s speed there were no major problems with adhesion.A larger 'Vase' was also printed with no support for the large overhangs. The PLA performed well with these. There are very few surface blemishes.Post Print Impressions:The colour is White and appears to be consistent throughout the roll. Until I use up the whole thing I won't be able to confirm that, however.After removing the Benchy from the bed, I was rather taken by how well it came out the first time. The print settings were clearly just right and there was no stringing visible at all. I was impressed as this is the first print without any post-processing needed to make it look presentable.Overall I would say this is a very good filament for those beginning to 3D print. The only changes I had to make to my print profiles were the temperature and speed of the first layer to promote adhesion. It just worked, and prints come out as good as some much more expensive PLAs.

3D printer filament is a bit of a minefield with wide price variations and some truely awful filament around, especially at lower prices. Geeetech filament is a low-mid priced filament, but is well worth the money. The wood filament is slightly different to normal as it contains very fine wood particles. This means that during printing you get a very nice woody smell which fills the room. There is also some subtle colour differences as it prints as different wood particles 'burn' a different colour.In use the filament printed well but on the smaller more intricate sections I did get a couple of places were there was a bit of under extrusion in the wall. On larger sections this never happened and I suspect it may be due to weeping filament as the head moves between sections. It may also be possible to reduce this with further tweaking of retraction settings.It would be a 5 star review if it wasn't for the claimed 5c temperature change will change the colour claim. I tried from 190-210c and other than the slight variation of colour I mentioned above, there was no noticeable colour change that I could attribute to the temperature changing. This is something other reviewers have also mentioned, but I still never got the full beige print they mentioned.Overall I am impressed with the wood filament (and other Geeetech filaments in general) and would recommend them over all others as their price to performance/quality is very good indeed.

I have an Ender 3 Pro, which has been running fairly constantly since I got it about a month ago and has produced good prints with a variety of manufacturers of filament.Unfortunately this reel of filament has been a huge dissapointment. It has clogged my nozzle at various temperatures, strings all over the bed and seems to prefer to cling to the nozzle than adhere to the bed. I've tried various temperatures (nozzle, bed), print speeds and fan speeds and only managed a couple of acceptable small prints. I left it printing overnight a few times and came back in the morning to find it merrily printing nothing in mid air. After a lot of fiddling and tweaking, and 4 failed prints on the bounce, I have put it in the cupboard, never to return. Not recommended.

Weight upon delivery: 1.1kg total (spool and filament)My tests were carried out on an Original Prusa i3 MK2, slicing using S3D.During Print Impressions:First print was a 3DBenchy. Settings used were 207C Nozzle 60C Bed. The first layer adhered well to the PEI bed, no glue's needed (your mileage may vary depending on the print surface). At 60mm/s speed there were no major problems with adhesion.A larger 'Vase' was also printed with no support for the large overhangs. The PLA performed well with these. There are very few surface blemishes.Post Print Impressions:The colour is Black and appears to be consistent throughout the roll. Until I use up the whole thing I won't be able to confirm that, however.After removing the Benchy from the bed, I was rather taken by how well it came out the first time. The print settings were clearly just right and there was no stringing visible at all. I was impressed as this is the first print without any post-processing needed to make it look presentable.Overall I would say this is a very good filament for those beginning to 3D print. The only changes I had to make to my print profiles were the temperature and speed of the first layer to promote adhesion. It just worked, and prints come out as good as some much more expensive PLAs.