Flashforge PLA 3D Printer Filament 1.75mm, 1kg Spool - High Precision +/-0.02mm, Eco-Friendly No Smoke No Odor - Perfect for 3D Printing, DIY Projects, Prototyping & Educational Use (Purple)

We ordered 4 colors - all standard PLA.Burnt Titanium: Excellent adhesion, print quality, and colors. Highly recommend.Galaxy Blue: Everything we have tried has worked well and looks beautiful.Rainbow: Disappointing color blends. Every print we have tried ends up one solid color. The next one is a different color. We have printed 4 or 5 items and still not seen any blue… just shades of red/orange/green. Print quality is good but underwhelming in appearance.Black Galaxy: DO NOT Recommend. No amount of playing with temps, re-leveling, cleaning build plate and trying different ways to get it to adhere, etc. has allowed us to print successfully with it - other than two times. One was a tiny cube just to make sure there wasn’t something wrong with the printer itself. And once must have been luck. Many many attempts have failed. It is a pretty PLA - sparkly black - but it just isn’t worth the trouble. I would also say it seemed brittle because the one print that did print to completion broke easily, and it was a pretty sturdy design.A friend bought some of the Gold Silk PLA that he wants us to use for some prints, so I’ll try to update this review once we get that.TL;DR: Great print quality, slow first layer, printed a whole Voron 2.4 350mm with this stuff cuz its that good.Hot End: 250cBed:110cSpeed: 60mm/sFirst Layer: 10mm/sFound this ASA on sale and was a little be suspect, but flashforge is a well known 3D printer company. And I've had great success with Voxelab (owned by Flashforge) filaments in the past. First few prints weren't so good, I was using my proven ABS settings and was getting ZERO first layer adhesion. So I tried to slow down the first layer speed to IMO a ridiculously slow speed, and crank up the bed temp from 80c to 100c. And BOOM it stuck great to my PEX sheet. Layer adhesion after that was perfect! The shiny finish is nice to. Makes the Voron I printed out of this stuff shine. This filament like to be printed hotter than other ASAs I've used in the past.Reviewing the ABS Pro filament here. found this very easy to print on my enclosed printer. seems to print well around 240 degrees, and small parts came out very good looking with no stringing or warping. Almost as good as PLA! large parts don't need a cooling fan, but a little fan can help if you are printing smaller single parts. I did find that it's best printing multiple small parts at once to give the layers more time to cool as using too much fan will cause shrinkage. The smell is minimal and you do have to keep it dry though. a filament dryer is recommended if you aren't using the whole roll at once.I am very surprised with this filament. It printed out very smoothly without issues. I will definitely purchase more filament from FlashForge. The only thing I wish it did have was the resealable vacuum bags that other filament makers sometimes use. But I will just put it in a ziplock bag with the silica gel packet that it came with and it should be fine. I don't believe pla needs to be sealed up as well as the other filaments out there.My first time trying abs and to be honest this printed like pla. I don't have an enclosure, and maybe 2 times did it shrink or warp just slightly. I will be buying more of this brand as I go forward.The burnt titanium filament is the color that you are going to have your brand new Porsche painted, as soon as you win the lottery. It is really gorgeous, dark, with subtle sparkle... Luscious. Like the feathers on a Cayuga duck. It also behaves somewhat like a duck. It won't adhere to the heated bed on my printer at anything less than 65C, even though the manufacturer claims that the build bed temperature should be 50C. If you leave the build bed temperature at 65C throughout the build, the brim and the model edges will crisp up and pull away from the bed. If you turn the temperature down, even very slowly after the first layer is down, it starts breaking away from the adhesion. The only way I have found to get a fairly close to level base on the print is to clean the build bed plate perfectly, then lay down glue stick all over the build area, keep the temperature at 65C, and tape the Brim down with painter's tape, all the way around the model as soon as the first layer is done.Works extremely well. I wasn't expecting much with this, but was pleasantly surprised.I bought two. Galaxy black looks just the Prusament Galaxy black ingot with my mini. The second I got was the blue with sparkles. I don’t remember the color name but it is gorgeous. Great colors. I bought this to print some things to give to my students on the first day of school. I have printed multiple fidgets for my students and they look amazing! Now to come up with a cutsie saying to go along with them.After finishing off a roll of another brand's Black I was looking for something a little different but also, not, brightly coloured. That's when the Flashforge sparkly black filament caught my eye.I'm relatively new to 3d printing so far having printed with 'printer's PLA tester orange', a well known brand's black + white, and a lesser known brand's translucent PETG yellow. All the PLA printed fairly well but the PETG was a disaster.After finishing off my last brand roll, I switched over to the FF Galaxy Black. I reviewed the heating instructions and noted it had a melting point of 50c and lower end range of 190c (slightly lower than the other brand PLA I was using before). So I tweaked my slicer settings and put the new filament in my curer for 5 hours at 45c to ensure there was no residual moisture going to affect print quality.Immediately it started stringing and wouldn't stick and panic struck. Why was PLA going wrong when I'd had no problems with my other rolls mere minutes earlier??I immediately knocked my Z down 0.1mm and tried the same print again, voila, problem solved. That's a first!Normally it takes me ages of faffing, with this filament, 1 print and I've then had zero problems with subsequent prints.I showed my other half, my first print and the reaction was "ooh that looks nice, it's sparkles!" which is amazing given it was a kitchen towel for an Ikea rod I grabbed from thing verse which I'd printed (pictures attached of two different varieties, neither matched what I needed, so I am still working on it in Fusion360, will re-upload once I'm happy with it).So first impressions are very good, both from me, and a non-3d printer person. Very easy to dial in. Good adhesion. Can't comment on 'sheerness' amazon, it's a black filament?!I did read on a group somewhere that 'sparkly' filament can cause issues with the hot end or something so maybe something to be aware of and keep an eye out on, if you run lots of rolls of this kind of filament, perhaps? But no problems for me thus far, from the 4-5 prints I've done so far.Would I recommend this to a friend?YesWould I buy this again?YesAnything else to add?It'd be cool to have a white or cream with sparkly silver bits in it, like the newer marble counter tops you see. Get on it, Flashforge R&D team!My first time trying Flashforge filament. This is my favourite colour changing filament so far. Zero adhesion problems, and prints cleanly with very little trace of layer lines. The colours are bold bold and beautiful. Will definitely be trying more of Flashforge's filaments.One word of advice - definitely calibrate flow / extrusion multiplier for the filament. It calibrates to a surprisingly low flow rate for PLA. This isn't a problem though - it just means that you'll get more prints from a reel. I definitely recommend this filament.Another great filament from Flashforge. Great adhesion, flows beautifully, looks great, but the colour change rate is a little disappointing, and a more varied range of colours would be a nice addition. I printed a Benchy at 300% with 15% infill, and the change from red to green only as the print was nearing completion. Not a problem if you plan on sanding and painting over it, but then you'd be best just getting a filament in all one colour instead. Overall it's a great product that I will certainly buy againI had one 12 hour print that was successful. After that, whatever I tried, it was just nightmare after nightmare, kept clogging the nozzles on both my Prusa MK3S+ and Mini+Tried different temps, speeds, cold pulls... Nothing, same result each time, would clog after a few layers. I guess you really need a 0.5mm nozzle for this, because it certainly just doesn't play nice with 0.4mm, at least for me, maybe I just got unlucky and got a bad roll. Otherwise, if you can get it to print, it looks just like the Prusament Galaxy black PLA, which is very nice.So this is some easy to use filament I got amazing results with a large rainbow sheep using 200c hot end and 60c bed. I will say it doesn't change colour as much as I would like you need to do a large print to get a substantial colour change but it's still a nice filament non the less! Would highly recommend for the price