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!
Esun pla+ has never failed me although Sunlu/JAYO’s meta pla isn’t bad either
Inland is good.
Ive not actually had a truely bad roll of PLA but I also don’t bargin hunt on Amazon.
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.
Which is Natureworks PLA. I suspect a number of the types listed in this thread is as well. Eureka is nice in that they list exactly which source material it is right on the spool. Plus they use cardboard spools with the empty spool weight listed. Brilliant.
Jesse PLA from Printed Solid is my go to. Great range of colors for $21/kg and it prints like it’s $30/kg filament.
And it’s named after their dog.
Jesse FTW. It’s so consistently good. I’m through about 15kg so far without a single hiccup.
Yeah, I’ve had no complaints. I subscribed to their filament of the month club for a while, but it was 2kg every month and I soon ran out of storage space.
I like Overture PLA. I bought a bunch when they went on sale. I’ve started ordering from Filaments.ca to support a canadian business. Their Econofil line works well too.
Polymaker (specifically Polyterra for PLA). I occasionally use Prusament when I get freebies from Printables but it’s far too expensive for general printing.
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.
Wooahh this is next level!
Our defuault PLA at work is all recycled stuff from Reflow, especially the candy collection.
Recycled PLA for prototyping all the way! ヾ(⌐■_■)ノ♪
Everything has printed good for me except iboss brand
I’ve really like the Overture PLA Plus that I’ve used so far. Makes nice prints with fine details. Threads on a support stand screw came out much better I expected. Using an Ender 3 S1 Pro with the 0.4mm tip. Just got a roll of Polymaker PLA Pro in the mail today actually, hoping I have time to try it this weekend. Expecting good things from it.
