*PLA - Pastels - 1.75mm 3D Printer Filament

Always have success with Spool3D PLA. The pastel colours are a personal favourite - such nice colours for prints for kids! The purple and light green are favourites.

I've ordered twice and they all are very accurate to the color chart and prints so smoothly without any problems!

I have gone though 5kg just recently and these PLAs are probably one of the best I have used! Half the cost of other notable "premium" brands and around the same price as "cheap" filaments. There is one major difference though, and that is it always prints great and consistently! 205c on the nozzle (but the range is huge, I have had it as low as 180c all the way to 245c //260c IF you can get enough cooling\\) and whatever you want on bed temp, Glass, Buildtak or PEI textured/smooth it sticks very well with very little to no warping on large prints! I can set up 1 or 100 prints and they will all come out exactly the same. Filament diameter tolerances are all very well within the +/- 0.04 all my rolls being +/- 0.01 - 0.03. Whether I am printing fast prototypes or finished parts I will grab these guys for consistency and they "seem?" to have more deflection before snapping compared to other branded PLAs I have tried, but I have no "official" benchmarks to prove that.

I bought this filament thinking it was +/- 0.02. For this price and filament at that tolerance level it's a steal of course! But once I received the filament the boxes said it was actually +/- 0.04. I was confused of course so I emailed customer service and they did confirm it was +/- 0.04 and promptly corrected the product page. The filament itself prints really well and the colours are nice and vibrant. The filament doesn't print translucent as some cheaper filaments. I bought one of almost each colour and have had no problems yet.

While the PLA itself is of great quality, the spool had to be almost entirely be unwound and respun right out of the box due to knots. It ruined many prints unfortunately.

I'm loving this Pastel PLA, it took me a few test prints to figure out that I need to print it relatively very hot for it to stick to my print bed. I'm printing it at 220 deg C and it's looking fantastic. I'm printing it at 50mm/s on an Ender 3 Pro.