eSUN PLA+ Filament 1.75mm, Enhanced Toughness 3D Printer
eSUN PLA+ Filament 1.75mm, Enhanced Toughness 3D Printer Filament PLA Plus, Dimensional Accuracy +/- 0.03mm, 1KG Spool (2.2 LBS) 3D Printing Filament for 3D Printers, Yellow
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Filament 3D Printing Materials:PLA Plus, Matte PLA, Gloss PLA, Light Weight PLA, Super Tough PLA, Silk PLA, Rainbow PLA, Marble PLA, Wood PLA, PLA Glow in the Dark, ABS Plus, PETG, TPU, PA-CF, PVA, Cleaning Filament
Liquid 3D Printing Materials:Plant-Based Pro Resin, ABS-Like Resin, TPU-Like Resin
3D Printing Accessories: eBOX Lite Dryer Box, eVacuum Storage Bag, eSpool Spool Replacement, eCure Lite Curing Box
| Weight: | 1 kg |
| Size: | 1KG PLA+ (1 Spool) |
| Dimensions: | 22 x 21.59 x 7.39 cm; 1 Kilograms |
| Brand: | eSUN |
| Model: | PLA+175Y1KG |
| Colour: | AP-Yellow |
| Pack Quantity: | 1 |
| Manufacture: | eSUN |
| Dimensions: | 22 x 21.59 x 7.39 cm; 1 Kilograms |
| Quantity: | 1 |
| Size: | 1KG PLA+ (1 Spool) |
I’m really happy with this filament, I’ve made a phone mount. I often go green laning, the mount is still going strong despite having the phone bouncing on it constantly. Impressive strength on the filament’s part. I know it wasn’t extraordinary design as it was my own. On top of its strength i’ve made some fantastic quality prints with it. The white especially I can hardly see the layer lines and it’s silky smooth to the touch.
I am using an Ender 3.
Side note, I would dry the filament when you get it. Not just this filament but ALL filaments as a general rule. I just stick it on my heated bed with a box over it for a couple of hours. Plenty of videos online showing this if you’re curious. Then store in an airtight box with silica gel on the bottom. I imagine some of the more negative reviews haven’t done this.
This filament is a lot better than ordinary PLA, however on SOME prints it can string a lot, so be prepared to lower your printers nozzle temperature, to help combat this issue.
Really liking this bone colour pla.
Pla is accurate as described 1.75. Found it optimal to print at 220c with speed of 120ms, prints perfect at these settings
Filament packaging was okay just could of been a bit better because vacuum bag was a bit lose with some air left inside so i made sure i dried this pla for 24h at 50c before printing and 1st print came out perfect without any blobs or any other artifacts from wet filament
Great value for this great quality pla+
Test model printed on ender 5s1
Yep this works fine. Would have been 5 stars but the vacuum pump is quite a slow way to get air out of the bag. I ended up leaving a small section of the ziplok open and sucking the air out with my mouth which only takes a few seconds, and then zip up and finish off with the pump, job done. Complete with some sachets of silica gel, the kit contains everything you’ll need to keep up to 10 reels of filament nice and dry for a long time, they even include extra vacuum seals and of course you can buy dessicant anywhere if you’re worried that its effectiveness might be fading with time (or dry it out in the oven to regenerate it)
Second roll of eSun PLA+ I’ve used (imates) and so far it’s always been very consistent, easy to print, producing very good quality/finished prints. Great range of colours etc, although I’ve only tried AE grey and AV blue, which is a lovely bright blue. Well packaged & spooled. This eSun PLA+ will be my go to PLA from now on.
Was having issues printing where half way through, filament would stop coming out of the nozzle because it was clogging and therefore ruin the prints. Did some research and saw people suggest something like this. Since getting this dryer box I’ve not run into that issue again after around 300 hours of printing when it would usually occur every print.
Print quality 5
Before buying this, I was having terrible issues with stringing and bad adhesion, it took me a while to realise that it wasn’t the filament that was bad, but the way I kept mine. As I live in the UK and we have a higher humidity in the summer and autumn, this dryer ensures the quality with prints are consistent with newly purchased rolls of filament.
I’ve had really good results with this filament.
Just bear in mind you might need slightly different settings depending on the colour.
Overhangs look different for yellow vs red vs yellow it’s funny cause you never think of the pigment affecting quality before u start noticing these things.
I really love this filament.
Perfect to print with, excellent properties for a PLA blend.
But maybe one in 10 will get absolutely smashed/yeeted/robo cricketed about in the warehouse and get these deep marks in the filament causing all sorts of inconsistency in extrusion.
As the title says really. This is the Peak Green colour, it looked like the perfect green for me in the photos but the actual filament I got is so much more pale than the photo. I’ve not really had this issue with other brands, which is a shame as the filament prints really well.
Ender 3 V2 Neo – Settings used First Layer 200C, Others 215C, Bed Temp 1st Layer 58C, Other Layers 63. Bed Temp is out by 2C, dont know about hot end.
Have been making a selection of Hextractions parts too, which are also great. I was using the Ender PLA filament from Creality but was getting issues all over the place (differnet settings to the above), could never dial it in to get decent prints, and I had a lot of failures. I just wanted some filament quick and chose this. It’s been a dream. Dialling in settings with some simple calibration cubes and it’s a dream. So much so, I am awaiting a Kickstarter to drop terrain STLs and have another couple of spools to get straight on it. Love it.
Well, life pulls a bit of a prank on me yet again.
As I praised this filament to high heaven, I just ran in to a problem with my recent purchase.
The spool in question is quite bad in terms of how it was spooled on the drum and that it is quite damp.
Constant tiny pockets on the print sides. I dried it relentlessly, but it still keeps happening.
I guess the moral of the story is, that there is always a bad batch and nothing human produced can be 100% consistent in quality.
So just make sure you keep an eye out for bad spools and damp filament and perhaps just send it back if this happens. Or use it for test prints where quality is not a concern.
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Granted, I haven’t tried too many filaments yet, but when I bought different brands (two times), they were nothing but disappointment.
As for this? This was always perfect!
Pros:
– Consistent quality (never experienced any changes in it)
– Good selection of colors
– No tangling
– No drying required (or at least I never saw any difference in print quality even after a spool was sitting out in the open for weeks, in a kitchen, in an apartment with average humidity of 65-75%).
– Can be printed very nice even with low temperatures as 190-195
Cons:
– lighter colors seem to be more brittle. If you leave it in a position where the filament is under some bending stress, it can snap at that point after a while. This can be the case with bowden tube printers.
Yes, there are cheaper alternatives, but this filament has never let me down. And why change the tried and true?
I cannot recommend this enough.
The idea is great and it works but is a bit of an art to use the pump to remove air from the bag. Found that slow long pulls seem to work best. Used on 4 reels so far and only 1 has opened slightly inflating the bag minimally. Just used the pump again and it’s sealed fine. Like I say it’s a good idea but needs a bit of trial and error to get the air out.
Overall, I found it to be a good quality material. The white color of the filament was especially nice and produced clean and crisp prints.
However, I did experience a few issues with the filament. At times, the material would get stuck, and I had trouble getting the roll to spin properly. This was frustrating and caused delays in my printing process.
Additionally, I noticed that the color of the filament changed when it became too hot, resulting in a brownish color appearing. This was a bit disappointing, as it affected the overall appearance of my prints.
Despite these issues, I still believe that the PLA+ Filament 1.75mm is a good option for those looking for a reliable and affordable filament. The white color is particularly impressive, and the material produces clean prints when it is working correctly. However, it is important to keep in mind the potential issues with the material getting stuck and the color changing when it becomes too hot.
If you’re like me and have lots of filament and don’t print using entire reels at a time, you need something like this. The impact of moisture absorption on print quality can’t be overlooked, this has rescued some older filaments from printing so badly I was considering chucking them. I’ve noticed significant improvements after drying PLA and PETG for a few hours and having it on whilst printing too.
My only criticism (hence the 4 stars) is that if you’re feeding the filament out of the dryer to print with direct and the filament has to go up and over the top of the frame and down into the extruder (like the prusa mk3) then the lid can pop oven when the filament is being pulled out from the dryer upwards and in some cases jam up causing extrusion issues, i don’t think this would be an issue if this was mounted higher than the printer but that’s not always possible. A latch on the housing would solve this and hope to see that in the next version. For now I might retrofit one to stop that happening.
First things first – it comes very securely packaged in a proper cardboard box, within which the roll is in a thick vacuum sealed plastic bag complete with dissicant. You also get a nicely printed booklet showing the range of filaments and the associated temperatures for optimal performance, which is a nice touch. Quite often the manufacturer just leaves you to do some trial and error.
As an aside to anyone considering the X1 or X1Carbon or already owns it – this filament fits into the AMS unit perfectly without fouling the lid or running off-center. The only thing missing is an NFC chip so the unit recognises it automatically!
It’s pretty forgiving stuff, I used the default settings for PLA which were actually a little low on the temperature side, but it printed quite happily without getting grumpy and causing me any problems. I did up the temperature to the suggested settings after the initial print and it has continued to print well. I have had no issues at all with adhesion on the Bambu flex plate with any filament, this filament included. From my experience, the way this prints I don’t imagine anyone else would have any issues either.
This filament is definitely worth 5 stars in my opinion, the fact it was on sale and cost less than unbranded mystery filament usually does was the icing on the cake and I wouldn’t hesitate to buy it again.
So, after chatting online with some more experienced printers, I bought a filament dryer. I weighed what was left of the grey spool (approx 900g including the spool) before putting it in – after 4 hours I took it out and weighed it again – it was 4 g lighter. That told me that the stringing problems I’d been having were down to excessive moisture in the filament.
Once the purple roll was finished I put the now dried grey roll back on and it printed fine until near the end (probably about 150-200g of filament remaining) where I found it was a bit tangled – actually, I realised what was happening because it almost jerked the spool and roller off the shelf above the printer. Luckily I caught it before it wrecked a print, not to mention the printer. I shifted the spool onto the normal frame-mounted spool holder.
At that point I went to put the next roll of grey into the filament dryer and saw that it was really badly wound. I spent several hours winding it onto an empty spool, then back onto the original spool. It was quite clear to me that it had been very badly rewound onto the spool it had come on – the filament was twisted and in many points looked to be stressed. I then dried it for 4 hours, leaving it in the drier until the roll on the printer finished. It started printing OK, but then there was some stringing again – I think it probably needed more than 4 hours in the drier. Yesterday I switched over to a roll of purple. It looked to be much better wound…right up until it got about 3 layers down where the filament started to get stuck under what should have been lower layers.
Interestingly, all three spools I’ve had problems with were ordered during September. I suspect that there must have been a major issue at their plant a few months ago for their quality control to have slipped so badly.
I’m reluctant to change brands as up until these three spools I’ve had a great experience with the eSun PLA+ – zero clogs, great print quality, good layer adhesion. However, I do have some Sunlu PLA+ to try.