I already ordered 1kg hyper pla white from creality ($8). What else I can buy during black Friday? I’m not sure what I’ll be printing other than trinkets and household items. These are the ones I currently have in my cart. Please let me know your thoughts and advice.

White petg 1kg from creality $6

Anycubic: petg texture gray, pla+ black, Pla strawberry pink - $26

Please let me know if I should get something else instead.

  • Natanox@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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    11 months ago

    Creality and Anycubic are fine. If you’re looking for a general low-cost manufacturer try “TINMORRY” if they’re available in your region, I’ve good experiences with those.

    For really high quality take a look at extrudr.

    Do yourself a favour though, don’t buy bulks of filament from those cheap AliExpress brands (like Tecbears, Geeetech and such). They’re cheap and really bad.

    • spitfire@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      11 months ago

      Eryone and Jayo are pretty good (and cheap) too. I didn’t have issues with Tecbears PLA I got from Amazon

          • Natanox@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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            11 months ago

            I had issues with both SUNLU and Jayo. Jayo spools came tangled, smelly like hell (it was just PLA) and with “white” being a really dirty one (more light very bright grey), and SUNLU devices are total shit with their customer support not working at all. I’d never recommend those products.

            • lucas@startrek.websiteEnglish
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              11 months ago

              I have a sunlu printer (S9+), it was a very good price, it works well enough, and I consider it was worth it for me, BUT I 100% agree about support. It came with a flex plate with a kink in it, so I couldn’t use the full build area. Reached out to support about it. Just never replied, at all. As far as I can tell the support does not actually exist. Since it was only the removable magnetic plate, I could replace it myself cheaply enough, but if I’d had a bigger issue, it could’ve been a nightmare…

            • philpo@feddit.orgEnglish
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              11 months ago

              Funny enough it was quite the opposite for me I had horrible experiences with eSun(and still have them when I open a role that is still orginally packed from my storage) and switched to Sunlu/Jayo and did not have to many issues (as in: Two. Once a order was massively delayed (not their, something went wrong at the parcel service), the other time a role was not correctly packed (in one of the triple packs) and they send another three role package.

              Print wise they are by far the most printed filament for us and we got through upper double digits by now.

  • philpo@feddit.orgEnglish
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    11 months ago

    For PLA: SUNLU/Jayo(same company) for standard stuff Polymaker for special stuff

    PCTG: Extrudr

    ASA: Black Forest Filaments(if in Europe), Extrudr, Spectrum

  • 👍Maximum Derek👍@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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    11 months ago

    Printed Solid Jessie filament has become most of my stash, its mid-priced filament that prints like premium. I use PLA for most stuff and PETG if its going to get sun or if PLA would be too brittle. I also use some flexibles (TPU) but each printer is different in how it handles soft filaments, so its hard to recommend.

    If you experiment with other types of filaments, be sure your plate can handle it. PETG will stick too well to some plate coatings. Prusa has a good matrix to help.