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As I'm graduating college in a few weeks, I'll be losing access to my university's free printers and filament. I'm going to build up a home lab with a couple printers where I can make goofy little mechanical projects as well as some components for my cars and stuff.

Who's your go-to for PLA and ABS/ASA filaments? Those will be my primary print jobs in any serious volume. I know our college's club has had hella problems with random chinese brand filaments not printing consistently but I also don't want to spend $30+ per kg for something like Prusament.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Tried IID Max's PLA+ since they were always posting discounts on Reddit. I've stuck with them since for anything that needs color, their filament is vibrant and I've never had any issues. Buying in bulk you're looking at roughly $10/kg. For my black I use Elegoo PLA. It has a nice sheen to it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

The bulk 10kg options look good. I might stock up on those and packrat a few colors since they dont' really go bad

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

I do everything in black anyway, and 4 packs of Elegoo PLA are like $45. No complaints so far and $11-12/kg is hard to beat