3D Solutech Real Green 3D Printer PLA Filament 1.75MM Filament, Dimensional Accuracy +/- 0.03 mm, 2.2 LBS (1.0KG)

When I started with my first 3D printer, I tried this filament but returned it. There were too many failures, seemingly resulting from poor adhesion and clogged nozzles. I ordered it again more recently by accident, and figured I would give it a second chance. This time around, I tried dialing in on a CR-10 and Ender 3. After two fails at approximately the 60% mark, I was ready to request an Amazon return but held off to try ... one more thing.The feel of the filament when still on the roll is more like PETG and I was ready to file a return, so I had nothing to lose by cranking up the nozzle temperature for an experiment. As you'll see in the picture, I set the nozzle at 220 initially, speed at 80% initially and dropped the fan speed to 220. I left the bed at a default 65. These are nearly the same settings that I use for PETG. Checking back every 15 minutes, I noticed more 'clicking' as the job progressed. Having experienced the same thing with PETG at those settings, I adjusted further; nozzle at 240, speed at 60% and fan at 200. These settings are the exact same as I use for PETG, and they worked perfectly with this filament.I read the other reviews and see that other people have successfully printed with settings more in line with PLA, but those print jobs are small and low. My print job is approximately the size of a solid (i.e. 50% infill) salt shaker that is 4 inches tall. It seems that small print jobs may get away with PLA settings, but in my experience, larger jobs should use PETG settings.[UPDATE 1]I added a 4th star because I have successfully printed multiple pieces with this (green) filament. The color is deep and consistent. There are no adhesion or clogging problems. My success is *only* when I use PETG settings described above, which are much higher than this product advertises as ‘best practice’. I wouldn’t recommend this product for anyone with a printer unable to handle PETG; high heat, slow print, low fan. I deducted a star because I think the manufacturer’s recommended settings caused too many failures.

I'm printing face shield frames for HCW so I'm running my printer constantly. I opened a brand-new vaccum-sealed spool of 3D Solutech filament and started using it immediately. The filament adheres and prints well, but the filament has broken at the extruder 4 times during the first spool, ruining the prints. The filament was not jammed on the spool. This has never happened with Hatchbox filament. I've seen this sort of problem before with old filament that had absorbed humidity, perhaps these spools weren't adequately stored/dried before shipping? If it weren't for this, I'd give it 5 stars for great price and performance, but ruining 4 prints makes it a 3-star product for me. I'll update this review if my experience with the second spool is similar.Update: the second spool had the same problem as the first, but I think I understand it a little better: the filament is great when you first take it out of the vacuum pack, but the longer the filament is out, the more brittle it becomes (I suspect it is absorbing moisture - a problem with all PLA, but seems to be much worse with this). I am printing constantly and so I'm using the filament as fast as possible. The first bunch of prints were great, but after 2-3 days, the filament became so brittle that it was not usable. I have about 1/3 of a spool left and will try drying it out to see if that makes it usable again (I use a food dehydrator); I'll update here if it works.Update 2: After 5-6 hours in the food dehydrator, the remainder of the filament is back to being extremely flexible (almost rubbery!) and no longer snaps when bent. Before that it would snap if you looked at it funny; it was even breaking inside the bowden tubes. I use this dehydrator: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B018UR4XJI and I cut the spokes out of some of the trays to make it tall enough to hold a filament spool. It is quiet and works very well. After dehydration, if I don't finish a spool, I store it in an airtight bucket with silica gel kitty litter as a desiccant (dry rice would probably work too).I'm leaving the 3 star rating because all PLA absorbs moisture and becomes brittle over time, but I've never seen it happen this quickly. Otherwise, the filament yields good color and good prints, just expect to have to dry it out after 1/2-2/3 of the spool has been used.

I've been 3D printing for about three years, have had a total of five 3D printers in that time, and currently own and operate three of them.I started off with my Flashforge Finder, and once I began trying different filaments, I tried 3D Solutech and have stuck with them for much of my filament needs ever since.I've never gotten any deformed or damaged spools from them, nor have I ever received a spool of dried or bad filament. Every spool I've gotten from them, including this Green PLA, has arrived in peak condition and I've only had one very minor issue.Said issue is filament twisting/borderline tangling. This has happened maybe four or five times, but I've lost count of how many spools of filament I've bought from 3D Solutech, and I know the latest case, which is slight twisting on this spool of Green PLA, is partially my fault. When loading the spool onto my Flashforge Creator Pro, I snapped the end of filament I was holding and the spool unraveled a bit, lucky I had my other hand resting on the filament winding.But I digress. I've also never had to really drastically alter my printer settings from spool to spool, and 3D Solutech's filament, in my experience, is quite forgiving when it comes to setting nozzle temperatures. Yes, a lot of PLA is like that, but I have had spools from other manufacturers that had a fairly tight window when it came to setting nozzle temps.I've about used this spool of green PLA up, and I"m happy with it. I'll continue to frequent 3D Solutech's Amazon listings as I need more filament!

Unlike the other colours of 3D Solutech filament I have used, this colour is very brittle. The filament broke mid-print once. When straightening the filament before feeding into the hot end it'll snap if I'm not careful. Printing with it is otherwise OK.The colours of 3D Solutech that I have that are not brittle are: clear, silver, red, gray, pink, light blue, black, although the red seems a touch more brittle than the other colours.

El filamento es consistente, sin burbuja, imprime bien de 200 a 215°C y da buenas piezas.Ojala lo pudieran surtir un poco más rápido porque en mi opinión es buena alternativa a Hatchbox, el normalmente uso.

I bought three rolls of 3d Solutech PLA, two blue and one green. I don't know if it is the additives that they used for the coloring but the blue filament worked great. The green color, however, was extremely brittle and it was difficult to get anything printed as it kept snapping durring the prints. It wouldn't have been so bad if it was just a bad section but this occurred throughout the roll making it unusable unless you were there to baby sit it for the whole print.

After having a cheap roll of black PLA I bought in desparation (that took 10% of the roll to dial in), this roll worked as soon as it had cleaned out the hot end. From the first print this has been a great roll.The colour saturation is the same after it has been extruded, the colour is a little less vibrant than the image on product page - think of an Evergreen intermodal shipping container that has been in the Sun for a few years.The image is a brighter than the product is in reality.

Un producto muy confiable en la impresion, buena calidad, un poco alto de precio ojala consideraran este comentario, muy buen empaque sellado total, proveedor muy cumplido, tanto el producto como la compañia de mensajeria los recomiendo ampliamente. Gracias