Polymaker ASA Filament 1.75mm Dark Grey, 1kg ASA 3D Printer Filament, Heat & Weather Resistant - ASA 3D Filament Perfect for Printing Outdoor Functional Parts, Dimensional Accuracy +/- 0.03mm

Polymaker is a brand that I am ashamed to say I have only recently discovered. It is fantastic. It prints so well, excellent bed adhesion, excellent layer line adhesion and consistency. The colors are amazing, and the price is good.I have not had anything to complain about, this is a dependable filament. I have noticed that it seems to be less prone to warping than other ASA filaments I have printed with as well.I will be buying more when this spool is running low!

I bought the natural color. Printed on an enclosed Sovol SV06 Plus, with a 0.6mm nozzle. At first, I HATED this filament. Bed adhesion was my biggest issue. I tried the suggested settings and when I got it to stick, corners lifted, warped, and caused failed prints. I found a sweet spot going past the recommended nozzle temp at 270C, bed at 85C, and a thick 0.45mm first layer. The print stuck beautifully to the factory PEI sheet and even bridged nicely. Overall, print quality was great and I’m very happy with the results.

Not sponsored by Polymaker and purchased the filament myself.Pros: Decent price for a 1k spool of ASA filamentPrints quite easily if your printer is dialed in for ASA and use an enclosure that has been heat baked.Printed well right out of the box.Comes with a resealable bag and 1 small desiccant pack(Positive info on the company) They provide print/bed temps on the box as well as on the spool. You can also find detailed information in their listing as well as on their website.Possible con: several of my prints have had some issues warping off the bed mid print causing slight banding at a few layers and post print, but this could be due to my printer not being actively heated (external heater to maintain temp) and cooling too rapidly post print. (Still trying to code my settings to do a slow temp ramp down after printing ASA of ABS as well as adding an additional heating element).I have had a handful of filament binds while printing causing failures while using polymaker filaments but out of the many spools I have used as well as how many they produce, it's just one of those things that occur. (Another filament brand I tried would have intermittent binding throughout the spool). Thankfully for the most part, if I have a binding issue and on average, I will only have 1 occurrence of this happening on a spool if any.So far with each spool of polymaker filament, I have been able to go from the box to printing without issues. With that said I have started drying my filament pre-print as well as having them in a filament dryer that I can print from to reduce the chance of failures and imperfections.Once the filament leaves the factory, you don't know how, where or for how long it's been stored before it arrives to you so putting it through a drying cycle will help eliminate those variables.With ASA, ABS and other more exotic filaments, make sure to keep them sealed with desiccant and dry them out if they have been sitting for a while. I've started drying all of my filaments including pla to get better and or more reliable results on prints.Hope this review helps with your purchasing decisions. Like if it helped out.I will be uploading projects, tutorials and reviews (on many things including printing) on my YT and IG, Zeons Zone if you are interested in seeing these filaments being used. (Beware of the newer, name stealing imitation non-project zeon channels and profiles out there).

My first attempt at printing anything other than PLA. There was a bit of a learning curve, but it worked great. Babysit it for a couple of small prints and it should be pretty easy to dial in.Bed adhesion seems to work well with a textured PEI plate, 110 degrees, with a brim. It will pop itself off if you allow the bed to cool to room temperature. I haven't tried any large prints and I'm not sure how much I would trust the bed adhesion without glue for something large.Parts seem very durable. Color is a fairly close match to Magpul FDE.Printed at 255 degrees on a Flashforge Adventurer 5m. No fan for first 3 layers, 15% fan for the next 20 or so, 50%-100% fan for the rest. Printer is in a Creality zip-up enclosure, feeding filament from a Creality Drybox 2.0. I use the Drybox as more of a spool holder than anything else, so it wasn't on for the first 12 hours or so of the filament being out of the package. I printed several times successfully, but then it started to have some significant stringing, so I turned the Drybox on to 60 degrees. Stringing decreased after the Drybox ran for a while. So it seems like this stuff needs to be kept pretty dry. That or I messed up that one print and it was just a coincidence. Idk. (Edit: turns out my retraction setting was too low, so the stringing was most likely user error)For what it's worth, I was printing it at 300mm/s, which is way faster than it advertises, and I managed to get pretty decent parts with no clogging. But I was also printing relatively small parts that were designed to be easily printable. Your mileage may vary.I'm quite happy with this filament and would order it again.

Took me quite a few prints with lots of frustration to figure out what would make this work. The first few prints were my fault because I was printing at full speed with cooling on my AnkerMake M5C. I finally made it print with good bed adhesion, good layer adhesion, no under extrusion, no smearing, and no warping. Since I don't have an enclosure and didn't want to spend the time making one, I set the nozzle temperature to 270 C and bed temp to 100 C. Set a smart space heater in my room and kept the ambient temp around 72-75 F. Set the Z-offset to 0.1mm to prevent the previous layer from being dragged by the nozzle. Travel speed and print speed set to 50 mm/s max. Turned off the cooling fans. Turned on brim support. Supports if any were grid and not zigzag. I just wish I hadn't wasted as much filament as I did trying to perfect my settings. But now I have a profile saved which gets reliably good ASA prints every time.

Drucke das Filament auf meinem Two Trees Mod temps sind bei 240 und 80 grad und 120mm/s Druckgeschwindigkeit.

Very high quality material, excellent layer and bed adhesion, low VOC vapor concentration, definitely worth the premium price.

It prints really well and the finish, even at 0.3 layer ht, is extremely good.

Super filament, print facile, et joli rendu.Imprimé sur Bambulab X1C

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