Best 3rd Party PLA Filament

Looking for recommendations fir 3rd party pla filament. I’ve given up on the Bambu pla refills, had too many issue with tangled spools that just keep stopping in AMS. I could live with an odd spool but its happened many times now with multiple orders. I use a lot of Black PLA Basic so looking fir the most trouble free 3rd party filament that works in AMS & AMS Lite

Thanks in advance

Probably this high-speed Sunlu:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CR13HFMV?th=1

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I use Overture and Elegoo. But some folks love Polymaker. It is made here in the US

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I have been using Creality for a year now with out any issued, get it on Am…zon, and it is cheaper than BLs

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I have always used Esun, cheap, reliable and high quality

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Thanks, I will give that a try I think

I like overture the most. You can get spools for like $10 each if you buy 4 at a time, and it’s pretty good quality. They have most of the filament you would need, and ive never had a tangled roll. If you got amazon prime, you can get it overnight for free shipping too, pretty handy.

Try to download the profile from Sunlu if it isn’t built-in, it’s a very fast filament and might be too runny at normal temps.

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It kinda depends on where you are from, prices may be different elsewhere. For me in Italy:
R3D is my favourite for regular PLA. Can often see their Matte pla for less than 13€/Kg.
Tecbears PETG also works great for me.
Creality and eSun are decent as well. But eSun uses mostly cardboard spool, so I don’t buy them anymore, since I got the AMS. And yet, I still have enclosed spools bought over a year ago. :smiley:
I recently bought a few kilos of Soleyin (which, from my understanding, is a Creality sub-brand) for like 10€/Kg: Plastic spool, great choice of colors, very decent results.
Anycubic also very good. Decent regular PLA. So good for loaded filaments imho, cause they are cheap, but they also look amazing.
Not a fan of Elegoo and Sunlu (I swer, the only spools tangled from the factory I’ve seen, were Sunlu ones…).
Mostly bad experiences with Jayo.

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Another area specific option is Canadian company Matter3D.

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Coex3d made right here in the USA. In Wisconsin. I have used alot of it with absolutely no issues. They bought the rights from dupont years ago. And if you choose to you can go right to there factory and buy it in person.

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Why don’t anyone talk about Creality Hyper PLA . I am having great luck printing it on the generic PLA setting on my H2S printer.

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