I am big consumer of PETG. I cannot speak to their version of PETG but two weeks ago I purchased their standard PLA when it went on sale 2 for 1 at $11/spool. I thought I just found the deal of a lifetime because I simply assumed I was getting a 1st class product. Elegoo has got to be the worst performing filament I have ever purchased and this experience would make me avoid anything else they make. If one can’t get something as simple as PLA to work, how can I trust something more advanced.
Where did their PLA fail? Layer adhesion for starters, stringing and most of all calibrated flow rate placed them at 11mm³ which is where I’d expect PETG to perform. Just as comparison, Bambu PLA is 23mm³ and Bambu PETG is 13mm³ to provide apples to apples.
However, if you want a recommendation. Take a look at these two vendors(HZST3D and CC3D) that I have had excellent luck at $14-$15 per spool. They go by different names but are in fact identical products that come in identical shipping boxes and identical spools with identical factory labels on the spools, just different ink on the outer box.
I deliberately purchased both at the same time to confirm my suspicions.
Click on this high resolution image to view in another browser window and zoom in on the factory labels on the spool.
Incidentally, this was the only transparent PETG that I was able to find that met the transparency challenge of Stefan at CnC kitchen on YouTube. I think I got better results than he did when it came to optical transparency.
Check out this thread from October
Take a look at the results and compare them to CnC’s kitchen results and you be the judge of optical clarity.
