First, I am not shilling for Elegoo. I have never received any free filament, and I paid full price for this on Amazon. I recently tried a few filament brands including Bambu, Sunlu, Elegoo, and I think the hands-down winner is the Elegoo Rapid PLA plus.
I created a custom filament, chose Generic PLA as a base, updated the nozzle temperatures based on the Elegoo spool, and set the flow rate to 17. I printed 3 identical items with the three filaments sing the 0.20 Standard settings and the Elegoo was the cleanest us.
Here are the Elegoo Prints. The other had noticeable artifacts on both X,Y and Z angles. You can get ten rolls of this for 109.00 on the Elegoo site, and I think I have found my new go-to filament.
Note: I did try the PLA plus, but this Rapid PLA Plus was noticeably better.
I started with generic PLA and then made the other adjustments as noted.
The whole āplusā annotation on filaments may be part marketing and part reality. They say the plus makes the filament stronger, but it may also make it more brittle. The āRapidā means that it can print faster to take advantage of the speeds of newer printers. This is the first time I have seen both terms both combined.
For non functional prints, decorative, etc, I am more concerned with speed than strength, and for functional parts I use PETG or ASA. So I was very surprised how fast this printed and how well it printed with no stringing. Hopefully the consistency between rolls will stay the same.
I will try a test between the filaments to see any differences and report back. Again, I donāt use PLA for strength, so its not reallt an issue for me.
I can also speak out in favour of Elegoo - even if only for PLA Matte so far.
If I have a lot of āuselessā stuff to print (such as Gridfinity), I go with cheap filament. So far my chosen brand has been āGeeetechā bought from Amazon, which prints well and is cheap enough.
I recently tried Elegoo for the first time and have now switched to them. 4kg of PLA Matte for 50ā¬ - and the filament is really nice and prints wonderfully.
Yup elegoo matte black pla+ is always the moat beautiful prints
That is untill i get my 35 dollar CF-PLA from bambu which i gor free because of my makerworld gift cards its not even that much more expensive. Theres an example of how good it looks and sounds like freakin metal on a youtube short about a 3d printed planetary gear
I also really like this stuff. The only downside so far, is Iāve had wrapping issues towards the end of spools. Iāve had about 8 so far, and 4 of them had wrapping issues that lost me 7+ hour prints.
Thankfully I contacted them and they sent me new spools, so price, customer service and quality all seem to be legit!
Iāve had big challenges with it. I have only just used the generic PLA high speed filament setting in Bambu but I generally use the ābest fitā setting I can find. Hoping that dialing in better settings will keep me from banning it for life in my workshop :-). I bought it because it was really cheap on Amazon which seemed strange to begin withā¦
Iām having a totally different experience at the moment. On my A1, the Black Rapid PLA + from Elegoo just wonāt stick to the plate and layer adhesion is poor. It wasnāt that bad with the white color. Plates are clean, the filament is dry, and I just canāt get these gridfinity bases going. Slowed down the speed (although counterproductive as itās supposed to be rapid), and turned off cooling for first three layers but no luck.
GeeTech PLA has been absolutely awesome in Bambu P1S and on an Elegoo Neptune 4 Bedslinger. Anyone who can print great with PETG or specifically Esun PetG-HS on a Bambu P1S I would greatly appreciate the settings that work. I have printed 8+ benchies and gave up for now using PetG High speed. ( perfect Bottom layers) but at around layer 44 it goes bad on overhangs. ( Bow of boat is worst part). I am using Elegoo PLA got a great deal on it from Amazon so those perfected settings would be awesome to have as well.
I just bought myself a spool and used your settings, and it is definitely better than Bambu filament - both for quality and price. I have not tried it at higher speeds that normal yet. Have you tested high speeds? If so, was it successful with the same settings?
its not even that much more expensive. Theres an example of how good it looks and sounds like freakin metal on a youtube short about a 3d printed planetary gear