Yesterday was my birthday and I got a roll of Matte Ash Gray from my sister.
Today, I saw this thread.
I will load up my A1 and report back on results, but I do suspect the problem (if there is one for me) to be water content. My room where I print ranges from 45% to 65% and I have a terrible habit of leaving reels on the printer. So filaments can suck up water pretty quick.
I ususally run a reel that has been out through 2x 5 hour drying cyles on my Eibos dryer before vaccing and packing.
Here’s another one with the same problem… My A1 just out of the box, I bought 2 kg of Matte Black PLA to print some boxes and Skadis boards for my workshop. I’ve tried flow calibrations, different profiles, drying the filament… and the print quality with this PLA is still disappointing.
I’ve battling with all I can with the Matte filaments on my A1 Mini, good freaking god are they terrible, constantly clogging and I can’t print consistently, I can with the Basic ones, but white matte on 2 different ones, a dry and wet on the AMS, are absolutely a nightmare
I don’t even dry my PLA filaments (Matte, silk) after opening the bags and I never have a printing problem! Your problems are strange with my 10 year old replicator 2, there on the other hand it was a disaster 8 times out of 10 even when it was new.
For Silk PLA (I am using Xiro silk PLA i think the brand is) I have had trouble with this previously but when I change the fan speed to 80%,the infill to 30% and the walls to 4 the prints have come out A LOT better than previously. I did find some forums/articles that mentioned changing the flow rate etc but i found that using the Generic PLA Silk profile and then changing the relevant settings against the profile and saving them as a new profile for that specific filament has helped in terms of consistent good prints for the PLA Silk that I have been using. I am unsure if this would help with other brands but for this one I’ve had laying around for a LONG time it seems to have worked a dream with the aforementioned settings I hope that this proves helpful
Same, Ash Grey is unusable. I have tried lots of different settings, calibrating, cleaning the bed, external spool, but it’s always full of holes. And I just unpacked Sapphire Blue half an hour ago, cleaned the printbed, printed a temperature tower, and immediately noticed holes again. And I always bed the temperature tower to see if it snaps easily, which usually happens around the 195/200 degree mark, but this stuff broke at 225 degrees. Then I printed a flow ratio calibration (the rough one first) and just like the Ash Grey it’s full of holes. Terrible quality.
I hope that this proves helpful