I’m using Polymaker’s PETG Shiny Gold filament to print out a bust from MakerLab and was expecting more shine. Instead its printing pretty matte looking (I’ll have a picture soon, it’s still printing).
My thoughts are this is something I’m doing wrong. Filament is dried and stored with desiccant reading at under 10% humidity in its container. Do I need to play with the filament profile to dial in shininess?
Sorry, I’m still new to all this, and not very versed at non-bambu filaments yet. I guess one of the downsides of using filament that almost always works out of the box is that you don’t learn how to configure specialty filaments to look good.
Here’s the specific filament, for reference: Amazon.com: Polymaker PETG Filament 1.75mm, 1kg Strong PETG 3D Printer Filament Gold - PolyLite Shiny PETG Gold 3D Printing Filament 1.75mm, Dimensional Accuracy +/- 0.03mm, Print with Most 3D Printers : Industrial & Scientific
This was the initial print (at 255) that I would have like to see a bit shinier, it doesn’t really appear metallic:
(of course the photo makes me look like a liar, LOL – IRL it looks more matte and diffuse)
Update 1: Here are the temp towers, which indicate that 270 might be a better temp:
One can clearly see the range from 230 to 255 gradually increases in luster, while it seems to plateau at around 265 or 270 and doesn’t noticeably increase thereafter.
Update 2: Here are the successful results after printing at 270:
(the image on the left if the new one, the one on the right the old one, you can see the increased luster on the left).