Hey, I want to do some 80s things and I need really bright PLA in all neon colors. Red, yellow, orange, green, blue and purple. It doesn’t have to be the same manufacturer. The magenta from bambu is already going in a good direction, but I think it can be even more garish. I’m open to your suggestions
I print a lot of black, and a lot of it is prototyping so it’s life span is fairly often in minutes more than hours as I identify what I want change via interation. With the industry I do most of my printing, it is not something you would want to risk not doing a live test. So for that I go with Sunlu pla + 2.0 Bought in bulk on large spools and if needed transfered to smaller spindles.
Pro’s: I get it regularly in 2 spindle packs for like 13ish USD. It is extremely rugged and is very consistent (in my experience I have better luck with this than with Polymaker)
The Con’s: thanks to my son, I will never unsee the fact that it is mor chocolate coloured than black, and is in fact not as dark as my much loved 80% cacao bars… which kinda saddens me but being that again, usually it is stuff for one offs or occasionally a short interaction test.
For colours: I ran across some marble PLA that looked really good and picked it up. Had a need for a wee bit of colour in another project, ended up buying from the same company by happenstance, 3 months later on my “colourful materials” sbelf all of the re-orders are from CC3d and overall about 80# of the stuff bought for aesthetics same. It ticks all the boxes for me, reliably prints, not horribly expensive and the colour from spool to spool is amazingly consistant"
I am not particulaly artistic, have not even played any music since I lost my dagnter some years back, but I have the heart of an engineer, so I like consistancy over flash, and having a company making truly pretty material, and it is reasonable, and it is not weird knock off trash…
Asor that Engineers heart, he had it coming, anyone who would design a big block chevy to the point where you have to nearly engine out to get to the rear spark plug on the drivers side.
I eventually put a portal door in the fender well. My Da loved that POS. I still hate it.
So much offtopic text. I don’t care about price, I’m looking for PLA neon colors. What recommendation do you have?
I suggest you reap the benefit that you can and learn that when you ask for information, and complain about the format, it makes you the south end of a north bound mule.
I would like to have recommendations for manufacturers of neon colors and best of all the names of the colors, so that I can find them faster