I have been printing for awhile and I am starting to expand my filament horizon.
A lot of what I make needs to have very clean esthetically pleasing outer walls, especially when using black filament.
Oh I am so sick of the inconsistent results when you have through-holes - banding, ghosting etc. (always more noticeable on black)
I have used PLA Basic and PETG-HF mostly with good but mixed results.- I take into consideration - drying, speed, flow, temps etc - but my results are not always consistent no matter how many times I have printed the same model.
Even if the color map in the slicer for flow, speed, temp, layer time, fan all show consistent colors - I still manage to get seem imperfections, blobs, zits etc. - this is still after drying and dialing in my settings.
I was so happy with PETG-HF last year - and then I tried Overture PLA Turbo - and all worked well. Then the firmware and slicer upgrades happened - and my dialed in settings did not produce the same results as before. (I don’t know what happened, all I can say - the current prints do not look like the previous prints and I did not change anything) - anyway…
I just opened a roll of PLA-CF that came with my first purchase of my Bambu X1C - from 2023 (I have 4 X1C units - and only 2 of them came with PLA-CF - the rest only came with the support for PLA and that Green PLA Basic) - I am looking at the print as I type this - and I must admit - it is looking amazing.
I did some research I am finding a lot of people complaining about clogged nozzles and having to take their extruders apart etc.
Just want to get some more experience from others - should I be excited about this or am I setting myself up for more disappointments?
Thanks