I’ve got a backlog of matte PETG to test and am going to get some of it done this weekend. I already had what I considered to be the most likely next Bambu filament dried, eSun Matte PETG, so here is an early sample. The one on the left is just for comparison as I didn’t have any Bambu samples printed, it’s Overture rock pla, which is quite matte. You can see the eSun is even matte-er.
So watch this thread if you are interested, I’ll post more as they get dried and printed.
These are all matte, none have that PLA Basic plasticy glint. Most people would be happy with any of these. The satin matte is just about the right amount of reflection and on this model is quite attractive, especially on the blue one.
Left to right
Roughly sunlu-hf level of matte:
CHCKX
Satin matte:
Tinmorry
IEMAI
Very flat matte (ultra-matte):
eSun
Kexcelled
Some notes:
I know a lot of people like Tinmorry in general, but I don’t know much about them as a company, and if I don’t know about them that should be a strong caution indicator. I know even less about CHCKX.
Kexcelled is the only AAA filament company in this list. Too bad they aren’t available direct in the US at good prices, you need to find relabels.
The IEMAI color is a very seductive and deep blue, the photo and me screen-clipping it doesn’t do it justice.
The black-spooled Tinmorry and IEMAI were right at the edge of softening at 60C, if you don’t have accurate temperature control use 55C.
addendum, here’s Tinmorry in their own words:
TINMORRY 3D filament as Amazon ranks third in sales. We are pround with this that due to we runing a good quality and produced from our own directly factory.
If you mean “AAA” as in “very large” why do you not consider eSun in that list?
(Edit eSun’s website claims their production is 30K tons per year)
I thought I’d add Bambu Basic PETG and Sunlu HF PETG to my samples, but I had an entirely unexpected experience with the Sunlu. I had dried it overnight at 60C at the office, left it out for a day and then brought it home to print. I could hear it snap and pop as it loaded in the nozzle, and the print came out looking like it had fuzzy skin turned on. Thinking I had printed the model with the wrong filament settings, I resliced and printed again and it looked the same.
So I put it into my home dryer at 65C overnight and the print came out mostly as I’d expect. At least for the black color Sunlu HF PETG it is very aggressively hygroscopic and/or requires elevated drying temperatures. I don’t remember the other colors behaving this way, but maybe I was just more careful with them.
My print is .8 mm vase mode printed slowly and 255 was way to hot for it, 230 was fine. You might be ok with the high end for high-speed printing but this Sunlu HF PETG doesn’t necessarily need to be hot.
I’ll upload some pics tomorrow.
I use Jayo and Sunlu. I dry them 8 hrs. However, I don’t let them sit with being put into a sealed container with desiccant. I go probably go thru 20 rolls of there filament a month.
There is a new Sunlu 2.0 “low moisture absorption” PETG out now, I just ordered a roll to test. If they went out of their way to label it as “low moisture absorption” I guess they realized it’s a problem in the current HF PETG.
It’s also supposed to be matte.
I didn’t realize it was a matte finish. Please post pics when you get a test print. I almost like their HS Matte PETG as much as the Bambu PETG HF so this is an interesting option.
Printed the 2.0 this morning, but light isn’t good for a pic due to weather, I might need to use some other arrangement to capture the shine. Looks nice.
At least in this lighting a little more matte than Sunlu-HF. Shinier than the ultra-matte filaments, so still in the satin matte class. Anyone would be happy with it.
Surprisingly poppy for a “low moisture absorption” filament out-of-the-box, dried 10hrs 65C .3% loss and then it was OK.
Sorry the lighting isn’t very good, it’s an overcast day. Bambu PETG Basic (original) as a shiny reference, Sunlu PETG-HF, Sunlu PETG 2.0
Also note that the edges don’t appear as sharp as the other two, they aren’t. There are also some horizontal defects, those are really there, except there are more than you can see in the photo. Printed with generic PETG settings, auto PA.
Not really loving this filament yet.
