And I just found the reason the Sunlu PETG snaps and crackles like rice crispies even though it is pre-dried.
And thus, your conclusion is?
(a.) thoroughly dry Sunlu filament for 12 hours prior to printing, as soon as removed from its package;
(b.) not bother with additional drying, as the additional drying won’t improve much Sunlu’s relatively poor hydrophobic properties;
(c.) not care that much for how dry it is, or it could get; I’ll simply put it in and print (Qué Será, Será);
(d.) dropping Sunlu for being to unreliable (read “thirsty”) for my prints. Going for the next best thing on the market.
So… if you would choose between (a), (b), (c) and (d), which one it’s gonna be?
I swear, every time I touch Sunlu or their offspring companies, I want to bash my head against the wall. Received Inslogic PETG Pro to try, fully sealed bag - opened up and inside there is a tangled mess with plastic that looks like it was warped from overheating…
Usually, there is an expectation that the filament is tightly wounded on the spool and somewhat straight, not like a wavy mess… How come Microcenter 10 dollar PLA has everything fine, but not that “premium” brand lol.
ive had quite a few rolls of Inslogic petg pro here in the UK and all mine have been fine, maybe just unlucky
That’s one way of seeing things: my filaments were fine, (so) maybe (i was) just unlucky. 
Idk dude… idk…
Other years I’ve tried Sunlu several times and something was always off. Their QC is maybe not QC-ing
Here is the new matte PETG. Zoom in to catch the highlights, the more spread out they are is more matte. If you were happy with SUNLU-HF you’ll be OK with this too. Seems stronger than average for matte. Noticeably wet out of the bag at 0.4% .
L to R (increasing matte-ness)
Bambu PETG Basic (original) as a shiny non-matte reference
Bambu PETG Matte (new)
Sunlu PETG-HF
Sunlu PETG 2.0
So very comparable to Sunlu-HF, somewhat on the shiny end of matte.
Roughly sunlu-hf level of matte (sorta matte):
Bambu Matte ← tested
CHCKX
Sunlu HF
Satin matte:
Tinmorry
IEMAI
Sunlu 2.0
Very flat matte (ultra-matte):
Kexcelled
eSun
I just ran another one off with the bambu settings instead of generic, it’s even less matte. It’s still ok, if you are just looking for a less shiny but still strong petg you’ll be happy, but if you are looking for truly matte maybe not so much.
Was about to test Matte PETG … but BL and their infinite wisdom of ■■■■■■ packaging.
Who in the right mind puts 1kg objects in a huge box that fly around inside that box… anyway, the package is ruptured, some of the filaments are lost. Thanks UPS, you are great as always.
Now for me it’s time to create another support thread where they would gaslight me into looking it somewhere.
(At least I can test some colors lol)
Either BL support is lurking here or their actual support got better. They already replied and promised to send a new package, no other pointless questions asked. Huh…
Might be one (lucky) occurrence in a few couple of thousands unsolved (or long delayed) tickets…
Nah, not lucky 
in the follow up message from them - they screwed up and shipped a different thing… That’s BL support I know of hahahahha