Silk Black PLA 3D Printer Filament 1.7 5mm 1KG Spool Shiny Silky Metallic Metal PLA 3D Printing Material Widely Compatible FDM 3D Printers HZST3D

I really wanted to like this filament but after using on a couple of my products, the silver is just not as shiny as i expected. overall, the spool ran nice, without tangle issue. So I gave these one 4 stars only because of it not being so shiny. I did use different temps, speed, etc. and got the same result.

I had a lot of strings when I used it but I didn’t really tweak a lot of settings. I think I’m just not good with certain brands as I had a grey filament do this too. Once you get something printed, it really does look amazing! A piggy bank and a kraken look wild in metal!

Overall high quality. Has some minor flaws. There really is no yellow in the roll, it goes straight from green to orange. I did have to clean my hotend more often, this material left a sticky substance behind as it goes that caused me some headache.I did use up the entire spool, so clearly I liked it though. I used it to print several smaller models, where all I needed was a rotating gradient of semi-random colors.

I wanted rainbow prints that are multicolor like those shown in the post. But the length of each color essentially means only one or maybe two colors per print. Or many small prints that are the same color. Just a bit disappointed.

This product is working flawlessly for me. I'm using it on the ender 3 on my fast settings and it still looks great

This filament is working out very well so far. If you don't touch it, you'd never believe it's plastic and not copper.

My previous review was one star. This turned out to mostly be printer related issues exacerbated by this filament's high viscosity.First, this filament gave me nothing but issues through half a spool. This filament is very viscous compared to Hatchbox PLA or even Hatchbox PETG. On bowden tube printers, this can cause the tube to push away from the nozzle in the hotend leading to all kinds of issues due to the high viscosity. This was causing a blob to form in the hotend increasing the viscosity further and causing wildly inconsistent extrusion. Hatchbox is less viscous even at lower temps and did not bring out this issue, however this prints just as well (aside from stringing) now that I have printed and added the creality hotend fix spacer to my Ender 3 V2. I can now get great prints from this filament.My crucial settings are:*Bed Temp: 50c*Nozzle Temp:235c initial 230c all other layers*Retraction Distance: 4.5mm@35mm/s (This was crucial, any faster or any more retraction causes my setup to string quite a bit) I have tried all the way from 4mm-8mm retraction in .5mm increments as well as 30-45mm/s in 5mm/s increments.Less crucial settings:*First Layer speed:35mm/s*Wall speed: 40mm/s (Personal preference. You can go a little faster but may get subtle inconsistency. No noticeable benefit going any slower on a well tuned printer.*Top/Bottom Speed: 35mm/s*Infill Speed: 65mm/sOther settings to note are things like fan speed. This filament likes higher fan speeds or it strings more. Too high can worsen layer adhesion. 100% on stock fan for ender 3 variants is fine. upgrade fans like dual 5015's are fine at 60-70% after the first layer. Low fan on first layer.A PID tune will greatly help with consistently with this filament as temperature variations cause significant viscosity changes. Larger temperature swings or a blob in the hotend can cause color shifts as well.To note with this filament, layer adhesion is rather poor on small parts, much more so than Hatchbox PLA. It is not a problem for a decorative part, however should be taken into consideration with any part that might take even a slight shearing load. It also does very poorly with any long term tension causing distortion even in cool environments.I only wish this color came in translucent PETG. I am yet to find a nice affordable purple PETG filament. I can't even find another purple this nice even in PLA.

Printing on an Ender 3 Pro. I use all 3 major slicers: Slic3r, Prusaslicer, and Cura. They all have their strengths and weaknesses and use cases.I am fairly new to the hobby but I have many hours of experience so far. I didn't have any issues with this filiment or print quality related to the filiment itself. Bed adhesion was good, though personally I use a shot of Aqua Net hair spray every 5 or so prints and it works wonders as long as your bed is reasonably level. Still dialing in my printer settings however. I did need to run it hotter than my regular pla. I found just bumping it up to 215c seemed to work well. Bed temp was 55c The finish looks awesome! Love how my prints look. They seem to be strong as well. I've read silk pla's can be more finicky or brittle and I would say there is truth there. I didn't have the issue with strength though. I did just buy a second roll of the rose silk, so that speaks to my satisfaction with the product. I would recommend it personally. I also bought a roll of the elixir blue color and that one blew me away. I plan on getting the bronze as well since in the pictures it looks great and the rose pink and elixir blue colors I bought seem true the pictures. I'm not stuck to any one brand of filiment at this point. I have many different kinds including hatchbox, several esun, and a few no name brands. If I find a color filiment I like, I buy it. I would recommend this filiment though for the color options in silk if you have a project to use it for. Very happy with how it prints and looks!Edit: Im going through my second roll of filiment and I just wanted to add I was having issues with the printers ptfe tubing being installed incorrectly and was having clicking/jamming extruder. But after I worked out the problem with the printer I found my temps didn't need to be as high. I found I actually got better results around 205c. My prints are coming out great. Your results will likely vary depending on your printer. It pays to play with the settings.

There is an issue with the way the spool is wound. It's not really tangled but the filament seems a little stuck in the sides of the spool. This means that the filament will stop flowing through the nozzle periodically. This has ruined a few of my prints

Prints well, no problem. Nice color and sheen. Not one problem printing. The secret is proper parallelism and I use 99% isopropyl alcohol. The rest is magic.

Everything small we printed kept breaking. Big items were fine. Wouldn't order this brand again.

J'ai imprimé plusieurs pièces elles sont spectaculaire, je recommande ce produit sans hésitation.La finition est remarquable, les lignes sont presque invisibles.Daniel St-Martin de Montréal

Impression de toute sorte avec toujours le même beau resultat