ESUN filaments, EDIT:Hate is a strong word, let’s say I am disappointed in them. They have screwed me over so bad just now. Made most of a printer with ESUN orange PETG, just got new spool and it’s totally different, color and structure, would have to recalibrate E steps, can’t even match the parts color, I will not be using it as my cheap strong filament anymore, can’t count on the same color spools actually matching.
Pretty sure the just switched over their blends. Seem my last post. Microcenter sells rebranded esun filaments.
eSun is the cheap chinese brand. It should be obvious that this might not be the perfect choice for printing color matching jewelry.
I cringe whenever I hear someone using E-steps to calibrate for different filaments. Thats what the flowrate or extrusion multiplier in slicers is for. When you change E-steps it also effects your retraction settings, etc. and can cause unwanted side effects.
Set the E-stpes once with a filament close to the nominal diameter you use. Set it with the nozzle cold and removed (if using a direct drive extruder) and set it so that the filament moves the correct amount that is demanded (I like to use 150mm or as high as I can measure with my digital calipers).
Creating a different filament profile for each spool of filament to compensate for slight differences in diameter and setting the extrusion multiplier to get the correct extrusion width is the better way to do it. IMHO
@Jason_D your right, and I do that. I was sort of speaking to needing to adjust the extrusion by at all when I bought the same exact filament specificly to avoid any calibration and print the same filament profile. It is best done through the slicing software as extrusion percentage using a base E steps in firmware.
Been getting makergeeks lately, good stuff. Was tired of esun having inconsistent extrusion and lots of moisture.
Did you buy from Intservo or a third party reseller? I have found Intservo’s customer service to be great and I am sure they would work with you to either return the spool or hopefully exchange it for a left over roll of the old formula if they can locate one.
@John-Paul_Hopman I bought it off Amazon but it may have been fulfilled by that company, sounds familiar. I am going to just use the stuff I just got, and not buy it in the future expecting the same color (so not often, if at all). Working it out to get one more spool one time is not worth the hassle, I need to look into filament a lot more and decide on a manufacturer that specificly addresses color matching of filament for parts and products produced months apart. I may buy ESUN again for cheap filament, but I need to think about even using cheap filament for long running projects that have parts printed months apart. Even for prototypes just for testing, I would like them to be unified and not a patchwork of color values.