Which PLA are my European printer operators using? I am printing on an Ultimaker.

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Which PLA are my European printer operators using? I am printing on an Ultimaker. Right now I have been printing with Ultimaker’s own PLA but I have som strange “dots” on the PLA further into several rolls. Should I try Colorfabb and/or Faberdashery next?

Ping @Ketil_Froyn , @Gregor_Luetolf , @Erik_de_Bruijn , @Florian_Horsch_flouS .

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Have you tried ColorFabb? PLA/PHA blend is interesting.

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I have not tested anything besides Ultimaker’s own which I believe is a direct import from china.

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What sort of dots? I have been using ultimaker s filament for a while now without issue

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Afaik Ultimaker isn’t currently and never before imported some low-quality China filaments. You should send them some pictures so that they can provide their suppliers with feedback.

Regarding high-quality filaments: @ColorFabb_Helian_Pol is AWESOME! We also have it in stock at http://www.3dreamfactory.com, but closer to you there’s @Daniel_Sjostrand . Drop him a line - I’m pretty sure he has some stock in Stockholm.

Faberdashery is also very nice. On a world-wide scale there’s also @Diamond_Age_Solution . But that’s about it. Faberdashery, colorfabb & Vik/Diamond Age.

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I favor Colorfabb as well, responds very good to retractions!

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I use faberdashery’s and I’ve never had a problem.
Great quality PLA.

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faberdashery is creamy. definitely get some from them.

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Thanks all.

@Florian_Horsch_flouS , the rumor came from one of the other European vendors of PLA. Sorry for spreading bad words :frowning:

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No worries - I could also be wrong and they changed suppliers. But knowing their approach to quality I would doubt that.

Let us know how you like the two European premium offers. I totally would recommend to get some material from both of them. Both have their ups (Faberdashery: superior colors, diameter / colorFabb: nice feel, great retraction, on rolls) and downs (Faberdashery: no rolls, just reels --> often leads to knots / colorFabb: small inner diameter of rolls --> bad for bowden setups (high friction), etc.)

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Got in some +Faberdashery PLA today and could not believe they also ship 100m without a roll… why?

Based in Switzerland I order from one of these vendors:

Fabberworld (CH) http://www.fabberworld.com/

Swiss RepRap (CH) https://swissreprap.com/

Faberdashery (UK) http://www.faberdashery.co.uk/ through http://deltatower.ch/

Ultimaker (NL) https://shop.ultimaker.com/en/consumables.html

Orbi-Tech (DE) http://www.orbi-tech.de/shop/Schweissdraht:::30.html

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Because they deeply believe in quality over usability. They say that they only can provide utmost precise diameter when not forcing it onto a roll.

Especially in a bowden setup large coils, instead of small diameter coils from a roll really make a difference friction-wise in the tube.

So I get their point, but hate to work with it. But that’s also just because I’m too lazy to work out a good coil holder. All the designs from Thingiverse don’t solve the problem how to get the coil onto without respooling (and introducing knots) in my opinion.

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@Gregor_Luetolf yes, that’s my biggest problem with faberdashery: no spools!
I’ve complained to them about this and they said they’re working on it. However it’s really nice of them to ship free samples of filament whenever you buy.

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Would you get knots when just rolling the PLA on say an empty Ultimaker roll?

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@Peter_Parnes don’t know, I’m more up to roll it on a large half-empty roll of SwissRepRap PLA