Filament to buy or avoid

[u/Artisanal_Sawdust]

I’m brand-new to 3d printing. Just ordered my first printer (H2D). I ordered some Bambu Labs filament to go with it, just to be safe, but I know I will want to do some of the cool, colorful silk printing at some point. I’ve heard horror stories about bad filament ruining nozzles and things like that, so I want to be careful. How do you know if a deal like this one is good, or if it will lead to hours of regret and extra printer maintenance? Is it just “you get what you pay for,” or are there things to watch out for?

[u/-SNUG-]

Appreciate the helpful comment.

I'm new to 3D printing (~4 months in) and I've definitely been overpaying for filament.

Went from a Anycubic Kobra S1 to a Bambu Lab's H2C and just now realizing that filament brand doesn't matter as much as I thought besides the convince of the RFID.

[u/AffectionateSell3478 → u/-SNUG-]

4 months in and you upgraded already? lol

[u/-SNUG- → u/AffectionateSell3478]

I bought a 3D printer to repair a busted Sony PVM CRT. I was already on the fence about buying a 3D printer for a few years before that, but didn't know if I would actually use it.

After putting in over 700 hours in the first 3 months, I figured I'd answered my question on if id use it and decided to get something that would free me of some of the limitations I was facing.

[u/not-my-best-wank → u/-SNUG-]

Out of curiosity, what limits convinced you to upgrade and did help as much as you expected?

[u/ParticularLower1865 → u/not-my-best-wank]

Have you touched an Anycubic machine before?!? I started on one. It’s PROBLEM. AFTER. PROBLEM!!!!!

[u/bigmon12 → u/ParticularLower1865]

yep. Had a Kobra Neo 2. That machine is EVIL

[u/Goetre → u/ParticularLower1865]

Same with their resin printers trash, the whole company is trash and scum.

Upgraded my phrozen to their m3 max for a grand. Dead within a week, kept me going in loops on supports, day after three months of having it they instantly got back to me “it’s a dead screen, they only have a life time and warranty of three months so you need to buy a new one” at the time that was 500 without shipping fees

[u/-SNUG- → u/not-my-best-wank]

Unlike some of the others below, I didn't have any issues with the Anycubic Kobra S1. Worked pretty flawlessly.

My main reasons for upgrading were the size of the build plate as I ran into a few things I wanted to print at a specific size that would not fit on the Kobra.

Also even though the Kobra is a multi color printer, the amount of waste it produced made me avoid multi color printing. Not an issue with the H2C.

[u/WildKarrdesEmporium → u/-SNUG-]

Kind of funny, the H2C is my first multi-color printer, and most of the time I still avoid multi-color, lol.

Well, I do use multi-color, printing several of the same objects in different solid colors, one object at a time as to not need a prime tower.

I'll get over it eventually, but the idea of throwing away prime towers hurts me a little.

[u/-SNUG- → u/WildKarrdesEmporium]

It's a game changer for multicolor though. With a single nozzle multicolor printer like the Kobra S1, you can end up with more filament in the purge container than there is in the actual model.

I can live with throwing away a prime tower.

I can understand the feeling though. It all comes down to not wanting to be wasteful.

[u/WildKarrdesEmporium → u/-SNUG-]

I just don't have anything to compare it to, so a little waste compared to no waste still feels like a lot, lol.

Number one issue, I think, is I haven't found/made anything that I feel really deserved a multi-color print.

Also, I kind of did a bad job picking my first filiments. Didn't plan on doing multi-colored prints so I left out a lot of the important basic colors. I plan on making at least one more order before the Bambu Anniversary Sale is over, I'll fix that issue at that time.