I actually did a quick overview on the new Petg HF last week. Thanks for watching! New filament works pretty good. Wish they had all the previous color options.
Good review video, enjoyed the info. I’m new to 3d printing and have been messing with my A1 mini for a month or so now with PLA. I just recently got some Voxel PETG to try as my first PETG. I’ve only made a few prints so far, started with something very small I had printed before in PLA and I was very happy with how it came out. My next one was something a little bigger and I had some bed adhesion lift on one side. The part was still usable for what I needed but definitely need to solve that. I’m sure it was an issue I created myself but looking forward to trying to dial it in.
That is awesome! Some tips for PETG and the A1, and A1 mini that I found work well for me. Up the bed temp a bit, 2 to 3 degrees to start. Under speed, slow down your initial layer infill 10 or so mm and see if that improves your first layer adhesion! Thank you for watching.
I print pretty much exclusively petg on my P1p the cheapest I can find mainly now but have used esun, polymaker, overture, bambu and more. I cringe at the thought of having to have a seem let alone a gap or defect in my prints. I found nearly all of the stringing issues I have disappeared after disabling z hop. I also found that many of them don’t like retraction, you seem to get a lot of defects at the start of each layer for around the first 50-70mm and after every retraction I discovered this by printing a long tall wall with a seam dead centre and a series of 0.8mm pillars and just played with one setting at a time till I got somewhere . I use 0.4mm most of the time more causes issues and bump up the deretraction speed and pretty much every petg prints grate. I always print 265 first layer and 260 everything else and bed at 80, no fan first 3 and then set to 10-40%fan 30% seems to be produce more strength overhangs at 100%. I found better strength and layer adhesion at higher temp and low fan. Also lower speeds with petg seems to give stronger parts. Hope this can help with you in some way if you haven’t tried already. It’s allowed me to use almost any petg with good results. Forgot to mention I’m currently printing tinmorry petg from Amazon costs £10.99 for 1kg
Thank you for sharing, excellent tips and write up! I'm going to continue to play around with some of these settings to get things dialed in further. Thank you for watching as well!
@@ThePrintasaurus thank you for your very informative content and no worries hopefully my musings will help others out. I also found to get a good surface finish you need to under extrude but this leaves little gaps better to adjust the z offset by 0.02-0.05mm as petg is oozy and likes to leave ridges.
My goto all-around, particularly for PETG and ASA, is Polymaker (Polylite). Great, consistent results and the cardboard spool works just fine in the AMS.
@@ThePrintasaurus BambuLab will bring a "better" PETG. At least it's what they said on their website 👍 So maybe a new recipe or a whole other manufacturer.
@@ThePrintasaurus yeah exactly 👍 In the shop on the PETG site it says "Note: PETG Basic is discontinued and will not be restocked once sold out. A new and improved PETG is coming soon. Stay tuned!" 👌
I like the Atomic PETG-CF, especially for prints going into vehicles. I've also had good luck with Naga PETG that I found on Amazon. They seem to have lots of colors to choose from, and all of the colors I've printed so far have come out nicely.
Great video thanks for posting. You earned a sub my dude. I've used atomic, anycubic and a few random brands and all seem to print similarly. Bambu's printers really make it easy to focus on the printing.
Bambu has done a wonderful of making 3d printing easier to learn. Which is awesome! Thank you for watching and supporting! The Atomic PLA I am testing now is fantastic. Will have that video out soon!
If you're into easy printing PETG with a great color selection you should check out Protopasta. Not as many colors as CA filament (14 vs 40+) but the colors are different than most places. Also thier stuff is a bit expensive, but I really like it - esp the Amy's Blood of My Enemies translucent red. Also, they were the original cardboard spoolers, if that matters to you. One critical comment on the video: the printed parts you were showing off while holding in front of yourself were not in focus. Maybe you're using autofocus with facial priority or something IDK, but the parts should be in focus if print quality is the 'focus' of the video. Otherwise I say good job! I like your choice of filaments and also your choice of test prints. I've never heard of California Filaments so I'm gonna give them a try. I have tried Atomic and had some issues like you did. Since there are plenty of others I don't have trouble with I'll probably stick with those.
Thank you for the feedback. I am working on some different camera angles to improve on presentation! Definitely check out California filament, it's been working really well and the color options are nice to have. I'll check out what you recommended too, I have not used them. Thanks for the support!
The VoxlePLA PETG has a recommended 260C nozzle temperature. I found that I need that at least their white PETG needs this temperature or it falls apart while printing. The bambulab preset is 245C which is considerably lower. The Voxle white PETG is VERY white and loaded with TiO2.
Yes the Voxel was 260C, I have it on my graphic but could see how it may of been missed. Need to make those settings larger so they are easier to see. I really liked the voxel petg, I wish they had more color options as I do a lot of multicolor prints in PETG. Appreciate your feedback, and thank you for giving my videos a watch!
There were guesses on who makes Bambu filament -- some were suspecting polymaker -- which would make sense with printing profiles being similar, some tweak here and there to formulas. I like their PETg -- very similar to bambu
Gotta love how hard your printers are working but they don’t intrude on your voice. Also interesting video. I’m currently printing mainly eSun petg due to how easily available it is at my local electronics/maker retailer 3 minutes from my house and I typically buy petg as a last minute/emergency “I need it now” kind of thing instead of planning 😂. I’m looking at a more budget/online option however as I know I’m paying too much for my PETG.
With the Bambu Printers after one of the more recent firmware updates the noise cancellation has been great. I've used a lot of esun PLA. Have not tried the PETG. I have to order everything, unfortunately I'm not close to anyone that sells filament locally!
Bambu has a new version of there petg now... 🎉
I actually did a quick overview on the new Petg HF last week. Thanks for watching! New filament works pretty good. Wish they had all the previous color options.
@@ThePrintasaurus great info thx
Good review video, enjoyed the info. I’m new to 3d printing and have been messing with my A1 mini for a month or so now with PLA. I just recently got some Voxel PETG to try as my first PETG. I’ve only made a few prints so far, started with something very small I had printed before in PLA and I was very happy with how it came out. My next one was something a little bigger and I had some bed adhesion lift on one side. The part was still usable for what I needed but definitely need to solve that. I’m sure it was an issue I created myself but looking forward to trying to dial it in.
That is awesome! Some tips for PETG and the A1, and A1 mini that I found work well for me. Up the bed temp a bit, 2 to 3 degrees to start. Under speed, slow down your initial layer infill 10 or so mm and see if that improves your first layer adhesion! Thank you for watching.
I've been printing with atomic filament for years, their PETG-CF is probably my favorite CF filament I've used to date.
I just got a box of there PLA to try. I will have to try the PETG-CF as well. They have some great color options too. Definitely a fan!
@@DanielStinebaugh Do you use the AMS for the PETG-CF ? I try to stick to filaments I can keep there, except with TPU…
I print pretty much exclusively petg on my P1p the cheapest I can find mainly now but have used esun, polymaker, overture, bambu and more. I cringe at the thought of having to have a seem let alone a gap or defect in my prints.
I found nearly all of the stringing issues I have disappeared after disabling z hop. I also found that many of them don’t like retraction, you seem to get a lot of defects at the start of each layer for around the first 50-70mm and after every retraction I discovered this by printing a long tall wall with a seam dead centre and a series of 0.8mm pillars and just played with one setting at a time till I got somewhere . I use 0.4mm most of the time more causes issues and bump up the deretraction speed and pretty much every petg prints grate.
I always print 265 first layer and 260 everything else and bed at 80, no fan first 3 and then set to 10-40%fan 30% seems to be produce more strength overhangs at 100%. I found better strength and layer adhesion at higher temp and low fan. Also lower speeds with petg seems to give stronger parts.
Hope this can help with you in some way if you haven’t tried already. It’s allowed me to use almost any petg with good results.
Forgot to mention I’m currently printing tinmorry petg from Amazon costs £10.99 for 1kg
Thank you for sharing, excellent tips and write up! I'm going to continue to play around with some of these settings to get things dialed in further. Thank you for watching as well!
@@ThePrintasaurus thank you for your very informative content and no worries hopefully my musings will help others out. I also found to get a good surface finish you need to under extrude but this leaves little gaps better to adjust the z offset by 0.02-0.05mm as petg is oozy and likes to leave ridges.
My goto all-around, particularly for PETG and ASA, is Polymaker (Polylite). Great, consistent results and the cardboard spool works just fine in the AMS.
That is awesome. I have been using the polyterra matte pla and it's worked great. Polymaker is pretty competitive with pricing too!
Just looking online, bambu has petg, and a variety of colors.
Bambu is selling the remaining stock and will not be restocking. Bambu will continue selling the translucent PETG, and the PETG-CF though.
@@ThePrintasaurus BambuLab will bring a "better" PETG. At least it's what they said on their website 👍 So maybe a new recipe or a whole other manufacturer.
@@AndreasR85 That would be awesome. Anyone pushing for improvements is a good thing.
@@ThePrintasaurus yeah exactly 👍 In the shop on the PETG site it says "Note: PETG Basic is discontinued and will not be restocked once sold out. A new and improved PETG is coming soon. Stay tuned!" 👌
@@AndreasR85 I'm glad they updated that, and figures it was after my video! Thanks for watching!
I like the Atomic PETG-CF, especially for prints going into vehicles. I've also had good luck with Naga PETG that I found on Amazon. They seem to have lots of colors to choose from, and all of the colors I've printed so far have come out nicely.
I'd like to pickup some PETG-CF from Atomic and give it a try.
Great video thanks for posting. You earned a sub my dude.
I've used atomic, anycubic and a few random brands and all seem to print similarly. Bambu's printers really make it easy to focus on the printing.
Bambu has done a wonderful of making 3d printing easier to learn. Which is awesome! Thank you for watching and supporting! The Atomic PLA I am testing now is fantastic. Will have that video out soon!
I've found that Sunlu has a great PETG, though they don't have a lot of color options.
Nice, Sunlu I have used a lot for PLA. I will have to try there PETG as well!
Sunlu PETG works fantastic using the Generic PETG profile for my A1 mini
@@SKPhoto816 I am definitely going to pick up a few rolls. Thanks for commenting!
eSun and Sunlu also are great
Thank you for watching!
If you're into easy printing PETG with a great color selection you should check out Protopasta. Not as many colors as CA filament (14 vs 40+) but the colors are different than most places. Also thier stuff is a bit expensive, but I really like it - esp the Amy's Blood of My Enemies translucent red. Also, they were the original cardboard spoolers, if that matters to you.
One critical comment on the video: the printed parts you were showing off while holding in front of yourself were not in focus. Maybe you're using autofocus with facial priority or something IDK, but the parts should be in focus if print quality is the 'focus' of the video. Otherwise I say good job! I like your choice of filaments and also your choice of test prints. I've never heard of California Filaments so I'm gonna give them a try. I have tried Atomic and had some issues like you did. Since there are plenty of others I don't have trouble with I'll probably stick with those.
Thank you for the feedback. I am working on some different camera angles to improve on presentation! Definitely check out California filament, it's been working really well and the color options are nice to have. I'll check out what you recommended too, I have not used them. Thanks for the support!
The VoxlePLA PETG has a recommended 260C nozzle temperature. I found that I need that at least their white PETG needs this temperature or it falls apart while printing. The bambulab preset is 245C which is considerably lower. The Voxle white PETG is VERY white and loaded with TiO2.
Yes the Voxel was 260C, I have it on my graphic but could see how it may of been missed. Need to make those settings larger so they are easier to see. I really liked the voxel petg, I wish they had more color options as I do a lot of multicolor prints in PETG. Appreciate your feedback, and thank you for giving my videos a watch!
I have had good luck with California filament.
They have some great filament!
There were guesses on who makes Bambu filament -- some were suspecting polymaker -- which would make sense with printing profiles being similar, some tweak here and there to formulas. I like their PETg -- very similar to bambu
Polymaker is a good product. They seem to be more in stock that others too!
Gotta love how hard your printers are working but they don’t intrude on your voice. Also interesting video. I’m currently printing mainly eSun petg due to how easily available it is at my local electronics/maker retailer 3 minutes from my house and I typically buy petg as a last minute/emergency “I need it now” kind of thing instead of planning 😂. I’m looking at a more budget/online option however as I know I’m paying too much for my PETG.
With the Bambu Printers after one of the more recent firmware updates the noise cancellation has been great. I've used a lot of esun PLA. Have not tried the PETG. I have to order everything, unfortunately I'm not close to anyone that sells filament locally!