Monoprice Premium 3D Printer Filament PLA 1.75mm 1kg/spool Gray

I've printed a number of 3d parts now with the Monoprice PLA filament to compare it to the equivalent Hatchbox PLA. I found the Monoprice PLAi to be every bit as good for substantially less cost. The finish of the Monoprice PLA also has more of a matte finish than the Hatchbox filament which has more sheen to it. I'm very pleased with the less expensive Monoprice PLA filament.

I was trying to find clear PLA filament and thankfully came across the Monoprice crystal clear PLA - I use a Monoprice Maker Plus III so having something specifically made for it's extruder was really helpful! The results are just as I'd hoped for, though I'm still tweaking my settings to see just how close to 'crystal' I can get with my prints. I've already done a 'vase' print of a bust and was very satisfied with the result! I'll only buy clear filament from Monoprice from now on, so I hope that you continue this item!

Simply the best filament I?ve used so far. Never had any issues with. Just bought a new Ender 3 Mac and right out of the box printed the Monoprice Premium filament using general settings for the Ender in Cura 4.10. I?m only buying this filament going forward.

First and foremost MP filament has always served me very well, by in large this isn't much of an exception with the following caveats. 1. I've had a few spools of this now and the color seems to vary between batches pretty noticably - not a HUGE deal but noticable for sure. The current batch is much darker blue than the last batch. The attached cable chain image shows it pretty clearly. 2. This more than any other color seems to be picky when it comes to printing clean. With the same exact gcode I get very clean prints with white, black and orange MP filament but this one is just a touch stringy and less clean. Not quite sure what the story is there.

First time using this filament, and i like it. The filament has a very fine, smooth quality. I swear i see fewer layer lines in this filament than any others i have used, with other things being equal. But it also seems to fracture more easily along layer lines than other filaments i have used, and it also seems to "string" or create cobweb effects more heavily than other filaments i have used. I've tried adjusting temperatures and print speeds in order to offset this, and haven't had any luck yet. But i will also buy more of this filament and keep trying to dial it in.

If you're looking to stand over your print and detangle the spool every 15 minutes, this is what you're looking for. I ran out of another brand of gray and switched to this for an overnight print. Woke up to a failed print and a mess to clean up. The spool was cinched up and was only then I noticed it looks like it was coiled by a todler. It did print OK if babysat but I'll never buy Monoprice filaments again.

Printed color was way darker and dull in comparison to any of the pictures listed on their website. The filament prints best at higher temps 210 seemed to work the best for me but for what ever reason this filament didnt handle details as well im assuming it doesnt melt as evenly as the others but it may have been this roll specifically. When the roll arived it was semi brittle and would break with my fingers instead of bending this is not the only roll i bought from monoprice but it was the only roll i had problems out of it printed pretty consistantly stringy

I ordered florescent yellow a couple months ago and loved the bright color. Reordered more and the new spool is a dark, translucent, orangish-yellow. Spool size is different too, so the filament came from a different supplier. Prints fine; just not the shade I wanted.

After the small spool I got with my MP Voxel ran out, I tried the Amazon filament first without success. From a recommendation from another teacher, I went with Hatchbox and have never had a problem. However, Hatchbox is severely backordered so I decided to go with the Monoprice filament. Tried numerous configurations of heat, speed etc and no adhesion. Very poor results.

The filament itself is fine. And if you are doing small jobs, and can continually keep an eye on it, it does fine. However, useless for big jobs. They tie the filament around the reel. which means, when you run out., It just jams up everything and can ruin your extruder while continuing to merrily print nothing - making the job irrecoverable.. Whereas, if they had simply used the side holes in the reel to prevent slippage, then the filament could simply run out, tripping the printer out-of-filament sensor, stopping the process, so you could simply replace the reel and continue the job. Would have given zero stars if possible for this really brain dead mistake. Now, before I can use a reel, I have to rewind it completely onto another reel - the right way.