ZIRO PLA 3D Printer Filament, Metallic Glossy Pure Color 1.75mm PLA Filament, Shiny Shine Printing Material, 1.75mm 1KG/2.2lbs Spool, Silky Silver

I ordered the Transparent Purple and Transparent Blue. Since buying I have also read a lot of comments and reviews and wanted to clear some things up.It prints like PETG. It prints okay at PLA temps, but you would never know it prints like PETG unless someone called it out or you did some serious testing. You would print it like PLA and then blame bad quality on the filament, the manufacturer, or maybe think it was your own printer.Below are some common misattributed problems.Clogging the Extruder, Wrong Temperature, Cloudiness, Brittle Layers, Bad Bed Adhesion:Tish Rader was right in his reviews, IT IS NOT PLA, IT IS PETG (or at least, it prints like PETG). I was printing (somewhat)fast on the Neptune 4, (at 100-200mm^s and 220 degrees Celsius) and the supports (Since they were printed the fastest) were under extruding, leaving, what I call, the chain-link fence effect, characteristic of print temps being too low, and characteristic of a clogged nozzle. I also printed a model with supports, they were harder to remove than the supports on the PLA version of the model, so much so that I had to reprint it with a support distance of .4 at a .2mm layer height. All that being said, it did stick to the Elegoo black and Sunlu silk black PLA I printed it on top of on the Decepticon symbol.**I do feel I should mention, as PanzerWeiro pointed out, that it does stick to other PLA. I have printed it on to of MatterHackers black PLA and SUNLU Silk black PLA and it has stuck perfectly with absolutely no problems (so far, at least). So, while this filament does require PETG temps, overhang and support settings, it does stick to PLA perfectly with no problems.**The prints at this temp and speed (180-220 at 100-200mm^s) were also cloudy, as many of the reviewers probably attributed to the wrong causes. That said, the filament became visibly shinier, less cloudy, and more transparent (The blue and purple showed less of their respective colors and more white light when white light was shining through them), when the temps were upped and the speeds stayed the same (255 degrees at 100-200mm^s). I have not tried printing at higher than 255 deg, although I may to see what the effects are.However, I got the best, shiniest, strongest, and translucent results when printed at sub-80mm^s (normal, non-fast printer speeds) at 250 deg C. This being said, this was done on the stock Neptune 4 (with a custom slow profile), and I haven't been able to print this filament at all (it always turns out horrible) on the Neptune 3 Max and I don't have another printer (yet) to see if it is just the N3M being weird.I recently ran a temperature tower test and also found that prints printed at PLA temps (180-205 at 100-200mm^s) had really brittle layers (I could easily, even accidentally, pull apart those layers), with the layer adhesion becoming like regular PLA at 210-215 degrees. The filament itself is pretty brittle, it has snapped multiple times while I was trying to weave the filament through the tiny hole on the spool (It has not snapped while just sitting there, either on the printer, sitting on the spool, or even while printing, which is pretty much all I care about). The brittleness is not annoying, just slightly inconveniencing, it is no reason not to buy this filamentPrinting at too low a nozzle temp can result in bad bed adhesion, many reviewers attribute this to the filament, but it is actually them printing at too low a temp because ZIRO advertised this as PLA. So raise your nozzle temp, (210-215 is a good temp) and don't complain that it has bad bed adhesion, complain that they don't give the right printing preferences.They transmit light well (DO NOT BE FOOLED, in some photos the purple looks deep purple, but it is more pink than it looks, you can see the actual shade and color in the picture with the non-lit, side-by-side rock comparisons. However, the photo with the Decepticon symbol is an accurate photo, probably because it was printed with more layers and walls). The purple looks a bit pink at times, which I understand seems characteristic of some of the colors, like red looking orange.This filament is not a bad buy, ZIRO has just advertised it as PLA when it prints like PETG, leading to some confused customers and bad reviews they could have avoided. That said, I don't think that I would've bought this if I knew it prints like PETG, I was specifically looking for transparent PLA, and didn't want to deal with the hassle of printing PETG (Little did I know it would happen anyway XD). ZIRO probably knows this and won't be changing the labels anytime soon.I cannot speak for what I don't know, so I wanted to clarify. All this testing was done on the Transparent Purple PLA and Transparent Blue PLA, I did not test and cannot speak for any of the other colors. I did not receive a tangled, broken, or otherwise damaged spool when I bought these two colors. That is not to say it cannot happen. However, it is my understanding that many reviewers have received replacement spools from ZIRO when these things happened to them.I will be buying this again and do recommend it, but only if you know what you're buying.

not a single negative thing to say...Ziro is doing everything right and other filament companies should take notes!This color is amazing, the quality is awesome and it works great in my machines never have clogging issues and geat great print. I love that they give small samples of other colors, a cleaning filament sample and a bag for storage in the box

Fun filament! The colors are great, and, as others have said, it likes to be printed hotter and slower for best results, close to PETG settings. Every printer is different, so you have to experiment a bit to find what works best for you.I have a vintage light fixture that had clear plastic inserts, but many were broken or missing. I created replacement inserts and they look great! Looking forward to trying some stained glass type prints as well.

The media could not be loaded. I generally only leave reviews if it's extremely great, or extremely poor. Or consistently one or the other. In this case, this is the 4th color, but the 10th roll I've received from Ziro. This company has moved into my top 3 favorites. I'm using this review for both their "Triple Color" Rainbow and "Transparent PLA". As everyone suggests on Transparent PLA run it as PETG and it runs perfectly and is very nice and transparent. The Rainbow I'm giving 5 stars. It came as expected, it came with a resealable bag, a sample filament (never know what to do with such a small amount), and a cleaning piece. The transparent, however, I'll have to give 4 stars. It WOULD have gotten 10 if I could except it came wrong. Three times. I ordered originally Blue and Yellow transparent. I received Blue and Pink. I needed 2 colors so I used both. Amazon said send what pink I had left back and they'd send me yellow. 2 days later I got yellow. All 3 colors were BEAUTIFUL. I even LOVED the pink, (though it wasn't what I wanted it WAS nice). So a week later I wanted more yellow. So I ordered and again got pink lol. So I called and they had me keep pink and just refunded me. So I used pink for that project. 2 weeks later I NEEDED it. So I ordered it, and immediately called Amazon and informed them last two times I ordered yellow I got pink and this time I NEED yellow the person I'm printing for is specific so please tell the warehouse person to VISUALLY inspect the color. They said ok. Next day? Pink. So again, had to call, and Amazon again resolved the situation. So it has to be a labeling issue with the scanning gun because the label clearly SAYS pink. And Ironically if you WANT to order pink there's like a 3 week wait lol. But the translucent yellow, blue, and pink all were quite beautiful. So I also tried silver which again was very nice. They all have been greatly packaged, with no tangles, and great adhesion using default settings. I can't recommend them enough!

This ZIRO PLA Glow Filament works really well on my printer — no jams, good layer adhesion, and the prints come out clean. The green glow is brighter than I expected once charged with light, which makes projects like keycaps and small models look awesome in the dark.It’s consistent in diameter and easy to work with, so even longer prints came out without problems. If you want a reliable glow-in-the-dark filament, this one is worth it.