ZIRO 3D Printer Filament, Silky PLA Filament 1.75mm, Shining Silk 3D Printing Material, Dimensional Accuracy +/- 0.03mm, Fit Most Printers, Metal Glossy 1KG/2.2lb Spool, Silver Black

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 filament Printing 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.

The more filaments I buy from this brand, the more I convince myself to get more colors from Ziro. Jus bought the silver PLA and I was amazed with the finish and quality. First thing that I liked, was the clean print finish I get with all Ziro filaments. This was a silk silver PLA, and some silk filaments, no matter the printer's tuning, tend to produce stringing at some point of the print process. Not with this one. Printed figures get a pretty neat and clean finish and very precise layering. The second was the color. This one got a really awesome looking metallic shining silver at the end. Used it to print a vintage landing platform for a sciFi spaceship and it almost look like real metal. Loved it. I compared it with a eSun silver filament I have, and the difference in quality and color is HUGE. I haven't been disappointed with any Ziro filament so far. Glad that I found this brand. Keep it up!

First time, it worked horribly but read reviews and followed advise. Ran it as petg with a nozzle heat of 255c and bed heat as 80c. Ran at normal speed and working great. I did this on the elegoo centauri carbon. No it isn't complete but wanted to review before I forgot to help others out.

I've tested the Ziro PLA Pro fluorescent (opaque) yellow, blue, orange, red, and purple. * The glossiness of the print and the strength (layer adhesion) vary a lot with temperature. If you print at lower temperatures, you will get a more matte finish that isn't strong. Bed adhesion isn't great at lower temperatures, either. If you print at the higher end of the range, you'll get a glossier finish and much stronger prints. Bed adhesion improves also. I'm running it on my Bambu P1S with a 0.4mm hardened steel nozzle at 225C with 60C bed. This works well for me. My flow rate and pressure advance calibrations were extremely consistent from one color to another. All were nearly identical. This gives me confidence that I will get very consistent print results. The neon colors fluoresce (glow) a little differently depending on the wavelength of UV (black) light you use. I tested 365nm and 400nm wavelengths: * The neon yellow glows *insanely bright*, but appears more *green* than yellow under UV, especially at 365nm. * The neon blue glows a bright sky-blue color under both 365nm and 400nm (but the black light fools your eyes into thinking it looks more white). * The neon orange glows bright orange under both 365nm and 400nm UV. * The red glows a pink-red color under 400nm UV and an orange-red under 365nm UV. It doesn't glow as bright as the other colors and appears very dim when compared side-by-side. * The purple looks pink in normal light, not purple like in the picture. Under UV light, it glows *blue* color, not really purple.

My husband has bought any colors in this brand, so I got the Rose Gold for him to make some stuff for me and our daughters and I LOVE it! Prints beautifully!! Will definitely buy again!

First I want to state I bought this filament and was not asked to review or offered anything like that. I have purchased a lot of filament over the years. I prefer Creality Hyper PLA which works great with my Creality K1 Max. I also use a lot of Hatchbox PLA which is great but cannot handle the speeds as well. I have never used Silk PLA and I have heard it can be finicky at times. I needed a specific silver metallic filament for a project and it was not available in either of my preferred brands. I took a chance on this an I was very pleasantly surprised. It printed beautifully straight way with default settings, excellent bed adhesion and no issues with bridging or stringing. What's more it was a bit less expensive as either of my usual filaments, yet on top of all that it came with a small sample that was nice and novel, it also came with a small samping swatch of filament to purge the hot end between filament changes, and if that wasn't surprising enough it included a quality resealable bag to store the filament in. This is by far my best experience with an untested filament. I will definitely be buying more.

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

This is, hands down, the worst filament I have ever used. I mean specifically the Glow in the Dark Cyan (I have had no trouble out of 3 other filaments from this brand). It won't stick to the bed, even with glue, which I don't typically use as I don't need it unless I am printing something with a very small point of contact on the bed. I had several prints fail due to poor adhesion, costing me a total of about 2 days valuable print time in the last minute crunch to pump out toys for our Halloween party... then came the jam; it was the straw that broker the camels back, I tried to use some of this in a 12 hour multi-layer project. I used it for the second to last layer, print 94% complete, and this stuff, which was to be the white blue part of Cheshire Cat's eyes printed okay there (it didn't touch the bed), however, when the printhead came up to change to the final color, the pupils, this stuff jammed in the nozzle and heat pipe (all metal DD hotend) so badly I ended up having to dissemble the entire printhead assembly and take a heatgun to the parts to melt out the filament; of course, that meant I had to do a complete recalibration of the bed too, so that cost me a few more hours. I'll stick to more mainstream brands for glow in the dark filament going forward; this spool is going in the trash since the manufacturer doesn't want it back. Update to clarify: I stated this is going in the trash, the manufacturer asked me to specify that they did in fact refund me for the purchase. To be clear however, my rating of this product will remain 1 star until if and when I see proof that the spool I received was defective and not the product overall.