Last week I took the bait and bought some esun pla+ from an Amazon.de sale.

I normally print with Colorfabb of Prusament. Almost for 5y now and never had real issues, especially not with the Prusa Mini.

But now, I loaded a fresh rol and it just… was awful: under extrusion galore even in the first layer! A lot of clicking and clacking… just 😒

I read somewhere their filament comes “wet”… pretty convenient that they also sell… overpriced dryers right?!

Anyway I’m going to build a dryer now. Hoping that resolved the issues and this wasn’t all money wasted… sigh

Anyway I was wondering if someone else had the same issues? Or experience with this brand? How can you know that it’s dried enough? Or can it really only be with testing?

I’m investing in a mk4 soon, this has a direct drive, instead of a Bowden. Will this be less of an issue? I mean I know about the quality issues I was just thinking about that it seems like it just cannot pass properly, through … and I forgot how it’s named: the thingie that feeds the filament.

Anyway if anything: be cautious with that brand. I wish I had read some more before buying it, I trusted the reviews to much I guess

Anyway sorry for the long kinda rand post… it has been… a challenging week… 🤟

  • @metalpoetnlEnglish
    1•1 year ago

    I’ve not used that printer, but eSUN PLA+ is my goto filament! It’s strong, affordable, high quality and produces good prints. I have found though it wants high temp printing. 225C seems to be the sweet spor on my sidewinder X2.

    Try printing a temp tower because it’s stringy as fuck or downright brittle at the wrong temps.

    • @GompjeOPEnglish
      2•1 year ago

      Thanks, will do.

      After I clean things a bit. after live adjusting tons I to think that 225C will be the good spot. and maybe to ‘quality’ setting instead of ‘speed’. The others have no problem with nice quality prints even on the speed settings, but what you said about the temp change and the reaction of the filament to this aka it being brittle and stuff like that… maybe its not suitable for faster printing on the Prusa Mini. I will test it again when the MK4 gets here, maybe that will be better.

      That said: I do not think I will buy this brand again. hmm and I in fact just did! for the cleaning thing recommended by solarbird! LOL

      It just that… I mean: I’m from the EU, which means the shipping from Prusa is affordable, and ColorFabb too. The last one is actually free for my country. The first was out of the colors I now asap need, the second still has a very very very shitty e-commerce site. but aside from a lot of frustration it kinda worked in the end. with a nice coupon to!

      Although given the amount of people who are swearing by esun, maybe when I did dail it in I will change my mind a bit. It does have a good price point. I hope I get it good enough for certain prints and … secretly hoping: maybe for all … in a way that I do not have to think ;-)

      • @metalpoetnlEnglish
        1•1 year ago

        I’m actually in the EU too. And i want to get a Prusa MKIV next year.

        I don’t really push speed in my printing though, I currently have actual print times of about 38m on a benchy with my 0.6mm nozzle at 0.4mm layer height for reasonable quality. Can’t speed up beyond 90mm/s without significant loss in quality though. Don’t think it’s filament related however, had the same thing with other filaments, even stuff like wood and steel PLA mixes.

        But yeah, my experience has been that at about 20 Euro a kilo on Amazon eSun PLA+ is excellent value for money. But I avoid their resin’s like the plague. Worst resin I ever printed with. .