ANYCUBIC PLA Filament 1.75mm, 3D Printer Filament Dimensional Accuracy +/- 0.02mm, 1KG Spool (2.2 lbs) 3D Printing Filament for 3D Printers

Now here is the disclaimer folks: I am no expert of 3d printing. I had a brief fling with the idea and it ended poorly. I used maybe 25% of this stuff. It seemed good, affordable and decent quality to me. I think if you are on a budget yet don't want garbage then this is the one to get. This is about all I can offer on the subject. Thank you.

One of the best filaments a have used to date. Only ever had two issues with it. One of the reels I got had a crossover in the reel which messed up my print. But was easy to uncross, just a little frustrating at the time and the other was the last quarter of a reel kept blocking the hotend, but this may have been a moisture problem my end due to the change in weather.

Prints well, it's not the best quality print as feels a little cheap but you can get a really fine details from it. I am a novice with 3d printing but I am pleasantly surprised with the result.

My printer loves this stuff and at this price I’m both glad I found it and more than happy to use it, anyone who 3d prints knows some filaments are a nightmare to print, this isn’t and I would recommend you to try it.

This has great bed adhesion (I always use watered down PVA and or hairspray anyway) AND great release! Wait until the bed is room temp and this just lifts off. Brilliant. The colour is like 'solid milk' (?) - see the picture of the iPhone holder I made. It prints well at 210° C, and the prints are strong when printed solid/high fill, and flexible when printed thin and 'empty'.Good product, will buy again

Product itself is good as I have used it before but my latest package never arrived and amazon didn't do anything about it

I purchased an i3 Mega and found the filament that came with it to print quite well. I thought I’d try out some other colours they sell and after using them I decided to leave a review for anyone else interested in purchasing. I ended up buying blue and red at £17.99 eachCost – 7/10There’s a large variety of filaments available on Amazon and I’ll admit that the Anycubic filaments aren’t the cheapest, but their price is fair when you consider the inconsistency in quality of a lot of other brands. I purchased another that I couldn’t get any prints to work because of the filament quality.Dimensional Accuracy – 9/10I measured the thickness of both filaments across different points in the filament and found both to be spot on throughout. Slight changes in the thickness at various lengths in the spool can cause problems mid print as the g code cannot account for this. It’s preferable to have a uniform and incorrect diameter (e.g. 1.7mm throughout) than varying diameters across the spool, so it’s good that both these spools were accurate.Bed Adhesion– 6/10With both colours I experiences initial issues with bed adhesion. Relevelling and cleaning the bed didn’t seem to do the trick so I resulted to slowing down the prints (from my usual 50mm/s to 40mm/s) and this seemed to do the trick. The issues were more prevalent with the red filament than the blue (I think this was just because I used the red first. So, once I changed the settings there wasn’t much change needed for the blue.Print Quality – 7/10Print Quality depends predominantly on your print settings, but if you have poor quality filament it’ll be near impossible to get good prints. I found both blue and red to print out very well. I printed 3 different models to compare the difference in quality between the two filaments and I have to say that both colours print equally as well.- Benchy (8/10): The benchy model came out very well. The lettering underneath the boat is very clear. Due to the issues with getting the first layer to adhere right away, the lettering when using red was slightly less clear than the blue (the 1st picture will show this). Overall, the quality of the models was very good. The hull and deck came out nicely, small features printed well and there was no stringing inside the boat (all seen in the 2nd picture).- Owl Pair (7/10): The pair of owls were printed together, and both came out quite well. There was slight stringing between the two models whilst printing, but this was just at the top of the models where the small features are. However, the small details of the feathers came out very nicely in both colours. I found no difference in quality between the red and blue owl prints which is good as it shows consistency. The quality of the owl prints can be seen in the 3rd and 4th pictures).- Skull (7/10): The skull prints also came out very well. There was some slight stringing within the models (which can be seen in the 5th picture). But for such small and regular gaps between the wireframe design, you can’t really complain with the quality achieved. I reckon if the skulls were printed larger, the stringing would be more prominent, but this should be easily fixable with dialling in retraction settings.Colour accuracy – 9/10It’s difficulty to buy filament online because the colours used in the pictures don’t always match the filament that you print with. Fortunately, that’s far from the case with these two filaments. Both the red and blue match the colours in the pictures and when printed, there is no discolouration anywhere. I went with red and blue as they are two safe colours, but the accuracy gives me more hope in picking other colours to print with in the future.Pros- Accurate diameter: Having an accurate and within tolerance filament diameter prevents any issues in printing as you work through the spool- Good quality prints: Both colours provided equally as good of a print quality, which was a high quality at that.- Low(ish) cost: For the price, the filament is very good. Both cheaper and dearer filaments can be had but I would say that £18/kg is a good price point for a budget filament. Especially one that produces good quality prints.- Quality colours: The colours are accurate to the pictures on Amazon and print out nicely.Cons- Bed adhesion: Having to slow the speed down in order to better bed adhesion increases the overall print time which can be a pain.Summary – 8/10Overall, I am very happy with the quality of the filaments. A lot of brands in a similar prince range (£15-£20 per kg) lack in dimensional accuracy and actual colours vs pictured colours, but the Anycubic filaments fortunately aren’t one of them. If you’re looking for some cheap filament that doesn’t sacrifice in quality, then this is definitely worth a punt.

This PLA has been incredible at all temperature settings (190 - 210) and print speed (45 - 60) and also at the different print quality settings on my Anycubic Vyper. Make sure you keep it away from direct sunlight, I store mine in an airtight container with silica gel packs away from sunlight in a cupboard.