ZIRO Transparent PLA Filament 1.75mm, Pure Color 3D Printer Filament PLA PRO, Semi- Transparent 1.75 1KG(2.2lbs) Spool, Dimensional Accuracy +/- 0.03mm, Clear Material, Translucent Green

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.

The color is very nice, looks exactly like the images, which is always a plus. Since people care about this sort of thing, it is spooled very neatly.I don't think I've seen it mentioned in any other review, but they also include a storage bag, print head cleaner filament, and small filament samples. I didn't expect to get bonuses with the purchase, but I wanted to point them out since it's rare to get more than you paid for in this world anymore.

Well thats unfortunate, came in a bubble envelope, which makes me nervous, box looked rough, spool wasn't in a sealed bag but in a foam pouch. But im assuming it used to be as there were desiccant pouches in there. Part of the spool chipped, im sure its useable but still a little disappointing. Did include a 5 meter sample, 5 meter of cleaning filament and a folded up sealed bagUpdate: changed my review to 5-stars, Ziro did reach out and offered a resolution. The filament prints great by the way.

Excellent color after printing, didn't burn, string or any other issues while printing. It is significantly more susceptible to UV damage than typical PLA I noticed. I was careless and left the spool on the printer after a print and the 2 ish hours of sunlight on the filament made it extremely brittle. All in all, don't be dumb like me and this will work great. 4 stars because standard PLA doesn't get ruined as fast by UV in my experience

I stumbled into a roll of Ziro some time ago, and it performed so well, I returned for several translucent rolls. Perfection.They include a fresh bag, some cleaning filament, and some samples in every box. Solid!

I was really looking forward to using this florescent filament for waves in a Jaws model I'm printing, but I can't get a single print completed. It keeps clogging and knocking despite experimenting with multiple settings from extruder temp 205-250, retraction distance from 2mm-5mm, calibrated my e-steps, and several others.Another user posted that this is actually petg and so the temp needs to be turned up, but going to 250 only made it clog quicker. 220 seems to be the best I've gotten so far but it still clogs and knocks, especially when getting into some of the finer detail of the print.The company gave me a refund, but it's still aggravating that I can't use this filament.The first image is from a lithograph I attempted. Pretty simple, mostly flat. Couldn't finish.The other 2 images shows the layers that printed badly due to clogging and I paused to fix it and resumed print. The end eventually failed as you can see in the very rough edges around the tips because it was late and I had to go to bed. I just said "screw it, let's see what I get in the morning."besides an unbelievable clog that made me disassemble the entire hotend to clean out, I got this end result.Update- As it turns out, it's not PLA, it's PETG and my Ender 3 had a hard time with it. I got the Bambu A1 and prints this filament well with the PETG presets. I gues the onl yissue at this point is that it's labeled as PLA but it's actually PETG and needs to be treated as such.

Excellent PLA. Works great at 205°C on my PRUSA Mini. No stringing or oozing.

This filament is fantastic, I printed the actual mushroom in the picture and it looks amazing. Almost like silk, plus they sent me 2 free gifts. A 5m roll of cleaning filament plus a 5m roll of neon filament. Now I want to buy a roll of that neon