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· PLA Color Differences - Performance & Settings
Hello, welcome to the community! To give you a definite answer that is applicable to all filaments and vendors would be near impossible. It is true for different colors that manufacturers add different additives and pigments which generate the color, and sometimes this means that you need a slightly higher or lower temperature or that it melts slightly different.
Usually the difference shouldn't be so disrupting that it warrants a different profile for each color, but it could be worth considering. And I've never printed with Gizmo before, so I am not sure how their filament prints.
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· PLA Color Differences - Performance & Settings
I don't know your filament, but I have also seen this in other brands: especially high-filled colors - thus with lots of pigments, or special pigments - print differently from uncolored filament. For example I have seen this in white, yellow, light-green, black,...
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· PLA Color Differences - Performance & Settings
Thanks so much for your input.
I've started running test prints that'll vary the temp and support settings. Hopefully I can chart out the best perimeters. It's still a nice filament, I may just need to stick to using this for support-less prints until I can figure it out.
Also, here are some pics of the finished Helmet from the file I attached before as well as the link to the original modeler.
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Hello, welcome to the community! To give you a definite answer that is applicable to all filaments and vendors would be near impossible. It is true for different colors that manufacturers add different additives and pigments which generate the color, and sometimes this means that you need a slightly higher or lower temperature or that it melts slightly different.
Usually the difference shouldn't be so disrupting that it warrants a different profile for each color, but it could be worth considering. And I've never printed with Gizmo before, so I am not sure how their filament prints.
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I don't know your filament, but I have also seen this in other brands: especially high-filled colors - thus with lots of pigments, or special pigments - print differently from uncolored filament. For example I have seen this in white, yellow, light-green, black,...
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Thanks so much for your input.
I've started running test prints that'll vary the temp and support settings. Hopefully I can chart out the best perimeters. It's still a nice filament, I may just need to stick to using this for support-less prints until I can figure it out.
Also, here are some pics of the finished Helmet from the file I attached before as well as the link to the original modeler.
https://www.myminifactory.com/object/3d-print-stormtrooper-helmet-65368
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