ZIRO Fast Gradient Silk PLA Filament 1.75mm, Personality Series- Steady

I used this PLA to print out a storage system for D&D minis, this filament made it look beautiful. It looks really nice and printed with no issues. I used this in both a P1P and X1C. I did direct feed, and not through an AMS, so unsure how it would work in an AMS unit, but it prints beautifully. My next project for this will be a large pencil holder to hold my markers and brushes.

Great color choices from this brand as well as print quality. I finally got a chance to do some tests and fun prints ( I usually do more prototyping as a CAD modeler) on a newly purchased Flashforge 5M core XY machine. This filament was tested at temps between 220-240 at varying print speeds between 150-300mm/s with 10k-18k acceleration rates. This PLA did well and resulted in good color transition and overall quality, considering the speeds. It did take some experimenting to get the adhesion right as 220 was just too low, even on slower bedslinger machine printing at under 80mm/s. This is the one knock I do have with these silk type filaments. You do have to crank up the temps by at least another 5-8C for decent adhesion. This has printed well at high speeds, so I can give this a solid 4.5 rating, but rounding up to 5 stars as I've had excellent results in the past as well.

This coloring changing filament makes a shiny pattern going from a metallic silver, bronze, blue, and then repeats. The filament adhered to the buildplate very well, I almost couldn't remove it without a flexible build plate. In terms of individual layers there was no separation and the filament blends so well I can hardly notice layer lines unless up close. I printed a wolf model using an iPrusa MK3.9 on default prusa PLA settings with a layer height of 0.2 and temperature of 215C. The filament box includes a reusable bag to store the filament when it it use, this is fantastic and I think more companies should do this. There was also a first for me, it even includes a 5M strand of "cleaner" filament that is meant to be used between material type changes to keep nozzle from clogging. I thought that was pretty neat, I'm usually doing cold pulls when changing from Petg to PLA. The cleaner filament is a little more tacky than PLA which seems to grab any residue in the nozzle and pull it through. Super satisfied with this filament and like the variety of colors available.

Nothing really to add to what others have said. Nice shiny/silky filament that produces good looking prints. Unlike over 50% of the filament I get from Amazon, this had the seal intact, and the shipping bag did not get looser as the days progressed. It was not highly evacuated however-the plastic was far from tight against the reel. Sent by Amazon in a bubble envelope, so the box inside was open and pretty well mangled.

I ordered the ZIRO shining fast color change PLA filament to use on my Ender 3 V2 3D printer. I had been looking for some new variety in fast color changing filaments and this looked like and interesting color combo and I have not tried this particular brand before either. I have a printer profile for a test print file called a Benchy that I print when testing new PLA which I printed using this filament. Overall, the quality of the print was very good and the print has a good shine too it as well. The test print is a smaller model so it did not get into a lot of color change but the color was very good and it did have gradual change towards the top of the print that looked very good. I am extremely happy with this filament in how it printed, how it looks since you never know with a new brand of filament especially in the glossy of shiny variety of filaments where they can be somewhat temperamental.