Not horrible, but not good either.
Iv clocked well over 4000 prints on my 5, 3d printers, and this Hatchbox filament is fairly consistent in diameter which is usually the big quality issue, so good there.. but after printing 1 spool of Hatchbox (black) filament i had to strip and clean my hot end to remove an odd buildup of burnt material adhering to the stainless steel filament path and making flow intermittent,.. ~4000 prints under my belt, and I have never seen build up like this before with any other PLA. Was it contaminated, does it have filler, are they blending,. I don't know, all i know is that I did not receive pure PLA.
The other big issue is color,. I ordered red, what i got was labeled red,.. but the color on the spool was most certainly orange. I am a photographer, I know color, so I am not just being picky, this is tangerine at best, and nowhere near as close to red as the re-colored photo shows.
Ultimately I returned the "red", and if i had any black on the spool to return I would have returned that also.
Oh, and i didn't even get a form response when i wrote to them asking nicely about the color issue. aka 0 customer service. For that i just knocked off one of the two stars I was going to give due to the diameter tolerances being fairly tight.
Not horrible, but not good either. Iv clocked well over 4000 prints on my 5, 3d printers, and this Hatchbox filament is fairly consistent in diameter which is usually the big quality issue, so good there.. but after printing 1 spool of Hatchbox (black) filament i had to strip and clean my hot end to remove an odd buildup of burnt material adhering to the stainless steel filament path and making flow intermittent,.. ~4000 prints under my belt, and I have never seen build up like this before with any other PLA. Was it contaminated, does it have filler, are they blending,. I don't know, all i know is that I did not receive pure PLA. The other big issue is color,. I ordered red, what i got was labeled red,.. but the color on the spool was most certainly orange. I am a photographer, I know color, so I am not just being picky, this is tangerine at best, and nowhere near as close to red as the re-colored photo shows. Ultimately I returned the "red", and if i had any black on the spool to return I would have returned that also. Oh, and i didn't even get a form response when i wrote to them asking nicely about the color issue. aka 0 customer service. For that i just knocked off one of the two stars I was going to give due to the diameter tolerances being fairly tight.