IC3D Black 3mm ABS 3D Printer Filament - 2.1lb Spool - Dimensional Accuracy +/- 0.05mm - Professional Grade 3D Printing Filament - MADE IN USA

This filament is amazing. Plain and simple. Let's go through some qualities and how i feel about them: Color: Spot on. I've only gotten the black and natural colors but they are exactly what you would expect. Print quality: This filament extrudes and prints extremely well. It never skips and prints very consistently. The layer adhesion is probably my only complaint about this stuff. I may have to play around with the settings a bit more but every once in a while i would get a print that was just extremely easy to rip in half. Filament quality: The packing was beautiful. The roll itself is beautiful. The filament is rolled in a neat manner you would expect from a filament twice its price(the picture is exactly what you get). The diameter is perfect. The variation is negligible. These guys have a customer for life. If i ever need ABS I'll be buying from them.

I bought my first roll of 3mm black ABS from IC3D on based on price and reviews. It was my first roll of filament for a new Lulzbot Mini that I bought as a Christmas present to myself. My new 3D printer was my first 3D printer and it didn't come with a roll of filament. I'm happy to say that I had no problems printing with the filament from IC3D, even though this was my first experience with 3D printing. IC3D High Quality Black 3mm ABS 3D Printer Filament - 2lb Spool - Dimensional Accuracy +/- 0.05mm - Professional Grade 3D Printing Filament - MADE IN USA I then bought a roll of 3mm white ABS from IC3D, and again, no unpleasant surprises, which is good, very good. I'm sure most of us wouldn't like unpleasant surprises. IC3D High Quality White 3mm ABS 3D Printer Filament - 2lb Spool - Dimensional Accuracy +/- 0.05mm - Professional Grade 3D Printing Filament - MADE IN USA I have since bought two more rolls of these 3mm black ABS filament and have been very happy with the quality and the price and speedy delivery with Amazon Prime. I generally print with a Lulzbot profile of 240 degrees C for the filament and 110 degrees C for the bed. I measured and set the diameter for the filament for 2.90 for my printer.

Not sure who's at flaut here. It seems like it works really good but if I print tall parts the bottom starts warping/shrinking before the top is done printing and changes the print surface which then slowly ruins the part. I have tried a million different build plate temps, extruder temps etc. can't seem to get a really good part, could be me, the part, the part orientation. my printer, and a million other reasons so I can't for sure point the finger that the filament but thought to mention, if anyone else is having these same problems and NOT using an Ultimaker like me it could show material instability. So I give it a 4 because the price is fair and its a lot of material. I also like the big roles.

To set the stage, I just purchased a Lulzbot Mini 3D printer (my first). I'm no newbie to 3D modeling, but 3D printing is new for me. I've been researching it for a week and I finally dove in head first. So, I purchased several different vendor's filaments to kind of "test the gamut". I'll give my review of the ones I've used so far, so others don't have to learn the hard way: After having printed half a spindle on both IC3D and Verbatim, I found the following: IC3D ABS Black 3mm filament prints very consistently. No change in print quality and no bubbles. I have printed several 4x2x2" brackets I specially modeled to mount a 42" smart TV to a specific 60" stand. I even took a hammer to the printed bracket and it wouldn't give (and it has a honeycomb pattern inside, so it isn't even solid)! I have to mention that the filament tries to fall of the spool and wrap around the spindle holder, but I think this would more likely be a Lulzbot Mini issue, rather than IC3D. I will probably print an add on to their spindle holder. I also printed a part that had broken on my RC car, which is holding up better than the original part (and oh yes, I took a hammer to this one too... and it didn't break). Verbatim PLA Red 3mm filament prints inconsistently. Kind of surprising considering how long Verbatim has been in the plastics business. I printed one of those heart gear models for my wife. I had to print in several jobs due to my 6x6x6" footprint. Some of the prints have bubble pops, misalignments and rough surfaces (while some prints came out perfect). I used the temperature they specified, every time, so I can only chalk it up to inconsistencies in the filament. I didn't take a hammer to this one, so can't say. Now granted ABS and PLA are very different plastic, I can still say I have had NO issues with IC3D filament, so I can recommend it thoroughly. I must thoroughly recommend getting a iGauging caliper if you are going to be modeling and printing your own 3D models to match up with real world objects. The IC3D filament and the LulzBot Mini printer and the caliper tied together perfectly, matching up to the millimeter.

The filament arrived promptly and was of a very high quality. I work in a robotics lab and order a large variety of filaments keeping my eye out for the best and this is toward the top of the list in the ABS category. One of the cleanest spooled filaments I've used came of the spool in perfectly layered helix's and produced beautiful prints. Never came remotely close to getting tangled on the spool like many low quality filaments can tend to do. Also have never experienced a jam using our Taz 5 printer with this filament. Build plate 110C, nozzle at 240C as well as a boxed enclosure to raise the ambient temp produced warp free large prints. Some strong odors which is characteristic of all ABS filament so make sure to use in a well ventilated area. Diameter tolerances were as advertised and the filament came packaged sealed and was very dry. Didn't notice any imperfections along the surface of the filament though it's opaque color makes locating interior bubbles difficult.