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maxime.c2
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Issues with the prusament silver PLA that came with MK3

I've had my MK3 for a couple of months now. Just last night, I ran out of black filament, and decided to print something about 10cm tall using the silver grey filament that came with the MK3. I had been keeping this filament in a sealed ziplog back with dessicant, in the original box. I've had 3 failed prints with it. One of them unstuck from the print bed, the other two prints had layers get unstuck mid-print, which produced a horrible mess. I'm reprinting that print right now with some cheap "tianse" filament I got on amazon, and it's finally working fine.

I'd just like to suggest that maybe Prusa ought to ship a different filament with the MK3. This silver filament isn't sticky enough. Something in the formulation probably needs to be changed.

It seems I'm not the only one with that issue:
https://www.reddit.com/r/prusa3d/comments/933tbc/new_mk3_just_built_cant_get_filament_to_stick_to/

Posted : 04/04/2019 3:17 pm
JP
 JP
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Re: Issues with the prusament silver PLA that came with MK3

The PLA that ships with the printer is not Prusament. Do not use that profile in Slic3r. Use the regular PLA profile. I think the Prusament profile is too hot? I forget. I made the same mistake.

The thread you linked to the guy did not set his live Z correctly.

Posted : 04/04/2019 7:53 pm
dryja123
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Re: Issues with the prusament silver PLA that came with MK3


The PLA that ships with the printer is not Prusament. Do not use that profile in Slic3r. Use the regular PLA profile. I think the Prusament profile is too hot? I forget. I made the same mistake.

The thread you linked to the guy did not set his live Z correctly.

I don't know what to believe. The filament that came with my printer said Prusament............... I received the printer 2 weeks ago.

Posted : 04/04/2019 10:21 pm
Wout
 Wout
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Re: Issues with the prusament silver PLA that came with MK3



The PLA that ships with the printer is not Prusament. Do not use that profile in Slic3r. Use the regular PLA profile. I think the Prusament profile is too hot? I forget. I made the same mistake.

The thread you linked to the guy did not set his live Z correctly.

I don't know what to believe. The filament that came with my printer said Prusament............... I received the printer 2 weeks ago.

Strange. I received mine around the same time with regular Prusa PLA (no Prusament). Here's a few pics of box and label; if you still have your box you can compare.

Posted : 04/04/2019 11:55 pm
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