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While prices below $10 per 1kg spool for PLA(+) become more and more common, PETG always used to cost a bit more. Now you can get 10 spools of brand name filament from Sunlu for $99.99 with free shipping from their US warehouse.
Use the
discount code PETGMRS that's shown in the banner on top of the shop and apply it in the shopping cart or at checkout.
Of course 10 spools are a lot, but if you have multiple printers or can share it with a friend who also has a 3d printer it might be worth to buy the higher quantity at a lower price per spool.
The advantages of PETG over the other types of filament are that there's less shrinking compared to PLA or ABS. PETG also has a higher temperature resistance and is less brittle than PLA but easier to print than ABS, because it's not so prone to warping and doesn't emit toxic fumes while printing. You should have a heated printbed which can go up to 60°C at least for PETG, but that shouldn't be af problem for most printers.
You can find tons of reviews for the Sunlu filament on Amazon, however the price is siginificantly higher there. They claim there's no jamming or bubbles with the filament and the windings aren't tangled.
The diameter is 1.75mm with a tolerance of +/- 0.02mm.
The recommended temperature is 220-250°C for the hotend and 60-80°C for the heated bed. I usually print PETG at 230°C(445°F) / 75°C(167°F).
Currently these colors and some additional combinations are available:
White, grey, blue, red, orange.
Unfortunately black PETG is sold out already.
https://de.sunlu.com/products/10-...0474200150
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Any drifts will cause your print to lift and wrap, and higher temp materials is more vulnerable than lower temp ones. Since PLA requires lower temp so you will likely not to see wraps on it.
An enclosure can help you to print any materials without wrapping or lifting.
A high quality material may help but I have Prusa PETG which also wraps until I print it in the enclosure
What printer do you have
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Not perfectly level? I mean it's glass I don't think you can get much more level than glass. so I don't know if the issue everyone is having with glass beds is that they are not leveled, that seems very unlikely.
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Glass=flat. Glass!=level.