Natural VS Color ABS

[MakerBot Space2]

Looking for input - has anyone noticed a performance difference
between Natural VS Colored ABS? Do you run it hotter - cooler - no
difference? Which sticks best for you? Is one more prone to
warping? Let me know your experiences.

Thanks
Brandon

[Will Brown]

I've used black, red and natural, and it seems like black is far more fluid than natural at my normal printing temperature, and red is somewhere in between. I have a skeinforge profile for each of them because the necessary extrusion-width-over-thickness parameter is different for each.

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[JohnA.]

I'm sure I'm a bad example, but I've now printed in: blue, yellow,
red, green, black, white, and fluorescent red -- and I've never
changed a setting at all.

Not for the variation in filament thickness. Not for the color
differences.

It all just works, at least for my use... dave d. is probably
clutching his chest reading this.

JohnA.

[ddurant]

> It all just works, at least for my use... dave d. is probably
> clutching his chest reading this.

Arrrrgggg!!!! (dave's head explodes but, strangely yet sadly not
surprisingly, he keeps typing anyway)

For ABS, I've got black, yellow, green, red and natural. The natural
is 2.8mm and the others are within 0.05mm of 3.0mm. I haven't really
printed with anything except black (because I've still got about 5
miles of it) but wouldn't really expect to have to mess with the
other, non-natural colors. Maybe poke at the temperature a little
based on what others are saying.

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[Jeremy Ruhland]

In my experience back prints far better than natural abs. The natural abs doesn't seem to extrude as much during prints, a problem I'm still trying to solve. (I've seen tutorials on how to deal with too much plastic being extruded but not about too little, anyone have a good link?)

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