Any experience using iiiD Max filament?

[Ray Price]

The algorithm has been throwing ads from  IIID MAX across my pages.  Took a look at the site, and some of their PLA+ colors are in the ballpark for what I use from Microcenter. Their individual rolls are about average, maybe a little higher, but 3-roll bundles bring it down to Microcenter range.

Microcenter has had some spotty inventory in my neck of the woods, so I wanted to start setting up some potential alternatives for suppliers.  My current go-to suppliers are Microcenter / Overture / Polymaker for one particular silk color. Printed Solid was on my supplier list, but looking to curtail them with their latest price bump on the Jessy filament.

[Bryan Eckert]

I see some threads on reddit and elsewhere of people saying they've had a good run with great prints and no issues, and then suddenly they'll have all kinds of issues with bad filament.  Mainly inconsistent OD issues, and filament that jams up with blobs on the filament from the spools.

[Ray Price]

Thanks.  Took a look over there as well.  Seems like the most recent posts are reporting no issues, but will have to think about it.  Just did some restocking from Microcenter, so will be a while before I need to get more filament.

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[Kurt A 3d]

Printed Solid Jessie  PLA was my goto before the price hike, never liked their PETG

Polar PLA was my #2.

Prusament of course if you can afford it.  By the way you can get good prices on refill spools and 2kg spools of Prusament from PrintedSolid some of it made in the USA at PrintedSolid. 

I have had good success with Polymaker TPU and I like their modular fillament driers. 

So far, if you can deal with the shipping issues and weird delays and ever changing stories, Voxel has printed well both PLA and PETG, on my first spool of each through. It’s less than $17 a kg. 

Kurt-A