ATARAXIA ART Flexible PLA Filament 1.75mm, 3D Printer Premium 1Kg/2.2lb Winded Spool 5X Longer Stretch,Easy Than TPU Extruder,89A Shore Hardness,Patent Formula, with Filament Storage Bags, FPLA Brown

Great filament! Make sure you SLOW DOWN your printer. I have a Flashforge Adventurer 5M, and when slicing I turned the printing speeds down to around 40mm (or whatever the speed unit is). Minimal stringing, stopped after I slowed it down a little more. Really good bed adhesion- but I have a textured plate and plate glue. Amazing looking print. Only issue I had is that the supports kind of welded themselves into the main piece.

This is one of my favorites to print toys for my nieces and nephews (even 'Spiky' horns/spikes will bend), it can print as easy as PLA, same settings (watch support, not enough of gap between object and support will result in needing it to be cut off and leaves a white scarring) I find that it starts to string unless I go about 50-60mm@195 I use a .06 nozzle and I can hear it 'spitting' as it's thinner, I can tell it's different than my other filaments when I feed it thru my direct drive.

This filament is actually quite nice and prints well, once you get it dialed in and assuming you can get and keep it dry. Compared to TPU, this filament has a feel that I really like. Once printed, it is noticeably softer and more flexible than the 95A filaments I typically use, but not anywhere near as soft as, say, Ninjaflex. In terms of tensile strength, it is VERY strong along the filament axis and does not stretch anywhere nearly as easily as even 95A TPU does. With my typical TPU, I can usually stretch the unprinted filament quite a bit by hand, but this stuff simply does not stretch easily, even though it is softer and more flexible. In terms of color, the light brown PLA is probably what I would consider closer to a medium beige, and, when printed is probably the closet look to "skin" than I have yet seen in a flexible filament. I just got finished printing out some creepy hands for Halloween using it and they look great. Print setting wise, I have had my best luck at 190C nozzle, 35C bed, 0.2mm layer height, 1mm retraction at 30mm/s, and 40 mm/s print speed, 100mm/s travel speed, and jerk settings set very low. I am using a 4mm nozzle on Titan direct drive extruder setup. Due to it's flexibility, if the print has any height to it at all, I found that until I reduced the travel and jerk settings, I was getting really odd banding showing up in the print toward the top layers (from where the print itself would flex and vibrate). I also recommend using at least a minimum of 75% part cooling fan, otherwise it has a real tendency to sag along the edges and the results are, well, creepy looking. At these settings, stringing was pretty minimal though there were still a few surface defects, but they were easily cleanable during post processing. One big thing to know about this filament though is how hygroscopic it is. This stuff absolutely LOVES to absorb moisture in very large quantities (honestly, even the nylon filament I use doesn't absorb water as much). When I first opened it (and it had a good vacuum seal on the bag) and went to use it, there was steam coming out of the hotend and actual beads of water running down the filament coming out of the nozzle. I have NEVER seen filament that actually dripped water out of it before. After popping it in my filament dryer at 65C for about 4 hours, it printed pretty well, but not fantastic, and by the end of a 12 hour print, it had absorbed enough moisture again to be obviously affecting print quality and making occasional popping noises. So, I put it back in the dryer and left it at round 65C for 12 hours. After that the print quality was great and I was able to complete a 12 hour print without any headaches, though on my next print it started to get a few minor moisture related defects showing up toward the end. Essentially, if you do not have a filament dryer of some kind, do not even think about bothering with this. It simply will NOT work unless you are able to keep it dry. Also realize that you are going to need to dry it repeatedly between printing or, preferably, keep it in a dry box with desiccant or something like an Easdry style dryer WHILE you are printing. So, this is really nice filament with some really good properties, but just be aware of its moisture issues. As a side note, the filament storage bag that comes with it is really well made and was a very nice addition to go with filament.

I bought the red FPLA, it looks a lot like a licorice whip. I wanted something softer than TPU, so far the only TPU I've found at a good price is 95a by overture, and that's what I'm comparing too. This stuff is nothing like TPU. TPU, when you pull it, it stretches then retracts like a rubber band, this makes it hard to keep the stringing down, but the stuff recoils. FPLA, when you pull it, it stretches, and stays that way. So when I got my red, when I measured it, it measured at 1.66 for a few feet and randomly over the roll. I tried to extrude it and it couldn't grab in the extruder at all. When I checked the measurement again in both directions this time, I noticed that one side was 1.66, and then the other side was 1.75... Meaning that its an oval. Which I thought was really weird. I contacted the company. They responded very fast, they were nice, they blamed amazon in that some how they made it flat. Like it was in your bag, in your box, on your spool where there was no way that could happen ever. But fine, I asked for a new roll, of a new color so its a new batch. And they sent it to me right away, took a day or two to get. The new one had the right dimensions. I dried it just in case (the red had a bag that was not air tight). It loaded OK, I printed some things OK. Their claim of printing at 60-100ms I think, is a total lie. It can't. I'm using my TPU program of 20ms to print this stuff or the walls won't stick. Day 2, I wanted to get the stringing right, I use a model that has 2 small spikes. I started with the lowest temp to see if I can get better shapes, well, it stopped working midway through. Thought it was clogged. Loaded it tried again warmer, and no.. Didn't work. I removed it totally, and noticed something weird, look at the picture. I use 8.5mm retraction on a bowden setup, this is for TPU. The filament is 1.75, then it stretched to 1.50 and its lumpy after that. Basically when it retracted, instead of stretching and recoiling like TPU, it stretched like taffy and stayed that way. So not only will the extruder struggle, but now less filament is going to the nozzle. Making it impossible to use. I haven't experimented with no retraction yet. But it would explain why people's prints would fail in these reviews. The company claims to have a refund and or replacement of the product. When it came time to get a refund they first said sure, but then asked if I got it on amazon and they gave me a runaround that I have to return a used roll. Amazon gave me my money back. If you don't retract I think you might be able to print with it. But its sketchy. And the first roll was unusable. And I don't see the advantage. This is not 89a, its not softer. It oozes more. Sticks to the plate like crazy (my pva bed is stained with black tar like filament). Basically you get PLA, that deforms easily, it compresses OK, it can't stretch, and fine detail breaks off just like normal PLA. There is no MSDS sheet telling me what chemicals they used to make it, so I think its not good to breathe in. Its bendy like tpu, but tpu can stretch, depress, and is more abrasion resistant. Plus this stuff is really expensive for this level of frustration. It doesn't seem to ooze as much as tpu, but I can print with tpu without much stringing. This leaves a mess, and I can only print things where retractions aren't needed and that's limiting. 12-14-22 - I'm updating this, since the time I bought this I tried 3 times to get it to print. And finally I can say its printing... The thing is, this isn't tpu, it has speeds of tpu, very slow speeds, speeds i'm still working on getting a balance for. 20ms if you want the walls to stick. I had the temperature too high, it has to be around 195-200. Anything less and the small stuff won't print. Anything more and there won't be enough pressure in the head. Basically it melts but nothing gets shoved in. I tried one batch at 240c, the temp I use TPU, and that was very wrong. Printing it too hot made it stick so bad to everything I could barely get it off. And there was no pressure. It dawned on me that this is not TPU and shouldn't be treated or compared to the stuff. Its a soft pla and nothing more. In fact I don't even know what this would be good for other than maybe feet on something or a toy. Because while its soft, it stretches and stays stretched like taffy. And its random. I can print the same thing twice and sometimes It won't fill in a top layer. Don't have any idea why because it wasn't clogged. So i'm still giving this a 1, because It shouldn't take this long to get this stuff to work. And it doesn't have a lot of practical uses. You are better off at learning how to print in tpu, its a pain, but it works a lot better, its a lot stronger, it can stretch and go back. This stuff can't. I also find that it doesn't give a consistent thick bead, its always on the thin side. And it takes longer to print than tpu...

This product is great! I enjoy the flexible options for printing, but it doesn't play well with my FlashForge Adventurer's flexible build plate. It often sticks and doesn't come off very easily. Otherwise, great product!

I really like the feel of TPU for printing certain components and gaskets, Unfortunately I really dislike printing TPU. It is slow and can be troublesome particularly really soft TPU. ART Flexible PLA is really easy to print. I used basic PLA settings (I just slowed the max volumetric speed down to 60-80mm/s) and made sure my print plate was clean. I have had some really good prints with these settings. I would definitely NOT use this filament in either Bambu labs AMS nor ERCF.

I've bought this product a few times and have had good results, however, I received my most recent roll which was wound terribly with the filament binding over itself. This caused multiple failed prints. Ataraxia sends a business card with an email for customer support along with the roll. I emailed about the quality issue and never got a response. I will keep using the product but I just need to remember to check the roll quality and return if there's a problem.

This is for the flexible PLA: If you extrude this at 70% instead of 100%, it is so much softer. I am getting fine detail and great support removal with the following settings Table heat set to zero Print temperature 195 First layer temperature 195 Support z distance set to three Separation XY 85% Print speed set to the same speed as TPU printing Using 0.4 nozzle and for fine details I am printing at 0.12 layers I am not using the tube to feed my printhead. I just put it above on a shelf and feed directly into the head as you can see in the picture. I have the blue as well as the yellow and they both print very nicely. At 90% extrusion it is 85A At 70% extrusion it is 70A measured by my device Happy printing