MakerBot PLA 3D Printing Filament Large Spool for Replicator+ and 5th Gen 3D Printers (True Black)

Darn you MakerBot. You make OK 3D printers and OK filament. Not bad at all but not the highest quality either. But the price is too high. "Your price is way too high you need to cut it" Other than the price no complaints. Hasn't jammed on me and prints fine with right settings.

Very stabile , no issues with prints during the entire spool of pla

Seriously the best filament to use on a MakerGear M2.

The filament came in plastic bags with silicone packs, but the plastic bags had holes in them defeating the purpose.

I like the filament, The price is the only thing keeping me from reordering. Nice prints, no clogs. Used on a Prusa IM3 MK3, Prusa mini, Tevo Tornado and Tronxy. 220 nozzle & 60 bed

Very good material

This is not a review on Amazon or the seller. They did their part great.Why the very low rating of 1 Star? Horribly expensive PLA! This stuff is junk because it is required! People out there, if you only have a Replicator+ and have to use this. Buy it once, and print the adaptor to clip onto the printer and allows the use of Standard regular and cost effective PLA to be used.I have four 3d Printers. 2 are Creality, 1 is a Makerbot Replicator+, the 4th is some generic brand I can't even remember the name. Does it even function anymore?The Replicator+ is overly complicated through its simplicity for no reason, including this whole mess with the filament.Let me explain for those out there who may not know. PLA is cheap, how cheap? Take 1 minute here on Amazon and check it out. But then we have this... Makerbot branded, NOPE sorry, purposefully made so that no other brand fits except their own. So they can charge 2 to 3 times more for the same PLA. Worse, I think their PLA quality is actually lower than Creality's and that is not a brand you consider high end.I paid nearly $50 for less than 1KG of PLA, that's right, Makerbot doesn't even give you a full KG, they short sell you by a bit. Insult to injury anyone?You know what I did? I used this spool to print an adaptor for the Makerbot Replicator+ to use regular cheap and better made PLA spools. It was intended to serve as poetic. So far my results have been, the 3D Printer is printing better than ever! Not kidding, I printed an adaptor you clip onto the side and it holds your typical spools with no issue. I feed the Replicator+ my regular PLA now and it just eats that stuff like it doesn't care. Cause it doesn't! Makerbot generates fear of damaging their Smartextruder with any other brand name, except they use the same parts all other printers use. So... yeah.People, don't let marketing scam you out of good products. I luckily was gifted this $2,000 disaster. Found out it was 2K looking up their specs and how to get the models printed on their (again) overly proprietary ecosystem. This brand promos itself highly to the educational field. Considering how easy my creality brands are, I can see the major government scam at play. By the way, Creality printers accept any open source file types and you can use any slicer for it. No need for a proprietary slicer or file type to print. This means no need to use shady Chinese software and the printers are standalone devices not linked to any network or system (if you don't want it).I have from Creality the Ender 3 v2 Neo and Ender 3 S1. They both combined didn't cost remotely close to the Replicator+. The Ender 3 v2 Neo was the printer that gave me the most headaches because I was extremely new to 3D printing and didn't realize my mistakes. Once I learned, it was smooth sailing. I also made 2 upgrades (still cheaper than the Replicator+ combined), to improve my printing experience. Those upgrades have made it excessively simple to print from the Neo. I dont remember the last time I manually leveled that bed or done any calibration. Have I even done maintenance since? It just prints great whatever I tell it to. While the Ender 3 v2 Neo is slower at printing the end quality of it is world's apart in superiority over the Replicator+, even when applying the best quality "custom" settings to the slicer for the Replicator+. The heated bed alone makes the Neo easier to print with, the Replicator+ has no heated bed. You have to resort to cheap tricks like glue or painters tape. Have NEVER used those tricks on any of the two Creality printers. Plus PLA is cheap. Why did I focus on the Neo? Because of the two printers from the Creality brand, that one is the cheapest entry level one I own. The Ender 3 S1 was a major improvement over the Ender 3 v2 Neo.That being said, the Makerbot Replicator+ is basic, as in very little slicer customization. Using the basic Creality slicer I get more customization, which is sad because Creality's slicer is well known to be very basic, low end, a joke. That aside, the Replicator+ is marketed as a fast printer. True when compared to the Neo and, if quality of print is meaningless. I also decided to do a head to head run of the Replicator default print quality, "Balance" (fast print not fastest print and considered the highest quality preset), to my S1 fastest print speed on paper (not what they market, which is slower). I dropped the print quality on that run for the S1. So to clarify, Replicator's highest quality preset setting compared to the S1 low quality, fastest theoretical functioning print speed. Both were printing at 0.2mm layer height. The Replicator+ has an undisclosed print speed which I will guess is around 150mm/s to 170mm/s based on some obscure google search results. The S1, I custom set to print speeds of 180mm/s though it is advertised as a max of 150mm/s. I used the same PLA brand and type, both printers used 210°C nozzle temperatures. Turns out the S1 was just as fast, technically a little faster, with a nicer printed model over the Replicator+. The 0.2mm print quality is very different between the two. I also have to add that there is no bed heating on the Replicator+, the S1 had to wait to start, it was extra time since it heats up from a cold start the bed first then the nozzle. The Replicator+ jumps to heating up the nozzle only. Guess the Replicator+ is just severely outdated. So to bring back full circle, why the very low rating of 1 Star?Horribly expensive PLA! This stuff is junk because it is required!Also when changing the nozzle on that SmartExtruder thing Makerbot uses. The factory installed nozzle was not a standard one. Uses the same standard threads and nozzle port size but standard tools for nozzle swaps didn't fit. Once I removed it I used a standard set of nozzles and tools. The Replicator+ functions like any other printer on the market, but Makerbot designed it to be slightly different to add difficulty and you would believe you needed to buy exclusive from them. That's why I give this PLA 1 Star. The seller was great but the Makerbot proprietary stuff is trash.

The ziplock back was torn a beaten up really bad causing ingress of moisture to the filament. Sad.