Perhaps this was a bad batch, but in a commercial operation a "bad batch" costs money--a lot of it! We at Dunham Studios ordered this because we trusted the MakerBot name and reputation and because we, of course, use the PLA in our two MakerBot 3D printers. This batch of PLA White Filament also showed up a problem with the Platen supplied by MakerBot as original equipment. The Platen, as supplied by MakerBot as original equipment, is warped--slightly ..
I'm not typically one to complain about MakerBot, as I feel they have put together one of the better 3D printers out there.. but.. seeing that I couldn't buy the old 1kg roll of true white PLA, I decided to give the 2 pound version a try (900 grams). It's still good PLA, no complaints there and the new roll seems like it might be better to keep the PLA from binding up.However, it is kind of insulting to keep the price the same and lose 100 grams of plastic. Then ..
No desiccant sachet was included so the moisture made the extrusion rough. I dried the spool slowly in an oven at 60c but it shrunk, kinked , and stuck to itself. I had to unwind the spool then rewind. It also seems that the blue pigment increased the post print shrinkage to 8% linear shrink when the part was heated above 70c, Initial print shrink was very good at 0.3%. Next time no color and request a desiccant sachet
