MIKA3D 6 Spools Fast 2 Color Change Silk PLA 3D Printer Filament Bundle, Silk Black Color Change to White/Red/Orange/Blue/Purple/Green, Each Spool 250g, Total 1.5kg Silk PLA Bundle 250g X 6

I've been a long-time 3D printing enthusiast and have often looked for filaments with a silky sheen that these promise. I have to say that these are the first I've found that actually deliver. They look amazing when printed with a sheen that follows the contours and reflects the light like, well, silk. Polish the surface with ultra fine sandpaper (400 stepping down to 12000 grit) and you get an incredible shiny metallic-looking surface. I can't recommend any this filament any more highly. It prints smoothly with no stranding or clumping, and it works great with my standard PLA printing profiles. And while the Silver and Gold colors are great, the Copper color is absolutely stunning. I don't know why some reviewers are having less spectacular results. Perhaps they have the heat too high, or maybe there is something else wrong with their printer. I print with 200 degrees, 70 mm/s print speed, 60 degree glass bed, and the results are consistently great. And I'm not using a fabulously expensive 3D printer, just an off-the-shelf Ender 3.

I recently purchased this product, and I couldn't be more satisfied! From the moment I started using it, I noticed a significant improvement in my daily routine. The quality is outstanding, and it’s clear that a lot of thought and care went into its design. It's incredibly user-friendly, making it easy to integrate into my life seamlessly. The performance has exceeded my expectations in every way. What really impressed me was the attention to detail. Every aspect of this product has been carefully considered, from the materials used to the features it offers. It’s durable, reliable, and delivers consistently great results. Plus, the customer service team was very helpful and responsive, ensuring I had a smooth experience from start to finish. Overall, I highly recommend this product to anyone looking for a high-quality solution. It's a fantastic investment that delivers real value and makes life easier and more enjoyable. Five stars!

I've been printing alot of things glow in the dark green till I saw this 4 pack of different colors and immediately was drawn to the purple. I printed a purple shark and was excited to see it glow but I'd did not glow at all... I was very disappointed and was about to request a return for defective product and misleading advertisement but the advertisement does actually say in the pictures that UV will charge the filament the best. I took out my old black light and charged it for about 10 seconds and surely enough the purple showed up clean. I like the quality of the filament but won't buy it again because I only have one black light and I want filament that can be charged with regular light like the plain green filament I've been buying. Great if you have black light and black felt fuzzy posters!

2nd Update: I'm deleting my first update. The extrusion issue was not the fault of the filament after all. My first review stands, although I will knock off a star for one reason. This filament is super brittle. It normally isn't a big deal, but when you get down to the last 20% of the spool where it is wound tightly, depending on what kind of a printer you have and how the filament feeds, you may encounter a big problem. For the Ender 3, you need around 2 inches of fairly straight filament to get it to feed properly. I had this filament snap on me at least a dozen times as I was trying to gently straighten out a piece by hand. I have never dealt with filament this brittle before. I almost gave up but managed to get it fed. You do pay a slight premium for this filament, but it isn't your normal dull everyday filament so I don't get all wound up about that. It is a bit more temperamental than standard filament and requires some adjustments from normal PLA settings, at least that has been my experience. Mine is printing about 98% perfectly with the temperature at 220C (bed temp of 60C is working just fine). I'm thinking about actually trying a different print with that run up to 225C or 230C because I get the very rare (like one pass in 100 at most) where the layer width for the one strand doesn't lay down quite as flat and uniform as the rest. Could be an issue with filament consistency, or it could just be that this wants to be a little warmer and I'm running it right at the bottom end. Now on to the great stuff. This material is REALLY shiny. It looks fantastic! I've printed short flat things and tall skinny things and it is interesting how the finish is so different, yet still cool for both. I printed a fairly large coin (2" diameter) flat on my Ender 3 and the result was stunning. The golden shine is really bright. You would never get anything this cool from regular filament. Then I printed the same coin on its end. It was a markedly different type of shine. It was a darker golden color and not quite as shiny but it still had this really cool look to it. They ship these in vacuum sealed zip lock bags, always a nice touch and I wish everyone did this. Overall I really love this stuff and I wouldn't hesitate to buy it again. I'm going to play a little bit more with the settings and see if I can get it dialed in to perfection, but I am happy with the results I am getting already. If I find better settings I'll update this review if I can.

Well packaged filaments, air tight sealed

Printed Great!! Nice Vibrant Colors.

I wanted to like this PLA (the Gold / Silver / Copper pack). It seemed to be the ideal choice for what I needed. Unfortunately, it just required more effort to get a good result than I was willing to put in. Visually, the filament looks great, and when I persuaded it to print successfully I was satisfied with the result. The challenge came with getting that successful print. I'm not sure if it's due to limitations with my printer (an Ender 3), my environment (Florida, albeit in an air conditioned room), or the PLA itself but I was getting a > 50% print failure rate with this when my normal failure rate with most other filaments I've tried is < 10%. It was particularly frustrating that each of the colors needed the print settings tuned individually to get an acceptable print of the same object. The most common challenges I had were as follows: * Adhesion issues. This was by far the most frequent. While the filament sticks to itself well, it often failed to stick to the printing bed. It was inconsistent though. After tuning the temperature to a value that worked well for me (205 or 210 depending on color, not the 220 stated on the spool itself), it varied between failing to stick, and sticking so tightly that the piece broke when being removed from the build plate. Printing a raft helped... except when it didn't. * Stringing. At the stated temperature of 220, there was a huge amount of stringing. This was significantly improved by using a lower temperature but still occurs as low as 200. * Snagging. Several failed prints were the result of what appeared to be situations where the filament got caught under itself on the reel. I have no idea how that happens, especially not when it occurs part way through the reel. When it did so, the strain was sufficient to break the filament. * Clogging. In a half roll of filament, the print nozzle got clogged three times. I did wonder if that was a problem with the extruder nozzle, but was able to print without issues using other (Hatchbox) filament. Hopefully this was just an issue with the specific batch(es) that were in my shipment. Overall I found that the challenges working with this were sufficient that I probably won't try using this filament again unless no other options are available.

Having just bought a roll of "silk" PLA from another vendor, and had it turn out to be a complete disaster (kinks, uneven filament size, jamming, etc.), I was worried that I was going to be disappointed again. I shouldn't have been. The Mika3D filament is terrific. Prints are shiny and glossy, with a real metallic look (I got the gold/silver/copper bundle). The only profile change I had to make (Ender 3 Pro) was to bump up from my usual PLA hot-end temp of 205C to 215C. And with that one change (after a small test print using a wire clip that prints in 11 minutes), I've had nothing but great prints from both the silver and gold (haven't tried the copper yet!). And the included glue stick was a nice little bonus that I've actually used, having changed my Ender 3 Pro bed to a glass bed only recently. The filament is smooth, has a good constant diameter, feeds well, adheres well, layers well, and looks great for things you want to look metallic. No stringing or glopping of any kind. I think I've found my go-to metallic silk filament!

Todo muy bien

This filament is brittle at certain places on the roll, not consistent. The blue pla especially. The filament keeps braking in the feeder tube and extruder. This is a headache to deal with. Not what I expected at this price point. This is the only filament causing me problems so far. Using Bambu X1C. I can't recommend it. A waist of money for me.

no es por 3.35 kg como dice la descripcion, llegan 3 carretes de .5 kg, 1.5 kg en total

Junk. Doesn't glow in the dark very well

Pour les initiés , le changement de couleur s'effectue tous les 5 mètres ;-)