Galactic Empire Metallic Purple HTPLA

Metallic Purple PLA Filament

$4.00 USD
HTPM1705-GEP

Designed in collaboration with local artist, Rose "Maz" Moore of the creative duo "Maz and Attero" (etsy.com/shop/mazandattero or mazandattero.xyz) and named by the community, Galactic Empire Metallic Purple HTPLA has presence and prestige! Purple is the color of royalty after all. So park your star destroyer and roll out the red carpet because this rich, dark purple is complimented with some big, silver fleck for just the right metallic pop!!!

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Prop 65: This product contains a chemical, Titanium Dioxide, which is known to the State of CA to cause cancer when unbound particles are inhaled.

A purple to rule the galaxy from the Kings of Filament! 

Print with the ease of standard PLA with standard hardware and temperatures, but make fun, mesmerizing prints that stand out.  Celebrate good times by printing toys, treasures, and keepsakes.  If you want to make a print more fun, just add some metallic pop!  Our metallic finish contains no actual metal and has little risk of clogging or wearing your nozzle, and it won't make a glitter mess, but beware the printing is sure to be addictive!  Metallic particles are relatively small but have some orientation effects, giving top/bottom surfaces more shine than sidewall, so have some fun playing with orientation to see how the result changes!  We recommend 0.2 mm layers for the best result.

Like our other HTPLAs, Metallic HTPLA can be "Heat Treated"  to increase crystallinity for "Higher Temperature" resistance compared to amorphous PLA, ABS, and co-polyesters like PETG!  Glitter Flake HTPLA prints translucence, but turns opaque when heat treated (or crystallized).  With a more crystalline structure, heat treated HTPLA parts can hold form to near melting, though temperatures where the material is practically useful vary greatly depending on geometry and load conditions!

For this improved performance, your prints should be baked in an oven until you see a change from translucent to opaque with reduced gloss.  This visual change indicating the improved performance! We've  seen the change take place in 5-10 minutes on thin walled parts but can take an hour or more.  We've had good luck in a quality, at home convection oven at 110C (225F).  Parts will get very "floppy" before becoming more firm, so please leave supports on your parts or support them and bake them on a flat, non-radiating surface (like glass, ceramic, or composite).

  • Available in 1.75 & 2.85 (3) mm diameter on a 500g diameter recyclable cardboard spool
  • Usable on most PLA-compatible printers, such as Lulzbot, Makerbot, FlashForge, Dremel, Ultimaker, Printrbot, and more!

No abrasive fillers so expect normal wear with standard nozzles.

In our experience, good results were achieved using standard PLA parameters ranging from 195-225C nozzle with standard build surface preparation (blue tape, glue stick, or BuildTak). No heated bed required but up to 60C is okay.  Beware, if the bed temperature is too high, your part base could actually heat treat while printing, increasing warping and decreasing adhesion.  Some shrinkage will occur in the heat treating process, so dimension critical parts may need to be scaled appropriately (as much as 2.5% in our experience).


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JK
11/08/2020
josh k.
United States United States
Awesome

It was easy to work with and has a great amount of sparkle!

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KS
10/27/2020
Kyle S.
United States United States
Fantastic Filament

High quality material that has imaculate finish and color. I did notice I needed to print at higher temperatures to get consistent extrusion, around 260 C for my printer (Delta with ~900mm bowden tube, E3D V6 hot end). Even at these higher temps the material prints wonderful with almost no stringing and fantastic detail resolution. Would highly recommend.

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JA
08/20/2020
Jesse A.
United States United States
This is the the best looking protopasta yet.

Galactic is incredible. I haven’t printed with it yet but will soon. I just like looking at it on the spool.

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JG
07/17/2020
John G.
United States United States
Peanut butter Grape Jelly Time

Great color and filament

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DE
12/09/2019
Dallas E.
United States United States
Awesome Color

After dialing my printer settings to the HTPLA filament requirements. This is one of the nicest printing and looking filaments I’ve purchased. I love that it’s a local business and very high quality.

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