FilamentFacts

Troubleshooting

Is Amazon Basics, Inland, or Micro Center filament good?

By SSS

Published . Updated .

How do I get good PLA prints?

Ranked filaments

RankFilamentMaterialNozzleBedBuy
1Inland · PLAPLA
190–230 °C374–446 °F
50–70 °C122–158 °F
Buy

Inland PLA from the Open Filament Database. Nozzle 190–230 °C (374–446 °F) and bed 50–70 °C (122–158 °F). Drying is not stored. A comment that uses a Bambu PLA profile for Inland is that comment. Bambu PLA Basic's bed is 35–45 °C (95–113 °F), so the beds are not the same row.

2eSUN 3D · PLA+PLA+
190–230 °C374–446 °F
50–70 °C122–158 °F
Buy

eSUN PLA+ from the Open Filament Database. Nozzle 190–230 °C (374–446 °F) and bed 50–70 °C (122–158 °F). A comment says Inland is usually eSUN. That is the comment, not a field on either row.

3JAYO · PLAPLA
190–230 °C374–446 °F
50–70 °C122–158 °F
Buy

JAYO PLA from the Open Filament Database. Nozzle 190–230 °C (374–446 °F) and bed 50–70 °C (122–158 °F). A drying temperature of 60 °C (140 °F) is stored and the hours are not. The comment says Jayo works and that PLA is forgiving.

4AmazonBasics · Silk PLAPLA
190–230 °C374–446 °F
50–70 °C122–158 °F
Buy

Amazon Basics Silk PLA from the Open Filament Database. Nozzle 190–230 °C (374–446 °F) and bed 50–70 °C (122–158 °F). Drying is not stored. This is the only Amazon Basics filament in the catalog. The comment that silk can be difficult is about silk, not a second PLA row.

Commission on these links. As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases.

Inland is the spool the comments actually run. Amazon Basics PLA is a name in a comment and a title. The catalog's Amazon Basics row is Silk PLA. Jayo and Kingroon are the cheaper names in one comment, and that comment calls PLA forgiving. eSUN is the separate brand page. The brittle pink PLA+ belongs on brittle filament, not as a grade for every Inland spool. Budget filament already lists Elegoo, SUNLU, JAYO, and Inland, and it names Kingroon without ranking it. Filament quality is how to judge a spool the comments do not measure. Good PLA prints is the first layer after that.

What the comments say

a Reddit thread in r/BambuLab: "Inland is usually eSun filament. Most eSun filaments are very good. Silk and translucent PLA can be difficult to print. Not always. Put your printer in silent mode to slow it down."

a Reddit thread in r/BambuLab: "I run a lot of inland filament. I have always used the Bambu pla profile. The only issue I have had is I have an old spool of pink PLA+ that seems to have brittle spots, and my girls complain that the rainbow filament changes colors too slow." "Usually eSUN" is the comment.

a Reddit thread in r/BambuLab: "if you think amazon basic pla is cheap, wait till you see jayo and kingroon 10 packs on aliexpress. They work fine. PLA is quite forgiving."

The rows

Inland PLA lists 190–230 °C (374–446 °F) and a bed of 50–70 °C (122–158 °F) in the Open Filament Database. Drying is not stored. eSUN PLA+ lists the same nozzle and bed in that database. JAYO PLA lists the same nozzle and bed, and stores a drying temperature of 60 °C (140 °F) with no hours. Kingroon PLA lists the same nozzle and bed and is the name in the score-61 comment, not a fifth winner.

Amazon Basics Silk PLA is the only Amazon Basics filament stored here. It lists 190–230 °C (374–446 °F) and 50–70 °C (122–158 °F) in the Open Filament Database. Drying is not stored. There is no plain Amazon Basics PLA row to put a temperature on. Silk trouble is silk PLA.

Bambu PLA Basic, the profile the score-13 comment says they load for Inland, lists 190–230 °C (374–446 °F) and a bed of 35–45 °C (95–113 °F) on its technical data sheet. The nozzle overlaps Inland. The bed does not. Using that profile is the comment. It does not rewrite Inland's bed.

Inland, eSUN 3D, JAYO, Kingroon, and Amazon Basics are the brand indexes. PLA and PLA+ are the material hubs.

Pros and cons

Pros

  • Inland, eSUN PLA+, JAYO, and Amazon Basics Silk PLA are real catalog rows, with temperatures labeled as the database.
  • The 'usually eSUN' line stays a comment.

Cons

  • The question names Amazon Basics PLA. The catalog row is Silk PLA.

Printer considerations

Printer limits

Sources & notes

Published . Updated .

Answer JSON · Markdown

Related questions

Related data

Questions

Is Inland the same filament as eSUN?

A score-30 comment on r/BambuLab says Inland is usually eSUN. The catalog keeps them as separate rows. Both Inland PLA and eSUN PLA+ list 190–230 °C (374–446 °F) and a bed of 50–70 °C (122–158 °F) in the Open Filament Database. That overlap is not an identity.

Where is Amazon Basics PLA?

It is not in this catalog. Amazon Basics Silk PLA is the stored product, at 190–230 °C (374–446 °F) and a bed of 50–70 °C (122–158 °F) from the Open Filament Database. The same comment that mentions Inland and eSUN says silk and translucent PLA can be difficult. The silk page is that case.