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			<title><![CDATA[Re: Colorfab nGen review]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[<p>Thanks for the review looks like nice stuff to print.&nbsp; First I heard of this product.&nbsp; Will probably pick up a roll or two to try . seems like the&nbsp; best qualities of pla and /abs combined yet stronger. <br />Tin</p>]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jan 2016 00:58:57 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Colorfab nGen review]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[<p>I just picked up a spool of this to try it out and I didn&#039;t see any reviews here yet, so here you go.</p><p>I got a dark blue 1.75mm nGen spool from printedsolid.&nbsp; I started out at a print temp of 235 C on my E3D V6 and 70 C heated bed and started the first print as a simple vase.&nbsp; nGen is marketed as a very &quot;printable&quot; material but I was curious how it would actually perform.&nbsp; I&#039;m not big on buzz words like eastman amorpha such-and-such polymer but I know a good printing material when I see and handle it.&nbsp; </p><p>The vase turned out beautiful!&nbsp; I was very pleased with the flow properties of this filament.&nbsp; It flows very smoothly without the occasional &quot;bump&quot; that I seem to get in my ABS prints no matter how much calibration I do.&nbsp; It seems to have a very suitable viscosity for printing and it leaves very very little blobs on retraction.&nbsp; The print felt at least as strong as ABS, and not very brittle.&nbsp; Also, the color saturation is very nice, even and bright too. </p><p>Next up, I did this elephant (<a href="https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:287891">https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:287891</a>) to really test the retraction and overhang ability.&nbsp; Of course, there will also be some stringing on these types of voronoi style prints but it really was not bad and a lot less than ABS.&nbsp; I did have a cooling fan pointed at the nozzle the whole time (<a href="https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:839620">https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:839620</a>).&nbsp; I have yet to try it without this cooling fan, so I don&#039;t know how much it would tend to warp up on overhangs without this.&nbsp; </p><p>On both prints, there was absolutely no warping on the build plate.&nbsp; I used a light coat of purple glue stick on glass, like I do for all my prints.&nbsp; I have solved my warping even on large ABS prints, but I don&#039;t expect warping to ever be a problem with nGen.&nbsp; The big downside is cost.&nbsp; At $39 for 750 grams, its more than double the cost of decent ABS.&nbsp; Hopefully if it becomes more popular, the cost might drop.&nbsp; I will probably use this for my personal prints where I want a really nice looking object but I doubt most customers or people receiving a gift would really appreciate it much more than ABS or nylon.&nbsp; If it could compete cost wise with ABS, I would probably use it exclusively.</p><p>Pics to come when I get home from work because either imgur is down or work finally started blocking it.</p>]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 28 Dec 2015 16:33:25 +0000</pubDate>
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