anyone else have problems with gold filament?

Have you tried hairspray yet?  If you're using skeinforge (which you're probably not) you can turn the first layer flow rate up on the raft tab and get a little thicker base layer.   I'm sure there's some equivalent in slic3r if you're using that.  I haven't moved over to the dark side yet.

I am starting to think that the darker the color, the harder it is to print with.  The green printed better than the gold but not nearly as well as the natural, glow in the dark blue, or even the tardis blue.  It also had alot of bulges on the flat sides of the box I was printing.

I might have figured it out.  I was looking at www.repraper.com and they have gold that is in the same packaging as what I bought from 3dprinterstuff.com.  but repraper says the print temp is 210 to 250C.  I am probably printing it too cold to get good adhesion.  Anyone know what the upper limit on the extruder temp is?

I think the temperature the thermistor reports is lower than the real temperature also. I want to say its something like 30 degrees lower, but don't quote me on that. There's a post somewhere (might be on the solidoodle wiki) that says how you should adjust for the temperatures reported by other printers.

From Ian's blog where he did a nice test on this subject.

http://solidoodletips.wordpress.com/201 … mperature/

@ CM - I haven't moved over to the dark side yet....if by Darkside you mean accelerated slicing, a  far superior UI, and various visualizations...sounds more like a Jedi Movement compared that that stuffy ol' Darth Pronterface.  80).