 Ariane filament. Does it suck? Let's find out today. My name is Jim and this is The Edge of Tech. So like I said, today we're going to talk about Ariane filament. Well, at least the role I got. And there's been a lot of bad press around Ariane filament. A lot of people with diameter issues and printing issues and clogging. And you know what? All those are valid complaints. Recently, the crew up at the first layer in Canada did a video and they checked out a couple different spools. And I tell you what, they got really great results. But people in the comments seem to think that maybe they just got the filament for free and they were saying things and that the filament wasn't as good as they found, etc. So what I thought I'd do is I'd buy a roll of rainbow filament straight from Amazon. I've never been in contact with Ariane at all. They've not sent me anything. They've not contacted me to give me anything. I know my wife really wanted a rainbow castle and we'll get that later. So what I did was I jumped on Amazon. I bought a roll of rainbow PLA from Ariane and I started doing some test prints. The first thing I did is a temperature tower. And I got pretty good results all the way across the board. I feel like 200 to 210 was probably the best. And I'll show all these close up. Check out all my social media pages, Instagram, Twitter and Facebook. And you'll see all these really close up because I'll take some pictures and throw them on there. The next thing I did was I printed one of the Edutek calibration cubes. This was actually made from Tyler of C3D. And he surprised me. He just said, Hey, check out this file. So I checked it out. And it's actually a calibration cube. And I'll take a close up picture and put it on social media as well. On one side, it has my glasses, the little trademark or logo. And the other sides have the XYZs. So I did that. And I printed the calibration cube. Then I went on to a vase, just a simple vase. And this thing came out pretty good. By pretty good, I mean really good. You can see it shines, it shimmers. Beginning of my roll had a lot of yellow. And I had a couple of different color yellows in there. But that's why everything looks yellow, because I just started at the beginning of the roll and let it fly. I should say that all of these were printed right here on this Ender 3. No special nozzle, no special hot end. It does have direct drive, but I don't think that matters. And I printed everything at 210. The bed was at 60 the whole time on all of my prints as well. So I didn't go crazy with the temperature. It wasn't really high or anything like that. Then I printed the Aria Dragon. And I tell you what, this may be one of the best Aria Dragons that's come off this Ender 3 yet. Again, I have no skin in this game with Arianne. They're not sending me anything. But I tell you what, this Aria Dragon came off dang near perfect. It was awesome. Last but not least, I printed this castle here. It took one day 21 hours, 26 minutes and 46 seconds or something like that. And I tell you what, aside from a couple of the small tops here, I probably should have slowed it down as I got to the top. Aside from that, this thing printed so good. And you can see the colors. It starts at yellow or green and it kind of pops through all the colors and then we're back at yellow at the top. So this roll had a lot of yellow on it. But I'm not complaining because this thing really came out so nice. All the little facets and the turrets and everything. I mean, there's no indication on here of any filament issues. And I let this thing go by itself for almost two days straight with no issue. So all that being said, you know what? I think Arianne is actually listening. Now I believe, I don't know this 100% for sure, but I believe they have other people manufacture the filament for them and then they sell it under their name. And I really think that they're listening to the complaints, especially of all the early rolls because I did see a lot of bad prints with their early rolls. But I tell you, this thing was wound nice. It printed very nice on an Ender 3. All the prints came out pretty good. I would have to say just as good as some of the other filaments I have. And those filaments don't have near the complaints. So with that being said, I'm going to have to go ahead and say this roll right here today of Arianne filament does not suck. I would actually suggest going out to Amazon and buying a roll. I know you can give it on their groups and Facebook and I think they do discounts and stuff like that sometimes. I did not want to touch any of that because I didn't want to have anyone have any reason to say that I was just saying things because I'm in bed with Arianne or something like that. I would suggest jumping on buying a roll. This rainbow filament is awesome. So it's called the Arianne rainbow PLA or mini rainbow PLA filament. I definitely suggest it. Try it out for yourself. I know there's been a lot of bad press in the beginning but I really think they're listening and I really think that they're having their manufacturers tighten up the process so they get a better product. With all these tests I did and that being said, definitely check it out. If it was garbage, I would tell you it's garbage. I just I don't think the roll I got here specifically and the rolls that Richard and crew at the first layer got and I've heard other people now saying it's printing great for them. I don't think all that's a fluke. I really do think they're listening so check it out. Grab a roll for yourself and why not? If you do it on Amazon and it sucks, I think you can return it to Amazon. Not that I'm saying you should do that but at least if you're really worried about it, that's an option. I hope you learned something today and as always keep printing. 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