ABS QUALITY VS PLA QUALITY

[Deereengineer]

IM JUST WONDERING, CAN ABS BE PRINTED WITH THE SAME DETAIL AS PLA? WHEN I ORIGINALLY PURCHASED MY MACHINE I RAN A COUPLE PARTS WITH THE INCLUDED PLA AND THEY CAME OUT VERY NICE. DETAIL WAS GREAT, ALMOST NO ARTIFACTS. I CHANGED TO ABS AND HAVE BEEN USING IT EVER SINCE BUT I JUST CANT SEEM TO GET THE SAME CRISPNESS OUT OF A PRINT WITH IT. ANY THOUGHTS?

[Slipshine]

I have never really had that but its hard to interpret crispness. The two definately print different and have a different feel when done. Are your issues at the layer lines or corners?

On an unrelated issue are you in the quad city area?

[Deereengineer]

I can see the layers much more distinctly even at the same layer height setting. It just looks more messy than he pla .

[Tim]

I think a lot of it depends on the manufacturer. I haven't used ABS so I can't speak to that specifically. But it is similar to PETg. It's a bit more oozy than PLA and doesn't capture detail as well. I guess theoretically, you could recapture some of that level of detail by going to a smaller nozzle (like 0.25), with the drawbacks that it takes longer to print things and is more prone to jamming.

[insta]

PLA is glossier than ABS, are you sure it's not just a visual effect?