The Buying Guide for Creality 3D Printing Materials
How to choose the right filament for your printing needs?
With the rapid advancement in 3D printing technology, the range of printing materials has become extensive, making material selection crucial for achieving high print quality. As a leading 3D printing manufacturer, Creality not only produces printers but also invests heavily in developing compatible printing materials through rigorous pre-development testing.
This article provides detailed information on Creality's printing materials for 3D printers, helping you choose the best option to enhance the quality and efficiency of your prints.
一、Filament
（一）Preferred Basic Option——PLA
PLA is a popular 3D printing filament known for its ease of use and eco-friendliness. It prints easily at low temperatures with minimal warping, making it ideal for beginners.
PLA, made from renewable resources like corn starch or sugarcane, has a low printing temperature (190-220°C), making it ideal for home and educational use. It offers good print stability, low shrinkage, and minimal warping. Though it has lower strength and heat resistance, it provides a smooth finish, making it suitable for decorative items, prototypes, and lightweight models.
1、Hyper PLA
Hyper PLA, More Than Just High Speed
Hyper PLA is specifically designed for high-speed printing, enabling speeds up to 600mm/s with its high fluidity and rapid cooling formula. It ensures thorough melting and smooth extrusion at high speeds, while quick cooling helps models solidify fast. Compared to traditional PLA, Hyper PLA has significantly improved toughness and tensile strength higher than ABS, making it more durable and better able to withstand stress.
Application Scenarios
Prototyping, figurines, machine parts, mass production and more.
2、Hyper Rainbow PLA
Hyper Rainbow PLA, Unlock the Colorful Secrets of the Creative World
Hyper Rainbow PLA is a PLA-based 3D printing material known for its excellent flowability, rapid curing, and high precision. It offers superior mechanical performance and tensile strength. The filament features a rainbow gradient design with rich details and comes in three vibrant variants: Spring Lake, Wild Blossom (short gradient), and Wild Blossom (long gradient).
Application Scenarios
Models that require color, such as decorative ornaments and artwork.
3、CR-PLA
CR-PLA, Print with Stability and Reliability
CR-PLA is a high-quality 3D printing filament made from premium raw materials, ensuring safety and environmental friendliness. It features excellent mechanical properties and flowability, providing a stable printing process with minimal risk of clogs or filament breakage. Even for printing large objects over extended periods, you can rely on its consistent performance without worrying about failures.
Application Scenarios
Miniatures, educational toys, decorations, functional parts, and more.
4、Ender PLA
Ender PLA, Easy Printing Without Worry Choice
Ender-PLA is an eco-friendly PLA filament with a neat winding process, providing ease of printing and cost-effectiveness. Compatible with most FDM printers, it suits model printing, prototype validation, and daily use.
Application Scenarios
Anime figurines, toys, artwork, product validation models, and more.
5、Ender Fast PLA
Ender Fast PLA, Excellent Performance
Ender Fast PLA features upgraded formulation and packaging. It supports print speeds up to 300mm/s, providing smooth, efficient performance and high-quality finishes. The filament offers a variety of colors and effects, with enhanced toughness that reduces brittleness and improves durability, making it suitable for diverse printing applications.
Application Scenarios
Educational toys, machine components, and more.
6、CR-Silk
CR-Silk, Silk-like Shiny and Glossy
CR-Silk is a PLA-based filament with a silk-like texture and high gloss. It gives models a silk-covered appearance, retains PLA's easy printing properties, and delivers vibrant, glossy colors. The silk effect provides a smooth, refined finish without post-processing, making it perfect for elegant decorations, structures, or art pieces.
Application Scenarios
Artwork, metallic decoration, badges, trophies, structural models, jewellery models, and more.
7、CR-Wood
CR-Wood, Wood Texture Back to Nature
PLA composites refer to filaments that have additional materials incorporated for specific printing needs. These composites can cause increased nozzle wear, so it is advisable to use wear-resistant or high-hardness nozzles.
CR-Wood is a PLA and high-quality wood powder composite. It offers the eco-friendly and easy-to-print traits of PLA with a rustic wood texture and fine interlayer details in the printed models.
Application Scenarios
Furniture prototypes, wooden carvings, and other decorative items and crafts that require a wooden appearance for models and displays.
8、CR-PLA Carbon
CR-PLA Carbon, High Hardness, Strong Rigidity and Durability
CR-PLA Carbon is a 3D printing filament with 15% carbon fiber added to PLA. It maintains PLA's ease of use and warping resistance while offering improved strength for lighter, more durable prints. The surface features a smooth, matte finish with minimal layer visibility.
Application Scenarios
Robot models, structural components for complex conditions, crafts, and more.
9、Hyper PLA-CF
Hyper PLA-CF, High Strength and Layer Adhesion
HYPER PLA-CF contains 4% carbon fiber, offering high-speed printing and enhanced strength. Its carbon fiber texture provides a unique, modern look and can handle tougher conditions, making it versatile for both artistic and industrial uses. Designed for ease of post-printing handling, it features a strong yet easy-to-remove support structure, ensuring a refined and smooth final product.
Application Scenarios
Structural parts in more complicated working conditions, such as unmanned aerial vehicles, aircraft models, joints, drivers, etc.
（二）Cost-effective Choice——PETG
PETG is more affordable than PLA and ABS, offering strength, high-temperature resistance, and durability similar to ABS, while maintaining the ease of printing associated with PLA.
Although PETG adheres well, its moisture absorption can cause stringing issues with prints. We recommend using the Creality dryer for drying and storing PETG.
1、Hyper PETG
Hyper PETG, High Speed and High Durability
Hyper PETG is specially optimized for improved flow, with a printing speed up to 300mm/s. It offers excellent impact resistance, high transparency, outstanding toughness, and good chemical resistance, making it ideal for outdoor models and projects requiring transparency. It effectively resists chemical corrosion and maintains stable performance in various storage conditions.
Application Scenarios
Prototypes for everyday items, display models, outdoor models, and more.
2、CR-PETG
CR-PETG, Cost-effective with multiple advantages
CR-PETG blends PLA's low shrinkage and ease of printing with ABS's high impact resistance and heat tolerance, while its transparency is close to PC.
Application Scenarios
Prototypes for everyday items, display models, outdoor models, and more.
（三）Industrial-grade Performance——ABS
ABS is a classic FDM material known for its durability, strength, and heat resistance, commonly used in items like LEGO bricks and mechanical parts.
While it plays a crucial role in commercial applications like rapid prototyping, it can be prone to issues like warping during printing. Therefore, it is recommended to use it in an enclosed printer or with a heated chamber.
1、Hyper ABS
Hyper ABS, High-speed Printing, Heat Resistant, Safer
Hyper ABS provides excellent flow for faster, more efficient printing, with impact strength nearly double that of PLA. It performs well in high-temperature environments. Additionally, improved formulation and processes enhance its performance during printing, releasing fewer volatile substances to protect your health, and supports open printing.
Application Scenarios
Mechanical industry, component manufacturing, education and research, medical industry, general manufacturing, automotive industry, and more.
2、CR-ABS
CR-ABS, High Toughness, Engineering Material
CR-ABS filament provides excellent impact resistance and heat tolerance. Improved shrinkage reduces warping and cracking, enhancing print success. Use in an enclosed printer or with a CREALITY heated chamber is recommended.
Application Scenarios
Prototype design, gears, molds, automotive parts casings, outdoor application models and more.
（四）Flexible and Durable——TPU
TPU is a popular 3D printing thermoplastic with excellent elasticity and abrasion resistance. It combines soft and hard segments for rubber-like elasticity and plastic strength. TPU is abrasion-resistant, oil-resistant, weather-resistant, high in tensile strength, and offers good biocompatibility and shape memory.
Most TPU filaments are required for use with Direct extruders. The reason is that the distance between the drive gear and the hotend should be as short as possible in order to feed the filament into the hotend more efficiently. However, Creality high flexibility HP-TPU can also be printed smoothly using the Bowden extruder. If you own the Ender-3 series printer, we recommend using the Sprite Extruder for better printing TPU filaments.
CR-TPU
CR-TPU, Good Quality, Soft Adhesive with High Elastic
CR-TPU, with a Shore hardness of 95A, balances flexibility and printability, offers over 700% tensile elongation, and provides excellent tear resistance and high rebound elasticity.
Application Scenarios
Footwear industry, apparel sector, automotive components, tissue engineering scaffolds, educational tools, and more.
（五）Exceptional Strength——PC
PC outperforms ABS with superior mechanical strength, and advantages like being odorless, non-toxic, low-shrinkage, and flame-retardant, making it ideal for high-strength 3D-printed products.
Hyper PC
Hyper PC, Excellent Choice for Printing Outdoor Models
Hyper PC is an engineering plastic filament offering exceptional strength, toughness, heat resistance, and print quality, making it ideal for various applications.
Application Scenarios
Industrial parts, automotive components, medical devices, household products, architectural and design prototypes and more.
二、Resin
1、HALOT Water Wash Resin
HALOT Water Wash Resin, Clean with Water Directly
Water Wash Resin is for 385nm and 405nm devices, featuring low viscosity, minimal odor, and easy water washing. Models can be rinsed with water, leaving no residue, reducing processing time, and avoiding strong odors. With a viscosity of 100 cps, it's half that of standard resins, enabling fast flow and reducing "empty printing," resulting in smooth surfaces and clear details.
Application Scenarios
Animation modeling, thin-wall model printing, and more.
2、HALOT Rigid Resin
HALOT Rigid Resin, High Rigid and Wear Resistance
HALOT's upgraded rigid resin offers enhanced material rigidity and high hardness, ideal for thin-walled, complex models and parts needing deformation resistance. It is compatible with 365-405nm LCD and DLP printers and provides a better balance between sturdiness and performance than standard resins, suitable for more creators.
Application Scenarios
Mass-produced products such as garage kid, teaching, toy design, handicraft design, architectural design, industrial parts design, etc.
3、HALOT ABS-Like 2.0 Resin
HALOT ABS-Like 2.0 Resin, High Toughness and High Strength
The HALOT Series ABS 2.0 resin builds on the excellent tensile and flexural strength of its predecessor by enhancing toughness, with over 100% improvement in elongation at break, resulting in stronger finished models. This resin is highly compatible with mainstream 3D printers on the market, including both monochrome and color screens.
Application Scenarios
Mass-produced products such as glasses design, garage kit, teaching, toy design, handicraft design, structural sample, industrial prototype design, industrial parts design, etc.
4、HALOT Plant-Based Resin
HALOT Plant-Based Resin, Scientifically Refined, Healthy, Eco-friendly
Plant-based resin is a high adaptation UV curable resin for 3D printing suitable for mono/color screen. This resin is made from soybean oil extract, which is green, environmentally friendly, and biodegradable. It has low shrinkage, high fidelity, high hardness.
Application Scenarios
Mass-produced products such as garage kit, teaching, toy design, handicraft design, footwear design, architectural design, industrial parts design, etc.
Creality will launch more high-quality printing materials to meet a wider range of users' needs. Stay tuned!
