Glow in the Dark PLA 1.75mm 1KG

Brand: Yiqiu3D · A lamp shade in an opaque filament kills its own light: the bulb is hidden, the shade goes flat and the fitting looks like a block. This semi-transparent glow PLA lets light pass through the printed wall and diffuse, so a shade, a light box or a diffuser panel reads as a lit part under the bulb, and the same printed piece is charged by light and then gives a soft glow in the dark once the bulb is off. One spool covers both states of the same product.

  • The blue has to survive daylight too. Many glow compounds drop to a murky off-white by day and only turn blue in the dark
  • this semi-transparent grade keeps a clear blue body under normal light
  • Large thin-wall parts expose every winding fault
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Diameter 1.75mm
Material PLA
Quick Answer

How does a semi-transparent glow grade behave differently from an opaque glow PLA?

The wall passes light. The blue body is light-transmitting, so a printed shade or panel diffuses the light behind it and looks lit from within, and the same piece is charged by light and then emits a soft glow in the dark. The colour and the luminous effect are both pigment effects of the PLA strand - nothing metallic is added - so the round profile and the print behaviour stay ordinary PLA. A thinner wall transmits more than a thick one, which is how the effect is tuned on a shade.

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Is it right for my project?

Best for: Suited to elegant homeware and lamp shades where the silk sheen catches light - available in 6 colours; 1kg spools. Not ideal for: Avoid high-friction mating surfaces; a standard or matte grade performs better - available in 6 colours; 1kg spools.

Print settings

Nozzle 200-225°C

01 · Why this one

Product highlights

4 reasons

The blue has to survive daylight too. Many glow compounds drop to a murky off-white by day and only turn blue in the dark

this semi-transparent grade keeps a clear blue body under normal light, and the glow that follows is a soft blue-green cast. Because the colour sits in the pigment and the wall stays light-transmitting, a thin wall shows the effect more strongly than a thick one - so a shade or a light box can be tuned by wall thickness instead of by a second material.

Large thin-wall parts expose every winding fault, and a lamp shade is a long print. This filament holds a 1.75 mm round profile on a round spool, 1 kg net filament per spool and approx. 330 m of strand per spool, so a full shade prints from one spool without a mid-print change. The nozzle window confirmed for your application, inside the standard PLA profile, and the strand carries no abrasive filler, so a standard 0.4 mm nozzle and the PLA settings you already run are enough.

Best fit: lamp shades and pendant covers, light-box and diffuser panels, display stands lit from behind, decorative translucent housings, glowing signage faces and transparent-style figurine accents - anything where a printed wall is meant to pass light and then hold a soft glow. Thin-walled, low-stress work only: it is a PLA with a pigment, so keep it off load-bearing parts and out of sustained heat, where a PLA shade near a hot bulb can soften.

Technical Data

Specifications

Diameter 1.75mm
Material PLA

Print Profile

Glow in the Dark PLA 1.75mm 1KG prints best at 200-225°C nozzle.

Nozzle Temp200-225°C

Spool Specification

Spool details for your feeding and handling setup.

Gross Weight1.3 kg
Length330M
Spool Size (L×W×H)20 × 20 × 5.5 cm
Pack FormatRoll

Attributes

Country / Regionchina
HS Code39169050
Item No.glow-in-dark-pla-night-glow
Product Name Nightglow consumables
Cross-Section Round
Item No. PLAGlow-in-the-Dark
Application 3DPrinting
Appearance Round Plate
Length 330M
Density 1.26-1.4g/m3
Before You Ask

Frequently Asked Questions

How does a semi-transparent glow grade behave differently from an opaque glow PLA?
The wall passes light. The blue body is light-transmitting, so a printed shade or panel diffuses the light behind it and looks lit from within, and the same piece is charged by light and then emits a soft glow in the dark. The colour and the luminous effect are both pigment effects of the PLA strand - nothing metallic is added - so the round profile and the print behaviour stay ordinary PLA. A thinner wall transmits more than a thick one, which is how the effect is tuned on a shade.
Will it run on my printer, and which machines is it used on?
It is 1.75 mm filament on a round spool, so it runs on the usual 1.75 mm FDM machines - Bambu Lab, Creality, Prusa, Artillery and equivalent direct-drive or Bowden setups, with a standard 0.4 mm nozzle and your usual PLA profile. No hardened nozzle is needed, because the strand carries no abrasive filler. We do not publish a printer compatibility list for this code beyond the 1.75 mm format, so confirm it on your own fleet with a paid trial order.
What nozzle and bed settings do you recommend?
Run the nozzle in the, with the setting confirmed for your application. Bed adhesion depends on the surface you print on: on a clean textured PEI plate a standard PLA first layer works in our test prints without adhesion aids. We do not publish a bed temperature figure for this grade, so keep the setting your own PLA profile already uses.
What is the net weight and the length of one spool?
1 kg net filament per spool on a round spool at a 1.75 mm round profile, approx. 330 m of strand per spool. The 1 kg is the net filament weight; the packed carton is heavier because it includes the spool, the vacuum bag and the box. Both the 1 kg and the approx. 330 m figure repeat from spool to spool inside one production run.
Which colours are in the range, and how stable are they between batches?
The semi-transparent glow blue leads the range; semi-transparent glow blue-green, semi-transparent glow green, a blue-green silk glow, a green silk glow and a seven-colour crystal variant are listed in the same series, 6 colourways in total. Colour is held by masterbatch rather than by eye and the same extrusion line runs the whole order, so a repeat order in the same colour code comes out of the same colour lot. For a lamp range that must match across a size run, release the whole quantity as one lot.
What should I use this filament for?
Parts where a printed wall is meant to pass light: lamp shades and pendant covers, light-box and diffuser panels, display stands lit from behind, decorative translucent housings, glowing signage faces and transparent-style figurine accents. Keep it to thin-walled, low-stress work - it is a PLA with a glow pigment, so it is not the grade for load-bearing parts, hinged assemblies or high-friction mating surfaces, and a shade sitting close to a hot bulb needs airflow so the PLA does not soften.
How is it packed, and how should I store it?
Every spool ships vacuum-sealed in a foil bag with a desiccant pack inside a plain export carton, and spools are individually bagged in the larger cartons. Keep spools sealed until use; once one is open, store it in a dry box or a sealed container with desiccant, out of direct sun. PLA takes up moisture slowly, but a damp spool strings more and prints a cloudier, duller wall - and a cloudy wall is exactly what costs a light-transmitting part its look.

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