How is a dual colour filament made, and is the two-tone effect a coating?
Two differently pigmented PLA melt streams are fed through the same die and leave the nozzle bonded side by side inside one 1.75 mm strand, so the two colours are part of the filament rather than a coating on it. That construction has a practical consequence for design work: the split follows the extrusion path, so a single-wall shell shows the two tones running parallel, while a solid part alternates them between layers. The tones cannot flake or rub off, and sanding or machining a part exposes the same two colours underneath. It is a decorative PLA; nozzle temperature 190-220 °C.
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