Originally Posted by
maillemaker
I'm afraid I don't know the terminology. It uses a spool of plastic that looks like weed eater cord. You can get it in different colors. It is "PLA" - Polyactic Acid. Not SLA I will have to correct my other post.
Steve
That is FFM printing, not SLA printing. SLA uses light (laser or LCD type of thing) to cure the resin. FFM is cheaper and the most commonly used atm. To get rid of those striations when you print the best thing to do is decrease the layer height. When you start getting down to .1mm heights or smaller is when it gets harder to see if it was 3d printed. If you are looking to make it look like it was injection molded I would check out something like the XTC-3D self leveling epoxy. You can paint it on and it will eliminate a lot of the post processing you would normally do. If you have to do post processing I would suggest ABS as vapor bathing is simple and cheap, but printing it is not near as easy as PLA or PETG.