Prints exactly at its stated numbers — and does string. 4/5.
Tested on a QIDI Q2 (enclosed, direct drive, 0.4 mm stainless nozzle, textured PEI, OrcaSlicer). Four test coupons, one variable changed at a time, roughly 16 g total. Spool opened from its vacuum-sealed bag the day before.
What works. The label numbers are honest, which is rarer than it should be. 220 °C nozzle (225 first layer), 55 °C bed, and a 3 mm³/s volumetric limit — which is exactly the 40 mm/s ceiling Geeetech quotes, converted to flow — gave a usable part on the first attempt, with no failed prints and no clogs at any point.
Dimensional accuracy is the standout. On a test coupon with a 46 × 30 mm nominal base I measured 45.90 × 29.85 mm, and cube height 4.97 against 5.00 — that is roughly 0.1 mm undersize on outer contours, and consistent enough to compensate in CAD. A 12 mm unsupported bridge came out at 11.85 with only slight sag and no broken strands, which is better than I expected from a flexible. M3 threads printed cleanly with no rework. Top surfaces closed without ridges or gaps at the slicer's default flow ratio of 1.00, so I never needed to tune extrusion multiplier at all.
Bed adhesion on textured PEI at 55 °C is strong — arguably too strong. Let the plate cool fully before removing parts, or you will be fighting the sheet.
What to expect. It strings, and settings will not solve it. I ran the full manufacturer temperature window with everything else held constant: 210 °C was noticeably worse, while 220 and 230 were indistinguishable. Longer retraction (1.2 mm @ 25 mm/s instead of my printer's stock 0.8 mm @ 30) helped a little. Travel speed was verified at 500 mm/s in the sliced file, so slow travel is not the cause, and moisture is not either — wet TPU strings worse at 230 °C while popping and roughening surfaces, and none of that happened on a spool one day out of its sealed bag. This is simply how this melt behaves: elastic, low surface tension, so it draws out instead of snapping. A heat gun or a lighter pass removes the whiskers in a few seconds, which is standard practice for TPU anyway.
Worth noting that multi-island test geometry exaggerates the problem badly, because the nozzle constantly travels over open space. Single-body functional parts — gaskets, feet, dampers, cable strain reliefs — show far less of it.
On the name. "Transparent" means frosted translucent, not glass-clear. Light passes through, the infill pattern is visible through the wall, and thin single-wall sections look milky. Attractive in its own way, but do not buy it expecting an optically clear part.
One warning that is not Geeetech's fault: some third-party profile databases list drying for this filament at 75 °C for 18 hours while listing a 40 °C softening temperature on the same page. Those cannot both be true, and 75 °C will fuse a coil solid. Dry at 45–50 °C.
Verdict: 4/5. Predictable, no failures, honest specification, and dimensional behaviour good enough to design around. One star off for stringing that no amount of tuning removed. I would buy it again for functional flexible parts; I would not choose it for anything where visible surfaces have to come off the plate finished.
Caveat on scope: this covers printability and dimensional accuracy only. I have not tested long-term elasticity, tear strength, UV exposure, or chemical resistance.
FILAMENT
Material TPU 95A
Diameter 1.75 mm
Density 1.24 g/cm3
Empty spool 114 g
Nozzle temp 220 C
Nozzle temp, 1st layer 225 C
Bed temp 55 C (set on ALL plate types, not just one)
Chamber not heated (0 C)
Max volumetric speed 3.0 mm3/s
Flow ratio 1.00 (slicer default, left untouched - see notes)
Pressure advance 0.10 (QIDI stock value, not re-tuned)
Retraction 1.2 mm @ 25 mm/s (retract and deretract)
Drying 45-50 C, 6-8 h (do NOT dry at 75 C - see notes)
COOLING
Part fan 30-60 %
Overhang fan 60 % above 25 % overhang
Fan off for first 1 layer
Min layer time 12 s
Aux cooling fan off
Chamber exhaust 100 % during print, air filtration on
PROCESS (OrcaSlicer, "flex" profile)
Layer height 0.2 mm (first layer 0.2 mm)
Line width 0.42 mm (first layer 0.5 mm)
Walls 3
Top / bottom shells 5 / 3
Infill 15 % gyroid
Brim 5 mm
Supports none
Speed, all extruding 34 mm/s (outer wall, inner wall, infill, solid, top, gap)
Speed, first layer 20 mm/s (infill 25 mm/s)
Speed, bridges 25 mm/s
Travel speed 500 mm/s
Acceleration 1500 default / 1000 outer wall / 500 first layer / 3000 travel
Z-hop 0.6 mm, normal lift
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