Coffee 3D printer filament

Coffee filled 3D printing filament made using waste byproducts from coffee. This product uses those coffee left-overs to create a special 3D printing material with visibly unique print finishes. The filament produces products with a rich brown color and a noticeable natural grain. Now a cup printed with coffee filament is a true “coffee cup.”

CAUTION: Coffee filament uses PLA as its base polymer. Because of this, you should NOT use it for 3D printing anything that will come in contact with high heat or hot liquids. In other words, it IS NOT safe to print a functional coffee cup with this material. We do recommend that you print coffee accessories, such as this coffee bag lid.

 Are composites biodegradable?

Our composite materials made with Coffee, Beer, Hemp and others are made of over 90% sustainable PLA plastic and a smaller percentage of the recycled product from the material they contain. They have two primary purposes:

1) to utilize byproducts that would otherwise be placed in landfills, and

2) to create unique and interesting filaments with which to print beautiful items. As they are mostly PLA, they are compostable in an industrial compost, will eventually biodegrade (won’t last forever like petrol-based plastics), and are made from plants.

Because there are not yet any truly 100% biodegradable plastics, they may be the closest you can get to a biodegradable plastic at this time.

Coffee filament can be printed on any machine capable of printing with PLA using standard PLA settings.

Print Settings
Entwined prints well at 180-210 C. In general, a good starting point is 10 degrees cooler than you typically print PLA. A heated bed is not necessary, though if you have one, set it to 45-60 C.

Filament Quality:
All 3D-Fuel 3D printer filament is developed in our own facility located in Moville, Ireland. We have complete control over the manufacturing process and are able to ensure consistent quality for every spool.

Learn more about 3D-Fuel filament quality.

Diameter Tolerance:
Variable diameter can cause big problems in your 3D printer. We use a multi-axis laser measurement system to control our filament diameter and ovality in real time during production. Every spool has the diameter and ovality measurements listed right on the box.