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Creality (Small Pack) CR-Silk 1.75mm PLA 3D Printing Filament 2KG ( 250g*8 )（live exclusive）

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  • 1.75mm diameter
  • PLA material
  • 2KG total (250g8 small spools)
  • Silk/glossy finish
  • Dimensional accuracy +/-0.02mm

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Summary

A colour-sampling pack of Creality’s glossy silk PLA: eight 250 g spools, 2 kg in total, for trying many colours without committing to full spools.

Strengths

  • Eight 250 g spools let you try many colours without committing to a full spool each.
  • Creality publishes parameters and drying guidance for CR-Silk.
  • The glossy finish suits display prints.
  • Creality Cloud users show dual-colour silk prints with good surface finish.
  • Same material as the established 1 kg CR-Silk line.

Weaknesses

  • Silk PLA is brittle, and thin pieces break easily.
  • It is settings-sensitive: inconsistent shine, under-extrusion and stringing next to standard PLA.
  • It absorbs moisture faster than standard PLA and can slowly clog the hot end.
  • No instrumented independent test of CR-Silk exists.
  • The pack is not a bulk discount; per kilogram it matches the 1 kg spool.
  • Brand-level sentiment about Creality filament is mixed.

Verified specifications

LineCR-Silk, Creality’s silk-like shiny and glossy filament.
MaterialPLA with silk and gloss additives.
Diameter1.75 mm; dimensional accuracy ±0.02 mm.
Quantity2 kg across 8 spools of 250 g.
Nozzle temperature190–230 °C (200 °C recommended).
Bed temperature50–60 °C (50 °C recommended).
Print speed40–80 mm/s (50 mm/s recommended).
Environmentbelow 60 °C.
DryingCreality’s wiki lists CR-Silk among materials to dry before use and keep dry while printing.
1 kg spool referencebox 210 × 210 × 75 mm; net 1.0 kg, gross 1.29 kg.
Full research notes and sources

What the small pack is

The pack is 2 kg split into eight 250 g spools, so you get roughly eight colours to sample rather than a pile of one. Buy the pack for colour variety and small spools, not for economy. The colour assortment inside the pack is not documented on the listing.

Silk PLA is a different material

Silk is an additive package, not plain PLA, and it changes how the filament prints. Across brands the class is described as brittle, prone to clogging nozzles and weak in layer bonding, and Creality’s own wiki lists CR-Silk as a material that must be dried before use. Owner threads for Creality silk PLA report prints that shed pieces, uneven shine, and under-extrusion at settings that worked on normal PLA.

Printing advice

Creality’s parameters are 190–230 °C, a 50–60 °C bed and 40–80 mm/s, with 200 °C, 50 °C and 50 mm/s as the recommended settings. Owners often run hotter beds, up to 60 °C, and usually keep the speed at 60 mm/s or below even though the range allows 80 mm/s. Budget time for temperature and flow tuning, dry the spools, and treat parts as display pieces rather than functional ones.

Owner reports

Owner evidence specific to CR-Silk is thin. A Creality forum thread reports inconsistent shine, slight under-extrusion in some layers and a rougher texture with silk and chameleon filaments where normal PLA printed cleanly at the same settings, and a Bambu Lab forum thread documents stringing and bumps on the outer wall with Creality gold silk under the default profile. A separate Creality owner reported pieces breaking off all over a figure print on a K1 Max while Hyper PLA from the same brand printed without issues. These are signals from forum posts, not defect rates.

Is it worth it?

For a little under $39 for 2 kg, the pack is fair if you want many colours of silk PLA in small spools. From $40 to $50 it is weak unless the live-exclusive channel is the only way to get the set, and above $50 the regular 1 kg spool at $19.99 undercuts it on price. If you want colour variety for decorative prints, it does its job; if you want dependable, cheap utility filament, buy standard PLA.

Which model this is

This is the small-pack, live-exclusive listing of CR-Silk, sold as 2 kg in eight 250 g spools. Do not merge it with the 1 kg CR-Silk spool, the live-exclusive 1 kg variant, or the separately listed Sample Pack 2 kg (250 g × 8), which share the material but are different listings. The sources checked do not give an ASIN for this SKU.

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