Panchroma™ Luminous PLA

Vivid Daylight Color, Striking Nighttime Glow Panchroma™ Luminous is a specialty filament that displays a vibrant, unique color in daylight and glows in a similar shade when the lights go out. This dual effect makes your prints stand out both day and night, adding a playful and eye-catching twist to any project.

Perfect for Creative and Functional Prints Ideal for toys, signage, decorative models, safety markers, and artistic creations, Panchroma™ Luminous brings your designs to life with a captivating glow that matches its daytime color.

Durable and Easy to Print Formulated for reliable performance on most FDM/FFF 3D printers, this filament prints smoothly and consistently. Due to the glow-in-the-dark additives, regular use requires a hardened nozzle to prevent excessive wear.

Choose Panchroma™ Luminous when you want prints that shine with color during the day and glow with matching brilliance at night - perfect for projects that need to stand out in any light.

Cycle Weight for Gradient Luminous: ~160g.

Print Settings

Parameter

Nozzle temperature

190 – 230 (℃)

Build surface treatment

PC and Texture PEI (Glue when needed)

Build plate temperature

25 - 60 (˚C)

Cooling fan

Printing speed

up to 200mm/s

Max Volumetric Speed

Up to 16 mm³/s

Retraction distance

1 - 3 (mm)

Retraction speed

20 - 40 (mm/s)

Closure Chamber

Not Needed

Recommended support material

PolySupport™ and PolyDissolve™ S1

Drying setting

55˚C for 6h (only if absorbed moisture)

Based on 0.4 mm nozzle. Printing conditions may vary with different nozzle diameters. Hardened nozzle required.

Printing Tips

These glow in the dark materials have an additive that makes them very abrasive. This means you should not print them unless you have a hardened nozzle.

Due to the abrasiveness, we do not recommend printing these in an AMS with plastic gears and tubes.
Other than being abrasive, these materials are standard PLA options and can print with standard PLA settings.
Leave the cooling fan on at full blast for best surface quality.

For the richest color tint and maximum intensity, we recommend printing with sufficient wall thickness or infill density. Thinner layers or light prints naturally show a soft green luminescence, while thicker sections fully unleash the intended vibrant color glow. More info below under FAQ.

FAQ

Is there a difference between Panchroma™ Luminous PLA and PolyLite™ Luminous PLA?

No! This is the same great material - just under a new product family name.

What is the difference between Panchroma™ Glow PLA and Panchroma™ Luminous PLA?

These materials both have the same glow effect, the difference is what color they are before being placed in darkness.

Panchroma™ Glow PLA will be a natural color when not in darkness while Panchroma™ Luminous PLA will be the same color while in light as in the dark.

Is this material abrasive?

Yes - you will need to use a hardened nozzle to print with glow in the dark material. You will also need to be careful with using any AMS style setup as well.

Do I need a larger nozzle?

No! This material will print fine with a 0.4mm nozzle.

Is this material food safe?

Unfortunately we do not have any data whether this material is food safe. As of now, no 3D printing material on the market is FDA food safe compliant. This is because in order to be certified as food safe, the actual object needs to be certified and not the base material. The shape, bed used, environment the object was made, and much more goes into getting a food safety certificate. As of now there is no real certification that the FDA offers for 3D printing.

Is this material AMS compatible?

While the spool will spin great in the AMS, the material is abrasive and may lead to the gears and PTFE tube wearing out too quickly. Therefore we do not suggest using it with the AMS.

Is this material recyclable?

Unfortunately there is no great answer for recycling PLA at this time. Our cardboard spools are biodegradable but there is no great way to recycle PLA at this time.

What is Panchroma™?

Panchroma™ is a new family of engineered polymer compounds containing PLA. The formulations are fine tuned for each color/surface finish to offer the best aesthetic quality and printability. They can be reliably printed on any FFF/FDM 3D printer under typical PLA settings. All Panchroma™ products are PLA except for those listed under "experimental".

Can I mix and match effects into a single HueForge print?

This material will mix and match great with all other Panchroma™ effects, except those listed under "experimental".

NOTES About thin parts glowing green

Based on customer feedback and then further internal tests, when parts are printed very thin, they may glow green rather than the color expected.

The production team conducted retention sample verification on the same batch of wires, and it is true that a single wire appears orange-tinted after "charging", but the single filament itself also has a green undertone.

Samples with different thicknesses (0.4mm / 10mm / 40mm) were printed for verification, and the results show that: the thicker the sample, the more prominent the luminous orange effect; when the sample is thin (0.4mm), it tends to be greenish, while when it is thick (40mm), the orange effect is fully developed.