Darkmoon ICE Build Plate for Bambu Lab Printers

Even testing with a 35cm fan directly to plate, pieces still sticking stronghly. 10/10

Most elaborated review: https://www.reddit.com/r/BambuLab/comments/1fvcdxw/darkmoon_ice_my_thoughts

I purachsed 10 of these Ice plates in early July. I have used 5 of these plates exclusively for the past 3 months on my X1Cs and P1Ss.

I only print PLA on these plates. I have only used water to clean the plates. I'm sure to wash my hands every time before handling the plates to ensure as little oil as possilble transfers from my hand to plates.

When they first arrived, I was able get print a whole plate of 180 small objects at 55 degrees without any fails. I have never been able to print this full plate on any plate before, so this was great.
Note: I was never able to print the 180 objects with less than 55 degree heated bed, so cold printing never really worked for me. That is a non-issue for me.

Fastforward 3 months. These are still my best plates for adhesion, but they definitely are less effective. I tried printing the exact same 180 object plate as before with the same settings and the same filament at 55 degrees. I got maybe an 80% success rate, which is still better than all of my other plates, but a noticeable decrease in print effectiveness. This has happened to all 5 plates in all 5 of my printers. Even bumping up the temperature to 60-65 degrees still produces some failures that wasn't present before. I do print almost 24/7, so people who print less may notice a decrease in adhesion over a longer period than me.

I don't recommend using this plate as your daily driver due to the cost (one of my most expensive plates) and the loss over effectiveness over time. I would keep this as a specialty plate tough prints such as really small prints, filling the best up with smaller prints, or larger flat prints that tend to warp.

I still recommend this plate if you can afford it because it's great overall, even when it's slightly less effective.

I bought this darkmoon ice and the biqu grey cryo at the same exact time and have been comparing them. They both smell like wet latex paint, I thought maybe even a rotten paint smell. The biqu plate smells a lot worse and can be smelled from 3-4 ft away, the DM-ice smells less of the same exact odor, prob 1-2 ft away after a fresh print. I’ve noticed the biqu gets dirtier faster, the DM-ice also is thinner and can fit in a build plate holder I printed that the biqu doesn’t fit in because it’s too thick. I had to clean the biqu plate and actually got 3 different prints had to ramp that plate up to 50c meanwhile the DM-ice plate won’t stop sticking. I didn’t clean either out of the box, had to wash the biqu plate a week in with dawn and hot water to fix adhesion, haven’t washed the DM-ice yet, keeps sticking. I’ve only tried PLA sofar, just select bambu cold plate and sometimes I let it heat to 35c sometimes I type in 20c but once the plate hits 35c it’s basically just the ambient temp inside the printer and it will take like 3-4 hours for the printer (P1S) ambient to return to around 25 even though my room is always a solid 21c. I definitely love the DM-ice plate. I ended up buying 8 different kinds of all the famous build plates and I basically just swap between the ice plate and the bambu smooth plate because they are the best ones.

This plate is amazing. I can finally have prints come out amazing without having to worry about using glue sticks. I will be buying more products from this company.

As I write this I have printed four times and 3/4 I have had huge layer shifts and popping off the buildplate.
But boy if it gets a hold it gets a hold. Dang brims are next to impossible to get them off. Trying to figure out why the layer shifts happen. More tests. So I gove this a 4/5 for now.