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I am hoping there is someone out there with some TPU experience that can help me out. I have thought of a couple of items that I would like to make that would have been typically made of simple black rubber. No sheen, just black rubber. I picked up some Overture Black TPU, and I am okay with the printing (the pictured is literally first print so nothing is dialed in), and I am not super impressed with the "rubbery" squishiness of it, but I really hate the gloss. They advertise it with an RC tire next to it, and it is flat black, and it is no where near that in real life. It is much more glossy than the PLA I typically use.

So, anyone a TPU expert and can recommend a filament that will look a bit more like rubber?

While I cant offer up a flat black tpu, I have been hearing a lot of good things about TPE and if I were printing tires that's the stuff I'd be looking for. I don't know if that would change what you are looking for so I figured I'd mention it just in case. Hate to see you chasing flat tpu just to find out flat TPE is available.

Here is a link to some esun TPE on Amazon, not sure if the link will work but it shows the printed black material and I think it looks about right!

https://a.co/d/5ISdbjg

I've never seen a flat TPU they all seem high gloss and most are 95 Shaw so much to stiff for rubber , you can experiment with lower wall counts and sparse infill , temperature is important , too hot and it hardens up , too cold and it jams up though so it's risky tuning too low in temp .
As GoMachV suggests TPE is more likely to have a Matt or flat finish , I have some that's 40 Shaw almost like a rubber band but hard to print and more flat finish "FilaFlex40" by Filatech.

You may look into Colorfabb Varioshore foaming TPU : both shore, foaming and aspects are depending upon the printing temperature...

Thanks guys! I think I will give the TPE a try, and the eSUN is on sale, so might as well. I will report back.

SO SO SO much better!! The sheen, the shore, the ease of printing right out of the box! Loving TPE over TPU!

Now I need to design and print the Hilux motor cover that was the main reason of getting this stuff.

Maybe try fuzzy skin? In Cura you can do this and it creates a textured outer wall, may give you the finish you are looking for.