Price of Prusament PLA Canada
Four years with my Prusa printer and I still can’t believe the price of Prusament in Canada. One shop has a spool of Prusa PLA for $60.. Amazon here has it for $51 (free shipping but few colors).. Directly from Prusa, the Shipping is $151 for a total of $461 for 8 spools. Voxel (in Canada) has it for $40 but only 3 total colors of PLA available. Although Prusa has a US distributor, our Countries have very expensive cross-border shopping costs (and who knows the current tariff status).
I ordered 8 rolls and 4 of those have reusable spools from BambuLabs (I have no BambuLabs printers) and the total cost (with shipping and taxes) is $146.
Hard to believe I can buy 8 spools from a Bambu (and similar for Polymaker, I just want reusable spools), for less than the cost of shipping from Prusa (at least in Canada)
I’ve standardized on plastic, re-usable spools as I’ve found the cardboard gets damaged easily and in a high-humidity environment I believe the cardboard will contribute to increased maintenance on keeping a spool dry.
RE:
PLA is from one vendor to the next is pretty much PLA. Unless you specifically need Prusa Orange. I grew out of PLA a long time ago but Polymaker, Overture are good brands (and cheaper).
There are two Canadian companies than make it domestically: Eureka for $25/spool and the other is M3D