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Bert
 Bert
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What does PLA blend mean?

What does blend mean in “Prusament Ms. Pink (Blend)”?

Is the PLA blended with something else (if so: what) or is the color a blend of different colors (and if so: why mention it). Does it need different settings, or emit different vapours?

 

 

Posted : 26/03/2022 11:23 am
towlerg
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RE: What does PLA blend mean?

Apparently PLA filament is a mixture of additives, pigments and raw PLA, each manufactures mix is different. Thus Prusaslicer allows you to create a separate profile for each PLA.

Posted : 26/03/2022 12:43 pm
Bert
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Topic starter answered:
RE:

I’m sure you’re right, but most of the other Prusament PLA filements don’t have “blend” in their name, so I do think this might be something quite different. 

This post was modified 2 years ago by Bert
Posted : 26/03/2022 9:04 pm
jsw
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RE: What does PLA blend mean?

They have all kinds of PLA variants.

With a used printer I got just over a year or so, I got about 1/2 of a spool of black 'Tough PLA' and really could not tell any difference between that and plain vanilla Amazon Basics black generic PLA.

I did look at the description on the Prusa sales site, and it really did not look like anything so different that it warranted a 1.5 price difference.

Posted : 26/03/2022 10:35 pm
David
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RE: What does PLA blend mean?

PLA blend stands for PLA/PBAT blend in a certain ratio for the filaments with the silk-like surface.

Posted : 28/03/2022 11:01 am
DiomedesDominguez
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RE: What does PLA blend mean?

 

Posted by: @david-2

PLA blend stands for PLA/PBAT blend in a certain ratio for the filaments with the silk-like surface.

Can you please share more info such as a datasheet?

Posted : 21/05/2022 3:29 pm
synth
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RE:

Excuse me resurrecting this thread, but it was a top hit for my Google search on Prusament PLA Blends. For anyone else arriving in the future, here are the technical data sheets for PLA and PLA Blend:

Regular PLA: https://www.prusa3d.com/file/370474/prusament-pla-technical-data-sheet.pdf

PLA Blend:  https://www.prusa3d.com/file/938568/prusament-pla-blend-technical-data-sheet.pdf

These are current as of the date of this post, sorry if the links break in the future. You can find up-to-date technical data sheets for both PLA and PLA Blend on a Prusa3D Shop page for any PLA Blend product.

Posted : 08/07/2023 5:33 pm
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