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Topic: ColorFABB to sell material in pellet form

http://3dprint.com/7986/colorfabb-pellet-filament/

http://colorfabb.com/pellets

http://3dprint.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/colorfabb_pellets-40.jpg

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Re: ColorFABB to sell material in pellet form

$35 per kg? Yikes. This stuff costs less than $10/kg per ton, so they're basically keeping the same markup.

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Re: ColorFABB to sell material in pellet form

They are expensive but I bet those blend together really nicely.

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Re: ColorFABB to sell material in pellet form

I bet you could mix those with natural PLA at like 60:40 or so to bring the average cost down.

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Re: ColorFABB to sell material in pellet form

Who is up for some experimentation?

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Re: ColorFABB to sell material in pellet form

It looked to me like they were mixing pellets to make their filament blends,  then pelletizing the filament so the pellets wouldn't be any cheaper than just buying the filament.  I don't really see the point re-extruding what started out as filament if it was originally made to printing tolerance.