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Prusa HT Hotend: 400°C Turns the Core One Into a PPS-CF Printer

Prusa's $199 HT Hotend takes every Core One to 400°C for PPS, PPA, and carbon-fiber nylon. What it unlocks for 3D printing, what it can't, and who should buy.

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PrusaSlicer 3.0: A Rewrite That Finally Makes the Slicer Feel Like the Hardware

PrusaSlicer 3.0 is a ground-up rewrite — faster launch, faster slicing, and preset management that no longer feels like a liability compared to Bambu Studio.

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PrusaSlicer 3.0 Preview: The Biggest Slicer Rewrite in Its History

PrusaSlicer 3.0's public preview drops the 9-bed limit, introduces a .yaml profile system built for multi-tool printers, and replaces the UI from scratch — with a Lua plugin marketplace coming.

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Prusa's Gen 2 Refresh: Nozzle Wipers, GT1.5 Belts, and 60°C Chamber Heat

Prusa Research upgraded the CORE One+, CORE One L+, and XL+ with a nozzle wiper, faster tool-offset sensor, and chamber heating for engineering plastics — at the same price.

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Prusament PA11: The Filament That Doesn't Care Which Way You Print It

Prusament's new PA11 Natural nylon posts the highest anisotropy resistance of any Prusa material — meaning gears and moving parts hold up no matter which axis they're printed on.

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Prusament PLA High Speed: Up to 40% Faster Print Times for Rapid Prototyping

Prusa's new PLA High Speed filament hits 28 mm³/s volumetric flow and a tensile anisotropy coefficient of 0.60 — making draft prints faster and stronger without sacrificing surface finish.

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Build a $20 Smart Home Macropad With a 3D Printer and an ESP32

Six switches, a rotary encoder, and an OLED display — Prusa's open build replaces expensive commercial controllers with a fully customizable Home Assistant interface for under $20.

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Prusa ColorMix Shading: Fake Studio Lighting Baked Into Your Filament

Prusa's free ColorMix Shading app turns zenithal priming into a digital workflow — upload any STL, position a virtual light, and the app generates per-face filament ratios that render realistic shadows and highlights during the print.

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Prusament's New Resin Is Safer and Faster — With One Catch

Prusament Resin Model+ removes Bisphenol A, TPO, and ACMO from the formula and cuts layer exposure to 2–2.6 seconds. The higher viscosity creates a workflow tradeoff worth understanding before you order.

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Prusa ColorMix: How a CMYKW Halftone Model Unlocks Dozens of Colors From Four Filaments

Prusa ColorMix uses the Yule-Nielsen halftone equation to mix CMYKW filaments into ~40 color combinations — open source in PrusaSlicer 2.9.6 and EasyPrint.

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Prusa CORE One INDX: Near-Zero Waste Multi-Material Toolchanger Now on Sale

The Prusa CORE One INDX produces 0.013g of waste per nozzle swap — vs. 20-30g total on large multi-material prints. 8 nozzles, induction heating, June 2026 shipping. Here's what the specs actually mean.

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Prusa MMU3 Firmware 3.0.4: 20% Faster Filament Changes, 9 Hours Back Per Print

A 9-second improvement per filament swap sounds small. On a 3,777-change multicolor print, Prusa's MMU3 firmware 3.0.4 returns nearly 9.5 hours — compounding at every layer with no new hardware.

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The Multi-Material Shift: Prusa CORE One+ and the INDX Architecture

Analysis of the transition toward integrated multi-material CoreXY systems and the impact on production scalability in 2026.

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