Getting Started with 3D Printing, 2nd Edition

If you are printing at home, you have no startup fee and your material cost will be much less. A single spool

of PLA filament, 1kg (2.2lb), will represent about 800 cubic centimeters of printable material and costs

around $21 to $35. More exotic filaments like PET or flexible filament are roughly double the price of PLA

filament, thus in the $70 range.

Resin printing has a similar price per cubic centimeter compared to FDM printing when printing with the

lower cost resins. One liter of resin contains about 900 cubic centimeters of printable material. 1Kg of fil-

ament is about 800 cubic centimeters. Assuming a parity between 1L of resin and one ...