• Prusa Research is positioning the Original Prusa XL for a bigger 2026 by comparing it with the newer INDX system and teasing new, non-FFF toolheads. • The immediate takeaway for XL owners and would-be buyers is that Prusa says the platform is still their “ultimate” multi-material toolchanger, and it is now selling at the lowest price the company has offered so far. • At the same time, Prusa is clearly making room for INDX, its newer multi-material approach designed for the CORE One+ and CORE One L machines. • This matters because low waste solutions are splitting into two approaches. • Most consumer multi-material solutions rely on a single nozzle with purging, wipe towers, and waste. • Prusa’s toolchanging approach aims to avoid that, but XL and INDX do it in very different ways, with different tradeoffs around mass, heating, changeover time, and how far beyond plastics the machine can go.

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  • Prusa Research is positioning the Original Prusa XL for a bigger 2026 by comparing it with the newer INDX system and teasing new, non-FFF toolheads. The immediate takeaway for XL owners and would-be buyers is that Prusa says the platform is still their “ultimate” multi-material toolchanger, and it is now selling at the lowest price the company has offered so far. At the same time, Prusa is clearly making room for INDX, its newer multi-material approach designed for the CORE One+ and CORE One L machines. This matters because low waste solutions are splitting into two approaches. Most consumer m

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