Antistatic acrylic?

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Catapult
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Antistatic acrylic?

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Working on a build, is anti-static worth the extra $10/sheet or should I stick with the regular type?
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I would say you would be better spending extra money on anti-reflective rather than anti-static acrylic. Reflections on the plastic are much more of a problem than dust in my experience. And if you use Scan Tailor in your post processing, it will remove "speckle" = dust from the image
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Agreed. And you can make your own anti-static acrylic using copper tape and a ground strap, so it's probably not worth it.
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