# Laser Materials Compare

> 7 US supplier pages for laser and engraving material, read on 11 September 2026 and set side by side across 4 material families; seven of the sixteen print a price at all and the median published figure is $3.54.

## Key facts

- Every cell is a word-for-word quotation from that supplier's own page with its URL and the day it was read, or a recorded absence; nothing is paraphrased and no figure appears that the quoted page does not carry.
- Seven of the 7 suppliers read publish a figure. Three of those print it against a named size or a named sheet; four print a FROM price with no size stated anywhere, which cannot be compared with another supplier's from-price.
- The other nine publish nothing, and they publish nothing in five different ways: a cut-to-size box that prices only after dimensions are entered, a catalog request, a manufacturer that answers Find A Distributor, a page that returns 200 and says it is gone, and a page that did not answer at all.
- The median of $3.54 is this operator's derivation over the published figures and is not a number any of the pages carries; the low and high are the extremes the pages themselves print.
- Thirteen further pages were read outside the United States, in the United Kingdom and Australia. They are quoted in the prose and are in no aggregate here, because a median across dollars, pounds and Australian dollars would be a figure about nothing.

## Key pages

- [The laser materials board](https://lasermaterialscompare.com/materials/): every family, every supplier, quoted and dated
- [Cast acrylic](https://lasermaterialscompare.com/cast-acrylic/): how to read the supplier page yourself
- [Acrylic sheets for laser cutting](https://lasermaterialscompare.com/acrylic-sheets-for-laser-cutting/): how to read the supplier page yourself
- [Acrylic mirror sheet](https://lasermaterialscompare.com/acrylic-mirror-sheet/): how to read the supplier page yourself
- [Slate coasters](https://lasermaterialscompare.com/slate-coasters/): how to read the supplier page yourself
- [Cast acrylic sheet](https://lasermaterialscompare.com/materials/cast-acrylic-sheet/): what the suppliers publish for this material family
- [Clear acrylic sheet](https://lasermaterialscompare.com/materials/clear-acrylic-sheet/): what the suppliers publish for this material family
- [Coloured and patterned acrylic](https://lasermaterialscompare.com/materials/coloured-and-patterned-acrylic/): what the suppliers publish for this material family
- [Laser engraving blanks](https://lasermaterialscompare.com/materials/laser-engraving-blanks/): what the suppliers publish for this material family
- [Suppliers](https://lasermaterialscompare.com/vendors/): the sixteen US suppliers read and what each one prints

## Data

- Download (CSV, vendor pricing index): https://lasermaterialscompare.com/materials/laser-materials-published-prices.csv
- Download (CSV, Cast acrylic sheet coverage): https://lasermaterialscompare.com/materials/cast-acrylic-sheet.csv
- Download (CSV, Clear acrylic sheet coverage): https://lasermaterialscompare.com/materials/clear-acrylic-sheet.csv
- Download (CSV, Coloured and patterned acrylic coverage): https://lasermaterialscompare.com/materials/coloured-and-patterned-acrylic.csv
- Download (CSV, Laser engraving blanks coverage): https://lasermaterialscompare.com/materials/laser-engraving-blanks.csv
- Methodology: One page per supplier, its own catalogue or product page, read through this operator's fetch service on 2026-09-11. Each supplier is recorded as one of seven things and they are not merged: it printed a figure with the thing it buys named beside it; it printed a FROM price with no size, which cannot be compared with another supplier's from price; its price appears only after dimensions are entered; its own page says to request a catalogue; it is a manufacturer that sells through distributors; the URL answers 200 and says the page is gone; or the read did not complete, which claims nothing either way. Twenty-eight pages were read in all, thirteen of them outside the United States: those are quoted in the notes and are not in any aggregate here, because a median across dollars, pounds and Australian dollars would be a figure about nothing. No price on this site is converted, averaged across currencies, or carried over from an earlier read.
- Source: ePlastics: https://www.eplastics.com/plexiglass/acrylic-sheets
- Source: TAP Plastics: https://www.tapplastics.com/product/plastics/cut_to_size_plastic/acrylic_sheets_cast_clear/510
- Source: AcrylicMeThat: https://acrylicmethat.com/collections/3mm-cast-acrylic-sheets
- Source: MakerStock: https://makerstock.com/products/clear-acrylic
- Source: Johnson Plastics Plus: https://www.jpplus.com/cast-acrylic
- Source: 3D Universe: https://shop3duniverse.com/products/1-8-solid-cast-acrylic
- Source: Acme Plastics: https://www.acmeplastics.com/acrylic-sheets/clear-cast-acrylic-sheet
- Source: eStreet Plastics: https://www.estreetplastics.com/Acrylic-Sheet-s/1.htm
- Source: Interstate Plastics: https://www.interstateplastics.com/Acrylic-Cast-Clear-Sheet-ACRCE.php
- Source: Professional Plastics: https://www.professionalplastics.com/ACRYLICSHEETCAST
- Source: Johnson Plastics Plus: https://www.jpplus.com/engraving/blanks
- Source: MakerFlo: https://makerflo.com/collections/laser-engraving-bulk-blanks
- Source: Coastal Business Supplies: https://www.coastalbusiness.com/sublimation-blanks.html
- Source: BestSub: https://www.bestsub.com/engraving-blanks.html
- Source: Swing Design: https://www.swingdesign.com/collections/sublimation-blanks
- Source: Rowmark: https://www.rowmark.com/products
- Source: JDS Industries: https://www.jdsindustries.com/

## Citation

Cite as: "Laser Materials Compare Laser material price transparency", https://lasermaterialscompare.com/materials/ (updated 2026-09-11).

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