# Differences between resin types
**URL:** https://forum.formlabs.com/t/differences-between-resin-types/26492
**Category:** Form 3/3+
**Created:** [February 5, 2020, 5:13pm UTC](https://forum.formlabs.com/t/differences-between-resin-types/26492 "2020-02-05T17:13:16Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@nsayer](https://forum.formlabs.com/u/nsayer)
#### Post date: [February 5, 2020, 5:13pm UTC](https://forum.formlabs.com/t/differences-between-resin-types/26492/1 "2020-02-05T17:13:16Z")
This is kind of interesting, though I grant it may not be particularly surprising.
If I print the exact same model (roughly 120 mL and ~1500 layers) in white and black resin, the black resin requires perhaps 1% more support material and takes an astonishing 7 hours longer to print (22 rather than 15 hours).
I don’t have a good apples-to-apples comparison with clear or draft, but I might convince myself to print a clear one just to see (you’d naturally expect draft to be much faster).
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### Author:  [@P3D](https://forum.formlabs.com/u/P3D)
#### Post date: [February 6, 2020, 12:31pm UTC](https://forum.formlabs.com/t/differences-between-resin-types/26492/2 "2020-02-06T12:31:40Z")
Black needs more total power to cure (due to the black pigment absorbing more light, as opposed to the white one), and maybe there are also considerations of total power per unit volume and time to avoid locally over-heating the resin.
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### Author:  [@nsayer](https://forum.formlabs.com/u/nsayer)
#### Post date: [February 6, 2020, 2:51pm UTC](https://forum.formlabs.com/t/differences-between-resin-types/26492/3 "2020-02-06T14:51:51Z")
That’s probably true. I wasn’t complaining, really. Just noting the difference.