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Yes that's normal unfortunately. It's the same effect that happens if you take sandpaper and scuff up the surface of a piece of clear plastic. The hundreds of tiny layers are essentially a lot of uniform scratches. If you print with thicker layers the effect becomes less visible but you are not going to get it to look absolutely clear.
It gets even weirder. I tried to print something transparent too and the transparency changed mid-print. Check out the weird spikes on the first image.
So it might not only be the material's fault.
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Yes that's normal unfortunately. It's the same effect that happens if you take sandpaper and scuff up the surface of a piece of clear plastic. The hundreds of tiny layers are essentially a lot of uniform scratches. If you print with thicker layers the effect becomes less visible but you are not going to get it to look absolutely clear.
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