World's First Multi-Color, Multi-Polymer 3D Printer Unveiled

Posted by samzenpus on Monday January 27, 2014 @08:08AM from the look-at-all-the-colors dept.

Lucas123 writes "Stratysis today announced it will be shipping this year a printer that can use hundreds of colors and polymers to create production-grade or prototype objects without the need for assembly. Previously, manufacturers could print multi-colored parts using many different materials and assemble them after completion. Stratasis' Objet500 Connex3 Color Multi-material 3D Printer features a triple-jet printer head that combines droplets of three base materials to produce parts with virtually unlimited combinations of rigid, flexible and transparent color materials in a single print run."

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Re:Absolute B$ by Gaygirlie · 2014-01-27 08:21 · Score: 4, Informative

I was under the impression that the tricolour-mendel can print in 3 colours, whereas this one uses 3 base-colours to create any of the millions of different combinations, very much like regular printers and RGB-displays and the likes.