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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Nice by cold+fjord · 2014-01-27 08:26 · Score: 4, Insightful

This is great news for prototyping! Hopefully it will help kindle innovation, new companies, new industries, manufacturing, and the economy. Let the innovation commence.
I would think it could be pretty handy for various scientific uses as well.

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