Just like a regular 2D printer, the four base colors are Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, and Key (Black), or CMYK for short.ĬMYK works pretty much like the box of paints you used back in school. They can be mixed and printed in up to 16.7 million different colors to be precise. The colored glue can of course print in more than four colors.
These glues will only be placed on the surfaces of the model, while the interior parts will be glued together with clear glue.
The coloring of your model is done by combining four different pre-colored glues to match the colors that have been requested. The Coloring Process: 4 Types of Colored Glue The 3D printer will continue to spread out one layer of powder after another, and the print head will systematically glue the correct spots of each layer together. And then the magic happens: a print head places tiny drops of glue on the areas of the layer that are part of your design. So here’s how it works: a super-thin layer of sandstone powder is spread out by a roller. To create your 3D print, the printer glues the powder together. Similar to the marbles, the sandstone powder needs to have the perfect shape since each and every printing layer needs to have exactly the same height – even if we’re talking about microns here. However, building a pyramid with marbles would be way more difficult, as the perfectly shaped spheres would fail to stay in place and your pyramid wouldn’t stand a chance. Consider rocks and marbles: you could easily put rocks on top of each other to build a pyramid. Since it will be used for ultra-thin printing layers, the powder must be perfectly shaped in order to even out. It is important to note that the powder used by 3D printers cannot be just any kind of powder. In fact, the 3D-printed parts are constructed from a very fine, granular sandstone powder. Unlike with most home printers, ColorJet printers do not use filament. Materialise has been using this technology since 2007.
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In 1995, Z Corporation obtained an exclusive license for the technology. The technology was first developed at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1993 and was known as ZPrinting.
This technique builds up the model from a granular powder that is glued together – layer by layer, bottom to top. The technology behind our Multicolor material is known as ColorJet 3D printing.