Colored 3D printers XYZprinting come!

3D printing was invented in 1984. It would seem that it took a long time to develop this technology and a method of manufacturing a fully-colored products needs to be already well established. However, not all so simple...

Color 3D printing has begun to carry out on the finished devices about 25 years ago. Until recently in Ukraine color 3D printing could do, or special 3D-printers working with composite powder (similar to gypsum), or on 3D printers (docstring) that work with a plastic thread, which is served with two different coils. "Composite" version is expensive, and "kataskevi", although available, but can't paint the product of more than two colors in a single pass. Therefore, a full color 3D printing is not yet widespread. However, the engineering thought is not static. Two years ago, the company XYZprinting made a revolution in this segment of technology. Proceedings have been initiated and introduced to the market the world's first 3D printer budget level that allows us to produce fully-multi-color products.

The revolutionary model

Printer da Vinci Color is a unique technical idea. We can say that the engineers did not come up with XYZprinting 3D and 4D printer. The model — the mechanism of filament 3D printer, augmented drukowania head of a conventional inkjet printer. This technology provides riskrelevant product that is printed directly in 3D printing. The process is as follows: nozzle 3D printer applies layer further printing unit with ink Napili paint over the printed layer. The principle of work to change parts of the printing module can be compared to 3D printers with two extruders. Only the second extruder in this case, there is a carriage with colored ink cartridges. Coloring ink is coated only the outer surface of the printed sample and does not penetrate. This solution allows an economical use of ink.

While 3D printing da Vinci Color use a special plastic that absorbs ink. It is made on the basis of PLA plastic which is biodegradable and therefore safe for health. Plastic absorbs ink so well that it is not washed off even if you hold a printed product under running water. For user convenience, the manufacturer made the coil with plastic chipovanoy. The chip allows you to track the amount of plastic at a specific point and not start printing, if it is not enough to complete the task.

The quality of 3D printing on this printer directly depends on the combination of the elements of the model and superimposed colors. In the case of small detail items to see the color transitions will be difficult, however, the purpose of technology is to make full-color 3D printing to the mass at affordable price.

Where the need 3D printers

Full-color 3D printers continue to win their place under the sun. These devices are primarily useful in educational institutions for training associated with 3D printing. Color functionality does not negate the possibility of printing normal PLA-plastics, and the management interface by a 3D-printer, and the concomitant programs, focused on inexperienced users and printing out of the box. Well these devices cope with the manufacture of small batches of colored trinkets and Souvenirs with a simple geometry. You only need to carefully select the color settings/brightness on the texture. Will fit da Vinci Color and the users who practice creating 3D mngop people. However, it is advisable not to print in full length and in bust format, otherwise a large part of the product scrivetemi support elements. To quickly print souvenir of this invention will fit perfectly. Incidentally, the printing speed of the printer is roughly equivalent to the speed of printing two colors on a regular docextreme 3D printer

The continuous development of 3D Department

Over the past two years in the lineup XYZprinting there are new models of 3D-printers. First — the 3 in 1 Color da Vinci AiO, which was collected on the basis of da Vinci Color: 3D printing added function of 3D scanning. Also on the device, instead of the printing module to set the laser engraver, which makes this model universal for the realization of different ideas.

In the first half of 2019 XYZprinting even closer the bar color of 3D printing to the household level, after the da Vinci Color Mini. This model has no built-in 3D scanner and it is 1.5 times cheaper da Vinci Color.

It's hard to imagine how much progress this segment of technology we can expect in the coming decades. 35 years have passed since the invention of the 3D printer, and engineers search and find breakthrough technology in the world of 3D printing, forcing users to actively think of what ideas they want to implement in the real world, using the latest 3D printer in the world.