Today Shapeways has announced yet another new material. This one could certainly see a ton of use. It is a full color plastic material. Like the popular Sandstone which many products on Shapeways are printed with, this material has extremely high resolution both in terms of detail of the material, as well as the color. Shapeways will launch this as a test run at first before making the material available to everyone. Here are a few basic specs of this new material:

  • 2.0 mm diameter when there are two or more escape holes
  • Clearance .5mm
  • Interlocking and enclosed parts? Yes
  • Multiple parts per model file? No
  • Min supported wall thickness 0.7 mm thickshape-2
  • Min unsupported wall thickness 0.7 mm thick


Further details can be fund at this article: http://3dprint.com/11840/shapeways-color-plastic/
Check out a few examples which has been printed with Shapeways' new multi-color plastic. What do you guys think?