3D4C Full Color 3D Printer

[Brian_Krassenstein]

There seems to be quite a high demand for an FDM-based 3D printer which can mix several filaments in order to print in multiple colors. A man named Felix Chan from London may have just come up with such a machine. He has just launched his 3D4C full color 3D printer on Kickstarter. It can mix 4 different colored filaments to create all sorts of colors during a print. The printer will cost approximately $1445 for the earliest backer. More detail on this printer can be found here: http://3dprint.com/12058/3d4c-color-3d-printer/

Here are the basic specs for the 3D4C:

• Build Envelope: 250 x 250x 180mm
• Layer Resolution: 100-500 microns
• Nozzle Diameter: 0.4mm or 0.8mm
• Filament Type/Size: PLA or ABS (1.75mm)

Check out the picture below of the printer printing a multiple-colored object:

[Geoff]

DAMN! someone beat me to it!!! FML

I have been trying it with 2 colours trying to feed them in at the same time using like light blue and purple, red/yellow etc

The hard part is regulating the mix so the mixed colour stays true.

I.e I mix red and yellow to make orange, but too much of one or the other changes the tone, so yeah I guess just getting the feeders synchronised would be the main challenge. Ah well, I still can try! that's the great thing... if you build something and it doesn't work, you redesign it and print it out again for round 2!

[Remco]

A different company (Builder) beat you AND 3D4C http://3dprinter4u.com/color-mixing-2

The thing is, i'm not that impressed. With the many SLS patents expired it's only a matter of time before SLS takes over FDM (including full color printing).

[curious aardvark]

sls just has way too much post processing and mess to replace fdm asa home system. At the moment.

As far as full colour goes there's a couple of bods who have come up with a much better way than mixed filament.
It's a bolt on kit that colours a transparent/natural filament as it goes into the printer.
http://gigaom.com/2014/03/06/two-col...less-than-100/