![]() ![]() ![]() The stack of printed slices is then loaded into the Mcor IRIS machine, which uses a process called selective deposition lamination. Next, a regular CMYK inkjet printer prints each slice of the model onto a separate sheet of paper, with a ~5 mm-wide outline of the required color of the bit that will end up showing once it's assembled. If your 3D model doesn't include color information, you can add color and detail to the model through a second piece of software called ColorIt. Using a piece of software called SliceIt, a 3D model is cut into paper-thin layers exactly the thickness of an 80 GSM sheet. Additionally, if the standard hard-glued object texture isn't good enough, you can dip the final print in solid glue, to make it extra durable and strong enough to be drilled and tapped, or in a flexible outer coating that enables moving parts - if you don't mind losing a little of your object's precision shape. This is across several different printers with several different beds, using several different brands of PLA filament (matterhackers mostly, but also fiberforce, hatchbox, jessie) Printing at 0.24, 50mm/s layers, 0.3, 20mm/s first layer. Secondly, because it's standard paper, you can print onto it in full color before it's cut and assembled, giving you a high quality, high resolution color "skin" all over your final object. It almost feels like sandpaper on the top, and there are sections where it is noticeably better or worse. That means printed objects come out at between 10-20 percent of the price of other 3D prints, and with none of the toxic fumes or solvent dips that some other processes require. For starters, instead of expensive plastics, they build objects out of cut-and-glued sheets of standard 80 GSM office paper. Irish company Mcor's unique paper-based 3D printers make some very compelling arguments.
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