Color Jet Printing
What is Color Jet Printing?
ColorJet Printing (CJP) is an additive manufacturing technology which involves two major components – core and binder. The Core™ material is spread in thin layers over the build platform with a roller. After each layer is spread, color binder is selectively jetted from inkjet print heads over the core layer, which causes the core to solidify. The build platform lowers with every subsequent layer which is spread and printed, resulting in a full-color three-dimensional model. Whether printed with color or in standard white, parts can be additionally clear coated to add a hard smooth coating or wax coated to smooth out the surface finish.
How does ColorJet Printing/Zprinting work?
As in many other rapid prototyping processes, in CJP/Zprinting the part to be printed is built up from many thin cross-sections of the 3D model. In ZPrinters, an inkjet-like printing head moves across a bed of powder, selectively depositing a liquid binding material in the shape of the section. A fresh layer of powder is spread across the top of the model, and the process is repeated. When the model is complete, unbound powder is automatically removed. Parts can be built on a ZPrinter at a rate of approximately 1 vertical inch per hour, which makes it one of the fastest technologies available today. In Color Jet Printing, the outer edge of each layer is colored resulting in fully colored final objects.
Printing Tehnique
ColorJet Printing technology (CJP) allows to print ready-to-use parts.
It uses two essential components: Visijet C4 Spectrum powder a durable, flexible and robust plastic, and Binders (transparent,cyan, magenta and yellow) that incorporate pixel-to-pixel colors, creating nearly one million unique colors.
The material is applied in thin layers on the platform by a roller.
After the application of each of the layer of material, the color binder is selectively projected by the ink-jet printheads thereon, thereby solidifying the material.
The manufacturing platform lowers after each of the successive layers of material and binder, until the model is finished.
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