3D technology continues its development at full speed with printer and material manufacturers intensive works. These works focus on the innovation that making users’ job easier and the deficiencies. Canada based manufacturer ORD Solutions attracts interest in Kickstarter with RoVa4D.
Colored printing is one of the most popular topics of additive manufacturing. Even this feature is available in industrial type of printers, it is very rare in desktop ones. Aiming to offer this feature everybody, Canadian ORD Solutions started a Kickstarter campaign for RoVa4D printer.
Essentially, it gives us access to unlimited 3D printable colors that can all blend into each other throughout the model. “Not only can it blend CMYK+W colors to create any 
color in the rainbow, but our new 3D printer can ALSO blend PLA based materials, like hard and soft to create an infinitely variable hardness of material,” the firm explained. “Five different materials go into one hot end and they are mixed together to produce new material. Combining these together you can create hybrids of each one. It works the same as the color, but instead of creating a new color, they blend together and create a material with new properties.”
ORD Solutions has already successfully funded and delivered two 3D printers, the latest being the RoVa3D with 5 separate hot ends. Based on their customer’s feedback, the 6th generation 3D printer has been developed. The RoVa4D is capable of printing both gradient as well as separate colours in a single print. It switches colours by purging the difference in a little bin or uses it as infill if the area is large enough. The device with a build area of 320 x 320 x 320 mm is equipped with two additional extruders for flexible and dissolvable support material.
Backers of the campaign that has already been funded within the first few days can pledge CAD $ 4,500 for the early bird offer of the RoVa4D. Existing RoVa3D users have the option to upgrade their printer for CAD $ 2,000. ORD Solutions has currently a working prototype of the new full colour printer and hopes to ship first devices starting March 2017.