Unlike all the others, it can churn out plastic parts in any hue combo

Dec 3, 2013 12:21 GMT  ·  By

3D printers have been making waves, but one of their more unseemly limitations is that every item that comes out of them is made of the very same color, unless you change the extruder filament at some point during the process. 3D Systems says “no more.”

You're now looking at the first and, likely for a long time, only continuous-tone full color plastic 3D printer in the whole wide world.

As you'll see in the video, the printer, called ProJet 4500, can make various items, like smartphone cases, out of a new class of sustainable VisiJet C4 Spectrum materials.

You can use it to make prototypes of various things, consumer products, health care products, etc. Semi-rigid parts mostly.

Sadly, the technical details of the ProJet 4500 full-color plastic 3D printer aren't known, nor is the price, or the availability of the extruder.