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Blending filaments? (piefed.zip)
submitted 2 months ago by to c/3dprinting@lemmy.world
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Is there any existing technology that takes a variety of filaments of different colors (say a CMYK blend), and then blends them in different ratios to achieve whatever color you want?

I had this thought the either day, and I figure it's either stupid, already exists, or genius.

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[–] 4 points 1 month ago*

I'd mostly worry about controlling color transitions, because you can't really control the actual color properly when changing the mix for a different color. I think you'd end up needing some sort of purge between colors to avoid weird unwanted color transitions. I don't think it would provide lower material use or a speed benefit to the existing MMU multicolor solutions because of this.

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