Formlabs Color kit, the first integrated color mixing solution for stereolithography 3D printing.

Color Kit is part of Formlabs’ library of Standard Resins. These are our general purpose materials for the Form 2, great for rapid prototyping, concept models, and bringing your ideas to life. Product designers, engineers, modelmakers, and professionals across industries love these materials for their high detail, smooth surface finish, and minimal post-processing and finishing.

Colorful Parts Straight from Your 3D Printer

Color helps us understand the world around us. Color can indicate which parts of a product to touch or use, direct our eyes, create contrast or cohesion, and connect a product to a particular brand family. Color can elicit emotion and shift interpretations.

Formlabs’ materials science team selects colors for functional materials, like our Engineering and Dental Resins, for differentiation and to optimize for their respective material properties. These properties are essential for functional parts and works-like prototypes.

For looks-like prototypes, concept models, and others parts where aesthetic is top priority, Color Kit enables you to print many models in one consistent color, right off the printer, without the additional work of finishing and painting.

Choose Color Resin for matte, opaque parts straight off the printer, or paint another material when your needs are a bit more complex. Color Kit and painting techniques can be used together if your models would benefit from a colored base.

How Color Kit Works

Each Color Kit includes a Color Base cartridge, five bottles of Color Pigment in Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, Black, and White, syringes for easy measurement, and a Recipe Book. The pigments are mixed into the base material to create a full cartridge of Color Resin.

Because Color Kit requires a mixing process and doesn’t come ready to print like other Formlabs materials, it is being offered as an experimental Form X product. Form X showcases innovative tools, materials, and approaches for advanced users who want to explore the boundaries of what’s possible with desktop stereolithography (SLA).

First, select a recipe. Formlabs has tested 16 colors, with recipes available in the included Recipe Book, or you can mix a custom color using our Color Picker. Measure the appropriate amount of Color Pigment and add it to the Color Base cartridge.

16 Colors, A Full Spectrum of Possibilities

With the Form 2 and Color Kit, you can 3D print parts in color and field test product concepts in shades that fit their environment, communicate their purpose, and align with your brand identity.