Mosaic Manufacturing
The Palette 2 hooked up to a Makergear M3 3D printer.
The Palette 2 hooked up to a Makergear M3 3D printer.
Mosaic Manufacturing, a hardware manufacture aiming to enable desktop multi-colour 3D printing, has launched a multi-material ecosystem surrounding its new Palette 2 devices.
Palette 2 is a pair of follow-up products to the Palette, which was initially introduced to market via Kickstarter, and the Palette + which was released in the summer of 2017. Unveiled as part of an ecosystem which also includes the Canvas Software Platform and Canvas Hub, the Palette 2 and Palette 2 Pro are pieces of hardware that integrate with desktop FDM machines and facilitate multi-colour, multi-material 3D printing.
Coinciding with the launch, MakerGear, Raise3D, Dremel, Robo 3D, gCreate and MAKEiT have all been announced as Palette 2 and Palette 2 Pro integration partners. These vendors will be soon be launching 3D printers with integrated Palette 2 experiences, meaning their customers will have access to multi-material printing as a native feature.
Mosaic feels the ability to only print in a single colour and single material is a constraint many users have grown tired of and has sought to address the issue with its Palette products. The Palette 2 devices enable users to combine flexible materials, rigid materials, soluble materials and different coloured ones in a single print. The company says it is compatible with nearly all filament-based printers on the market, and having sold thousands of its older products into 40 countries, is expecting many designers, engineers and manufacturers to be interested in their latest version, which is said to be more reliable, boasts a colour touch screen, auto-runout detection, and solid-state filament splicing technology.
It is also teamed with a cloud software platform, Canvas, and the Canvas Hub which is a small piece of hardware which connects Palette 2 and 3D printer. The software has been specifically designed to support multi-material 3D printing, meaning less work for designers who previously would have to go that extra mile to create parts in multi-material and multi-colour, and helps to automate and simplify the process.
“Palette 2’s integration model is similar to the Intel Inside approach in personal computing,” commented co-founder and CEO, Mitchell Debora. “In the same way that Intel’s processors made computers powerful enough to be useful for ordinary people, Palette 2 makes the output of 3D printers substantially more valuable and relevant to a larger market.”
“The Canvas platform features the industry’s best user experience for multi-material printing, version control for print settings, and data-driven setting optimisations, and it will soon enable users to ‘paint’ and colourise 3D printable files in a simple, intuitive way,” added co-founder and COO, Chris Labelle. “We’re excited for Palette 2 and Canvas to elevate the industry and become the standard in quality 3D printing.”
Mass production of the Palette 2 is already underway with shipping expected to begin by the end of September.
