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Print your own rainbow

It’s full color, it has perfect quality it is extremely affordable and it can be yours! Check out these products, printed in full color, sealed
and impregnated. Our special XLA Form Infusion hardens your work of art and ensures you that colorful stays colorful.
Upload your own model now. For more details check our materials page here.


full color gallery   The products in the gallery can all be ordered in Full Color Sandstone. We want to offer you the full range in available materials. We think we made a huge step by offering you full color 3D printing. This technique has been available for some time now. But this quality is, just as the printer brand new! We are so proud to have made the latest in Full Color 3D printing available to you all.

I want my model in Full Color Sandstone

If you want to have your model printed in Full Color upload your zip file and check the box ‘has color’. We have a tutorial showing you how to upload the VRML files in a zip for full color 3D printing here. You will be able to order your design immediately in Full Color Sandstone from your ‘my designs’ page. The products will still take only 10 working days to get to you from the moment you order them.

I want my model in Sandstone

We have made the Sandstone material available for all the products on Shapeways. However, this does not guarantee that this material will work for all of the products currently on Shapeways. A lot of models can not be 3D printed in Sandstone because they would be too fragile or the walls of these models are too thin. 

Because of this we ask you to look at  the design rules for Full Color 3D printing here.
You can find the tutorial for designing and uploading for Full Color Sandstone  here.

The Process of Full Color 3D printing

The video explains how the process of Full Color 3D printing  works:



Safety datasheet by our producers: Full Color
Information sheet on XLA Form Infusion

Expectation management

Full Color Sandstone available for new uploads only
We can currently print your designs in Full Color Sandstone and Sandstone. However we have only made the Full Color Sandstone material available for new uploads. To prevent disappointment we won’t make Full Color Sandstone available for the existing products in our gallery. They don’t contain color information and the guidelines for 3D modeling for Full Color 3D printing differ from the guidelines for the other range of materials we have available.

XLA Form Infusion
Full Color Sandstone is harder then you are used to if you ever had something printed in Z Corp. We apply a new finishing technique called XLA Form Infusion. This is an automated and clean Infusion process that both hardens the products and enhances colors. It is not the regular procedure where the product is submerged in super glue and only the outer shell is hardened. With XLA Form Infusion the product is completely infused with the Formula. Full Color Sandstone will still feel a bit like fine sandpaper and is brittle. So be very careful with your designs and make sure you read the tutorial so you are familiar with the possibilities and limitations before you design and print.