Tough 2000, but black?

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Is there a resin comparable to Tough 2000, but in black instead of grey?

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Hi @Lantech50

Unfortunately Formlabs itself does not sell a “Tough 2000 but black” in and of itself.
There are a couple options though:

  1. You can get in touch with us and if you fulfill a certain order quantity, we’re very open to make a resin just for you. (This isn’t really an option for most people, but I just wanted to mention this for the full picture).
  2. Print in Tough 1500 V2 on a Form 4 Series printer. This is not black, but much darker and you’ll likely need to scale up wall thicknesses to make the parts as stiff as Tough 2000 parts.
  3. Paint or dye the parts after the fact. You can find our ultimate guide for this following this link.
  4. You can get an Open Material Licence and look for a third party material with similar mechanical properties and the correct colour.
  5. Not officially endorsed or recommended: You could add dyes to your resin, I have had conversations with one of our customers in the Form 2 days who added soot to their resin to darken them. Number 4 carries a good increase in failure rate and if yomething goes very wrong this will not be covered by warranty, same as 1. I just wanted to list this for completion

These are the most common options you generally have, maybe someone else here on the forum can add something as well. I myself have dabbled in number 5 quite a bit in my time here at Formlabs but I fully acknowledge that I have the advantage of not paying for resins and/or tanks in case I do mess up one of those.

Kind regards
Jakob

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Hello @Lantech50

we use black ESD resin and are very satisfied with it. It is very durable, tough, and well suited for post-processing. Maybe it’s something for you.