White SLS material

Any chance we could see white SLS material in the future for the Fuse? Especially polypropylene. White would be a great basis for dyeing prints, let alone many med device companies want white stuff.

Materialize offers PA-12 white, so someone out there knows how to do it:

yes. If you think about it, it’s not necessary to burn the material, just melt it. Not sure what sort of magic that requires. Would be good to hear a technical explanation from our friends at Formlabs.

Interesting article on a competing product that can print white parts. There’s a bit of an explanation in the text.

And this article came out in 2017!

And a little more research on this, the Natrual Robotics machine mentioned seems to have flopped.

Formlabs seems to prefer grey powders, and I haven’t heard of any plans to release other colors.

You need at minimum a 60w laser to print white material, I guess

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