Prusa have shared on their blog the upcoming version of their slicer which is intended to make colour printing easy using CMYKW for 5 colour printers and CMYW for their 4 colour systems

  • AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    Seems like the obvious next step would be to combine this with variable layer height to get a continuous range of intermediate tones.

    • Starfighter@discuss.tchncs.de
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      Alternatively maybe something like the Roetz-End which can change colors without swapping filaments by rotating and/or stopping the flow of one of its inputs.