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Palette 3 Pro – Mosaic Manufacturing

Multiple colours, infinite potential

Communicate your ideas with realistic, multi-colour prints. Palette 3 Pro enables you to achieve prints with up to 8 different colours.

Multi‑Material 3D Printing

Achieve high-quality, functional prints with flexible or rigid materials, or simplify prints with challenging overhangs using breakaway or soluble support.

3rd Generation Splice Core Pro

Engineered to strategically splice filaments, our Splice Core Pro allows your Palette 3 Pro to reach up to 10% faster splicing and cooling speeds.

Automate your filament

If a spool runs out, Palette will automatically splice to another spool and keep your print going. With 8 spools available your prints will always continue to run.

A modern 3D printing experience

To create a more seamless experience, Palette 3 Pro comes with built-in WiFi connectivity to connect your Palette, your printer and your computer.

Customize, Store and Slice

Experience a simple, powerful software suite. With our easy-to-use Canvas software you can slice, paint, stamp, and manage all your prints in the cloud.

Reliable, Plug and Play Material

While Palette 3 will work with most 1.75mm 3rd party filaments, Mosaic's tight tolerance PLA ensures the most reliable printing experience for your Palette 3 and printer.

Palette 3 Pro

With an industry leading 8 material inputs, Palette 3 Pro gives you the most flexibility when it comes to creating multi-material 3D prints

To ensure you always have the best experience, Palette 3 Pro comes with an extended 2-year warranty, Ethernet port and extra spare parts.

Experience the fastest splicing yet with 3rd Generation Splice Core Pro Technology, 10% faster than Palette 3 and 30% faster than Palette 2.

Product Comparison

Palette 3 vs Palette 3 Pro

Palette 3
Palette 3 Pro

Compatibility

Open 1.75mm filament,
.gcode/.x3g (and more)
Ultimaker and Lulzbot machines

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Palette 3 Pro

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Multi-material 3D printing at its best – Mosaic Manufacturing

 

Enabling multi-material 3D printing has been Mosaic’s mission since our early days in 2014. Since then, we’ve sold tens of thousands of Palette units to customers in over 70 countries. Introducing the latest generation of Palette: 


Palette 3 + Palette 3 Pro 

Design Approach 

Two of the most important aspects that Palette 3 improves on are user experience, and reliability.

Additionally, Palette 3 Pro allows for the printing of up to 8 materials on a single extruder 3D printer. This is double the 4 inputs on every other Palette to date, and more available materials than any other approach on the market. 


Simple Multi-Material 3D Printing 

Palette 3’s new user interface, and approach to connectivity means that you’re able to get an incredibly simple experience. One of the biggest changes when compared to Palette 2 is the integrated Canvas Hub S. This means that you’re able to connect Palette 3 (Pro) to your printer, and access easier loading, connected calibration, and a simpler printing workflow.

Alongside this, Mosaic has developed our own version of printer control and communication in Canvas, which allows you to send files directly to your Palette 3, with no USB drives or SD cards. Through this interface, you’re able to heat up your printer, start prints, and monitor your print job.  

Including Canvas Hub S functionality meant the Mosaic team had more flexibility to add in additional workflows, tutorials, and walkthroughs on Palette itself. This means Palette is better able to guide you through setup and printing. 

These three aspects combine to ensure your Palette printing experience will be straightforward and simpler than ever before. 

Increased Reliability 

With product feedback on thousands of Palette 2 units, the Mosaic team was able to isolate the most common failure modes and design Palette 3 to ensure these were no longer present for users. 

There were two main wear points that were focused on - splice tubes and limit switches. 

 

 

Re-Engineered Splicing 

Each Palette Splice Core consists of a few main components, one of the important ones being the PTFE tube. This PTFE tube is where the filament is actually spliced, and re-formed to a tight tolerance in order to allow the spliced filament to feed into your 3D printer. These tubes are made through an incredibly precise manufacturing process. Based on our team’s data collection and endurance testing, we found that the typical Palette 2 splice tube would wear out between 5,000 and 10,000 splices.  

This wear is very dependent on the quality of the filament used, which leads to the range seen above. Increasing the average time for a splice tube to wear is one of the primary reasons we launched Mosaic PLA last year. With tolerances of +/- .02mm, Mosaic PLA guarantees a higher average life of your PTFE tube, especially when compared to +/- .05mm filaments. 

Palette 3 was designed to splice in a different way, and due to the Palette Engineering teams’ ability to modify hardware and splicing algorithms - Palette 3 splice tubes average life now ranges from 10,000 splices, up to 25,000 splices.  

What that means for you is that you’ll experience a more reliable printing experience. 

Filament Sensor Re-Design 

One of the requirements of Palette is that it understands where filament is in the system at any given time. In order to accomplish this, Palette has a number of ‘filament sensors’ inside in order to understand if filament is present in that area of Palette (or not present).

The filament sensors on Palette 2 used an off the shelf mechanical switch that was directly in contact with the filament. Sometimes the filament would apply excessive load to the switches requiring them to be replaced leading to a less than optimal user experience.

When working through the initial designs of Palette 3, the Palette engineering team knew that these switches needed to be redesigned and optimized for longer term operation. The team took an entirely new approach to switch design, and the results came in illustrating a new lifetime of over 2,000,000 splices. The new switch features a hardened steel, bi-directiional spring loaded switch tab that activates an optical sensor when the filament displaces the tab. The filament no longer engages with the switch allowing for drastic performance and durability improvements. These switches were run for millions of cycles without fail, and have gone from one of the weaker links in the Palette system to one of the strongest. 


Pushing the boundaries of 3D printing 

CamDrive Design and 8 Material 3D Printing

One of the biggest challenges Mosaic’s engineering team faced was how to scale the number of materials Palette could print, without scaling the size and cost of the product accordingly. The Palette Engineering team came up with a cam system that would still allow for 4 inputs on Palette 3 while also enabling up to 8 inputs for Palette 3 Pro.

Building on the backbones of Mosaic’s patent pending sliding selection drive system from a 2014 application, this new rotary CAM system embodies the key benefits of 2 motors to drive any number of filament. Unlike other simpler rotary feeder systems on the market, Palette 3’s CAM is a first of it’s kind workhorse with unrivaled drive strength and consistency between all inputs. 

Cam system works with one motor ‘selecting’ which material is to be driven via rotating a cylinder with a number of idler bearings. Depending on the position of the cam, a certain input’s idler bearing will be opposite the drive gear. This idler bearing pushes the filament into the gear, and the filament is driven when the gear rotates. The other 3 (or 7) materials are not pressed up against the gear so these materials do not move forward when the drive gear rotates.

Cam systems have an incredible amount of nuance to them and must be designed, tested and manufactured in a specific way in order to operate reliably. The cam system in Palette 3 has gone through torture testing of over 100,000 material changes.

Designed with a combination of metal and solid polymer components, the system is strong and rigid enough to last through the most rigorous printing processes.  

Constrained Buffer System

The Palette engineering team re-imagined the buffer system inside Palette 3 in order to allow for higher print speeds, and a more constrained material path. This updated buffer system has the material staying inside of a PTFEtube, constraining the material through the buffer. 

Unlike Palette 2, The lower limit buffer switch has been moved out to allow for additional movement once this switch has been triggered. In the past, if this switch was triggered it meant that there was no buffer remaining, and if the printer was pulling filament, this could lead to skips in extrusion and small gaps in your part.

With the lower limit switch moved out, there is an additional buffer below this switch, which means Palette 3 will have more time to move filament out into the buffer and continue feeding material to your printer. We also added a buffer maximum switch to further optimize buffer performance.

The constrained buffer system allows for easier automated loading and system clearing.

Additional Cooling Systems 

Airflow and cooling is an understated aspect of the Palette system that most operators don’t think about. Cooling splices, and ventilating the electronics systems are incredibly important to reliable operation over longer periods of time. 

With the help of some new thermal imaging equipment, we were able to collect data over tens of thousands of splices and use this data to ensure efficient cooling and airflow when Palette 3 is being run over extended periods of time. 

3D Printing, Evolved. 

Palette 3 and Palette 3 Pro are the simplest, most reliable way to achieve multi-material 3D printing on your 3D printer. This generation of Palette is the culmination of 7 years of expertise in multi-material 3D printing, all created to allow you to get the most flexibility out of your machine.

Palette 3 and Palette 3 Pro will begin arriving as early as July 2021, check out the Palette 3 and Palette 3 Pro product page here.

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THE BOSTONON RIZE COMPANY, THAT DEVELOPED THE FULL COLOR 3D PRINTING PROCESS AND IMPLEMENTED IT IN THEIR XRIZE SYSTEM, IS SUBJECTLY CLOSING OPERATIONS.

Kerry Stevenson, founder of the popular online 3D printing publication Fabbaloo, announced this in his article "The Demise of RIZE?" yesterday.

Recall that RIZE has developed an innovative approach to 3D printing that combines FFF and inkjet technologies. This made it possible to use special inks for easy separation of models and supports, the ability to apply serial numbers and various markings to products during the printing process, print color products, etc. nine0006

During his investigation, Kerry Stevenson contacted Eugene Giller, co-founder of RIZE, and learned that the company was experiencing financial difficulties in 2021, which led to the departure of employees. Apparently, the $40,000 XRIZE system was priced too high for the market.

In the fall, the company auctioned off its intellectual property portfolio and other assets, which were purchased by Eugene Giller himself for his new company, Palitra. nine0006

In her second article yesterday, "The Rise of Palitra and Low Cost Full Color 3D Printing For All", Kerry Stevenson notes that the new Palitra company intends to support existing RIZE customers and distribute equipment and materials. But the most interesting thing is that with Palitra it is planned to bring RIZE full color technology to the market at a much lower price - less than 10 thousand US dollars, and possibly less than 5 thousand if there are enough orders. nine0006

The explanation is that the RIZE full color system was simply too expensive.

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