Multicolor FDM
3D Printing
Up to 8 colours in a single print, quoted instantly from a real slice of your file.
What Multicolor FDM is good at
Our Bambu Lab X1C and P1S machines run a four-slot filament changer, so a single print can carry up to four colours without anyone touching the machine mid-job. You upload a .3mf saved out of Bambu Studio or OrcaSlicer with your colours already assigned, map each one to a filament we stock, and the price comes back from an actual slice of your geometry rather than a volume estimate. It is the cheapest way to get a coloured part that does not need painting.
| Layer thickness | 0.08, 0.12, 0.16 or 0.20 mm (you choose) |
|---|---|
| Dimensional tolerance | ±0.3 mm, or ±0.5% on dimensions over 60 mm — whichever is larger |
| Minimum wall | 0.8 mm recommended (two perimeters at a 0.4 mm nozzle); 1.2 mm+ for load-bearing walls |
| Maximum part size | 250 × 210 × 250 mm usable — a multicolour purge tower eats into the footprint further |
| Minimum feature | Holes 2 mm and up; embossed or engraved detail 0.8 mm wide, 0.4 mm deep |
| Colours per print | Up to 8, switched automatically |
| Surface finish | Matte layered finish; colour boundaries are crisp on flat faces, slightly soft on steep curves |
Materials you can order
Every grade below is quotable today. If you are not sure which one fits, put your file through the quote page and ask us — we would rather help you pick than have a part come back.
What people print with Multicolor FDM
A cross-section of the work that lands in this lane.
Where it wins, and where it does not
Every process trades something away. Read the right-hand column before you commit a design — it is the part most services leave out.
Advantages
Why this lane gets picked
- Real four-colour printing in one job — no painting, no masking, no glue-up
- Instant automated price from a genuine slice of your model, not a rough volume guess
- Printed on our own machines, so it dispatches in days rather than weeks
- Cheapest route to a multi-coloured part at quantities of one to a few dozen
- You keep full control of colour placement by assigning it yourself in the .3mf
- Colour changes cost filament and time, not tooling — so a one-off is viable
Limitations to design around
Told straight, before you order
- Every colour change purges filament into a waste tower. On colour-heavy models that waste can exceed the part itself, which pushes both price and print time up noticeably.
- Four colours is a hard ceiling per print. A fifth colour means splitting the model or painting.
- We need a .3mf with colours already assigned. A plain STL carries no colour data, so we cannot guess your intent from it.
- A trace of the previous colour can carry over at a transition, showing as a faint smear on the first millimetre or two of a new colour.
- PLA softens from roughly 55–60 °C. Anything destined for a parked car, an enclosure with a motor in it, or direct summer sun should be PETG, ABS or an industrial nylon instead.
- Layer lines are always visible up close, and parts are meaningfully weaker across layers than along them — design so loads run in-plane.
Lead time & how to order
In-house. Instant automated price on the quote page, with a dispatch estimate shown on your quote and a Rush option available at checkout.
Upload your model on the quote page, choose Multicolor FDM and your material, and the price comes back on screen. Delivered pan-India.
Multicolor FDM questions, answered
How many colours can one print have?
What file do I need to upload for a multicolour print?
Why does a multicolour print cost more than a single-colour one?
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Will the colour boundaries be perfectly clean?
Will a multicolour PLA part survive in a car?
Other technologies we run
Not sure this is the right lane? Every one of these quotes from the same upload.
FDM
In-house FDM in PLA, PETG, ABS, TPU and PLA-CF. 0.08-0.20 mm layers, 250x210x250 mm max, +/-0.3 mm typical. Dispatched in days.
IndustrialSLA Resin
Finest detail and smoothest finish. +/-0.2 mm under 100 mm, walls from 0.5 mm. Most resins soften above ~60 C. 15-20 days.
IndustrialMJF Nylon
Support-free PA12/PA11 nylon for end-use parts. +/-0.3 mm under 100 mm, 370x276x360 mm max, grey or dyed black. 15-20 days.
IndustrialSLS Nylon
Tough sintered nylon, no supports, glass-filled option. +/-0.3 mm under 100 mm, 350x350x400 mm max, grainy matte. 15-20 days.
IndustrialSLM Metal
Fully dense 316L or Ti-6Al-4V. +/-0.3 mm under 100 mm, 390x290x390 mm max, walls from 1.5 mm. Our priciest lane. 15-20 days.
IndustrialBinder Jetting
Economical 316L steel, no supports, 100 mm cube max. Sinter shrinkage gives +/-0.4% under 50 mm, +/-1.3% above. 15-20 days.
Ready to print in Multicolor FDM?
Upload your model, pick your material, and see the price on screen. No forms, no waiting on a quotation.