After high-speed and multicolored printing, multi-material printing becomes a new trend.
In 2025, Tuozhu H2D shot the foreground from multi-material printing, and when the ball was still flying, we heard other sounds, and many companies, including Kuaizhua Technology and Chuangxiang 3D, also prepare new booming products. During the second quarter, we can expect that we will see that at least 3 to 5 multi-material printing machines appear.
New challenger: smart tomato
Today, let’s first learn a new business: Zhejiang Tomato Smart Equipment Co., Ltd., located in Jinhua, Zhejiang. As a startup that has just been established for a year, Tomato Intelligent has launched a brand new 3D-Wonder。
Recently, the ZR Ultra, which will be funded by Crowd-Final on Kickstarter, comes from Wondermaker. This multi-tool 3D head printer, known as “5 seconds of zero waste color change”, begins at only US $ 549, equivalent to less than 4,000 RMB. This machine, which is the king of cost performance, has a printing volume of 300 × 240 × 290 mm and a print speed up to 600 mm / s.
The most remarkable thing is that the Ultra ZR is equipped with 4 heads of automatic switching tool, which can supplement color switching in a very short time, reduce material waste and improve printing efficiency. This also means that the Ultra ZR supports the simultaneous use of flexible, rigid and support materials, is suitable for complex printing tasks and can easily meet the print needs of soft and hard structures.
In fact, we saw this solution on the foreign brand Prusa, but its 3D printer at 5 Prusa XL aprons begins at $ 3,499, more than 6 times the price of ZR Ultra. Due to price factors, this multicolored and multi-material 3D printing system has been largely limited, so few people use it.
It is only by changing your state of mind that you can defeat your opponent
We are very happy to see today that the new smart tomato solution is coming, and of course, it will not be the only one. What we want to express is that in the past, the Multicolored Materials exchange system AMS of Tuozhu allowed us to see the possibility of multicolored printing, then the main manufacturers also launched similar solutions one after the other. But the problem is that this method cannot really implement multi-material printing, or it is difficult to implement, unless the performance of different materials are comparable and the temperature is similar.
And we can’t wait to see some differences. As a start-up and starter brand, Tomato Smart Wondermaker gives us new hope. As we have already said, it is just beginning. Whether it is a double nozzle or tool switching solution, it will trigger the next multi-material printing cycle and will become the new standard for basic 3D printing.
Of course, if someone can launch a whole new solution, then we prefer to give him aShout and applaudConsign the arrival of this day impatiently.
In fact, behind the expectation of multi-material printing, it extendsNew application. By taking the double spray printing as an example, we can have a nozzle printing shoe using TPU material and the other nozzle print medium using PLA material. That is to say that, in addition to the 3D printed shoes in previously mature photocural, we can also useFDM technologyEven basic machines to get there.
Finally, if you are looking for a powerful and affordable multi-material 3D printer, the Wondermaker ZR Ultra is really worth watching. Currently, this machine will soon be financed by the funding of the crowd on the Kickstarter platform. If you are interested, you can pre -order it.
PS: In addition to launching the ZR Ultra, Tomato Smart also has a four -color printer, ZR. But if you look carefully, you will see that it is very similar to the 5X Flashcast, and the two companies are located in Jinhua.
