Now available: varioShore TPU Black.
Design by Flying Ginger (link), remixed by colorFabb with inscription
With the launch of varioShore TPU in October last year we added a new flagship product to our ever expanding portfolio of high quality 3D printing filaments. Initially launched in a single neutral color, varioShore TPU can now also be ordered as a black filament. We recently ran a poll on both Twitter and Facebook and our users clearly chose black as our next varioShore TPU color:
What is varioShore TPU?
varioShore TPU allows users to vary the density of the material by adjusting temperature and material throughput (speed & layerheight). At temperatures between 200 and 250C the materials will start to expand to roughly 1.4-1.6 times its original volume. This means the material can be printed at low flow rates (60-70%), to compensate the active foaming, which in return gives very soft printed parts. Between 190-200C the material can be printed without foaming, resulting in different haptics and harder prints compared to foamed samples.
This part is an excellent demonstrator for varioShore TPU material. The ergonomic grip of the bike handle really is perfect to demonstrate the haptic experience of a foamed TPU material. It’s very different from a regular TPU material, much softer surface and better grip.
3 main advantages
varioShore TPU is flexible in more ways than one:
- This material is not limited to one shore hardness, but with the right print settings you can have multiple shore hardnesses – even in one print!
- We used our LW-PLA technology in this filament as well to reduce weight significantly. Although the weight reduction of varioShore TPU is not as significant as LW-PLA, the weight of the overall print is noticable and can make the difference for prints where weight matters.
- Prints that need a soft touch, like handle bars for bikes or shoe soles are no problem anymore with varioShore TPU.
“It really is a fantastic development… Incredible innovation.” – Steve Cox
“Another astonishing FDM material development from the colorFabb team.” – Richard Horne
“Another amazing product by colorFabb!” – Bart Tangermann
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