The Ultimate Prototyping & Model-Building Tool
with PolyJet 3D Printing (PJ)

Design Freedom // Choose from thousands of colors and hundreds of materials to bring your product ideas to life.

Simplify your Part Production // PolyJet printers have multiple print heads that can lay down multiple materials with different durometers and a support material at the same time, within a single part build. In other words, a PolyJet printed part can contain sections that are hard and soft. The effect is similar to overmolding but is less expensive and much faster.

Don’t Sweat the Details // Most 3D printing technologies deposit or sinter a layer of material at a time. In contrast, Polyjet lays down droplets of photopolymer to build your parts. The layers are incredibly thin, which means your parts can contain ultra-fine details, rendered with a fidelity and accuracy that other types of 3D printing can’t equal.

Fast Part Production // For smaller build volumes, PolyJet is a relatively fast 3D printing process. Plus, parts don’t require curing. Removal of support structures is quick and easy. You can get your parts in as little as one day!

Versatile and Fast // From prototypes and colorful models to end-use parts, Fathom’s PolyJet printing service does it all. It can print them quickly, giving you more time to design, test and perfect your designs.

Excellent Level of Detail // PolyJet can print layers as thin as 16 microns. That means parts produced using it can contain an extraordinary amount of detail and an excellent surface finish.

Support for Digital Materials // PolyJet printers can mix up to six resins, which gives designers, engineers and your industrial 3D printing service unprecedented creative opportunities to fine-tune their part designs and material characteristics.

Transparent Options // PolyJet can print transparent materials that enable the production of transparent and translucent parts.

Fast Removal of Support Material // The gel-like support material used by PolyJet is water soluble. It can be dissolved using a water jet. This eliminates the need for time-consuming post-production processes and results in a smoother part finish than some other 3D printing processes.

Strong Parts // PolyJet can produce sturdy parts that have good tensile strength.

Cost // The materials required for PolyJet printers tend to be more expensive than those for many other types of 3D printing.

Part Size Limitations // PolyJet isn’t suitable for printing larger parts.

Support Structure // Even though PolyJet uses a gel-like support structure, adding it contributes to longer total part printing times.

Not for Long-term Use // Exposure to heat, sunlight and humidity can cause photopolymers to lose some strength and durability.

PolyJet is a unique technology in the additive manufacturing space. It’s unmatched in its ability to produce fast, colorful prototypes. Because it’s a photopolymer, it tends to deteriorate over time. That limits its ability to be paired with other technologies.

PolyJet is sometimes used to create work holding fixtures where precise positioning of a product being manufactured is a must. Over time, these fixtures will deteriorate. But a manufacturing engineer can easily print a new one to replace it.

PolyJet parts can be post-machined to meet specific tolerances. They can also be bonded to other assemblies, such as fiberglass panels.

Many types of visual aids and models are now made by hand using clay, screen printing, labels and other time-consuming and often expensive manual techniques. These models can be produced much faster using PolyJet 3D printing. Inks are available in thousands of colors and can be controlled at the voxel level. It can also print a variety of surface textures. That means you can create sophisticated prototypes that exactly match the look and feel of your brand.

Prototype parts are made using a variety of techniques. Having a tool built to produce a handful of prototype injection molded parts could take weeks. CNC machining prototype parts requires time-consuming machine and work holding tool setups and a skilled operator. In contrast, Fathom’s PolyJet printing service can be used to print prototype parts in a matter of hours.