Formlabs Desktop 3D Printer Offers Reliable, Rapid Print Speeds

Formlabs’ Form 4 and Form 4B are the company’s new flagship resin 3D printer sets. They feature a new Low Force Display (LFD) print engine, updates to the company’s library of resins, new automated postprocessing and an improved user experience.

Form 4 is validated to use 17-plus performance materials from Formlabs’ materials library, with new materials being added regularly. Form 4B is designed for health care professionals in the dental and medical industries, and is compatible with 15 additional biocompatible materials.

The company says the Form 4 offers up to five times faster print speeds that can unlock new levels of productivity for product designers, engineers, manufacturers, health care professionals and innovators to take on design challenges and accelerate time to market.

Form 4 is designed to deliver fast print speeds, excellent reliability, industry-leading material properties, excellent print quality and intuitive operation, according to the company.

The Form 4 offers prints two to five times faster than the Form 3+, depending on material, enabling same-hour iteration or batch production with masked stereolithography (mSLA) technology. It completes most prints in under two hours and small parts in minutes of cycle time. It can also achieve maximum vertical print speeds of 100 mm/hr.

It features an LFD print engine with an ultrahigh power backlight (16 mw/cm²), release texture, light processing unit 4 (LPU 4) and dual-layer, flexible film resin tank. It also offers validated print settings, precision heating, force sensing and debris detection. With 50-micron pixels, highly collimated light, advanced pixel smoothing and light touch supports, the Form 4 offers excellent print quality.