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What’s the best material for PolyJet 3D printing? The short answer, as you might have guessed, is “it depends!” What are your requirements for strength, flexibility, temperature resistance, color, and price point? All of these factors influence material selection. With digital materials, we can even create custom materials (specific shore hardness rubber like materials and colors) as needed. 1. Vero  Vero clear Similar to acrylic in mechanical properties, Vero is the default material for PolyJet 3d prints. It’s a bit more fragile than an ABS FDM print, but offers much higher resolution, allowing geometries that would be impossible in FDM, such as printed threads (although we still prefer brass inserts for all but the lightest duty applications) thin walls, and small holes. Available in black, white and clear. 2. Digital ABS  Digital ABS Digital ABS offers the high resolution of polyjet, with the toughness and flexibility of an ABS FDM print, the best of both worlds - at a somewhat higher price. Read more about the unique ability of our polyjet 3D printers to make “digital” material blends here 3. Rubberlike (Agilus and Digital Materials)
With Stratasys’ latest Agilus30 material, we can create flexible and durable rubber-like prints. This material can be digitally blended with the rigid Vero material to create parts with varying shore hardnesses, from 30A up to 95A, or even a “Polypropylene-like” material (a rigid material with exceptional toughness and a high elongation at break). It can also be printed together with rigid Vero material to simulate overmolded plastic parts, like the grips on a power drill, or gaskets/seals integrated into a part. 4. Full Color  Full color PolyJet Pantone color matched, full-color prints are now available using our J750 printer, which has seven model material channels for full cyan, magenta, yellow, black, white and clear material printing. Like the digital materials, the colors are blended on the fly during the printing process. Check out our article here for some basic tips on modeling for full color in Fusion 360 and GrabCAD Print.
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