3D Jewellery Printers & Resin

What is a jewellery 3D printer?

A jewellery 3D printer builds a pattern directly from the CAD file, layer by layer, in a castable material — so a design goes from screen to a physical model ready for lost-wax casting without a master being carved or a rubber mould being cut.

That is the change these machines make to a workshop: the mould-making step disappears for anything that does not need to be reproduced in quantity. New designs, one-offs, custom orders and iterations all reach wax the same day the CAD is finished.

LCD, DLP or MJP: what is the difference?

The three technologies differ in how each layer is formed, and that shows up as a trade between resolution, build size and daily output. All three are represented in this range because they suit genuinely different workloads.

• LCD — a masked light source cures a whole layer at once across a large, uniform build area. The Foto 6K and Focus 6K print at 35 μm XY (5760 × 3600 px) in a 197 × 122 × 200 mm build, at 100 and 150 g per day respectively.
• DLP — a projected light source, favoured where accuracy on small parts matters more than build size. The S3D-110 prints at 65 μm XY in a 110 × 62 × 150 mm build with 10–100 μm layers, at 60 g per day.
• MJP — Multi-Jet Printing jets droplets of true jewellery wax that solidify on contact. The WaxJet-510 runs three print heads at 15 μm layers with ±0.04 mm / 20 mm dimensional accuracy across a 289 × 218 × 150 mm build, at 300 g per day.

What are jewellery 3D printers used for?

They are used wherever the design is new, changing, or not worth cutting a mould for — and, in casting houses, as the primary pattern source feeding the tree.

• CAD design studios turning models into physical patterns for approval.
• Direct-castable pattern printing that goes straight to sprueing and casting.
• Master pattern production for designs that will later be reproduced by wax injection.
• Custom and bespoke orders where one piece will ever be made.
• Stone-set lines, printing the patterns with the seats that a diamond wax setting machine will fill.

How do you choose a jewellery 3D printer?

Compare daily output and build volume against the work you actually queue, then check resolution against the finest detail in your designs. A printer that outruns your casting capacity is no more useful than one that cannot keep up with it.

• Grams per day, which is the practical throughput figure across this range — 60 on the S3D-110, 100 on the Foto 6K, 150 on the Focus 6K, 300 on the WaxJet-510.
• Build volume, which decides how many models fit on one plate and therefore how often the machine needs attention.
• XY resolution and layer thickness, against the finest feature in your design library.
• Whether you need true wax output (MJP) or castable photopolymer resin is acceptable.
• Resin compatibility — our DC Black, DC Yellow, DC Green, NC Red and NC Red CWR castable resins are matched to these printers.
• Resin handling and cleanup, where the Focus 6K's one-touch locking diversion port is a working-practice difference rather than a spec-sheet one.
• Whether printing is replacing mould-making entirely, or feeding masters into a wax injection workflow.