Color-managed 3D printing with highly translucent printing materials

Can Ates Arikan; Alan Brunton; Tejas Madan Tanksale; Philipp Urban

doi:10.1117/12.2083844

13 March 2015 Color-managed 3D printing with highly translucent printing materials

Can Ates Arikan, Alan Brunton, Tejas Madan Tanksale, Philipp Urban

Proceedings Volume 9398, Measuring, Modeling, and Reproducing Material Appearance 2015; 93980S (2015) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2083844
Event: SPIE/IS&T Electronic Imaging, 2015, San Francisco, California, United States

Abstract

Many 3D printing applications require the reproduction of an object's color in addition to its shape. One 3D printing technology, called multi-jetting (or poly-jetting), allows full color 3D reproductions by arranging multiple colored materials (UV curing photo-polymers) on a droplet level in a single object. One property of such printing materials is their high translucency posing new challenges for characterizing such 3D printers to create ICC profiles. In this paper, we will first describe the whole color-managed 3D printing workflow and will then focus on measuring the colors of highly translucent printing materials. We will show that measurements made by spectrophotometers used in the graphic arts industry are systematically biased towards lower reflection. We will then propose a trichromatic camera-based approach for measuring such colors. Error rates obtained in comparison with spectroradiometric measurements for the same viewing conditions are within the interinstrument-variability of hand-held spectrophotometers used in graphic arts.

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Can Ates Arikan, Alan Brunton, Tejas Madan Tanksale, and Philipp Urban "Color-managed 3D printing with highly translucent printing materials", Proc. SPIE 9398, Measuring, Modeling, and Reproducing Material Appearance 2015, 93980S (13 March 2015); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2083844

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