Printing Modes - Stratasys Objet500 User Manual

Objet500 User Guide
Printing Modes
Objet500 printers can build models using three possible printing modes.
HQ (High Quality) Mode—
• Models are printed in 16-micron layers, resulting in smooth surfaces, suitable
for producing fine-detailed and delicate items.
• Almost twice as much time is required to print most trays, compared to the
• This setting is only available when model material can be used in four print
Single-material printing: All print heads print models without regard to the
source of the model material. This happens in the following situations:
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HS (High Speed) Mode—
• Models are produced in 30-micron layers, suitable for producing larger
• Much less time is required to print most trays, compared to the High Quality
• This setting is only available when model material can be used in four print
Digital Material Mode—
• Used when producing trays designed to be fabricated from two or more
• Used when producing a tray containing two or more models, each designed
• Used when producing models from only one of the model materials loaded in
• Models are produced in 30-micron layers, but the printing is near-high quality.
• Printing time is similar to printing time in High Quality mode.
Digital Material Mode is selected automatically when more than one model
material is assigned to objects on the tray.
You can see estimates of time and material resources needed for printing trays
using the different printing modes (see "Production Estimates" on the previous
page). You also see these production estimates when you send the tray to the
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High Speed setting.
heads, in single-material printing.
All print heads are supplied with one model material.
Each pair of print heads is supplied with a different model material, but
models are printed as if they were the same material. The result is an
arbitrary mixture of materials in the printed model.
models.
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heads, in single-material printing.
model materials.
to be made from a different (single) model material.
the printer by printing with only two of the print heads.
Although printing time is longer than with High Speed mode, Digital Material
mode can make material replacement unnecessary—saving both time and
the cost of wasted model material.
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