--- title: Commercialization And Innovation | daily.dev description: Affordable multi-material 3D printers have sparked unexpected innovation not in hardware hacking but in slicer and path-planning software. With hardware now... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/commercialization-and-innovation-xgdedhsws twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Commercialization And Innovation | daily.dev og:description: Affordable multi-material 3D printers have sparked unexpected innovation not in hardware hacking but in slicer and path-planning software. With hardware now... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/commercialization-and-innovation-xgdedhsws og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/XGDEdhSwS.png og:image:alt: Commercialization And Innovation og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Commercialization And Innovation **[Hackaday](https://daily.dev/sources/hackaday)** · 2 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Affordable multi-material 3D printers have sparked unexpected innovation not in hardware hacking but in slicer and path-planning software. With hardware now widely available, creative developers have produced techniques like FullSpectrum and ImageMap to extract in-between colors from four-filament machines, with ImageMap specifically targeting faster color blending with fewer purges. The broader takeaway is that putting new tools in the hands of hackers reliably generates novel approaches, raising anticipation for what more exotic machine designs like 5-axis multi-color printers might inspire when they go mainstream. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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