Multicolor 3D Printing Bench

Prusa CORE One+ (Gen 2) INDX · Prusament CMYK · Sep 2026 8-bay printer
1Printer
Prusa CORE One+ (Gen 2) INDX 8-Tool
Prusa CORE One+ (Gen 2) INDX 8-Tool
Assembled · prusa3d.com · accessed 2026-09-20
  • 8 filament bays — switch colors or materials mid-print
  • Blends up to 8 base colors into dozens of shades by color halftoning — mixes them similar to the way a magazine press mixes ink dots
  • Uses standard 1.75 mm filament — the common size, any brand works
  • Enclosed cabinet · prints objects up to ~10 × 9 × 11 in
  • Color changes waste no plastic — each material feeds its own print head
  • 24½ × 18½ × 27 in overall · 54 lb
Video: this printer building a color chameleon, its spools loaded on the side racks “Bondtech INDX: 8-Material Chameleon Print” — the machine printing a color chameleon Video: color-blended prints — a rainbow model and a printed boat beside the ColorMix spool and the printer's screen “Prusa ColorMix: 100+ Beautiful Shades on a Desktop 3D Printer!” — the blended-color results, printed from the same few base spools
2Filament — 5 starting colors + 1 special casting material
Prusament PLA CMYK Magenta spool
CMYK Magenta
1 kg
 Prusament PLA CMYK Cyan spool
CMYK Cyan
1 kg
 Prusament PLA CMYK Yellow spool
CMYK Yellow
1 kg
 Prusament PLA Jet Black spool
Jet Black
1 kg
 Prusament PLA Pristine White spool
Pristine White
1 kg
 Polymaker PolyCast spool
PolyCast™ Natural
0.75 kg · casting
3Filament dryer
Polymaker PolyDryer — a heated Dry Dock base with stackable sealed filament storage boxes, one holding a spool feeding out
Polymaker PolyDryer — filament dryer & storage system
Keeps the moisture-sensitive casting filament dry while it feeds the printer — 2× heated Dry Dock base units + 6× stackable sealed PolyDryer storage boxes · each spool stays sealed and dry in its box, and one feeds straight through the box while it keeps drying
Filament left out in humid air slowly turns brittle — which means frustrating print failures and extra maintenance. A dryer prevents that, especially after the printer+filament has sat unused for a while.
4Software — Blender · FreeCAD · Meshy Blender + FreeCAD free
ADimensional modeling precise parts by measurements
FreeCAD
FreeCAD FREE · LGPL Free
Draw exact measurements, get an exact part — brackets, jigs, fixtures, casting patterns. Installs locally, no account, no seat limits.
The whole screwdriver bit modeled in FreeCAD, tip to end, with its exact angles and measurements listed in the side panel
A screwdriver bit built to exact measurements in FreeCAD · image: Maxwxyz, CC BY 4.0
BManual sculpting freeform artistic modeling
Blender
Blender FREE · GPL Free
Shape models by hand like digital clay — figures, organic forms; built-in checks confirm a model will print.
A toy-style cartoon monkey figure in Blender's sculpt workspace, the whole character visible, sculpting tools along both sides
A toy monkey shaped like digital clay in Blender's sculpt tools, ready to print · image: Blender Manual, CC BY-SA 4.0
CSketch to 3D Model Generation sketch, photo, or idea → printable model
Meshy
Meshy
Turns a sketch, photo, or written idea into a printable color 3D model. Monthly subscription with a la carte billing for extra usage. Runs in the browser, nothing to install.
Left: a hand drawing a chair sketch in pencil. Right: the complete 3D model Meshy generated from that sketch, with its print-readiness check marked green
Sketch in → printable model out: Meshy turned the hand-drawn chair (left) into the model beside it (meshy.ai example)
Sources accessed 2026-09-20 (stand 2026-09-21). Printer & filament prusa3d.com; PolyCast shop.polymaker.com; stand amazon.com; dryer sunlu.com; Meshy meshy.ai. Full research: orchestrator p70, docs/indx-loadout-update-2026-09-20.md