Opaquers for increasing the opacity

Choose your opacity-control route

Use the routes below to navigate the collection by opacity increase and light-blocking objective.

• Opacity control additives for increasing light blocking and hiding power.
• Reduced translucency and improved aesthetics for opaque parts.
• Useful for processing tuning in pigmented systems.
• Can support exposure control depending on the workflow.

Typical use scenarios across the collection

This collection is suitable for workflows where visual opacity and reduced translucency are critical to the target result.

• Opaque colored prototypes: improving body, coverage and visual consistency.
• Display parts: reducing unwanted translucency in appearance-focused builds.
• Aesthetic product mockups: creating more solid-looking and visually uniform surfaces.
• Reduced-translucency requirements: applications where more light blocking is beneficial.
• Print tuning for pigmented systems: where light bleed reduction can improve process control.

How to choose the right opaquer

Select this route when the main objective is to increase opacity, reduce translucency and tune exposure behavior in pigmented or appearance-critical resin systems.

• Need stronger opacity and hiding power → choose 3D-ADD OPAQUER1
• Need reduced translucency in colored or display parts → choose 3D-ADD OPAQUER1
• Need light-bleed reduction in a pigmented workflow → choose 3D-ADD OPAQUER1 and validate exposure conditions carefully

• Prioritise visual opacity → start with the main opaquer route
• Prioritise pigmented-system process tuning → start with the exposure-control tuning route
• Prioritise display and mockup aesthetics → start with opacity and translucency reduction validation

Decision tree summary

Use this simplified logic before detailed formulation validation.

• Need more opacity → OPAQUER1
• Need less translucency → OPAQUER1
• Need light-blocking support in pigmented systems → OPAQUER1 with exposure recalibration

Then validate the final route under the intended resin family, pigment load, exposure strategy and visual target.

Opaque additive for increasing opacity

For workflows requiring increased hiding power, reduced translucency and more solid-looking printed parts.

Opacity and light-bleed tuning route

For pigmented systems where increased opacity can also influence exposure behavior, cured depth and print-control logic.

A focused opacity-control platform rather than a broad color page

This collection is compact and clearly structured around a single opacity-control route, centered on increasing hiding power and reducing translucency in printed parts.

• 3D-ADD OPAQUER1 covers the main opacity-control route.
• It supports both aesthetic improvement and process tuning in pigmented systems.
• The collection is especially useful when opacity is a performance target, not just a color preference.

The right opacity route depends on the visual target and curing window

Opacity additives are most useful when the objective is defined first: stronger visual coverage, reduced translucency or reduced light bleed in a pigmented resin system.

In practice, the correct path is to define the required visual effect first, then validate the additive under the intended pigment load, resin chemistry and exposure settings.

Documentation, technical selection help and workflow support

Use the resources below to move from opaquer preselection to formulation planning, exposure validation or broader technical support.

Select the right opacity route and validate the final visual result

Use the route-based navigation above to identify the most relevant opaquer workflow, compare the available route in the technical overview table, and move forward with formulation-specific validation for more opaque and visually controlled printed parts.