Blue tape for your 3D printer's build plate

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FrogTape is coated to keep paint from wicking underneath. That’s the primary purpose of most of the colored tapes (blue, green, white, they all “mask” off portions that you don’t want to paint with a low tack adhesive.

I work a lot with 3D printers, and so far we have settled on the following three setups (ordered from best to worst), but this is only for PLA:

  1. plate glass with a bit of hairspray (cheaper is better!) on a heated bed
  2. plate glass with Kapton tape and LOTS of hairspray for printers with no heated bed
  3. painters tape whatever color and a dusting of hair spray for machines that can’t be fitted with glass

But as noted above, there are so many variables, it’s akin to magic.

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