The first thing I wanted to make with my shiny new Creality Ender 3 Pro was a lithophane – a 3D printed black and white photo that comes to life when you shine strong light through it. As it turns out, lithophanes are tricky to print with a bed slinger, take all day to make, and are rather boring to look at if you don’t have them constantly back lit.
Color lithophanes are even harder. You can either tape a translucent color photo behind the plastic – lame – or painstakingly recreate the four color process of blending Cyan, Yellow, Magenta and Black with an AMS system on a printer like the Bambu Lab P1P.
