Micro Printing
Manufacture High-Precision Micro Components Without Compromising Accuracy or Productivity
As products continue to shrink in size, manufacturing requirements become increasingly demanding. Industries such as medical devices, microfluidics, electronics, photonics, life sciences, and precision engineering require components with microscopic features, intricate geometries, and exceptionally tight tolerances. Conventional manufacturing often struggles to produce these parts economically, while many additive manufacturing technologies sacrifice productivity in pursuit of higher resolution.
Axtra Solutions for Micro Printing overcomes this challenge by combining the Lumia X1 powered by Hi-Speed SLA (HPS), validated high-resolution materials, optimized manufacturing workflows, and application expertise into a complete micro-manufacturing solution. Manufacturers can produce highly detailed micro-scale components with exceptional accuracy, smooth surface finishes, and production-ready repeatability, enabling applications that were previously difficult, expensive, or impossible to manufacture.
Whether developing next-generation medical devices, microfluidic systems, miniature electronics, or precision industrial components, Axtra Solutions delivers the precision of micro-manufacturing with the productivity required for commercial applications.
The Manufacturing Challenge
Manufacturing at the micro scale introduces challenges far beyond simply making smaller parts.
As feature sizes decrease, dimensional accuracy becomes increasingly critical. Tiny deviations can affect fluid flow, optical performance, electrical connectivity, mechanical movement, or device functionality.
Traditional manufacturing methods such as micro-machining, EDM, laser machining, or injection molding often involve complex processes, specialized equipment, and significant tooling costs.
Many micro components contain internal channels, complex lattice structures, undercuts, or freeform geometries that are either impossible or prohibitively expensive to manufacture conventionally.
At the same time, many existing additive manufacturing technologies capable of printing micro features often suffer from slow production speeds, limited build volumes, or inconsistent part quality.
Manufacturers require a solution that combines ultra-fine detail with industrial productivity and repeatability.
The Axtra Solution
Axtra Solutions for Micro Printing delivers a validated digital manufacturing workflow specifically optimized for producing extremely small and highly detailed components.
The complete solution combines:
The result is a manufacturing solution capable of producing micro-scale features while maintaining exceptional dimensional accuracy, excellent surface quality, and reliable repeatability.
Rather than forcing customers to choose between precision and productivity, Axtra Solutions enables both.
Manufacturers can produce multiple highly detailed components simultaneously while maintaining the consistency required for engineering validation, product development, and low-volume production.
Customer Value
Manufacture Features That Conventional Processes Cannot
Micro Printing enables the production of extremely small internal channels, intricate geometries, fine lattice structures, miniature assemblies, and detailed surface features that are difficult or impossible to produce using conventional manufacturing.
This expands design freedom while enabling next-generation product innovation.
Accelerate Product Development
Engineering teams can rapidly manufacture functional micro components directly from CAD models without waiting for specialized tooling or complex machining operations.
This significantly shortens development cycles while enabling more design iterations.
Reduce Manufacturing Complexity
Many micro components traditionally require multiple machining operations, secondary assembly, or bonded subcomponents.
Micro Printing allows these features to be integrated into a single printed part, reducing assembly costs and improving reliability.
Lower Development Costs
Prototype tooling, specialized machining, and multiple manufacturing setups are eliminated.
Manufacturers can economically evaluate multiple design concepts before committing to production manufacturing.
Improve Product Performance
Greater geometric freedom allows engineers to optimize products based on functional performance rather than manufacturing limitations.
Complex internal passages, optimized fluid paths, lightweight structures, and integrated functional features become practical design options.
Enable Low-Volume Production
Many precision industries require relatively small production quantities.
Micro Printing allows economical manufacturing without dedicated tooling, making specialized products commercially viable.
Why Hi-Speed SLA Makes the Difference
Micro manufacturing demands much more than high resolution.
Every feature must be accurately reproduced while maintaining dimensional consistency, smooth surfaces, mechanical integrity, and production throughput.
Hi-Speed SLA uniquely combines laser precision with DLP productivity to deliver these capabilities simultaneously.
For micro printing applications, this creates several significant advantages.
Exceptional Feature Resolution
HPS accurately reproduces extremely fine details, thin walls, miniature holes, sharp edges, and intricate geometries that define high-performance micro components.
This enables manufacturers to produce complex designs without sacrificing dimensional accuracy.
Outstanding Dimensional Accuracy
Micro-scale components leave virtually no room for dimensional variation.
TruLayer™ technology delivers highly consistent dimensions throughout the build, allowing precision assemblies to function as designed.
Superior Surface Finish
Smooth surfaces are particularly important in micro applications where even small imperfections can influence fluid flow, optical clarity, friction, sealing performance, or assembly.
HPS minimizes layer artifacts while producing exceptionally clean surfaces that require minimal finishing.
High Productivity
Unlike many micro-manufacturing technologies that produce only a few parts at a time, HPS enables multiple precision components to be manufactured simultaneously across the build platform.
This significantly improves manufacturing efficiency while maintaining micro-scale accuracy.
Repeatable Manufacturing
Precision manufacturing requires consistency.
Validated workflows and controlled curing ensure reliable reproduction of fine features across multiple builds, supporting dependable engineering and production processes.
Qualified Materials
Micro-scale applications require materials that preserve fine details while delivering the mechanical and thermal properties needed for demanding functional applications.
Axtra Solutions qualifies engineering materials specifically optimized for high-resolution manufacturing.
Material characteristics may include:
Each material is validated using optimized print parameters and post-processing workflows to ensure consistent reproduction of extremely fine geometries.
Typical Applications
Axtra Solutions for Micro Printing supports a wide range of precision manufacturing applications, including:
Performance Highlights
Why Axtra Solutions
Axtra Solutions for Micro Printing delivers a complete precision manufacturing platform that combines the Lumia X1, Hi-Speed SLA technology, qualified high-resolution materials, validated process parameters, application expertise, and Axtra.Workflow into a repeatable production methodology.
Rather than forcing manufacturers to compromise between accuracy, productivity, and design freedom, Axtra Solutions enables all three. The result is faster development, lower manufacturing costs, greater engineering flexibility, and reliable production of highly detailed micro-scale components that meet the demands of the world's most advanced industries.
