Polymaker has launched CymphoniK, a color-mixing system for large-format pellet printing built around six base pellet colors: cyan, magenta, yellow, black, white and neutral. The company says it has validated more than 100 colors so far, starting with its PETG-1213 R50 material, and plans to add translucent options later.
The pitch is speed and inventory. Instead of ordering custom masterbatch pellets, which usually comes with large minimum order quantities, or warehousing hundreds of single-color lines, a studio mixes its own shade from six stock materials on site. Polymaker names marketing displays, signage, stage sets, props and some military items as the target jobs.
The system pairs the pellets with Palette Software, an online color-matching tool that calculates mixing ratios and includes an AI recipe predictor. Users can set a target color by CIE Lab values, RGB or CMYK sliders, or a visual picker, and the software checks results against the target using Delta E color-difference measurement. Polymaker says it has also tested the mixing across different screw and extruder designs to check consistency across LFAM machines, though it has not published which printer brands or how many screw designs were tested.
Polymaker cites a McDonald’s Grimace-themed installation in China, built with ZonePrint and Zhonghong Technology, as a case study of the kind of large branded display work CymphoniK targets. The company will show the Palette software and run live demos at Formnext 2026, Hall 12.1, stand C21.
Six base colors recalls BotObjects’ older claim of full-color printing from just CMYK pellets, which skipped white, a component CMYK systems generally need for accurate color. CymphoniK’s inclusion of white and a neutral base addresses that gap, though Polymaker has not published pricing for the pellets or the software, nor minimum order quantities for the base materials themselves.