Next-Gen Products
Functional Prototypes /// Parts in Days
Single Build
True Multi-Material Parts /// Rigid + Elastomeric
Zero Tooling
No Tooling Required /// No Assembly Required
Voxel Precision
Feedback Loop /// True Accuracy
/// Where iteration slows down
Seal design is where iteration speed matters most.
Fluidic geometry is among the hardest to validate quickly. Sealing performance, material response under compression, and internal channel behavior all interact — and each has historically required time and tooling to test properly.
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Tooling Lag
Custom gasket profiles and molded seal geometries require tooling commitment before first-article inspection. Design decisions get locked in before the part is validated in use.
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Material Representation Gap
Surrogate materials don't replicate production seal behavior. Compression set, load recovery, and fluid compatibility all shift when you move from prototype to production material.
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Assembly Interface Risk
Sealing performance starts at the design stage - not at assembly. Each interface between rigid and elastomeric elements introduces variables that are difficult to prototype accurately.
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Geometry Locked Before Testing
Internal channel routing, sealing land geometry, and bore dimensions are difficult to revise once tooling is in progress. Iteration cycles compress at exactly the wrong stage.
Elastomer
TEPU 30A & 50A
Engineered for compression recovery, predictable seal load, and chemical compatibility. Co-printed with rigid substrates — no bonding, no secondary process, no interface to fail.
Shore Hardness
50A
Elongation at Break
>200%
Tear Resistance
High
Compatible Materials
Digital Formula vEPX
Rigid Epoxy
DF vEPX 85 & 115
High-strength voxel-deposited epoxy for manifold bodies, housings, and structural fluidic components. Stable in fluid-contact environments across the full UTS range.
Dimensions
105 × 105 × 101.2 mm
Weight
15.6 g
Shell Thickness
0.5 mm
Compatible Lens
LUN-D-100-2 / LUN-G-100-5
Validate seal geometry with functional production-grade materials.
Inkbit compresses the design-to-test loop for fluidic and sealing applications. Every prototype is built from production-intent materials, in production-intent geometry.
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Upload CAD
Send your geometry — manifold body, seal profile, gasket cross-section, or full assembly.
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Part Analysis
Rigid and elastomeric zones defined voxel-by-voxel. No bonding. No secondary operations.
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Print + Ship
Production-intent parts in hand in days. Functional geometry. No tooling lead time.
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Test & Iterate
Compress. Leak test. Measure. Revise geometry and reprint — without starting over.
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True Multi-Material Builds
Rigid epoxy structures and TEPU elastomer printed simultaneously: seal faces, gaskets, and housings unified in a single part. The prototype reflects the production assembly exactly.
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True Internal Geometry
Embedded channels, tortuous flow paths, and internal bore geometry produced as a monolith. Soluble support removal means no glued half-shells.
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ASTM Technical Data
TEPU stress-strain data available for simulation correlation. Design your seal load model around validated compression behavior.
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Sealing Surface Accuracy
VCJ's closed-loop voxel feedback delivers tight tolerances on sealing lands and mating surfaces. Prototype seal performance reflects production geometry, not an approximation of it.
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Seal Compression Test Fixtures
Square, D-ring, customize gasket profiles, any geometry. New cross-sections or durometer zones are a file revision, not a tooling order. Iterate as many times as the design requires.
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Reduced Assembly Complexity
Consolidate multi-part fluidic assemblies into a single printed body. Fewer interfaces to validate means faster iteration and a cleaner path from prototype to production BOM.
/// Applications
What you can prototype and validate - fast.
From microfluidic channel geometries to large manifold assemblies, Inkbit handles the full range of fluid-contact architecture across materials, scales, and sealing requirements.
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Fluidic Manifolds
Iterate on embedded multi-port channel routing, internal bores, and junction geometry, produced as a monolith, testable under real pressure conditions from the first print.
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Custom Gaskets
Any cross-section profile in TEPU elastomer with rigid epoxy structures, or reduce assemblies by redesigning for multi-material printing in one build.
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Valve Bodies
Integrated seat and housing geometry with tight bore tolerances, designed for fluid-tight performance with internal actuation pathways prototyped in a single build.
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Microfluidic Devices
Fine internal channel accuracy for analytical instrumentation, lab-on-chip, and diagnostic applications, with multi-material zones for sample isolation and fluid routing.
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Seal Compression Test Fixtures
Functional geometry for compression and leak validation, production-intent material behavior and seal faces. Test what you'll actually build, not a surrogate stand-in.
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Fluid Handling Assemblies
Prototype consolidated rigid-flex hybrid bodies. Test the reduced BOM directly, without designing around assembly constraints that won't exist in the final part.
Start with a prototype. Scale when you're ready.
Inkbit supports the full path — from first-article functional prototypes through qualified production volume, with no process change between the two.
Rapid Prototyping
Validate first. Commit to tooling later.
Test real seal geometry and real material behavior in days. Inkbit's rapid prototyping service is purpose-built for the design stages where iteration speed determines outcome quality.
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TEPU seals matched to production compression behavior
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Stress-strain validated for FEA-correlated design loops
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Any cross-section, any channel routing, no minimum run
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Compress, leak test, iterate — without tooling spend
Digital Manufacturing Services
Production-grade parts. Upload and go.
When the design is validated, Inkbit's Digital Manufacturing Services delivers qualified, production-grade fluidic components directly from your CAD file — no tooling investment, no minimum order quantity.
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Ideal for low-to-mid volume and bridge production
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Qualified first articles from the same print environment
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Multi-material builds processed in a single run
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Engineering support for scale-up and material selection
