Drop a photo here

or try a sample

The photo never leaves your computer; everything is computed in the browser.

Finding a filament's transmission distance

The defaults in the list are typical for ordinary PLA and fine for a first print. TD tells how quickly a filament hides what is underneath; when the colors matter, it pays to check it.

Test tileall filaments of this print at once, about 15 minutes

A small print with one patch for every height your picture uses – same filaments, same swaps, same base. In a quarter of an hour you see the real colors. Photograph the tile and the app works out the transmission distance of every filament in it at once.

A single filament

Accurate measurementone filament precisely, with a test strip
  3. The strip has 10 steps, thinnest first. Bare base stays visible along one edge. Find the first step where the base no longer shows through – it looks the same as the thickest one.

Quick estimatewithout printing, from the color

A rough estimate from color: dark and grey colors cover sooner, light and saturated ones later. The real value is commonly off by a factor of two, more for whites – measure the filament for a print that matters. Newly added filaments get it automatically and it follows the color until you type a number.

Filament catalog

Click a filament to add it to yours. Prusament, Polymaker and 3D-Fuel come with colors and transmission distances from the maker; for other brands the transmission distance is estimated from the color.

A label photographed up close and straight, with the barcode in the shot, works best. In a photo of a whole spool the print is harder to read, and the color of the plastic depends on the light.

ColorTD

TD (transmission distance): the higher, the more translucent. It is ten times the thickness that already covers what is below (1.6 mm = covers in two 0.08 mm layers).

Brand missing? Only a few manufacturers publish transmission distances so far. Add the filament by hand – the value is estimated from its color, or you can .

Crop and rotate the photo

Settings and backup

This browser remembers your filaments and settings. Save them to a file as a backup or to move to another computer.

Start over

Printer and slicer

For the chosen printer you get a ready-made project: layers, 100% infill, one wall and the filament changes already set. The choice is remembered.

Pick a sample

The app is still in development

Tintstack works and you can print with it, but it is still being tuned. The colour preview may not match the print exactly and some things may still change. Try your settings on a small print before starting a big one.

Found a bug or missing something? Write to tintstack@puzzlewebs.cz

Changelog – what is new

About, licenses and privacy

Tintstack is made by PuzzleWebs s.r.o. It is free to use; all rights to the application and its code are reserved. The application is provided as it is, without warranty: we are not liable for a failed print or wasted material. Try your settings on a small print first.

Operator

PuzzleWebs s.r.o., č.p. 15, 561 23 Luková, Česká republika
IČO 08023000, DIČ CZ08023000
registered in the Commercial Register of the Regional Court in Hradec Králové, section C, file 43602
tintstack@puzzlewebs.cz · puzzlewebs.cz

By the same maker: in Shapetinker you put together your own sign, tag or box for 3D printing from shapes with a height. shapetinker.com

Privacy

Photos, settings and work in progress stay in your browser – none of it is sent anywhere and we have no access to it. The app uses no cookies or accounts. Visits are counted anonymously with Cloudflare Web Analytics, which uses no cookies, stores nothing on your device and does not follow you across sites. When an error happens in the app, it sends us a short technical description (the error text and the place in the code, the app’s version and language, the browser type and window size) – never the photo, its name or the settings. The site’s files are delivered by Cloudflare, which, like any host, processes technical connection data (such as the IP address) while doing so.

Third-party components

Full license texts of the third-party components

Prusa, Prusament, PrusaSlicer, Bambu Lab, Bambu Studio, OrcaSlicer and other product and brand names belong to their owners. Tintstack is not affiliated with them and names them for compatibility only.