PRINTSHOP

Printshop is a vital digital fabrication workshop of Aalto Design Factory (ADF), mainly supporting students with their projects like PdP and Aaltonaut courses. Additionally, Printshop aids startups at Partner Plaza and community members involved with ADF.

While prioritising educational projects, Printshop also endeavours in assisting other Aalto University community members if resources allow.

Just a heads-up: all machines and the entire Printshop space are reserved for ADF staff use only.

Thanks for understanding!

DF Labs - Machines & Tools Usage Policy

FAQ

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3D PRINTERS

  • Mumu – Ultimaker S5 FDM 3D printer, dual extrusion (330 x 240 x 300 mm)
  • Manu – Mehta Heino FDM 3D printer (270 x 160 x 200 mm)
  • CoCo – In-house designed FDM 3D Printer (265 x 265 x 300 mm)
  • FastQuinotaur – Fuse 1+ 30W SLS 3D printer (165 × 165 × 300 mm) 

LASER CUTTERS

  • Pepe – Epilog Fusion Pro 36 laser cutter, 80W CO2 + 50W fiber laser (914 x 610 x 228 mm)
  • Lala – Glowforge Pro laser cutter, 45W CO2 laser (495 x ∞ x 50 mm)

Printshop

  • 3D-printing
  • Laser cutting

For 3D printing, we most commonly use PLA, ABS, Nylon, and PET. Below are some of the specific materials each printer is capable of using. 

  • Mumu – PLA, ABS, PET, Nylon, TPU 95A, PP, PVA, Breakaway White
  • Manu – PLA, ABS, AduraX, RigidX, Textura, woodFill
  • CoCo – ABS, HIPS
  • FastQuinotaur – Nylon 12

For laser cutting, we have acrylic (PMMA) at thicknesses of 3-12mm & plywood from 2-12mm.

If you have the material safety datasheet of your material, we’ll figure out if we are able to cut material that you’ve provided us. Generally, we only use the plywood in our own stock because it has interior-grade glue in order to avoid releasing hazardous gasses when cutting exterior plywoods with epoxy or formaldehyde.

At Printshop we use the machines for you. You can deliver your request for a job by either stopping by Printshop between the hours 10-18 Mon-Fri or by emailing us at printshop-df@aalto.fi. If your job requires the attention of a specific Printshop employee, you can find our contact details at the bottom of this page.

  • 3D-printing – STL 
  • Laser cutting – SVG, DXF (linework and text needs to be in vector-format (outlined) )

  • Max 3D-printing size is currently 240x160x200 mm.
  • Max laser cutting size is 480x280mm.

The idea of Design Factory is centered around product development so the workshops are made for prototyping. We are here to help you develop your ideas and designs towards manufacturing, but we don’t do manufacturing. In other words, iterating multiple times is okay, but serial manufacturing is not.

Feel free to reach out if you are unsure about how this relates to your project. Contact details are at the bottom of this page

Printshop’s services, including materials, are free to everyone except for companies whom we have specific arrangements with.

Reach out to Klaus if you have questions about your startup joining the Aalto Design Factory.

Thank you for being so considerate!

Here are a few suggestions depending on your needs, budget, and organization. Check out the spaces and places below.

Commercial Manufacturers

  • Laser Cutting – Laserle – Industrial commercial manufacturing in the Helsinki area.
  • 3D Printing – Mehtaheino – Located in Helsinki metropolitan area
  • Paper Printing – Unigrafia –  Official partner of Aalto University

Aalto University

  • FabLab – Laser cutting, 3D printing (FDM + SLA)
  • ADDlab – 3D printing (all kinds)
  • Väre – Laser cutting, 3D printing
  • Space 21 – workspace

Public Libraries

CONTACT

Address and contact details

Viima Building is located at Puumiehenkuja 5, Entrance A. The main door is open from 07:45 to 18:00. Aalto staff members can access the building with their key tag outside of these hours.

Printshop is located on the first floor of the Viima building inside DF Labs area. DF Labs are open 8-16. Access to Printshop is reserved for Aalto DF staff only.

Location of Viima building
Location of Printshop in Viima building

Regular job requests should be sent to printshop-df@aalto.fi
If your job requires the attention of a specific Printshop employee, feel free to contact us.

We’re eager to support your projects and kindly ask for your understanding regarding our time constraints. To guarantee effective assistance, we prefer you to contact us via email before visiting. Please include a brief overview of your project, its importance to you, and expected timelines for production.

Scheduling in advance allows us to provide the dedicated service you require. We appreciate your cooperation in helping us manage our workflow and look forward to collaborating with you.

Warm wishes,

Printshop staff

  • Joel Knippare PrintShop Assistant

    joel.knippare@aalto.fi
    N/A

  • Tiina Otala PrintShop Assistant

    tiina.otala@aalto.fi
    +358 457 833 9064

  • Sushant Passi Digital Prototyping Specialist

    sushant.rajpassi@aalto.fi
    +358 50 596 4495

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