cairn
Model C1 · desktop 3D printer
Builds anything, one layer on the last.
From €899 · ships in spring
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More than a printer.
An enclosed, quiet printer that levels itself, loads its own filament and is done by morning.
Built by layers
0.05 mm at its finest: a layer thinner than a hair.
Point at the picture
It prints your ideas
Vase · 6 h 10 min · 0.2 mm
Lampshade · 9 h · 0.16 mm
Knight · 2 h 40 min · 0.12 mm
Robot · 4 h 30 min · 0.16 mm
Phone stand · 1 h 50 min · 0.2 mm
Planter · 3 h 20 min · 0.2 mm
In the press
“The printer that finishes while you sleep.”
LAYER, issue 22: The Home Factory. A magazine as fictional as the printer.
Hot inside. Calm outside.
The nozzle reaches 300 °C and the bed 110 °C, while the shell stays cool enough to rest a hand on.
Nozzle 300 °C · Bed 110 °C · Shell 28 °C
Engineered in the open
256 × 256 × 256 mm build · 600 mm/s · 8 colours
Layers you can feel, not see
Layer height 0.05 to 0.32 mm
Surface Ra 3 µm
Plant-based
recyclable
Prints in plant-based PLA, ships on cardboard spools, and every part can be ordered on its own.
100%
cardboard spools
No plastic reels in the box, ever.
8
colours in one print
An eight-spool hub swaps filament for you.
38 dB
while it prints
Quieter than a library reading room.
Makers are talking
★★★★★
“It finished a 9-hour lampshade before my alarm. Not one failed layer.”
★★★★★
“The quietest machine in the studio, and the kiln is in there with it.”
★★★★★
“I drew a robot on Sunday. It walked across my desk on Monday.”
★★★★★
“Eight colours, one print, no babysitting. It changed how we prototype.”
Made for real rooms
Prints while you sleep
Overnight · 14 h unattended
Quieter than a page turn
38 dB · next to your chair
Eight colours, one print
Auto-swap hub · 8 spools
Prints that can take a fall
Tough PLA+ · tested on stone
Choose your
cairn
Cairn Mini
€599 · Small rooms and first prints.
Cairn Mini
€599 · Small rooms and first prints.
Build
180 mm cube
Colours
1
Noise
40 dB
Cairn
€899 · The one most people should get.
Cairn
€899 · The one most people should get.
Build
256 mm cube
Colours
up to 8
Noise
38 dB
Cairn Max
€1,690 · Wide prints, studio work.
Cairn Max
€1,690 · Wide prints, studio work.
Build
400 × 300 × 300 mm
Colours
up to 16
Noise
42 dB
Cairn doesn’t exist.
It is a fictional printer. This whole site, its motion included, was designed in uxdeck without writing code.
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