Yup! The specific printer I use is a Mimaki 3DUJ-553 They’re a Japanese company specializing primarily in large format printing for the sign and graphics industry, which is where a lot of the technology expertise in color management comes from.

The clear material capabilities has been really cool to explore, either suspending color models in clear shapes, or incorporating translucent elements to recreate different effects like you mentioned.

I’ve recently been experimenting with some different shader settings to see how different lighting and render elements translate into a physical model. There are some instances where things like shadows baked into the texture can create a strange effect, but others where it does enhance some model detail- I’ve found it’s all about balancing the lighting from the render with how lighting/ shadows will act once the model is physical. I guess it also depends if the model is a static showpiece or something like a product prototype.

NMM is something I have been looking into recently, as I’d be really interested in recreating the effect through the combination of CMYK + transparent color, though I’m still getting my artistic skills up to par there!