GeckoTek was born in 2014 in a southwest-Ohio garage when a small team decided the build surface every 3D printer shipped with — glue stick, painter's tape, hairspray — was nonsense, and that polymer chemistry could fix it.
GeckoTek runs its first Kickstarter campaign out of a garage in southwest Ohio. Goal: $15,000. Raised: $59,115 from 700+ backers.
First product: a rigid aluminum plate with the proprietary coating bonded to it. Backed by 1,000 hours of testing across 200 formulations.
TechOhio reports GeckoTek has shipped 5,000+ plates to Makerbot, Solidoodle, Ultimaker, RepRap, and PrintrBot owners.
Pivot from rigid plates to a trimmable polymer film with a peel-and-stick backing. Second Kickstarter funds production. Price drops from $39 to $7 per sheet — and the product fits every 3D printer ever made.
Tens of thousands of sheets shipped. EU distribution. Listed on MatterHackers, Amazon. New website, new printer lineup support, same chemistry that's worked since 2014.
EZ-Stik is a three-layer polymer film: a proprietary surface coating that bonds with hot filament, a high-temperature polymer core, and a pressure-sensitive adhesive backing. The chemistry took 200 attempts and 1,000 hours of testing to land — and twelve years of production hasn't required us to change it.
See the chemistry up close