Spend less reagent
Miniaturize reactions so your most expensive components — like antibodies, enzymes, and cofactors — go dramatically farther.
LabCraft Plex • Nanoliter liquid handling
High-throughput reaction assembly at the nanoliter scale
The LabCraft Plex prints 10–25 nL droplets at 20 Hz with reagent-specific calibration and onboard imaging verification — designed by scientists for scientists.
10–25 nL
droplet volume
20 Hz
print frequency
<1%
typical CV
2µL
dead volume
Precision depends on reagent properties and configuration; Plex verifies droplet formation and volume during calibration before printing a plate.
Automated calibration + guided experiment design — built into the workflow.
Why labs use droplet printing
Biology happens at microscopic scales — your liquid handling should too. By reducing reaction volumes, you can conserve expensive reagents, test more conditions, and move faster without sacrificing accuracy.
Run more conditions
Explore larger experimental spaces: gradients and combinatorial designs become practical when assembly is fast and low-volume.
Trust what you dispensed
Droplets are imaged on-board to confirm formation and quantify volume, so you can run with confidence.
Precision you can verify
Calibration + imaging before every print
Droplet formation can vary with viscosity, surface tension, and nozzle geometry. Plex calibrates each reagent and verifies droplets with an on-board microscope so the volume you intend is the volume you dispense.
- Supports a wide range of biological reagents (from water to higher-viscosity mixtures)
- Images multiple droplets to quantify precision and detect anomalies
- Typical coefficient of variation across reagents is under 1%
Example calibration summary: droplet image plus precision metrics used to validate performance before printing.
From reagent to plate in minutes
A practical workflow built for real lab work: load a head, calibrate, then print into your plate at speed. Swap heads mid-run to increase capacity for complex multi-reagent experiments.
Step 1
Pick up a printer head
Keep up to five heads loaded on the rack for fast switching, with the ability to swap heads during an experiment to reach up to fifteen total heads.
Step 2
Auto-calibrate + confirm droplets
The system calibrates droplet formation for each reagent and images droplets to confirm consistent volumes before you print a full plate.
Step 3
Print at high throughput
Dispense nanoliter droplets directly into well plates at 20 Hz for rapid experiment assembly — enabling large screens and dense condition coverage with minimal reagent usage.
Built for experimental design
Define the experiment you want — concentrations, combinations, replicates, and randomization — and the software computes stock solutions and droplet counts automatically. No spreadsheets. No scripting.
Join the Plex beta program
We’re onboarding a small number of partner labs. Share your assay and plate format — we’ll suggest a strong first evaluation experiment and outline expected reagent savings and condition coverage.