Abstract: Methods and apparatuses for making three-dimensional objects from a bindable powder are shown and described. A three-dimensional retaining wall is printed into the bindable powder to enclose the three-dimensional object and a volume of unsolidified bindable powder surrounding the three-dimensional object. In order to provide a more stable printed retaining wall, the wall is printed at less than one hundred percent image saturation and/or less than one hundred percent voxel saturation to increase the speed of solidification. One-hundred percent image saturation refers to solidifying all of the voxels (or pixels) that overlap the printed three-dimensional retaining wall, and one-hundred percent voxel saturation refers to an amount of binder per voxel that is printed to form the three-dimensional object that the printed three-dimensional retaining wall wholly or partially encloses.