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Old 04-21-21, 07:53 AM
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Geekage One thing, if you decide to go the resin printer route: Skip every printer that uses a color screen, regardless of price or resolution. Screens are consumable items and the color screens just do not last very long. A typical color screen mSLA printer allows about 1% of the UV light to pass through it, a monochrome mSLA printer is about 6%. Not only do you get much shorter print times with a mono screen, it lasts longer too. Typical life of a color screen is 500-1000 screen on time, usually closer to the 500 hours (not the same as print time, but that is another discussion), the mono screen can last for 2000 hours plus.

Also don't spend the money on anything from FormLabs, much too expensive and not measurably better than the rash of mSLA printer that come from China.
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