Photon P1

Among the consumer <$1k (USD) printers Elegoo is the most consistent by a wide margin. Anycubic is a bit of a distant second with a higher rate of dropped balls and self-inflicted failures. Phrozen and Uniformation have significant consistency issues and QA problems not commensurate with their premi

DLP is a dead end. Texas Instruments is the only manufacturer of DLP technology and they don’t care about the resin printer market. The LCD makers don’t really care either, but there was more of a push for smaller pixels/larger LCDs. I would wait a year on the P1. Anycubic’s QC record with the curre

I was totally confused with the marketing so I asked Anycubic. The reply I received today was that the P1 by default comes with the single large vat and build plate. If you want to use the dual vat/build plate for some weird reason (I say weird as I can't think of a personal need for that), then you

Nope. That they can't be used together was something just more recently that has started showing up in their materials. During the AMA, they had said "Not yet-still in internal planning." Evidently the decision was made to not make them play nicely with each other, which is a little messed up, in my

The U1 is a good printer. Thats why I put it as maybe. My issue with it is that reliability has not been proven yet. I look for printers that can meet and exceed my 10k hour goal. My P1, X1, and Core One have all been able to do this, the U1 simply hasn't been around long enough. Previous Snapmaker

What resin???? I never met anyone that didn't say it works fine with anycubic resin, it's other brands that don't stick very well on the M7 Max. Also most people leave smart release on and if like me they use high quality ACF that doesn't stretch the machine detect the release at 0.3mm and then retu

It isn't that customer service is overwhelmed, it's where they have been bombarded with cancelations to the point if they respond and honored the requests they would likely face bankruptcy. This year has been a very bad year for Anycubic with every single launch (Kx, P1, Ace 2, and s1 max) and it's

Multicolor FDM printing is on the horizon, but still not quite there yet.The only solution for miniatures is still resin.Mainly because you do not print individual models, but batches of them, while the fdm printer has to do each one individually.Resin is more precise and still gives you the option

A1 combo, hands down. I started with AnyCubic while they look appealing, they are a "tinker" brand, even if you get a decent unit, one of the biggest problems with AnyCubic is once the machine(s) reach about a year, getting replacement parts is thin to non-existence and on to the next new great unit

Exactly the same for me - also ordered on the 15th of January. I've asked some people who received their printer already and they confirmed that they ordered later. Which would be no big deal in other cases, usually as company you have limited influence on the process of your fulfilment partner. But