Saturn 3

Generally speaking the Saturn 4 Ultra 16k is the best option for most people. I investigated and wrote the original post explaining the 3-bit grayscale deficiency and it is still present. I also bought a S4U 16k and subsequently worked out a dithering method with UVTools to restore a significant por

Believe me not much exciting has happened in the last 3 years in resin printing, get yourself an old new stock reliable printer with tons of community support and replacement parts, like a elegoo Saturn 3 or smaller mars 3, any cubic m5 or creality halot mage. No rocking vats or anything like that.

Yeah Anycubic long term support is ass. I own an M3 Premium and they ended support for them almost 2 years ago, yet I can still order parts (other than LCDs) for my Saturn 2s from Elegoo... which are the same age as the M3 Premium. Heygears is supposed to open up some of their settings later this ye

Print quality is the same as on the Saturn 3 Ultra. But with this one you get more design flaws. Elegoo really showing off their lack of knowledge in their own products. Absolute ridiculous.

TL;DR: It’s not the brand, they all suck, although Elegoo has remained popular for a reason. I’m up to having owned 7 resin printers. 4 of those are Elegoo, and I’ve owned a Phrozen and currently own an Anycubic (along with 2 Saturns). I’m quite critical of the resin printer market, but Elegoo has a

This is ridiculous. I've Bambu FDM P1S, so as good as FDM gets, and I've Elegoo Saturn 3 Ultra. FDM absolutely does not get close to level of detail SLA does. Not even remotely. And when we're talking about miniatures, were talking about details that are a fraction of a millimeter. FDM is good for t

Because the non Ultra has better UV uniformity (light). The Ultra can also have bad castings in the build plate head and z arm that can prevent you from leveling it. The non Ultra comes with nFEP/PFA release film, while the Ultra comes with ACF. ACF causes fine vertical lines to appear on smooth sur

I have the Anycubic Wash and Cure 3 and it's great, the hobby would be A LOT less fun without it. And I would definitely go with the Elegoo Saturn 3 Ultra, it will offer better quality and the 10" build plate is a game changer, the 7" plate on my printer is its main weakness.

Anycubics are a larger gamble in terms of QC than Elegoo. A lot of M7s come with concave plates. On top of that, Anycubics can't use per layer wait times, so they have even more trouble with adhesion than other auto-leveling printers, especially with low cure depth resins (light colored/high detail)

They key there is DEFAULT settings but I can't use them because with 3mm 5mm lift height it takes 11hrs to do what the Saturn 3 does in 4.5hrs and the ApexMaker X1 does in 2.2 hours! The ApexMaker X1 is an absolute BEAST and it slaughters the Mega 8k v2 but because that's so fast and the same pixel