Sonic Mini 8K

Chipping in here as someone who does fdm and resin printing. Okay you need a resin printer. I have two brands anycubic and phrozen. Phrozen, I cannot recommended enough, I had to do little to no maintenance on it, I was cleaning it wrong and a bunch of other things. It’s gone four year without a sin

As others have already stated: anycubic doesn't do per layer settings which is an immediate no go for anybody wanting to print with difficult resins, print straight on the plate, which is a major no go, especially for a large format machine that costs more. As for the Phrozen mega 8kv2 / 8ks: I just

Mars 5 ultra is a more recent machine, with some good features, the sonic mini 8k s is older and simpler but it's really sturdy and less complex of a machine, for a beginner I would recommend the phrozen over the elegoo for the tilt release mechanism on the later one. The mars 5 having that tilt rel

I love my Phrozen Sonic Mini 8kS. List price is usually around 250$. It's a great little no-frills workhorse printer for miniatures. I prefer it over my big printer with more high-end features for most things. The big-boy mostly gets fired up for terrain. Take the money you save from that, get a bot

I saw the reveal for the Phrozen Sonic Mini 8K a few years ago and thought “Damn. Those models look really…not so bad!”

It is more about what you want to do with it and what size you need. All the resin printers are pretty similar in technology and output, there isn't much practical difference between 12K and 16K. The S4U or similar from Anycubic/Phrozen/etc. are all going to perform very similarly. I started with a

The phrozen sonic mini 8k is hands down the best printer I've ever bought. 5 years old and only now has an issue popped up with the screen needing replace. Never had any issues with it, not even needing to replace the FEP sheet in all that time. And never had a fail print. There is a new generation

Honest opinion here form somebody with 3 printers and 4+ years of experience The actual "customer support" of all 3 big brands (phrozen, elegoo, anycubic) is ass. Uniformation spare parts I haven't seen anywhere at all except their own webpage so I'd be wary of them (a lot of bad stories on their la