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  pen2l
  Formlabs uses a proprietary resin cartridge... it's the paper printers situation all over again, the printers themselves are not that expensive but the disposable ink costs an arm and a leg.Don't go with Formlabs, support any of the open-platform alternatives.And also, be aware that these printers require some serious development work (you need solvent to wash away uncured resin (if you ask me, this basically necessitates a chemical hood... Formlabs will happily upsell the "Form Wash" for this for another 699). If uncured resin falls on your floor (which has happened to me a little too many times), boy is it a horror cleaning it up even if you have industrial grade solvents; FDM printers are easier and their "ink" is much, much less expensive by comparison.
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  RantyDave
  I have a resin printer (elegoo mars 2p) and have done a number of small "production" runs of things that don't really matter.I have to say that it is the biggest pain in the arse thing I even own. While the prints come out "good", I find that dimensional accuracy is often really not good at all; and that the whole rinse in isopropyl, finish in the sun process is just a sticky, irritating, and probably carcinogenic drag.And I can't imagine why USD700 is regarded as a bargain.So this has served as a fine reminder - I need to sell this damn thing, it just takes up space.
• rfrey
  This thing is all over YouTube, they really backed up the truck to the Influencer Club and started handing out the goods. Lots of people I like and respect have showcased it, like Applied Science, Jeff Geerling, among others.But although there's a lot of discussion about how large a discount this is from FormLab's 8 billion dollar printers, there is absolutely NO comparison that I can find to other brands! OK, it's a cheaper Bentley - but how does it compare to the Toyota or Honda that we can get down the street? There are loads of options with --on paper-- better specs for half this price or less.
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  jborichevskiy
  Jeff Geerling has a great video about this printer that got me up to speed on resin printing as well - coming from the 3d printing world I'm stoked to see the price dropping but it also seems like a lot more hassle to me at this stagehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4l9xU3_36Xs
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  vl
  This page really needs to explain what is “resin printer” and why would I need it. I have no idea how is it different from my regular 3D printer.
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  0xb0565e486
  I have a big interest in this; I have been making a lot of electronics as of late due to LLMs being so capable!For instance, I wanted to buy a smart device to control my mini-split and it was 160$ on amazon for 1. Well I built 5 for 80$ in a weekend (excluding the 7 days shipping from China).I'm very much looking for someone convince me not to buy this? Seems like people don't enjoy resin because it's a tad messy and it has a ~10-30 curing process.Yet all parts from my FDM printer feels cheap and looks like nothing I'd be happy to buy unless I spend HOURS sanding and painting.
• tonyhb
  I used to use an older, more expensive version from FormLabs in my last company to print our (more accurate) version of Invisalign negatives, and we'd thermoform the aligners over the top of the cured resin (with a barrier).The accuracy was great. They'd hold up. Printing took a while, but generally pretty solid as we scaled from in-house to full lab setup. They're great as resin printers go.
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  orwin
  How stiff can you make the resin with those 3d printers ? Probably not as much as carbon fiber, but how does it hold against aluminium or fiberglass? Also, can you do composite fibreglass/resin with 3d printers ?
• tgtweak
  Resin printing has its place but it's terribly messy and the FDM printers are getting so good these days it's basically trivial to print even complex multi part prints.
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  ghm2199
  I have a noob "reverse" resin creation question. The product page says it has low VOC emissions. Could certain recyclables(e.g. 4,5 HDPE types) create the resin from my stuff at home with low VoC that I could use/sell etc?My gut would say economically/technologically prohibitive but a low throughput table top recycler seems like a great way to reduce my recyclable garbage.
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  user-
  How did the preorder form for this product endup #2 here on HN in 10 minutes with no comments?Theres no new blog or video or news, preorders opened 2 weeks ago
• gavmor
  Seems to be sharper, faster, and larger in volume than their previous offerings—and for < half the price, too!Pretty cool.
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  syntaxing
  Wow this price is interesting. I guess the Chinese competition is really driving prices down. I do miss the first generation (I think second was too) where they were "true" SLA but they got sued into oblivion by 3D Systems.
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  mkw5053
  Honest question, what would I do if this is my first 3D printer and I don't have the ability to wash and cure? Or do I and I just don't know it, ha
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  amelius
  Does it produce toxic fumes?
• passive
  As someone who got into FDM printing about a year ago, and still finds it very exciting, this is a really compelling resin printer. It's priced very well for the capabilities, especially in terms of providing everything a beginner might need to be comfortable with resin printing.That said, I just noticed Costco online has some FDM stuff, which I think is a pretty exciting development, so if I have any money to spend on 3d printing stuff in the near future, I'll probably spend it there. :)
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  fancyfredbot
  Why is it showing me $749 excluding tax? Did the price increase by $50 since this was posted?
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  singularity2001
  I have the sensational $200 bamboo lab printer what would the $700 thing give me more?
• paaloeye
  Does it come with MCP integration for Claude/Antigravity CLI?
• system2
  7.9 x 4.9 x 9.3 in build volume is small. Since it is resin, does it really make a difference to make the build area bigger without upgrading the hardware, just by increasing the frame size?
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  mitxela
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