ANYCUBIC Photon Mono 2, Wash and Cure 3.0 and 3D Printer Resin Black, 500G

Easy and fun to use. If you've been thinking about getting a 3D printer, this is the one to start with. The resin it came with lasted quite a while. You will need isopropyl alcohol to clean your prints with and swapping from cleaning to curing is very simple. No issues printing yet (knock on wood). Very happy with this printer!

Love this printer. It's super quiet. Do yourself a favor tho, ditch the vat that it comes with, and buy a 2pk of Elegoo metal vats (for the Mars Series printers). They're like $40 for 2, and they are incredible. So, the printer is amazing, quality is the normal "Above and Beyond" quality I love about AnyCubic. So no complaints at all. But here's where things get tricky. I've been FDM printing for over 10 years now. I would consider myself an expert with those types of printers. I've had MANY. And right now I have 2 AnyCubic i3 Megas that I've had for about 4 or 5 years, and they still print like the day they came out of the box. I'm also a CNC Programmer, so I'm no stranger to Robotics. WITH THAT SAID... The learning curve to print successfully is FAR more intense than FDM. If you're new to resin printing, PLEASE look up videos on youtube about supports. THIS will be where you will fail every time. The models on a resin printer are supported totally different than supports on an FDM model. Once you get a good concept of the supports, you're golden and this thing will print anything you throw at it. And beautifully. But LEARN how to support your models, don't rely on 'Auto Supports', or creator's 'Pre-Supports'As for the Wash & Cure, it is what it is. A 2 function device that will wash your models after they come out of the vat, and then cure the resin. It's ok. Bit noisy, and vibrates a good bit that some times the models fall off the turntable when curing, but yea, pretty basic machine, that does what it says it does. PRO TIP: Buy enough IPA (90%) to fill the tank twice. Fill it once, and use it. When the IPA starts to get cloudy, pour it in a 1 gallon glass jar with a lid and set it outside for a couple days. The sun will cure the resin for proper disposal. In the mean time, fill the tank with fresh IPA (You got enough to fill it twice remember?). After a few days in the sun, when all the resin is sunk to the bottom of the jar, get a second gallon glass jar, and a coffee filter, and VERY SLOWLY pour the old IPA through the coffee filter, into the second (clean) jar. Just, stop before you get to all the cured resin at the bottom. Put a lid on it, and there is your clean IPA ready to go into the tank when you're ready to clean the second batch. You're welcome! Have fun printing and remember, this stuff is toxic, so keep it away from your pets, and always cure any resin you spill or splatter with a UV Flashlight.

Pros: Prints beautifuly, easy to set up, easy to useCons: None so far!

This is great for starting resin printing. Would advise getting a 1 gallon jug of alcohol for the washing station.

Used to spend a ton of time getting a cheap fdm printer to work. This printer works really well without issue. Cleaning the resin off isn't a problem with the wash station, and the scent is barely noticeable with anycubic low odor resins. Let me print highly detailed and even relatively large prints (image attached). Only had one failure from me not supporting properly.

So it comes packed REALLY well. you'll spend a good 10 minutes pulling it out of the box and all the packing foam. Set-up documentation was pretty straightforward and easy to follow. Bought it with a bottle of Anycubic Black resin and a curing station, and everything was packed really well. The learning curve is pretty steep if you have no idea what you are doing like I did, so watch plenty of videos, join resin printing reddits, and don't be afraid to ask questions. First print was the anycubic cube file that comes with the machine on a USB stick, along with the Anycubic slicer program. I switched to Lychee within the first week on recommendations from fellow printer owners, and have never used the Anycubic slicer ever again. It works, but there are better options out there. I hear everyone talk about resin odor, and have found some that don't really stink at all. The Eco resin is one, and Sirya fast is another. Be ready to buy replacement membranes for your FEP plate, in fact I recommend you buy a set of two when you buy your printer, and another set every month. If you print like I do, you'll wear them out pretty quick. Also, buy some replacement screen protectors as well, you'll thank me later. Place it away from any sunlight that might fall on the device or be ready for a surprise if the sun falls on your vat. Wear disposable gloves when working with the resin, believe me, it'll get on a fingertip and if you pick at your eye for any reason, you'll wish you'd never been born. Hurts more than fish sauce or Tobasco to the eye on an exponential "Dear God please make it stop" level. The calibration prints are out there aplenty, so try a few and get your setting right for the resin you buy. Anycubic has a website that shows the best settings for the their resins for each machine they sell. This is important, because different resins will need different settings to work properly. Lychee slicer has a place where you add your resin and printer, and you get a list of what everyone sets their printers to for that particular resin. If the most popular one doesn't work, tweak it till it does using the Amerilabs City or the Cones of Calibration. Help is out there. . . Both for getting started printing and for the addiction to printing it will cause. Don't just print things, paint them too!

Works great! Happy with it

Only done 20 prints