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

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

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!

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.

These things always have quirks and problems. This one is no different. 1) The printing surface (FEP) in the vat sticks to prints, pulling them off. 2) if it pulls your print off, chances are it'll have pulled off your supports, too. 3) if you don't filter the resin after each failure, the build plate will mash any solidified particles into the FEP sheet, damaging it, and possibly even poking holes in it. Now you have resin curing on your LCD screen. Hope you installed a screen protector! If it didn't poke holes, you now have a distorted FEP sheet that may affect your build quality.Lets say you want to tinker with this printer and make it a little more functional. So you go buy a second vat from Sovol (they have a good vat! replaceable FEP film!), buy more resin filters, a big box of gloves, some water soluble resin (because the regular stuff from Anycubic requires 70% alcohol for cleaning, and that's expensive to wash parts in), maybe some stronger resin that isn't so brittle, some replacement FEP sheets and screen protectors, and a magnetic build plate that will let you remove just the thin plate and not need to detach the entire plate or scrape and pry at it to get the model off.Great! NOW we can 3d print... but wait, resetting home jams with the new magnetic build plate attachment? Hope you've got a second 3d printer to print a new Home optical sensor flag to compensate for the ~3mm in thickness or so added by the modified build plate, because Anycubic made it impossible to adjust the Home height, and for some infinitely brilliant reason, the printer insists on going to Home before going to Z-0. The Z-0 is the height at which it starts printing, but gets completely ignored in favor of stopping at Home anyway even though you re-leveled the bed and set Z-0 properly. Do NOT buy a magnetic build plate addition to the original unless you can build a new Home optical sensor trigger flag.Now, you can finally enjoy a 3d printer with enough supplies to keep you going. Maybe even print yourself a smooth resin rake/filter to pass through the vat carefully and collect debris after each print. Be very careful to not score the bottom FEP sheet!

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!

Works great! Happy with it

Only done 20 prints