The Resin Printing Revolution - It Sucks Less Now! Uniformation GK Two Review

What 3d scanner do you have?

Resin printing has its niche, for high dimensional accuracy and fine details in complex geometries that are inconvenient for FDM. It's also extraordinarily fast, especially for many small things or something flat. But yes, FDM is definitely still the go-to workhorse of printing.

Can't wait for more people to harm their health with "new user friendly resin" units lmao. But but but the carbon filter, I can't smell the VOCs, surely they're gone.

Your frustrations sound like my experience with my original Anycubic Photon. But when i switches to my Photon Mono SE, everything just *worked*. In about a year, I've had maybe a half dozen failed prints, and had to relevel my build plate maybe twice. I also use Elegoo ABS-like Fast Gray, which prints beautifully and is very resilient to impact when cured.

thanks buddy! your desktop looks just like mine!

The lack of auto-leveling in most resin printers is horrible; the odor is not the worst part of the resin, so a carbon filter is not enough. Adding and removing resin from the vats is just a horrible, lazy design. I rarely run my four resin printers, but my FDM printers run almost constantly.

Resin printers need a dedicated workspace and SOP to deal with the toxic fumes and chemicals and it’s very messy. I gave mine away and print w/ an X1E and mk4. A 5T XL is on the way.

Great review! What 3d scanner do you use? And do you recommend it?

Of the resins I’ve used, Siraya Tech was the one I liked the least.

Resin printers are fantastic and have been for a long time. They have got slightly more user friendly yes but all of the issues you mentioned are problems caused by you or your settings.
Even the old machines have been extremely competent (I have ran an Etsy shop printing miniatures for years with multiple different printers)

Even the original Photons I had printing consistently with no issues, I would run a print. Clear the bed, run another print. It's extremely rare with resin printers that a failure is the printers fault.There isn't many variables to fail outside of your settings. That being said they're very different to FDM and I don't feel the experience translates well for either.

I think as long as you're willing to take a look at the issue, realise what's going wrong and why and rectify it. You'll have a strong workflow in no time and understand quickly why you're not getting the results you desire.

Which 3d scanner do you use 😮, scan came out pretty good!

anycubic are not bad , but if you a problem , that when you become your own tech, cause that won't help. all they do is ask for videos and if they don't like it they say sorry, thats it , even if its from the first day like the one i have in the back room received it and set it up and it did not work , it started and then a burning smell ,,,stopped working ,,,,,and have been fighting with them ever since, all i wanted was a printer that worked ...lol if this printer is worth it , they can have my money , and it looks great. and you video was good,,,,,,,,thank you

i will look into there printers'

I too have always avoided resin printers and have backed away from jobs that required resin printing. But recently I have been wondering why, thanks for reminding me.

THIS CLOWN IS SHILL LMFAO

Seeing you holding a wet miniature above the sink makes me wonder if you really dispose of your waste water in a proper way. Remember that Resin is extremely toxic for the environment.

Can you link the scanner you used for the chair ? Maybe a review video?

Great Video! Which Software do you use for adding supports etc.?

You don''t dab so your opinion is invalid...

I purchased a GK Two recently for my first resin printer. The mess was way worse than I expected. Resin drips, alcohol baths, slimy residue on everything.
I’d like to find a better resin than what I started with. Now it’s back to the learning curve.

This doesn't look like it's worth the huge price premium... at least when you pay $1k for a Bambu printer you know you're getting what you paid for.

Well, their biggest weak point, their blocking point for many of us, are not the printers in themselves, but the resin (its toxic smell). If that was not an issue, everything else would be OK.

I have a resin printer and have found it very messy and wasteful to use the alcohol solution for cleaning the biggest drawback in my opinion as the alcohol vat gets dirty quite quickly and you have to set it aside for a long time for the plastic to cure in the alcohol before you can reuse the alcohol and dispose of the resin. My garage is now full of toxic chemicals and stinks whenever I print anything, all this to still have failed prints. You need to print an awful lot of stuff to make back the cost of buying the printer. Debugging can be difficult to as, after months of failed prints, I finally realized it always failed when the outdoor temperature dropped below 10'C in overnight prints and I had to buy a heater.

you seriously need to get ur PPE sorted for resin, its highly carcinogenic. put it in a weed tent tent that fully enclosed with air vents, and add an extractor fan to blow it out of the house or room

I have had the exact opposite experience with resin printing. I have had just the one anycubic photon mono 4k and it has lasted me about 2.5 years now, I always get WAY better print quality on resin prints compared to fdm. FDM is good for printing quickly and prototyping but resin makes the part 1000% better.

I've not used an FDM printer yet, but Resin printing is not that hard. The biggest hurdle is correct setup and calibration. After that, yes, clean up can be a chore, but if you work neat to start, you have less to clean after. I run a Mono X, Mono X 6K, M5s, and a couple DLP's. I recently printed 160 minis from Loot Studios with matching bases in a handful of days. 2 failed due to condition of the vat.

I would like to get into FDM to print larger scene pieces and objects.

Hello I just bought this printer at a really good price because the seller has no time for it but it’s stuck in customs. Does anybody know the exact weight and dimensions of the original box? Thanks allot

It's entirely not the printers fault, unless those Anycubics are duds. Hate to say it, but I've had so few failures in resin it's not even comparable to my years with FDM. I've burned out one screen so far and sometimes the linear rail gets sticky and needs cleaning, but overall, I've had a much, much easier time with resin.

Also, stop using paper towels on your fep and go easy with the spatula. Keeping your fep in good condition is how you go a very long time without failed prints.
I use a soft silicone spatula and gently wipe and stir vat between prints. For cleaing, I use a silicone brush and have long since stopped with the paper towels. A bit of alcohol and some use of the brush is enough to get the vat clean - without scratching the fep at all.

This is a great relatable video and I'm finding it at the perfect time. Recently upgraded my FDM machines to a couple Bambus and it's been such a game changer that I've been looking at my resin machines trying to figure out which one I should buy to feel like a comparable upgrade. Was considering the Sonic Mega 8k for this ability to do huge batches, but reliability and consistency is ultimately what matters most to me, so I can focus less of my time on maintenance, downtime, and failures. It's the perfect time because I also just had a Halot Mage's UV light die (flickering) I'm going to buy a couple of these bad boys with your ref link right now. Your channel really deserves to pop off in this space.

I placed a glass screen protector on my photon mono X and sealed it in place with kapton tape. I learned this from using a smaller photon first. I level before each print, clean the vat and spray it with ptfe. You have to be serious about the prints if your going this route.

This has paid for by uniformation written all over it

Internal filter circulation is more important than you think. A single pass through a carbon filter is simply not enough to remove a lot of VOCs. By re-circulating it you are keeping the VOCs in the printer and you can run the chamber fan post-print for a while to ensure most VOCs are filtered out of the air first. I don't plan on getting into resin yet, FDM is doing fine for my purposes, but for me to ever do so the printer is going to have to have an internally circulating carbon and hepa filter for me to trust it with my health, that stuff is nasty even when the smells are removed.

I feel exactly like you do. I use my resin printer when I have a figurative gun to my head and no choice but to use it. The results are amazing but it's still not worth the hassle unless I can't print the part any other way. I don't own the gk2 but am tempted to upgrade to it. But I don't love that build plate much. If I got this I would remove the carbon filter and just cap that off, and use an exhaust system to outdoors and stay out of the room while printing. I wear a mask with 60926 filters when cleaning and curing, or when I have to be in the room with the printer. Resin printing is dangerous and has to be treated with respect, or you chance getting really bad news from your doctors some years down the road.

im about to get an upgrade from Mars 4 Ultra, jeez... that was a pain in the backside, leveling was made so stressful as 1 side NEVER is leveled no matter how much you relevel it. temperature problems, as its always cold where i am. fep/acf problem which also brings from the levelling being a problem, the single wobbly Z bar it has.
When it worked it works but mars 4 ultra was the first printer i had, i learnt a lot from it though which is good but having the inconveniences it gave me... hoping the GKtwo can fix and tick those boxes for me 🙃

You put fake progerss bars on your video and I"m not watching. Only falling for that once.

is gk2 better than saturn 4 ultra?

Just found your channel. Excellent content - Another sub for you sir!

I print in my small DIY spray paint booth (uses two 300mm 550 watt extraction fans with commercial filters),which is setup in my garage. It works great in removing all smells/fumes outside. Highly recommend for keeping you and your family healthy.

Resin is fine. Problem is there are not enough large scale printers. As this is what I want. Otherwise for small prints we already have ton of great options

As a person with a hatred for anycubic because they screwed me. I say it is anycubic they are awful

My last employer had two Form Labs 2 machines.. I wasn't impressed by them at all.. though I think that could in part be due to how many people were using them.. or misusing them 🤔 I've got a CR-30, Kobra Max, I Mega and a Delta Kossel.. the Mega is my most reliable machine and that form lab experience is what has put me off adding resin to the list.. but I think this printer and its reviews have swayed me to buy...

Hi guys. While printing, an error message pops up that says 'print error' and the printing is being interrupted. Any ideas? The strange thing is that up to the printed layer, everything looks great and then it just stops printing with this message. I have tried cleaning up everything, using new resin (or even no resin at all with the same file) and leveling again, but still the problem remains. Any ideas?

I've heard that wargamer resin is less smelly

Ok like your video and subscribed. Like the no-frills direct delivery without the cat memes and guff.

Fume cupboard neeeded

hey man did you get paid for this review? if so you need to be honest and have that communicated in the vid and description. you have obvious kkickback links in the description

At minute 5.56 i see a vacuform machine. Can you please indicate where I can faind that machine? Thanks!!

What 3d scanner do you use?

I agree with most of the points here. The main thing that gets me with resin is that it offers super-fine detail but it doesn't offer super-fine _accuracy_. So for making non-functional things that look nice it's good but for making functional parts it's generally worse than FDM. Due to the way UV curing works there is ALWAYS a bit of distortion. I like the heat resistance of resin. The consumables are considerably more wasteful than FDM. Resin sticks to everything so there is always some left behind when switching resins or whatever. It drips and spills here or there, it's all wasted resin. Then you have alcohol, bags, towels, gloves, FEP sheets, taking time to UV cure messy areas, etc. these are added expenses. I hate that you can't tell if a print is working because you can't see the print as it starts, this is more waste (time, resin, and other consumables) when a print fails. It's just terrible compared to FDM unless you're just printing miniatures.