![]() And the bigger your LCD, the larger the recurring cost of replacing that particular consumable. LCD screens have finite life spans, and so they should be considered as a consumable. In the case of the printers in this article, the light source is an LCD screen, because they are SLA (LCD) printers. In terms of the benefits of printing on a larger SLA printer, the main and obvious benefit is simple: you get bigger prints!īigger resin printers are more expensive, and the price increases due to the larger size of the light source. ![]() ![]() It’s quick, and there are a wide range of materials available, ranging from cheap and cheerful resins, to more expensive engineering resins. It requires very little post-processing, asides from a little washing and additional curing sometimes. Resin printing provides a great surface finish and highly detailed prints, especially when compared to FDM printing. Let’s start with the benefits of resin printing. This model was printed with the Phrozen 3D Printer Sonic Mega 8K. Benefits and Limitations of large SLA printers Thanks to the technology advance, the SLA printers today are capable to print large size models with perfect detail quality. Unless, of course, you own a factory, but if that’s the case, we may cover those industrial-sized resin printers in a later article.įor now, let’s have a look at larger desktop printers in the region of 25-60 cm in print bed length. Yes, there are genuine large format resin printers available, as there are several printers available that can print resin parts over 1 meter in length, but you don’t really want to know how much they cost.Īs a result, they are generally beyond the budgets of most 3D printing fans. And for the sake of this article, we will describe any resin printer with a dimension over 25 cm as “large”. ![]() So for the sake of this article, we will avoid using the term “large format” and will simply use the term “large”. While the term “large format” in FDM generally applies to anything over 1 square meter print volume, the term is more ambiguous for other printing methods. These are fine for printing small things such as miniatures, but somewhat limited if you want to print anything larger than 10 to 15 cm in length. Thanks to LCD technology, SLA printing has gotten much cheaper over the last couple of years, with a reasonably priced small printer costing under $200 USD.
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