Cheaper Resins ??
Elegoo - Translucent. $39.99 per 1000g
Prints fine with Prusa tough resin settings. Same drying and curing times as well. Smells about the same. Details look great.
Slight orange tint, not totally color free like form labs sample (Maybe my fault idk, still new. I cleaned resin tank after using Prusa tough orange but maybe not well enough. I also didn't exchange new alcohol wash cleaning fluid when going from cleaning tough orange to translucent)
Supports break away easy. It's standard strength, not tough resin.
Prusa MK3 preassembled (R2/B6) > (R3/B/7)
Prusa MK2.5 kit > MK3 > MK3+MMU2 (R3/B/7) 😀
Prusa SL1 3D printer + Curing and Washing Machine (day1 order)
Taz6
CR10s4
Delta 3ku
RE: Cheaper Resins ??
would be very interesting to know what kind of additives they use as these resins are dirt cheap to get, its just the "new thing" premium we are paying.
UV curing resins are not rocket science and are using in high volumes in the printing industry, they just use way more plasticizers as they need an elastic film rather than a solid object.
RE: Cheaper Resins ??
Probably a supply and demand thing, not enough demand for the usual players to scale up resin production or double their manufacturing capabilities just yet, and the big players are simply not interested since they literally can flood the supply market for these resins at low prices with little to no gain from the size of the market share.