3D printer reviews

[Inquisitor]

On 4/25/2023 at 1:48 PM, ElectroSoldier said:

Recent video about a printer that has, as said in the video been talked about a far bit, and bares out what I said about printers not really improving the prints as much as they will be improving the features.

 

BEST 3D Printer Right Now - Uniformation GK TWO Review (great all-rounder Uniformation GKtwo) - YouTube

Consumer 3d printers won't improve in resolution, they're stuck to 8k for a while. Because all consumer grade printers use modified mass produced consumer grade priced LCD screens up to 8k taken from factories that would normally end up in phones, tablets or laptops. There's no higher resolution screens of those sizes because there's no need for higher resolutions in those devices because your eyes won't perceive any higher resolution in the small screens at normal viewing distances. Even 16k or 32k resolutions are just still in the future for TVs where higher resolutions make a difference in big screens and are introduced first to the mass market before prices drops and they're not even in a hurry because there's no mass market appeal or use for them currently. So I don't see any company producing 16k or 32k screens to sell to 3d printer companies without the corresponding increase in price. Currently anycubic and elegoo are branching to DLP  (Digital Light Processing) technology for their newer mini printers but still their newer printer's projectors are at most 2K, two steps behind the generational improvements in LCD screen resolution. What DLP improves is in the light linearity and the sharpness/crispness of each pixel projected into the resin providing detail that would rival lcd screens a step above. But even DLP might hit a price or resolution wall sooner than later. And like you said all these printer companies only have the path of adding or improving the features of printers. Another printer like the Athena from concepts3d.ca which they haven't even started any crowdfunding yet supposedly will improve printing times by having a force sensor that'll detect when your layer has peeled so it can dynamically control the up-down distance/time per layer instead of the fixed values normal printers use in the sliced files.

Edited April 27, 2023 by Inquisitor

[ElectroSoldier]

22 hours ago, Inquisitor said:

Consumer 3d printers won't improve in resolution, they're stuck to 8k for a while. Because all consumer grade printers use modified mass produced consumer grade priced LCD screens up to 8k taken from factories that would normally end up in phones, tablets or laptops. There's no higher resolution screens of those sizes because there's no need for higher resolutions in those devices because your eyes won't perceive any higher resolution in the small screens at normal viewing distances. Even 16k or 32k resolutions are just still in the future for TVs where higher resolutions make a difference in big screens and are introduced first to the mass market before prices drops and they're not even in a hurry because there's no mass market appeal or use for them currently. So I don't see any company producing 16k or 32k screens to sell to 3d printer companies without the corresponding increase in price. Currently anycubic and elegoo are branching to DLP  (Digital Light Processing) technology for their newer mini printers but still their newer printer's projectors are at most 2K, two steps behind the generational improvements in LCD screen resolution. What DLP improves is in the light linearity and the sharpness/crispness of each pixel projected into the resin providing detail that would rival lcd screens a step above. But even DLP might hit a price or resolution wall sooner than later. And like you said all these printer companies only have the path of adding or improving the features of printers. Another printer like the Athena from concepts3d.ca which they haven't even started any crowdfunding yet supposedly will improve printing times by having a force sensor that'll detect when your layer has peeled so it can dynamically control the up-down distance/time per layer instead of the fixed values normal printers use in the sliced files.

 

Yes I know 

List of flat panel display manufacturers - Wikipedia

Theres been some good reviews of the DLP printers.

 

Im liking the look of the Uniformation but Ive not long since got the Mighty 8K which im very happy with because the room temp is a constant 21⁰c

[serendip]

Hi all,

 

I got thisvideo from a colleague at work showing scanning with LIDAR off a smartphone. 

 

I'm interested what you all think:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iN_4BnzzRj0

 

Thanks,

Marc.