Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “Quick Look: Prusa SL1 3D Printer”.
Welcome to make workshop, where we check out tools, toys and tech built for makers today we’re going to be printing in resin. What we have here is the prusa sl1. This is the first sla printer to come from prusa and it is pretty interesting. The proofs sl1 is a masked sla printer.
That means it’s got a uv lamp, an lcd screen that acts as a mask and then a vat of fluid that it cures using that uv led light out of the box you’re going to get your printer and in typical prusa fashion. It comes with all the tools you need, as well as a few sheets of replacement film for your vat and, of course, a bag of haribo gummy bears. Let’S talk about specs. It’S got 120 millimeters by 68 millimeters by 150 millimeters of print area to work in as far as resolution on the x and y axises you’re looking at 47 microns and then on the z axis, you can go down as little as 10 microns. This thing has a few nice features such as the automated tilting bed, for you know doing your peel mechanism so that you get nice solid layers.
It’S got a fume extraction system built in a 5.5 inch lcd screen with full. You know control over the unit. So you can run from a memory, stick or connect to it over your network or over wi-fi and be able to see your jobs. Price on this unit goes for 1, 399 for a kit and 1699 fully assembled to your door.
This video i’m using the prusa curing and washing station as well. This is an additional 699 and, in my opinion, if you’re going to be doing resin prints, you should get a washing station of some kind. This machine allows you to drop in your prints.
Do a timed washing in ipa remove that vat cure it all in one unit. That’S heated filtered has controls that allows you to customize the wash and the cure, and things like that. It really helps cut down on the mess whenever you’re doing 3d prints. However, you need to be aware: anytime, you’re working with resin there’s going to be a mess, no matter how careful you think you are there’s going to be resin in places, you didn’t expect be ready for it. So, let’s address the huge question: everybody asks when the sl1 gets brought up, and that is why would you buy the sl1 for a little over a thousand dollars when you can get the cheap g2 box variations that have similar resolution for like 300 and before i Jump into that, i need to point out a couple things. Prusa did not sponsor this video. They did send review units for us to check out, but that’s it. It is not sponsored. However, i personally use a prusa mk3s and it’s probably my favorite printer i’ve ever used, so i might be biased a little bit. That being said, i’m not trying to sell you, i’m not trying to sell you on this printer, make your own decisions i’ll. Tell you what those differences are and what bruce’s answers were, and you can make your own difference. It’S not my job to sell this printer, so why would you buy this over the cheap ones? What are they thinking? I asked them this and they said that their idea, their goal was not to compete with the very cheapest not to try to race to the bottom. Instead, what they wanted to do was they wanted to hit the market in the middle.
You have the dirt cheap ones that are cutting every corner possible, and then you have things like form, labs that are extremely expensive and there’s a lot of people that want a quality machine and they’re willing to pay a little bit to get. Some extra features features such as the construction. When you pull this thing out of the box, you can feel it is heavy. Instead of you know, stamped and folded steel for the entire thing they have things like you know, the the bulk of that body is milled out of a single billet that the the vat is milled out of a single billet. It’S got the automated white procedure.
Little things like the hinges on the top: first of all, it has hinges you’re, not just lifting it off and putting the top somewhere else, but the hinges are hefty and hold the top solidly. Whenever it’s open, it has a full. You know the color lcd with controls, so you can control the printer even connect to it over wi-fi from your phone to control the printer preview.
Your files get information, it’s got a resin sensor. These are things you’re not going to find in the dirt cheap printers and to go back a little bit to my personal bias. What it seems to me is that the crew at prusa actually use the machines and adjust the features based on their use. You know there’s a difference between putting a feature in a check box and saying this machine.
Has you know these features like a sturdy hinge or whatever and actually using the machine and going? Oh? Oh, we need to adjust this because every time you open it, you know it kind of tends to wobble. So we need a stiffer hinge or a sensor or whatever it seems like prusa’s team actually goes through and uses the machines, so the features actually work as they should and as you expect them to, instead of just being a check box on a list again. That might be some of my personal bias because i, like my mk3s thanks for watching, i hope you enjoyed the video today. We have some really cool stuff coming up so be sure to subscribe to this website click the little notification bell, so you can get an email whenever we put out a new video, you .