ELEGOO Upgraded 8K Standard Photopolymer 3D Printer Resin 405nm UV-Curing Resin Best for 8K/12K/14K Saturn MSLA DLP LCD 3D Printing Space Grey 1000G

My original review stood for two years, but within the last few months elegoo has changed just about everything regarding their resin. Literally the packaging is now cheap light weight boxes, the resin has a different thicker consistency, and the cure time is varying from one bottle to another. I am now running an ebay business manufacturing model parts that I have designed to upgrade scale model kits or to be used by gamers, so I am going through several bottles of resin a week. These changes were over a period of a few months, but after a several bottles of wasted prints, and worse the time involved to find the issue, I decided it was finally time to try a different resin. I have since swapped to Anycubic, which is more like elegoo used to be.Your experiences may vary, as little as a single degree in temperature can make a difference in results, but in my situation of running 4 printers 24 x 7 and shipping a dozen orders a week, I could no longer take rhe risk and had to make the swap.Hopefully my original review didn't miss lead anyone!Original review follows:To be fair, this is the only resin I have used, I started with it since I bought an Elegoo brand 3D printer and figured for the first few bottles I would use their brand to be safe. Since then, I have continued to buy just this resin. The color choices are great, I have used the grey, white, black, and clear red so far and they have all been great. I have had very few failed starts on my prints, and they may have had nothing to do with the resin.The reasons I have only bought this resin are:- The low odor is hardly noticeable to me, the 90% IPA actually has a MUCH more noticeable odor than the resin, and as Iuse this in the house in my hobby room that is very important to me, well, my wife really, but that is what matters. ; ]- The price is neither the lowest nor the highest out there, so I feel it is a fair value.- The print results have been really great, I will attach a few photos to the review.- I figure I have a good thing going, so why mess with it.The only things I have noticed with this resin so far are that:- It is very important to check the exposure times for the resin before printing, some of the darker colors take moreseconds per layer.- The white resin sometimes has visible layer lines in the final print. You can not feel them, nor see them when painted,but when it is just the bare resin they are sometimes visible.- You will want a cure light if you live anywhere that you don't have access to a fair amount of sunshine. I am in thePacific North West, and left a print in the window sill for a week and it was still not fully cured. But under a UV lighton a turn table it is done in 5 to 6 minutes for most prints.If I learn anything else, or start to experience different results I will update this review.

I've used 10kg of this stuff and it's been awesome. Mostly for miniatures, the quality is high enough that my friends at my local shop ask me to print stuff for them often. Once I got my settings dialed in (using Once in a Six Side's amazing guide) I've not had to change them and have had very consistent prints. Using on a Mars 3 Pro.

High texture and quality printing resin. Elegoo hasn't disappointed me. As long as you look up the right settings for the resin and your printer, this will give you high quality looking resin prints.

This resin is great, I never have a problem with it.

I have a Sonic Mini 4k, and bought this grey resin to try out due to it's price point, and great print quality.First, I want to touch on great things about this resin, and why I use it pretty frequently.- The smell is pretty low. The smell itself is an inoffensive plastic-like scent, and is only really noticeable within about 10-15 feet of the printer. (I still have everything ventilated)- Print quality and detail is spectacular. No complaints in quality, every print came out looking very sharp, even when I heavily overexposed it.- Not that messy. The resin drips off of the build plate in about 10 minutes, and isn't very hard to clean in general. The low odor helps with this step a lot.Now to explain the 4 stars.After doing a few prints with this resin and really getting a feel for it, I can say that I do really like using this resin for a lot of reasons, but don't think this particular color is perfect for final prints you plan on giving as gifts, using in your table top games, or selling.The only issue with this resin is that it struggles to fully cure on the surface, and you can be left with a somewhat soft, almost rubbery feeling print, even after extensive curing that slightly discolored the grey print. I have read that you can avoid this by curing your parts while they are submerged in water, but I haven't personally tested this.In contrast, the Elegoo translucent resin has a great, hard surface finish that I was expecting from the grey.In conclusion, if you're looking for a great go-to resin for testing out your own designs, prototyping products, or to practice printing, this is a great, cost effective resin, that I enjoy using.If you plan on making gifts or playing with these figures, you might have better luck using a different color (As I said, the translucent has a great finish, but does yellow easily)

Excellent product

I have bought many bottles of this resin and have never had any issues. The bottle always comes in a well packed container so there is no leaking. Works great with my elegoo saturn printer. I mostly make anime/game objects and have been using it lately for Dungeon and dragons miniatures and the details have came out super crisp which saves me a ton of time of post processing. The resin sticks super well to my print bed I have a flex bed and almost have issues getting prints off, which is problem I like to have. Would rather have a print stick then fall off and have a print fail. There is definitely a smell with the resin, but you are going to have that with 90% of resins this brand is more on the subtle side. The resin is super easy to clean. Little isopropyl alcohol and you're good to go! And with the price of this resin I am able to print super big projects that take a ton of resin and not break the bank! Highly recommend.

Worked perfectly