Adding a resin printer to one’s workbench has never looked so attractive, nor been so affordable. Complex shapes with effortlessly great detail and surface finish? Yes, please! Well, photos m… ...

When most people think about 3D printing, they probably imagine a filament-based printer. There's another option, though, and revolves entirely around resin.

Resin 3D printing, also known as stereolithography (SLA), uses UV light to cure liquid resin into solid layers, allowing the creation of intricate details that filament-based printers cannot achieve.

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Resin printers are getting more common, even though they still aren’t as plentiful as fused filament fabrication. If you want to try one, be sure you know what you are getting into.

It's also why you'll see me standing in front of my garage door instead of in the Fab Lab with the FDM filament printers. The resin and the 99% isopropyl alcohol put out some pretty noxious fumes.