As 3D printing enthusiast Chris Russell shows in this picture, you can even make parts for other 3D printers using the Siraya Tech tough resin, and they will look beautiful and be strong as heck.

As widespread as 3D printing with stereolithography (SLA) is in the consumer market, these additive manufacturing (AM) machines are limited to a single UV light source and the polymerization of fre… ...

SLA printers simply apply this process to 3D printing. They print layer by layer as well, but instead of extruding material, they zap a tank full of resin liquid.

Many resin-based 3D printers cost around $2,000 or more, but the Photon Mono X 3D printer delivers quality prints for $599. It’s an inexpensive way to try SLA 3D printing.

Resin printing — particularly SLA — is one of the oldest and most mature 3D printing technologies around, which means the process is quite refined by this point.

Each of these machines is an SLA (or Stereo Lithography) printer. Instead of solid plastic filament, they use a liquid resin. In the accompanying video, you'll see me wearing a lab coat.

In SLA printing, your 3D objects are effectively suspended beneath a print bed that rises vertically. This usually means a tangled support structure that must be carefully broken away from the print.

The Da Vinci Junior 3D Printer. Dong Ngo/CNET The Nobel 1.0 sports a resin-filling mechanism, meaning it can provide stable SLA printing quality without users having to add liquid resin constantly ...

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… ...

Theoretically, these SLA printers are supposed to be much faster than their filament-melting brethren, since all they need to do to create a layer is flash a laser over the resin tray.