ELEGOO Plant-Based 3D Printer Resin with Low Odor and High Precision, 405nm UV Rapid Resin, and Quick Curing for LCD 3D Printing - Grey 1000g

I still detect odor, and I still get a reaction when I inhale or when it comes in contact with my skin. Maybe I'm just more sensitive to this kind of stuff than most though. It definitely is less of a reaction for me though. I would still recommend proper ventilation, a mask with a charcoal filter, and gloves. I found that 3 second cure time caused the "cones of calibration v3" to fail. I had to bump it up to between 3.3 and 3.7 seconds at 25 degrees C to get a passing result. That's just to say you will need to bump up cure time slightly from what you're used to if you're switching from a standard resin. I left initial layers at 30 seconds without issue there.

This is my first time printing in resin and I wanted to avoid petrochemicals as I’m not satisfied with my ventilation setup yet. So I cannot compare it to other resins. Using the default Chitubox settings for my Saturn 2 I get extremely crisp prints. That is: WHEN they don’t fail. I would say I have about a 1/3 failure rate to some degree, particularly with larger prints. Fiddling with settings has lead me back to the defaults with just a higher base time (35s) and possibly a little bump to regular layer time (3s?). The main thing I cannot seem to figure out is layers not adhering mid-print on easy areas - possibly floaters but I haven’t found any. Once you get some successful prints, cleanup is as expected, just shake around in some alcohol. Prints are VERY prone to scratching, even just a fingernail or rubbing against one another, so I’m going to look into polishing with mineral oil or coating with a primer. Parts have withstood drops fine. Slight flexibility. Supports wipe right off. Build plate adhesion is fantastic - a little TOO strong sometimes (once you raise the base time a bit to stop fails). I don’t have anything to compare the odor to but it is noticeable. Printing all day in my office with the lid and filter on was definitely still bad. But when it’s turned off or running in the closet there is zero odor whatsoever. I’ll add a little extraction fan hooked up the the lid and I’m confident I’ll never have to thing about fumes again. All-in-all I understand it’s a natural product so there will be variation to some degree. I really want to avoid the chem stuff but I may have to switch if I don’t get so many fails.

The resin performed perfectly in the printer. I have an Elegoo Saturn 2 and did not have to make any adjustments to the print settings for this resin. The detail is great. The printer is an 8K resolution and the resin captured the fine detail of the printer. It is just more brittle than I expected. My grandson dropped a hipo I had printed and it broke in multiple places. It could be a flaw in the model but I was still surprised.

I really want to like eco-resin. It requires very steady print room temperatures and slight overcooking. On my Mars 2 Pro I have to expose a whole extra second over my ideal callibrated exposer time or else I might get print errors. And even then, sometimes you’ll just get errors. It’s fussy. That aside, two of the three bottles I ordered had broken caps leading to leaks. The bottle design is flawed. The cap can be tightened down and the stem is longer so over-tightening leads to the stem shattering through the top of the cap. The good thing is, the packaging was good so nothing leaked out and even then the cracks didn’t leak out too much resin. In other words, even with the leaky caps I still got most of the resin out of the bottle. I hope the manufacturer fixes this bottle problem and updates their details page. I’m under the impression that this is the company that’s making and packaging resin for the Elegoo as well. Happy printing gang.

I printed out some d&d minis and within 6 months half of my prints stared to melt from the inside out, I chalked it up to some bad resin and elegoo assured me that it was a unfortunate experience and decided to send out another bottle to have me reestablish faith within their product lines . I didn't request anything the where truly sincere and requested that I accept another bottle of resin . 5/5 customer service , potentially a 5 star product will update once I've given a few months with the new resin to see if it melts or if it was a freak occurrence.