ELEGOO 3D Rapid Resin LCD UV-Curing Resin 405nm Standard Photopolymer Resin for LCD 3D Printing 500Gram Grey

The manufacturer recommends shorter curing times for this resin, but I ran the Resin XP test and found that 15 seconds with 0.05mm layers worked best. I use 15 second regular layers, 5 seconds of off time, and 10 bottom layers with 60 seconds of exposure. I’m getting consistent successful prints. Chess pieces come out with a brilliant frosted glass look. Some of my initial prints failed due to my own fault of using light supports and supports that were too long. I just bought another bottle of the clear resin. I used isopropanol to clean the models in my photos. It's possible that this would have been clear if I used Resinaway or some other product. Acetone cleaning produced the same frosted glass results.I printed a larger rook that appeared a little more yellow than the others. The model was not hollowed. I'm very happy with the smaller chess pieces. I think it’s worth the $30 I paid.

This is a reluctant review because I don't want anyone to know how great this stuff is for the price. Every time I find a great resin, the price goes up astronomically. I have been consistently printing on my Anycubic Photon at settings of Layer thickness .05, Exposure of 11 seconds 1 second off time, 5 bottom layers at 95 seconds. I have had no fails through a whole bottle. I saw in one of the reviews someone mentioned it's runny...well it is. I have found in my experience that runny means easy model cleanup and less wasted resin sticking to the model and build plate. Gooey resin is a pain to clean off. I tend to rinse the completed model in hot water to get off the liquid resin then swish it in 91% or higher isopropyl alcohol. In gooey resin I tend to have to do this more than once. Not with this product. The process for clean up is rinse under hot faucet for a bit, swish in alcohol then rinse alcohol off, paper towel dry off then under the UV nail oven for a few minutes...Done. If ELEGOO reads this, feel free to send me samples in different colors to try for you. I tend to only use grey because I paint my models, but I'd be happy to try out the other colors an write some reviews. Thanks.

This gives me great prints. I use green. It’s a translucent green, not opaque green like monoprice resin. The finished color is a little more warm/yellowish than translucent green Anycubic resin. I use the standard settings for my printer, an Anycubic Photon. For best results, after printing, I soak in an isopropyl alcohol bath for 3-5 minutes, and use a soft brush on any of the “gummy” surfaces, particularly vertical walls. Then I cure for at least 20 minutes in sunlight or an hour in a UV nail bed. This removes the last of the stickiness and strengthens the part.I tried curing this resin underwater, or while still in the alcohol bath. Both left white residue that only came off with heavy sanding. I suggest avoiding wet curing.

Originally purchased (2) 500ml bottles along with a new Wanhao D7 (newbie at this stuff), So I started with this Black ink from Elegoo and my success rate was 1 out of 10, since I was new I figured it was something I was doing wrong, but there was a lot of things that didn't make sense on a lot of failure. At about 2/3 the bottle thru I switched to Elegoo Transparent Resin and my success rate with this was about 80% and switching over to Wanhao Grey I had a 100% success rate. At this point my confidence was good and I went back to Elegoo Black and it was like hitting a wall and back at a 10% success rate.I did buy a bottle of Monoprice Black Resin (which is Wanhao) and my success rate with this is 100% using the same setting also the amount of pigment in the Monoprice/Wanhao brand is quite a bit more as you can see it in the liquid and when comparing 2 pieces at 4mm the MP/Wanhao is pitch black when held up to the sun and the Elegoo is slightly transparent.There we're a couple of other things that stood out as a negative with Elegoo, the resin seems to be more brittle then MP/Wanhao and printing small pieces with details the Elegoo was pinching up holes. At first I thought this was the nature of this type of 3D Printing with Resin but when the MP/Wanhao Black printed the same image with the proper detail without the holes plugging up. This resin alone even with a 100% success rate would make me switch anyways.On a positive the Elegoo seems a bit easier to cleanup (due to less pigment) but the amount of time required to clean up was relatively the same.As for price the Elegoo Black and MP Black are within a few dollars apart.See pic for settings used for Elegoo Black (same as Wanhao Black (for now)

This resin shipped quickly but when I received it, the bottle was slightly open and resin leached into the cardboard retail carton. The most disappointing part of this resin was how much it darkened during UV cure. Some reviewers noted slight yellowing but my prints went well past that to brown/orange. My intent was to shine color LED light through the resin so it's not unusable but the product is far from the white/clear frosted resin that I was expecting.The settings were a bit different from other resins I have been using but once I tweaked to the settings found in the other reviews, I had little issue getting prints to turn out.

This product is great. Cheaper then the big brands and after getting my printer set up with the right times I have been cranking out the minis. It is thinner then other resins but that works to your advantage when cleaning. It is soft when it’s fresh out of the printer but after the curing it’s hard and is ready to paint. I bought two bottles of grey and plan to buy more to try all the colors.

Wow, great stuff. Worked really well in my Creality LD-001 printer.

So far, all of my prints have come out perfectly, except that curing turns it yellow. Even when under a UV lamp for only a few seconds, it has yellowed. The knight with the sword only cured for 45 seconds. The mage and larger gecko rider were 30 seconds. I only cured the smaller gecko rider for about 10 seconds.