We’ve been printing more parts in 405 resin on our Phrozen Mega 8k v2’s as well as our other Phrozen printers. These printers have a smaller build plate than most of our other printers, especially our Liquid crystal magnas from Photocentric. Because of the small build plate, we’ve been able to dial in new resins with less waste and less work switching between resins. This has been especially helpful when preparing for mass production runs, determining the effectiveness of a design and refining it before putting as many of that part on a plate as possible. 

Unfortunately, we can’t show photos of our work because of agreements with customers. The most we can show is new shades of resin that we have successfully printed with (see below).

With the new colors, though, has come a different challenge: washing has to be done differently. Parts have come out of the wash more tinted than desired, causing the parts’ quality to fall below our standards. We are developing a way to avoid undesired tinting in translucent resins.