It will be interesting to see, what ratings that printer will get. Due to the fact, that everything in the printer is snap-fit, I don’t expect it to be precise at all, there are extremly wide tolerances for such joints, if the construction is missing screws and pins for perfect alignment, also I can’t really see any kind of motor, that turns the mirrors. Of course this motor can be tiny, as it doesn’t move a heavy load, but I don’t think, that you’ll get a high detailed print out of a motor, that’s smaller then a AAA battery. The dropping system of the printer is fairly interesting, but I expect it to be very unpredictable in terms of print speed. Dependent on the viscosity of the resin, it may not level quickly, after another drop is added, this also requires a perfectly leveled table to place the printer on, I can’t find anything to adjust the printing area. My expectations are, that this printer will suffer reliability and that it has a huge tendency to have misaligned pieces that may cause issues. It won’t ever rival the form 1 or similar printers in the case of print quality and I’m sure, that the “let’s try 3d printing”-customers, which this printer is made for, won’t have the endurance to tweak the printer for decent quality, most likely they’ll loose interest after a few fails, throw 100$ of snap fit plastic and resin away, and that’s it. There are many reasons, why printers like the form 1+ are so expensive and why you pay a lot for their resin, these prices resemble the quality of parts, amount of testing and improvements during production.
Just a warning that we had originally helped Peachy Printer with their first Crowdfunding. We’ll that was now 3 years ago and we have not yet received a printer or a refund. From the updates it seems they kept running into problems. At this stage (3 years later) the technology had been so much more advanced that I suggest looking into a FLUX or Robo 3D.
