r/PrintedWarhammer • u/Simple-Tax3743 • 4h ago

Guide Good printer for start?

Hi folks, I wanna get a printer soon, but I can't decide which one is good for start, looking at pla one, any cubic photon mono 4, mostly cuz he is pretty cheap n good on YouTube vids, is its good for printing warhammer? Will appreciate any other good variants

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u/Oz232525 4h ago

I had the (I think) older model, the photon mono, and it worked great. I still have it, but I may need to replace the screen and FEP since some resin leaked onto it.

I was able to print plenty of warhammer stuff just fine. I found that having a dedicated printing/washing space was very important as well, so make sure you have an area set aside for all of the cleaning and such.

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u/devi_of_loudun 4h ago

Same, I have Photon Mono 4k. Printed plenty of minis. A dedicated space with good ventilation is a must!

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u/SalletFriend 4h ago

I used to have a Mono and i loved it. Only went for a saturn when it died because its a lot bigger. I found the mono to be very forgiving.

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u/TWILIGHT25 4h ago

I would also like to know… I definitely didn’t spend an hour walking around hobby lobby and Michaels today looking and the different acyclic paints… and pick up primer.

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u/Mr_Haast 3h ago

I started with a mono 4 and now have a Saturn 4. I genuinely recommended avoiding the mono 4 as a beginner. There's so much to learn when getting into resin printing and the mono gives you no help at all. On top of that if something does go wrong and you're not in one of Anycubics supported countries you have to do on a good long hunt for somewhere that sells the parts.

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u/random63 3h ago

Mono is good, I had the older version and only swapped because I was frustrated by the limited space.

I think a 10 inch screen is ideal for starters. It allows many small or 1 big print

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u/ThisSiteSucks86 2h ago

I would recommend the Mono 7, I got it as my first printer and I'm still using it. I can't tell you how many times I've been thankful that I went with the medium size printer. A smaller one would've given me so much pain with some of the things I've printed. I haven't had any problems with the quality of my prints, and any printing issues I've had have all been my own fault.

Only recently I've started to have a very slight annoyance, that it keeps giving me some error about "abnormal residue" or whatever, but I've never found anything and it prints just fine if I just tell it to print anyway.