Is 6K The New Standard? Anycubic Photon Mono X 6K Review

[@Infernoblade1010]

I have a mono x and I LOVE IT!! I've only been printing a little over a year, but it's been a really fun learning process.

[@bluegloves2]

Do you print miniatures on it?... like small ones?

[@Kephers7]

This is 379 right now. I just purchased one. Gonna be my first resin 3d printer.

[@shanepatrick4534]

I owned an Anycubic and found their customer support to be nonexistent. If you can fix everything on your own this might be a good choice.

[@Cstisle]

I grabbed this machine on sale yesterday and have been pretty excited, then a moment of buyer's remorse arose and this video really kicked that down, really great stuff here, this is my first 3D printer, so will definitely be following and watching!

[@eraserhead8548]

How is it holding up?

[@Kephers7]

I just ordered one today. How do you like it so far? Was 379$ on amazon.

[@Sour-h5j]

Photon SE was the best printer on the planet! The only thing that took me away from it was that the build plate was so small.... But fantastic for any little part needed. LONG LIVE THE MONO SE

[@adilsongoliveira]

May I suggest you also provide the dimensions in metric for your non-USA audience? Thanks.

[@jessejames5825]

Grab a calculator and multiply inches to by 25.4 to get mm. It's not rocket science.

[@adilsongoliveira]

@@jessejames5825 Due to my former profession (I used to work in industrial equipment maintenance), I am quite well versed in both imperial and metric systems. I was actually saying that as a suggestion for improvement of his videos in general.

[@dejan.]

@@jessejames5825 that gets annoying very fast when you have to do it on the fly. We watch KZbin to relax and get entertainment not to number crunch at the end of the day.

[@smyrna112]

245 x 197 x 122 mm

[@christianjohnson3205]

Great review. Heavily considering buying this!

[@ModBotArmy]

Thanks :) It is an awesome machine.

[@Anglerwave]

Keeping it real. Great review thanks!

[@potrekonengsilverbanyuwang8313]

Hallo sir...how to made our custom design for jewelry like ring with carve and how to make size for every detail on the ring?thanks

[@thomasgrassi8817]

I just ordered this model should be here on the 28th I had three failed Photon Mono X printers

[@MrTree421]

Thank god that flexible dragon snake era has ended. Never understood why that kind of model got so popular.

[@ModBotArmy]

Lmao I just printed one this past week. They are a ton of fun to play around with.

[@FREESYRIANmNOOR]

Just ordered mine wishe me luck guys, Smallest note,when you're mixing the rising don't shake it like that this way you'll produce bubbles inside of it which is not good for resin printers

[@JayDDA1234]

any update on how you're getting on with it, I've been looking into getting one and would appreciate your view?

[@FREESYRIANmNOOR]

@@JayDDA1234 pretty damn good actually printed dental models which requires a high accuracy and I was amazed by its detaled prints ,been so busy so I only printed few models

[@JayDDA1234]

@@FREESYRIANmNOOR excellent, I've heard a lot of folk paise it for accuracy...think I might give t a go, thanks!

[@MrChainblade]

Personally I am excited for higher resolution for the fact that it means bigger build volumes with better definition. Some of these epic models need epic size and it is coming!

[@kdryan21]

I absolutely LOVE mine...

[@TomCro2022]

Excellent video....I am wondering if when I create a design in the CATIA program, I can transfer that design to this printer and if maybe I have to convert the CATIA program to some other program adapted to this printer.👍👍👍👍👍

[@WoLpH]

Damn... a 20 megapixel display. That's quite impressive, I remember selling 20 black and white megapixel displays for about 20k euro about 10 years ago (for x-ray purposes). Crazy how cheap things have become

[@alexisalvarezpinto2204]

Hello, great video, I have that printer but I can't get the pieces to come out with the anycubic resin, I use chitubox and they stick to the plastic without sticking to the platform, any advice please

[@MajinVegeto89]

So this printer is compatible with Lychee? That's good to hear. I wanted to order this printer but when I heard it was locked to Anycubics own slicer I changed my mind. But if it works with Lychee I might consider buying it. I never used Lychee though, only Chitubox.

[@TitansRevenge3D]

Ahhhhhhhh I have been waiting for mine.

[@wyattwolfe7533]

I have a Wi-Fi camera, and that is where the Wi-Fi app comes in handy.. I can see when a print has failed from my phone, and stop the print

[@vonniesgaragevonnie448]

The Anycubic Photon Mono 6ks claims 380:1 resolution compared to the 6k having 350:1. Is there a really big difference ? Does contrast ratio matter that much?

[@GeorgeJFW]

That dragon is killer!. Hey i have a question,i see a lot of videos on you tube that talk about printing supports with pva, but not many showing actual items. I am thinking about getting a roll to print prototypes. still new to the design side and I toss a good amount of prints, and it would be nice to test something out without generating so much plastic waste. so i guess my question is can pva be used to print actual things not just dissolvable supports. cheers

[@digidragon1]

The 6k has been extremely finicky since I got it. The slightest offset in the leveling kills everything, more so than others. It seems to have a more narrow range of resin/room temp than any printer I've worked with. Lots of issues with the FEP being more adhesive than the build plate. This screen seems poorly installed. There are bugs with the raise height. Tons of resin gets stuck on top of the build plate. As others have mentioned: screws. I can't change all the print settings until after the print has started. At least not without purchasing full Lychee. All these things have solutions, it's just so much more work than the classic SE for example.

[@lenmckinney1173]

iM HAVING A SIMILAR EXPERIENCE DUDE MUCH MORE PRECIOUS THAN MY ELEGOO MACHINES

[@henrikgustav2294]

So do u not recommend this for a beginner?

[@timmy2scoops169]

Just ordered a Anycubic Photon 6K M3 Plus and Chitubox has advised that their just released standard version 1.9.3 will work with the printer. Have you had a chance to test it yet? Thank you for your great video.

[@haralc]

How's the durability compared to FDM printers?

[@jessicakessel3191]

I’m having nothing but failures for the dragon, and often have supports come out as solid lines that ruin the model. Can you share what settings you used for the dragon?

[@MMQsTacosConLimons]

What would you recommend the UV power % should be for translucent resin?

[@TheHelicapt]

can you share your settings for Lychee ?

[@tsundokus]

It’s stupid crazy how cheap and fast the technology has advanced in 3d printings. It’s one of the reasons I held from buying one because every 3months I see price’s drop and better versions come out

[@stevensgarage6451]

We would be so much farther along but patents really kept this in dark ages

[@J_CtheEngineer]

I’d be really interested to know if the mono 6k build plate can fit in a mercury X cleaning tub

[@RamiYazgai]

Hi I bought the articulated dragon after I saw your video to use it as a test for my new anycubic photon m3 plus I bought two m3 plus I try all kinds of resin exposure tests and everything was working perfectly even the smallest details but every time I try to print the articulated dragon on both 3-D printer the stash always fail . Did you have this issue what was your exposure setting

[@paulregis7069]

Does the resin come in multiple colours? i only see colour model prints

[@aaronemerson7079]

The Venom, I would have put it in hot water to take those supports off

[@husseinahmed6111]

I'm thinking about getting this to print modules like 40k and similar things, is this worth it or should I go for something cheaper?

[@stevensgarage6451]

I would HATE having to level the bed to get the plate on

[@endscreenlibraryforcontent926]

Through which noxious gases come out, I saw that there are 2 fans downstairs, so I'm interested in whether noxious gases come out through those two fans, I have a great idea how to get the smells out. I don't have a mono 6k yet, I'm planning to get it on sale soon, so I was looking for a fan to buy to get the smells out of it, so I found a great fan Vacuum portable laptop cooler, it's cheap and quiet enough, it mostly sucks air, I would install pipes behind it and that's how I would arranged to draw smells out of my room. Question / is it possible to extract smels if I use a fan or do these smells come out from all sides of the machine?

[@DeusMachina71]

I have one.. I like the Mono 6k but photon workshop is terrible. Thankfully Lychee now support it but I find the print speeds much slower than the Workshop sliced files but I had so many failed prints with PW I just won't use it and just use Lychee, time to focus on getting the setting perfect.

[@kimzaffino3116]

This is my question - are the only choices Photon Workshop and Lychee?? Im not a fan of either honestly.

[@isaaclleon]

I have a first batch Mono 6K too. Had over 20 print failures if the model is over 20mm. having too many skipped layers at the exact layers that I am beginning to wonder is it Lychee slicer. can I ask if you are slicing on a windows PC? I am using a lychee Mac. Thanks a lot in advance.

[@henrikgustav2294]

Print failures with this expensive machine? So, not recommended?

[@Submanca]

Just a question I have one of these and have had problems with resin curing on the top of the build plate. To solve this I have made a black out cover to cover the printer all the time. I also have the Wash & Cure and use 99% IPA. The resin in the bin gets cured on the SS cage that goes in it. Have you had any of these problems?

[@SabirMixy91]

If anyone of you fine fellows knows : Does the plate from the MonoX6K fit atop the metal wash tray of the Wash&CurePlus ? Thank you.

[@GUARD14N]

From a pic I saw on eBay and it seems like it does fit on top of the wash tray. So you don’t have to remove the print beforehand.

[@SabirMixy91]

@@GUARD14N Perfect ! Thank you so much !

[@vg3078]

Which setting did you use ?

[@aliciahoflack138]

is the 4k machine just a smaller version? i cannot find any revieuws about it.

[@andycascade]

Resolution is pretty much the same: 0.034mm vs 0.035mm. The only difference is the size.

[@Erebdai]

I would get into printing but id needs someone to help me assemble everything and teach me step by step how to print, clean and cure models

[@ziggystardog]

Wonder if you can get that bed as a replacement for a Mono X. Might be nice to have two beds you can swap as an alternative to a Wham Bam style bed.

[@dwinegardner8251]

I have a Mono X as well. What is your impression of the Wham Bam on the Mono X?

[@ziggystardog]

@@dwinegardner8251 didn’t get one yet. On the fence about it.

[@kimzaffino3116]

I had learned that the MonoX6k only works with their PhotonWorkshop software and not with Lychee or any other slicing program. About 3 min in you state something different. Can you verify if we can indeed use Lychee with this new printer? Mine is still about 3 weeks away from delivery...super excited as I love my Mono X already

[@isaaclleon]

I am using the MonoX 6K with lychee slicer. Lychee 3.6.6 is able to export the 6K files. But having very mixed results with the prints, but I am using lychee on a Mac. I am not sure if it does have a diff to a windows lychee. Am trying to find that out.

[@Vormulac1]

The 6k definitely works with Lychee, but sadly not with Chitubox. I do not like Lychee.

[@florentleider222]

How would it compare to Elegoo Mars DLP ?

[@Skott62]

Other than price and resolution how well does it stack up to the Saturn 3d printer? Looking at the medium size printers and if the build size is a little larger than the Saturn this printer may be a better choice for me.

[@DeusMachina71]

Slight more expensive but better prints and also a bit faster.. I've used both and I'm currently using the Mono x 6k

[@zergslayer69]

Saturn is a 4K printer isn’t it? Resolution alone the mono x is already ahead

[@von2782]

My files don’t appear on the printer but they do on the flash drive. Help!

[@kelseyhurst9408]

Save sliced file too computer then transfer it too flash drive. It's very annoying.

[@aqhan]

Wait, did I understood correctly? Every time the print is done, I need to undo 4 screws just to get the build plate off to take off the prints for post-processing?

[@ModBotArmy]

No sorry if that was not clear. In shipping they have it tightened all the way up. This will not be the case once you first align it to the lcd screen. It should be a one time thing unless you add a flex plate or change out the screen. In those cases you would want to loosen them and realign again.

[@aqhan]

@@ModBotArmy Oh, thank God! I am ready to get that printer and just got worried I'd have to re-level the bed after every print, which would be an enormous hassle. Thanks for the clarification, it's much appreciated!

[@ModBotArmy]

Haha if that was the case I would have made a huge stink about it. That would be terrible. No they just force you to do it the first time which is a good thing and what you should do with any machine 😬

[@TheNikwad]

Would it be possible for you to only use metric measurement in your videos? I know you are from the usa, but metric is mostly used in the 3d printing world.

[@ModBotArmy]

I typically stick with metric. Screens seem to usually be in imperial. But I agree completely I prefer metric especially in 3D printing.

[@TheNikwad]

​@@ModBotArmy Yes, you are absolutely right, screens are still mostly measured in inches. But the screen size had two decimal points, almost like it had been converted from metric to inches, that is what caught my eye.

[@jessejames5825]

Grab a calculator and multiply inches to by 25.4 to get mm. It's not rocket science.

[@JohnJones-oy3md]

5:07 - You'd think the designers could have figured a way to not place fasteners where they become such resin traps.

[@fitzmann85]

They aren't resin traps if you home your build plate before pouring in the resin. It really isn't a big deal to add resin to the vat once the build plate isn't submerged anymore.

[@plusoem]

Measures bed in inches then measures in microns. Just stick to metric

[@isaaclleon]

Hey there, glad to see you run through this Mono 6K. Could I ask a question, I see you are using Lychee too. Any chance you are slicing the models on a windows? Having a great deal of printing issues with the Mono6K with skipped layers. Am an experience user for 10 years, and have eliminated every variable possible accept strangely if the Lychee slicing was on a Mac or a Windows. Hope to see if you have some opinions that could help. Thanks in advance.

[@GUARD14N]

14:47

[@onjofilms]

Jeez louis. That plate problem is going to shy me away from Resin machines.

[@imdannymartins]

Would this be a good gift for a 10 year old?

[@stevensgarage6451]

No. Not unless it will only be used with an adult. Its messy and toxic.

[@BADDERSBETTERDIORAMAHACKS121]

Great review. I am out of breath just listening to you. Do you really talk 180 words per minute, or is that just extremely clever audio/visual editing? LOL

[@123Making-it-easy]

Buyers beware anycubic took 50 days for them to tell me I wasn't going to be able to get my package it was lost

[@ugolapierre5605]

I got this printer last month, so many problems, this is my first printer and this is a Nightmare, I juste got failures whatever the setting

[@henrikgustav2294]

Any regret now?

[@Vormulac1]

I'm quite disappointed with my 6k, it is insanely slow - files that printed in 6 hours on my Mars Pro take 20 hours on this thing. I'm getting mostly print failures and unlike all the other AnyCubic printers you can't currently run a RERF file on the 6k so dialling in your settings is a nightmare. The build plate is a dreadful design, you finish a print with more resin on top of the build plate than in the vat and it stays there, why in the name of all that's holy would you add aggressive texturing to a surface that you want to drip clean??

[@ivanovich8267]

I also have the time problem, When Lytchee say something it take the double, EVERY TIME. >

[@henrikgustav2294]

Which resin printer do u recommend for a beginner?

[@d-emprahexpects]

17 minutes video review and you talk of the models for 10 minutes of it 😂

[@riderofthe4thseal]

Im sorry I'm going to tell you all the truth here. I bought this thing and played with it for 3 days. It can't print for SHIT!

[@IronMan-yg4qw]

6k new standard? 8k been out awhile now. where u been?

[@mintgardener]

Standard for hobbiest sub 1k$ market

[@IronMan-yg4qw]

@@mintgardener meh

[@mintgardener]

@@IronMan-yg4qw lmao, u meh because Im right

[@IronMan-yg4qw]

@@mintgardener i dont think $$600 and up is in the hobbiest range.. :\ maybe the rich hobbiest.

[@mintgardener]

@@IronMan-yg4qw guess im rich lmao