I run a small 3d print shop for resin minis, I sell about 200-300 minis a month. I was very interested in this printer at first. Anything that streamlined my process and eliminated print failures (which aren't super common but really set back the production queue when you have them) would be great. My attitude started to sour when you said "proprietary resin" and this printer was 100% completely ruled out when you revealed the cost of the resin. Unless customers make a specific request and pay a custom order upcharge, I'm printing all orders in Sunlu standard, which I get for $15 USD per 1000g, Heygears is 4-6x as expensive. I'd have to raise my prices, and I don't know that the market would bear it. No deal.

Epsom: "Here's a printer that has lots of features, sorry it's a bit expensive" Brother: "Here's a cheap printer but you're stuck with using our expensive inks" Hey Gears: "Yes our printer is expensive, but you're stuck with using our resin" They seem to want their cake and eat it too.

The ability to choose of WHAT you can print is the future of resin printers... we are getting flexible resin in the market that will open up what people will want in a resin printing and wanting to get a resin printer for. Rigth now this printer feels like a Cricut Maker where you can not do custom profiles for the Knife Blade (most important tool for the Maker line and the reason for getting a Maker) and you have to cheat the Knife Blade pre setting and babysit the cuts to make sure it cutting non tested materials. Bambu got it right in that it more like Silhouette's Camo 4. ALL the tools you can create customer profiles for your bespoke materials. But the thought put into te machine it's self is SUCH a game changer that it will change what other brands will aim towards their printer functions.

I’m an old school FDM guy. I learned to print by flogging an Ender 3 within an inch of its life, and by the time it finally died, I was printing carbon fiber polycarbonate. That was a years long process and I learned a lot, but as soon as the P1P hit the market, I snapped it up. I got into printing because I wanted to make cool stuff. Everything else was ancillary to that goal. I got out of the tinkering game (mostly, I’ve done a few mods to my P1P) as soon as I could, and I haven’t looked back. Resin printing has always been a pain in the rear, which is why I never took the plunge. I just want it to work. If that was the case here, I wouldn’t mind the price tag. But so long as the ecosystem is so closed that I don’t even have the option to screw around, I’ll keep looking. It just works in 90% of the potential use cases is great, but I need to be able to fine tune to hit the other 10%. If I can’t, why bother?

The amazing BS of voiding your warranty from "damage caused from using 3rd party resins" is a complete load of crap and an absolute no sale for me. I don't care how well it works. EDIT: Oops. I forgot to like the video at least. Here ya go ;) I AM excited to see companies copy/expand on some of these ideas. The slicer seems pretty damn cool and the air assist does sound like a game-changer. Great review.

Inability to tweak settings or use 3rd party resins is a deal killer. Not to mention the fact that those resins cost $70-120 per bottle. This is even more locked than Bambu, at least bambu lets you change print settings.

This would have been an instant buy from me if they didn't take the proprietary resin approach. I want the full premium product that this is, cost included because I need my prototypes to work first time, but let's say I wanted to sell the physical versions of the prints. No access to print settings and the sheer cost of the resin hurts that return way too much if I used this for a kickstarter.

The printer, cure station and vacuum pump thingy will push the total to around/over $2700. You could get 3xGK Two's for that and they are expensive! Pity.

It appears that the Bambu Labs' success can be attributed to several factors, including the quality of their printers and software, as well as their competitive pricing. However, it is important to consider that a closed ecosystem may deter potential customers, particularly with regard to the availability and cost of materials.

Too expensive and a closed software and resin usage is a deal breaker for. It's a step backwards.

Dead on arrival: - have to use their resins - have to use their slicer - formlabs clone - 385nm vs 390 is a negligible difference. I don’t think that’s what’s giving the better quality it’s probably the combo of their proprietary resin and settings. - surely layout/orientation should be done before support? - making slicing a “background task” is not a excuse for slow slicing. - yes it’s cheap but when you add up the wash station, cure station and PRM it’s not anymore. - worrying that exposure test cracked, shattering parts of build plate, first print failed.

Not being able to modify settings or freedom to use other resin is a deal breaker. Bambu's closed system has A LOT of drawbacks and problems. Apple-fication is not a good thing. Build volume is just way too small for my "needs" also. Still waiting for a 300 cubed build volume for large scale prints.

@HeyGears Please make this more affordable for the masses instead of the elite. It doesn't mean you aren't a premium product, but being in every 3d resin printers home would be a statement in and of itself. I agree with Ross on this that , Thousands of units sold is way better then hundreds. Also, with huge sale numbers means the manufacturing itself becomes less and streamlined increasing bottom line profit. The resin for your printers is crazy expensive. This printer isn't for large companies to use for production, they would get industrial machines and write off the cost, so , you cant price the materials the same. I don't want to have to say well , do I really want to print this because it will take this much resin and I cant buy anymore right now because of other living expenses. Make it available to a large consumer base , not just those that have 6 plus figure incomes and large amounts of deposable income.

You can use just about any aftermarket resin with the Reflex. The Reflex prints based on the setting you choose in the slicer, not what's on the bottle. The RFID on the bottle is only there to tell you whether or not you put in the right bottle or not. There is always an option to ignore that message and just print it anyway. You can take off the RFID from the bottle and the Refilex will still print. There are many print settings for different resins that you can choose from in the slicer. Try PAU10 setting or PAP10 setting, I found them to work on ABS-Like, High-Temp, and Flexible resins. I've been using the Reflex since July 2023 day in and day with no problem to date. Also, I'm not telling anyone to use aftermarket resins. 😁

This printer sounds amazing. And the feature set is perfect for someone like me. I’ll wait until these features trickle down to the sub $600 printer. In the meantime I will continue playing with my bamboo labs A1.

As someone who does occasional commision works of resin prints (today arrives my new FDM printer for FDM as well) I am now seriously considering this. What I waste most of my time on, is checking pre-supports. Seeing they are bad. Re supporting all the required models, doing the test print, re printing after support corrections, etc etc etc. Usually I need about 0.5-1h for each print job to verify and ensure they are good. This ensures that a 10+h print job is not failing wasting way more time.... The approach they had and how good the auto supports look there, it would be a game changer for me - saving countless hours in the long run. For bigger businesses, this is a tremendous time saver. It does not matter that the resin is a bit more pricey. For me as well - it is never the material cost that drives up my prices. It is labour. One of my last jobs needed about 1l of resin (not exactly sure but before delivery the models were about 1050g so a bit more than 1l) and I love siraya tech ABS like. That is about 50 bucks of resin. Compared to labour - print preparation, procuring models. Supporting. Post processing. Sanding. The job was about 20h labour + waiting for 6 plates of printing. The material costs almost don't matter compared to labour time.

As someone looking at buying a resin printer, this appeals to me the same way Bamboo labs does, no nonsense printing/slicer, that works when I want to print something to fix a problem BUT unfortunately I have to, for the timing being pass on this because unlike Bamboo not allowing for that tweaking if you want, and are not limited to their own filament/resin is an instant deal breaker. I live in an area where I can't immediately get proprietary consumables, and for wear parts that's no a big deal because keeping a small stock on hand take up little room, I can't keep a bunch of reels and bottles, I mean I could but I don't do enough consistent printing to justify it right now. Being able to quickly have a roll or two of filament shipped to me in a day or two from a few different suppliers is a plus, the possibility of not being able to print something because I have to wait several weeks for a bottle to be delivered because the supply chain isn't there or their resin is out of stock is a no go, and not being able to tweak to adjust for climate or altitude is not ideal. Hopefully they can do something like Bamboo where they allow us to make a resin profile that the printer will recognize. I realize I'm probably not the target audience for this printer but it feels like I am just outside their target.

No one is questioning if your dragging out the video. Relax

It sounds/looks amazing, but a closed ecosystem is an absolute dealer breaker for me. Hopefully like anything the improvements they have made roll down through other manufacturers. I'd love to see heated vats or enclosures become the normal rather than something found only on the high end models.

3:17 those orange lights actually serve a purpose. They help to counter UV light leaking into the print chamber. These same lights are used in custom printer boxes to reduce UV leakages.

At 3x the price of other comparative printers. Maybe wait 6 months and see if many of the good features are replicated in cheaper models.

So the comparison to Bambu ends at consumables. Bambu is a premium printer whos company recognizes the need for inexpensive consumables. Their parts and filament are only slightly more expensive than the average competitors. This has been stated as an intentional fact from bambu. This printer is chasing the same market at form labs, not bambu. A more accurate title would be the best form labs competition...but that gets less clicks

Fun fact: The Russians actually switched to pens in space because pencils sent graphite dust everywhere

The difference between this one and Bambu is not being able to use the material you want. No matter how good the machine and software are - that's a killer. They would have a chance if their resin would be affordable but the price is just outrageous. Bambu did it right - yes X1 costs a lot but it's one off cost, their plastic is cheap so running cost is low and purchase of their machine justifiable. I'm just glad to see Bambu approach has started sneaking into resin world.

Absolutely this, I’m testing this printer at the moment and this out performed the Form Labs 3L in my last video.. amazing machine!

"We got you exactly the puppy you wanted! It's perfect! Except it's incontinent, constantly. Just a constant dribble of pee. We're sure you can over look it."

I absolutely love the performance of this compared to the work I'd otherwise have to put in to perfect the printing, which is why I have 3 Bambu printers. I really got into Bambu printers, mostly because I was presented with really fast and accurate, tinker/hassle free printing experience, which in no doubt deliveres 100% of the time, gives me more time to be productive and creative with all my projects. And Bambu is still checking all the boxes when it comes to FDM 3D printing for the "lesser experienced in tinkering" day to day hobbyist. I'd be more than willing to buy this printer, when HeyGears drops the resin prices to match other brands, because for the last year or so, I've been waiting for a printer like this one to come out which is as user-friendly as this one seems as I have absolutely no experience with resin printing and I don't really have the time to tinker with one. Definitely a potential customer when their resin becomes affordable...

It's terrible that the chemicals are so toxic. I hope we get good, inexpensive, non-toxic resin for these in the future or that something better is invented. It would be cool to own one of these, but that's just too much to deal with for me and a lot of other people. I also don't think they can print anything with real strength or use. They're just for nice looking models as far as I know.

At first, everything sounds super interesting, but the extreme price for resin scares me off too much

I'm a specialist in filament based printing but this is the first liquid based system that made me interested in trying the method.

Seems like this is really on Over Engineered Resin Printer, i don't think i'll be getting this given how you can't use 3rd Party Resin on this. The Only time i feel a company only resin is justified, is if Said Resin is Safe to use, i.e no harmful chemicals , safe to touch and no harmful odor. other then that it's a hard sell for an average consumer.

I am a 3D printing noob to all intents and purposes. All the things that put me off; learning to support, levelling and dialling in, etc etc etc are solved by this printer and the ecosystem around it. My dentist has their pro system and has shown me it quickly and how it works. It blew my mind. This is a printer for people like me. Happy to pay a premium to print the volume of minis I want without it becoming a full 4th hobby. I can just print then do what I always want to do, which is paint, display and play with them. Not spend 2 weeks troubleshooting and reprinting and getting my clinically diagnosed OCD brain locked by fiddling with tiny settings changes.

This printer is indeed amazing. The auto supports is next level. The auto leveling, heated resin, auto vat filing and the rest is awesome. I saw another review of this printer and it was said it prints 30% faster than the Saturn 3 Ultra and GKtwo (at least one of those). As others have said the only thing that makes this a deal killer is the inability to use third party resins. I get HG wants to safeguard their proprietary resin and settings but at least allow people to use third party resin and enter your own settings. IF they did this THEN I would throw away my Saturn 3 Ultra with a smile on my face. Now the elephant in the room = price. Its steep but if you like the true autosupport system, which will only get better over time, is amazing. I figure for this level of printer its warranted but that darn no third party resin kills this for me. Thanks for the great video. Of course you do realize you should probably do a part 2 to go into more details right? hint, hint. ;)

Ah, far from a Bambu Labs X1C, P1S, P1P, etc. Lots of lots of issues this has for my uses (engineering parts): - Need to be able to tweak the leveling. No printer I've seen is really well leveled straight from the factory - Perforated build plate - un-usable for direct to plate printing of flat-ish parts that can't have supports or the supports are individual (not on a raft) and smaller than the holes. - Needs a flex plate option - WhamBam where are you? - Heating only the VAT is not optimal - for accurate z-dimensions the resin and build volume temperature must be the same to prevent part shrinkage as the newly-printed part surfaces aren't as hot as the resin. Best setup is heating the LCD from underneath + vat heating + build volume air heating. - Closed resin system - ugh. There are many many superior 3rd party resins out that that one must use - The air compressor system to inflate the area under the vat film is overly engineered/complicated - there must be a better way (I can think of a couple). Plus you want a vacuum between the vat film and the LCD surface during the retract and cure so that there is absolutely no trapped air between them. You want that film sucked down to the LCD surface as soon as the retract phase has started. - Proprietary bottles . . ugh. I'm sure someone will produce 3rd party bottles and valves eventually. - Overly-complicated vat - they need to have a simpler vat design w/o heater and auto fill features as people like me will not use either (I would install a heater inside the machine to make the whole machine be at my desired printing temperature ~35C or so) - Really need to be able to see what's going on inside w/o having to raise the lid. That's just plain silly. Other machines suffer this as well and I've had to install interior LCD (no UV) lighting. - Make the interior lights usable by being brighter - Cure station needs to be able to cure while at elevated temperature to get the best post-cure properties - can it (pre)heat to 80C AND cure at the same time? Wasn't clear (maybe I missed it). - Wash station is totally silly - I don't want my parts crashing into each other while they are in the soft pre-cured state. Currently I keep my parts on the flex plate and put the whole flex plate on an oscillating table inside a glass sealed container and that works really well. Otherwise for loose parts they need to be still and the IPA swirled around them to prevent damage - And probably a few other issues one would uncover during actual use. I had hopes, but alas they are dashed, especially for the asking price. Yes it is kind of like an iPhone, but in all the bad ways.

As someone who's been in the market for my first resin printer for a couple of months (and who's first fdm printer was indeed a bamboo), this is now at the top of my candidate list.

As the nun said to the priest, no need to apologize for the length. There's a lot going on, and it takes time to cover it, and you did a great job of that speaking as an FDM guy who just watched a 40-minute video about a resin ecosystem. That ecosystem is the key here, and it shows the two sides of the closed ecosystem coin. When you have a system that constricts enough of the potential variables, you can make it a very easy and successful experience for the target audience. The more you open things up, the more you're having to engineer guardrails around "yeah, but some idiot is going to" type situations, which is a rapid tutorial on the law of diminishing returns. Making the process that simple shows who the primary market is. It isn't you or I or a good chunk of your viewers who are willing to learn the underlying technology enough and spend the time to do a stack of test prints with very minor tweaks between them to eke out every possible bit of performance and quality out of a printer. It's the person who has more money than time and just wants to use it as a tool without having to fuss with things. The different UV wavelength and in-house tuned resins for that confirm that's the business plan. There may be good technical reasons for that, but they're not getting their margins on the printer itself selling tens of thousands of units. They're getting it on businesses or people with other expensive hobbies who will happily keep whacking down 70 pounds a kilo, and if they wind up in that very narrow use case with a model that gives the slicer a headache, they're more apt to tweak the model instead of the printer if the modeling or engineering are their background. If their margins are good enough, they can be a very successful company without selling a million printers, just a million kilos of resin. It means cost savings on not needing a huge customer support department as well if their customer base is restricted between the closed system, the printer price, and the running cost. This is likely to cause some heartburn in the hobbyist community, as especially the folks who go down the tribalism rabbit hole cannot live in a world where they're not the most important person in the room. But the company doesn't have to care, as they're making enough from their actual target market. If the company really does care about the technology and the 3d printing community as a whole, they can do things like open sourcing the support generation or contributing in other ways. Prusa have done that in large ways, and they're a low-key similar case as far as target markets go. They came out of the maker community, and they encourage the fans and appreciate the passion because of that, but the financial reality that will probably get me flamed is that their real market is print farms and small businesses, not the hobbyists. They care more about the hobbyists than other companies might because they came from that, but the more we see companies that aren't of those roots, the more we'll see closed ecosystems with innovation in technology and usability that stay closed. It could help the hobbyists, but they don't have to care, they'll still hit their numbers. Bambu is a bit of a peek into that trend. Long term, the X1C isn't a printer for someone who can and will do replacement of the carbon rods. It's someone who will buy it, get 2k+ hours out of it, more than make the money back selling whatever, and if the rods fail, they toss it and buy another. Or have a service contract with someone via the X1E who will come in and replace the larger, more expensive portion for them, so they glue em in and say, "Not user servicable." The closer we get to commodifying printers, the more we'll see that. Hopefully, some of those companies will kick back to the community, but we'll see. I dearly hope we get more companies willing to contribute to the technology for all than we do companies like Stratasys. Good lord, that went on forever, I guess a 40-minute video got me in a wordy space.

this is the video that's finally convinced me to get the uniformation gk2.

Can't wait to buy this one. Itll be about a year of saving, but i cant wait.

I particularly love the oart where you gush sbout the printer oozing quality, then show footage of your reflection doing something and your hand is off screen...

the fact they got a locked down ecosystem, aren't open for setting adjustments and the price are a hard pass for me. i guess i'll go with the GKtwo at this point. i just have to find a way to with their annoying lid.

Hey, I liked the fact this was a 40 minute video. 40 minutes well spent I think. Deal killer was the resin and tweak lock, for sure. There's a reason why I don't buy Apple products, and this machine reflects that. Also, kinda wish there was a "lite version" without the heated vat, resin level detector and resin refill thing for a cheaper price. Aaaand only available in 7 countries, so I couldn't even get one if I wanted to. That being said, I love how well built this machine is, how well built the software is, and how they've focused on print quality. The machine seems excellent for what the task it's set to do.

Maker's philosophy is to reduce costs by doing instead of buying. How many wargames miniatures (and liters of costly resin) should we print to justify such a stratospheric price ? Only for professionals, I guess.

Can't wait for uniformation to respond to this to win back your affection

9:50 the pen that was developed to write in space is one of the most commercial sold pens in existence making back its development cost several times over, even their competitors switch to using pens in space because graphite pencils could contaminate electronics in a space station.

As someone who just wants the highest quality miniatures to paint this feels like it would be the way to go. I have no interest in it being a hobby unto itself. Avoiding misprints, learning software etc cost time and I'd rather just print and forget about it. Would have been interesting to see how much more £ the resin is compared to others. Would be great to have a follow up to see if parts need replacing, will it out last comparative printers and perhaps save you money in the long term. Cheers

I think they could learn some more from Bambu Lab. Bambu has its own filament that is super well optimized for the system and enables the printer to know what color and material you are using automatically (if you have an AMS) but you are also able to use whatever document you want. This should be how this resin printer works. Give advantages to using first party resin, but allow users to use their own. Also they should add an advanced node that enables all the normal settings you can access in other printers. Many people would never need those settings, but a lot of people would.

Formlabs had a slide in vat, auto resin fill and a heater, and great, industrial build quality in 2015 with the Form 2. This machine feels very Formlabs.

I wouldn't buy a printer where I am limited to 1 specific brand of resin. It is a clear no go.

As Faux Hammer said, one might appreciate all the ease and comfort the machine is offering despite the high initial price and even more so the expensive running cost. And I also get it that the company wants to ensure with its closed system that you always get the absolutely best results without going through the hassle resin printing brings with it. Having said that, I am a BambuLab printer owner and I love exactly that piece of mind but I also love that, despite being a relatively closed system too, I am still able to use different filaments, can change my print parameters and even have options for another slicer. I do not mind so much that the initial purchase price for the Reflex is quite high, but like many others noted, being stuck with the proprietary resin and unability to tweak settings is also for me a killer argument to not get one. Oh, I nearly forgot, thanks for the great review!

As someone whose printer just died, this machine looks incredibly enticing. The only thing that is keeping me on the fence is the closed eco system. I have a bunch of resin in storage waiting for a new printer. This resin would all go to waste if i made the switch. I think that people should be able to calibrate and use their resin of choice. Heygear have clearly gone above and beyond with the printer and slicer features. If they went the extra mile, they could also make a system that can calibrate resin with far less time and hassle than the current method, and i think that would make this printer a must buy. Sure, not as many people will buy their resin, but having a printer with all of these features and a better resin calibration method would make them the best brand in the hobby and truely the "bambu labs" of resin printing.

The air compressor to allow for super small support contact points looks amazing. I am hoping that gets wider adoption.

Big NO from me: 1) they ship to a very limited list of countries (they couldn't figure out how to ship to the entire EU at least). Bambu are professionals and they shipped almost everywhere day one 2) "proprietary" resin? no no no no no

15:20 or someone will create a hacked version of the software/firmware on the machine that exposes the settings. This is purely a software limitation imposed by Hey Guys. The printer is capable of this when you insert a specific resin bottle, so the settings are there, just not exposed to us in the software. Another option is to reverse engineer the device on the bottle and create your own with the right settings.

Really good vid on this machine. I'm new to resin printing and having a GKTwo for 3 months now with zero failures I don't know what all the fuss is about. I thought I was buying a premium machine and I wasn't wrong or disappointed. GK Two could easily add some of these features into a new unit and probably still bang them out at the same costs. We can still tweek and mess around to our hearts content and keep the cost down using 3rd party resins. Honestly, I'm using sunlu ABS water for convenience. I've dialled it in. I can print without failures at 50 and 30 microns. Despite my best attempts and ignorance the GK Two is proving to be a beast. The price points for everything on the ultracraft system is insane. Thanks again Ross for demystifying 3d printers!!

I am a hardcore FDM tinkerman, I know no-one else in the world has the same printer I have, because even the wiring is custom. But I'd dread go through all of it again on Resin printing. So this would be perfect for me. Except it is miles away from what I am willing to spend on the setup, let alone maintenance (including the raw material). So, no. I will wait....

I hope the thing competitors take from this shot across the bow is improving Slicers and Auto Supports. Those Supports look basically magic.

The Bambu Lab filaments are roughly the same price as any other brand, and their printers work with any other brand. Hint hint, nod nod Heygears.

Thanks for taking the time to make all of your videos. I am researching 3D printing and yes this is the printer that I want. I am more interested in being a creator than a technician.

dunno what you were doing at 3:32 but it REALLY looks like you were liking this printer 🤪

FauxHammer, you somehow are able to be genuine, transparent, thorough, nitpicky, funny in a perfect British fashion and cynical about all the nay-sayers all at once. Never change. Ever.

They DEFINITELY need to take your suggestion of re0using the spring cap & just selling the resin bottles with disposable caps. The "cheap" bottle costing literally twice as much as most quality resins and the inability to tweak settings or use third party resins are an absolute no go for me. Those things alone are going to absolutely destroy the reach of an otherwise perfect printer that could fundamentally change all of resin printing by raising the bar in so many ways. I'll wait for the competition to do their homework & figure out how to offer all of this while still being fairly affordable, "Looking at you, Elegoo & Anycubic. Get your shit together."

I'd be willing to fork out the cash for this amazing printer... but... it is completely out of the question since you are forced to use only their resin at that RIDICULOUS price. Maybe if they do end up releasing refill packs, like you mention, at a reasonable friggin price... maybe... A real friggin shame... damn.

Say what you want about Bambu Lab, at least they don't force you to use their own filaments or stop you from calibrating your settings. $80/kg of resin is also a ridiculous price. If HeyGears wants to make a Bambu-style disruption in the resin space, they need to make their ecosystem more approachable to get people on board.

So I only recently made the switch to Uniformation after watching Ross's videos (which I am super grateful for. I love my GKTwo) and now the auto supports, print quality and quality of life options this video shows on the Reflex almost has me wanting to make this printer my next purchase. However, not being able to use a different resin that would give more of a durable model will force me to wait until they are able to at least provide a resin as Ross suggested is somewhere between their current miniatures resin and the more durable one and hopefully with an option of refills to bring the cost of the resin down a bit (like Bambu does with their filament). I can't tell you how many times I watched a player at the table drop or break a printed and painted miniature so even with all of the ease that this printer is presenting if the miniature ends up printed in a brittle material. I would rather spend the $$ up front for a reliable and relatively hands off tool so that I can fiddle less time with hobbying on the printer so I can get back to sculpting minis.

If I haven't stated it before, your Wargamer resin is incredible. How do the HeyGears resins work on miniatures in terms of flex / durability?

if we want a bambu style printer in the resin space, that also means allowing the user to choose whatever resin they want to use. bambu have been completely open with allowing whatever filament to be used at any point so long as the model allows for it (like hardened nozzles n such). this printer will remain niche so long as the officially supported resin list stays as only their own brand.

If they opened the print settings so that you could adjust things for your environment and circumstances, and ideally for the community to figure out the right settings for the other resins out there that HeyGears won't print, I'd buy this immediately, yes, even with the price. But in this craft, it's silly to make something that prevents a community of power users from building around it. They would cut your profits a little by showing people how to use other resins, sure (and hopefully how to hook up a less annoying compressor). But they would become your biggest fans and proselytes. This is what you need.

The heater function of the curing station isn't for drying, it is for enhanced curing. Turn the heat on, cure with /both/ heat and uv for better strength in your models.

At 80.00 a bottle would cost me more a month then my Car Payment 😢. Silly Stupid, i will wait 😮😮😮

As someone who is interested in resin printing from an engineering perspective, not a miniature perspective, the inability to set up the print parameters myself makes this printer a non starter. I totally understand wanting to have automatic settings that adjust to the best settings for first party resins, and it’s great that they have that. But with the things I’m looking to make, I need weird resins that UltraCraft are almost certainly not going to make/sell, ever. If I could adjust those settings, I’d be buying one right now. Instead I’ll be buying something else.

I hope this printer does well, and that the industry listens. Myself, I haven’t gotten a printer yet because I don’t have the time or energy to have a new hobby. But I’m still interested (enough to watch your whole video), and if there was a plug and play printer system I could afford maybe it would be time to jump in.

Just wanted to point out that there is a high pitched whine through all of the audio. It's low volume but it is there. Video is great but once I started hearing it I couldn't stop, thought I was going crazy for a minute.

Looks like sunlu resin out the bottle, probably why cheap and so good! Sorry I can't say a bad word about sunlu Solid gray ABS best switch I've ever made used it for a year now with no issues and just works and absolutely solid! Stuff just doesn't break easy it's amazing! Same as sister company jayo abs

I get it, youve said it before, for some people the hobby is the printer and for some its the printing, and this one is for someone who wants to do the printing. However no user adjustable exposure settings at all? This has more in common with the printers we have in our dental and prosthetics departments at work.

I would like to see how this printer is sell in Europe as we have some laws that forbid the companies to stop de warranty if you don't use their consumibles

side note, the pen in outer space was a great and useful invention as pencils were and i think still are potentially dangerous

This is the kind of stuff I've been waiting for in a printer. I've had an anycubic photon before and it was hellishly bad to have to work with. Now integrate 3 high resolution infrared cameras and a processor into it for remote print monitoring and AI controlled printing and you'll actually have what people are actually going to need so this is the perfect testbed to add the cameras and AI functionality to.

Gotta love these vids..."the best printer ever!" But first...you cant watch your progress through the cover....the wash system is garbage...you cant use other resins...you cant be in the room with the compressor...it cost's an arm and leg......oh but did I say...its the best printer ever!

No 3rd party Resins are 100% a miss for me. You need the company to continue to exist, or you have an expensive brick because they don't allow you to dial in settings. Hope they don't decide resins prices are too cheap, and it's time to dial up the price because you're dependent on their singular whims. If it does well, hope they do better than Bubmbu does, keeping their resin in stock because they are all you got GLOBALLY lol. HeyGear's horrible choice seems more like what Bambu haters claim Bambu is doing to the 3DFM industry. The tech is amazing, what they built is amazing. The lack of resin support is a death bell for so so so many reasons.

If I had the money to buy everything (I mean the whole kit and caboodle) and keep on buying the resin, then yes. I would use this just like a normal paper printer, you select the file and print it. Just like paper printers, the proprietary ink/resin is always going to cost a lot, that's how they make their money before the cheap ink/resin brands come in. You just have to wait for the amount of owners to increase to the point that it becomes a viable option for resin companies to start producing substitute resins for the machine, and then the prices will drop. The machine itself may drop in price as well, but that's not guaranteed...

Hands down, across the board: I am anti-proprietary. No matter how much money i have to burn, i will not buy this product.

I got one a couple days ago as my first resin printer. It feels like a well thought out product. I do wish they had more engineering resins. But so far I'm very happy

Hey i know you compared that wash station to the pencil and the overegineered pen story in outer space. It's actually a lot more complicated and theres a reason why they made it. Basically the pencil was a very dangerous item to bring to space due to the fact that its easily breakable, leaves a lot of graphite floating around messing with the rocket, suit. And the pen is very flammable. The pen was designed and enginnered to work in space to reduce such risks and it uses pressure to push ink out of the pen tip. Both Nasa and Soviet Union actually used these pens instead of the pencil on the later space missions. I know i probably ruined the fun but keep in mind this fact when you mention that space pen

You can easily get or make a spectrometer if you want to test the UV spectrum of all the other printers.

Ross well done video, TONS of points to cover, and you hit them in as timely a manner as you could. When i first saw this printer system a year or so ago i was in amazement. the sticker shock was expected. The cost of resin was the ultimate turn off. I only have one resin Printer (Saturn 2) and i can go thru 10kg of resin in less than a month, not every month but its happened a few times. 10 Bottles of resin on the Hey Gears machine would cost more than getting a GK2, which is also a premium printer, and a few bottles to get you going. I get the VERY closed source options produce the best results, but the resin 3d printer market is dominated by companies like Elegoo for a reason, In expensive printers that do the job. The Blueprint slicer looks like a reskin of Voxel Dance Tango, just with a better smart support system. Tango has a learning curve to it and can produce result just like what we see from Blue print with just a bit of effort. In the furfure i believe Ross, and any other Influencer, will only use the Reflex when HeyGears sends them resin.

The Apple mentality. Lets wait for the competition to start applying their key features. Game over

You might want to rethink those slo-mo reflection shots dude. They look like you’re a little too excited about the printer. 😮😅😂

If you ignore the proprietary resin, it seems like the only downside here is the weird wash machine. What would you recommend as an alternative washer?

Why do you pour the resin on top of the build plate and let it drip down instead of just directly into the vat? Is there a technical reason to help with printing or is it just a more interesting shot for the video?

Damn, this printer looks absolutely fantastic. The sticker shock is REAL, tho. I do wish they'd offer bottles without the special caps or something.

I LOVE the print quality and the fact that it is so dialed in but the lack of ANY adjustability, third party resin support and the high prices kind of makes it a no go if it there were improvements on ANY one or two of those this would be a NO BRAINER choice

Printer farmers should love this printer. If you are doing 3D resin printing as a business this looks like a great option. Cleaning up the supports takes time, dialing in resin /print times is also a pain. This is plug and produce machine, not plug n play. Very impressed, but I love my Anycubic tough resin.

Yeah, the lock down approach is pretty off putting, I own a bambu lab x1, and I'm looking to buy a resin printer and have been for a while now, but what stops me is that it doesn't seem like a resin printer brand has managed the user experience that bambu has, so when I read the title of this video, I honestly got a little excited, and mostly through out this video, but even bambu lab lets you use other filaments from other brands, while giving you a reason to use theirs by adding the RF tags, I mostly buy Bambu lab's filament for that reason, sure I could setup my own profile setting for each filament, save a few bucks but, what can I say, I'm lazy, I honestly was on the edge of picking this printer, with so many user friendly features, it felt like bambu lab's ease of use, and the print quality, just amazing, all and all this printer seems great and I honestly think it is, for me it just comes down to if I want to support a lock down mindset, and honestly, that answer is leaning towards no. I really want to get into resin printing but I feel like I'm waiting for not just the same ease of use level of bambu lab's X1, but also a company that lets users a reasonable amount of freedom of what they want to use in their printer. I feel like HeyGear has open the door for another company to steal the top spot from them, basically copy the new features of this printer and make one of their own that isn't as lock down, I feel like reviews for the Reflex will always point out the lock down only their resin works approach, I'd be surprised if another company doesn't notice that, and takes advantage of that, taking the top spot that could of been theirs, for me, I think I'll continue to wait for the right resin printer.

They should create a program allowing a selection of resins to be submitted for analysis, in order to be added to their store and or their slicer settings. Potentially allowing you to submit your Wargames resin to be added to the usable resins etc

9:50 I've seen this bandied about a lot. What people don't understand about the Russians using pencils in space is they totally disregarded the fact that the carbon tip on the pencil would flake off and float around when used forming incredibly sharp flakes, similar to asbestos and ultimately finding its way into sensitive electronics, or worse the astronauts lungs. Both the Soviets and the US knew this at the time, but only one nation cared enough about its astronauts to design the pen,, while the other side ridiculed it and used it as propaganda.

Bambu printers are easier to use and functionally fast don't see the fast part being a factor with this Hey Gears. I would LOVE a resin printer that's not hyper focused on nano level details that I can't exist with my naked eye but goes hard on speed and accuracy for us who want extra hard resin printed functional parts.

damn that Bambulab meme i saw was funny with like 5 stick figure, shiting al over the place on facebook. The whole video started with "hands down best printer" in the first 3 seconds. now i understand that meme crystal clear.

UI: Tell me you've never used a Formlabs printer without telling me you've never used a Formlabs printer.

Side note... the notes taken with a pen during the Space Race, are still legible. The notes written with a pencil are almost illegible, as the graphite has flaked off over the years.

Chill out everyone, I refill my bottles with Siraya Tech Resin and it works just fine. I know you all want to tweak the settings but "Imagine if I told you..." you dont have to. Ive made minis and 10 inch statues with their settings and everything comes out perfect. But the absolute best thing about this printer is the software. You really have to use it to understand how far ahead it is from other slicers. I click auto arrange, hollow, auto support and Im done. I use a small Blink camera inside to monitor my prints fyi