I’ve been resin printing for maybe a month. I’ve noticed that on all of the resins that I’ve got, and all of the profiles I’ve downloaded for them, the lift speed is usually at least 3 to 4 mm. However, when listening to my printer operate, I can tell that it is fully separating the print within the first millimeter or so. I’ve changed almost all of my resin profiles to only lift 1 mm, cutting each layer time down like 2 seconds, and absolutely zero change in any quality whatsoever. Am I just lucky with my printer configuration, or my fep is especially tight? Or why else would such a large distance be commonly recommended?
Yup, that’s my exact printer. Haha.
Yeah, that’s why I figured a company that is willing to make up mostly BS to sell their stuff would jump at the opportunity to advertise an actual perk (lower lift height).
Yes, having a system where the manufacturer recommended settings actually work and work well is wild coming from FDM printing. With filament they’re like “uh print somewhere around this temp I guess 👍🏽” what retraction settings? How fast can I print? Flow %? Granted this all varies dramatically from printer to printer so I know why they don’t try to give a profile, but it’s so nice that resin printing you’ve got a perfectly working baseline that you only really need to fine tune if you want.
Those are good printers. I put about 6 different resin types through them, and did get my optimal settings for fine detail because I was curious. It’s just pointless for what I do, s’all.
But yes, depending on what your goals are for printing, there is a fuck ton of room for speed improvements.