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Hi, anyone using this printer. Any good for dental in your opinion? Thank you. https://uniz3d.com/
Appears that it is not yet available for normals to try. All I could find for purchase options was an option to pre-order. Specsheets can lie soooooo many ways. Let it get in the wild a bit and see if you are only able to use their 'ABS-Like' zABS liquid which is all they are saying it is useable with at the moment.Hi, anyone using this printer. Any good for dental in your opinion? Thank you. https://uniz3d.com/
Which may be fine if you are just doing certain things here and there and not integrating into full on production.It seems to me that is cheaply made.
Their website says that it's an SLA printerIts a lcd display so DLP !!! if i am not wrong and way faster than others and if they make the build platform just halve size less than they have less than 40 my lateral resolution
Their website says that it's an SLA printer
Interesting. So an LCD SLA printer uses a digital mask, essentially?DLP is digital light processing, it is a chip with a bunch of tiltable tiny mirrors...so it's basically reflects the light in a given pattern while an LCD is lit from behind and selectively blocks/colors the light passing through.
Not necessarily the case. If you get a cheap printer, then yes that may be the accuracy you get. But if you spend the extra cash, you can get incredibly high accuracy. Accuracy also really depends on the resin you use.I find it interesting how the onset of digital technology is actually regressing the accuracy.. Everyone is using printers with 40- 60+ micron resolution, when has that ever been acceptable in dentistry? In all seriousness. We went through the cosmetic revolution to go backwards for speed?
Digital mask it is, SLA can be achieved multiple ways...it is basically a projected image on the bottom of the vat...LCD, DLP, LCoS, laser beam...whatnotInteresting. So an LCD SLA printer uses a digital mask, essentially?
I see your point now, my apologies. Well I think its just the nature of technology as a general trend. Something new comes out, people get excited and jump in, even though the new tech isn't yet perfected.Exactly my point bryce, Im not saying there arent accurate printers, mine has 16 micron accuracy. Im asking , why is the industry, especially dentists, using printers with accuracy that isnt really comparable to analog impression techniques. I get that its cheaper.. but I thought the digital revolution was supposed to be more accurate in general. Add a scanner that is +-20 micron to a +-60 micron printer.. and...
Hopefully they'll last longer than that $400 TVI see your point now, my apologies. Well I think its just the nature of technology as a general trend. Something new comes out, people get excited and jump in, even though the new tech isn't yet perfected.
Dentists and labs realize that the entire industry is trending towards automation and advanced technology. It's always better to beat the curve, as long as you're willing to cough up the dough for it. But it gives you a marketing advantage over others in the same field. As time goes on, digital dentistry will follow in the footsteps of other fields: It will get cheaper and better quality. Three years ago, a 50" 4K tv would run you thousands. Now, you can get them at Walmart for 400 bucks. Same concept will apply to 3D printers. Just give it time
I have been shopping and more or less pulling my hair out looking for the sweetspot for printers.
There is a diminishing return from entry level to super high end. The problem is when you start thinking about how fast technology is evolving and the thought of investing a large sum of money and it makes you pump the brakes. At least for me it has.
I know a bunch of people with Form 2 some having great success some well struggling.
I am outsourcing all my models now and its adding up to a big bill so we are now calculating Cap cost + Tech time/salary + Consumable cost and it still seems more profitable to outsource even at the volume we are at now.
I want a machine I can do guides and night guards on, prints a nice accurate model and has the ability to easily change out resin, I do not want to do multiple prints a day, so build plate has to be big enough not to have to have a ton of tech time, love to be able to guides and guards in the day and load up the models for the night.
Such a decision of a disposable printer at an entry point of $3500 and a REAL machine at 50k+