Resin Options for Rapid Shape Printer -- What's Good?

[Nuance Dental Lab]

We have the Rapid Shape D30/Straumann P30 printer - curious to learn where other labs get their resin! What has worked/not worked in the past? We currently order direct from Straumann but we find them tough to work with.

 

[tuyere]

It's nominally an open-format printer, but we had nothing but problems trying to run non-Straumann resins on it, and their tech support wouldn't talk to us unless we were working with their products. Worked fine with their resins, very smooth workflow with the RFID-chipped bottles and so on, but we got very few successful prints with third-party resins. Sorry about having to deal with Straumann at all, we've basically blacklisted them for providing support for equipment we use, if we're using something under their aegis we'll assume we'll have to service it ourselves (which means we just stay away where possible).

 

[LuthorCorp]

With the Rapidshape machines, we used Keyprint materials without issue, there are a lot of presets and if you can find the material in the list it makes it easy to tweak. If Straumann has you downloading and running a specific engine that doesn't show the rest of the materials available, try installing the standard Netfabb on a secondary computer without the straumann specific engine, and you should get more results.