While in the process of ingesting required daily caffeine dosage pulled out the macro lens.
Lighting isn't great, its just off the desktop and didn't pull out the image stacker software so depth of field isn't great.
So for the record, we're not associated with Reify, Junction 3D nor do we personally know anyone from those companies prior to talking to them about sample prints etc.
For others who look at this bear a couple of things in mind. We're total nubes at 3D printing. Just started getting into it a couple of weeks ago for all practical purposes. Bought the first printer a while back but it sat for as we had some other priorities to get done. Plus, all we had then was MJuice and were not getting anywhere near the results we wanted for finish. Then along came Solus Resin, just in time.
Our first calibration print attempts with MJuice were, well, disappointing.
While working with Emil to resolve the MJuice, he mentioned that the new Solus Resin was out. Well, I placed an order right then and there (ya'll REALLY need to send email updates to folks about product updates!). Opened it, poured it into a new vat and never looked back at MJ. Our first calibration prints at 25xyz on Thing 1 (official name for first printer as of this moment....by the way if you have multiple machines...BE SURE to watch which build plate you use on which machine...and the SolusR dissolved permanent marker..so that don't work)...included a quarter of a stepped pyramid. .05" instep, .05" up step. Prints proved to come out at about .0512 (or close, I slept since then). That's without adjusting focus, sizing, exposure time..that was first attempt. Back sides (which were flat all the way up) turned out very smooth without magnification. Put on the ol optivisor and looked while on phone with Emil, said I saw some build lines, he was surprised, but he didn't realize I had an optivisor on; that was a funny moment).
Bottom line, this resin prints the smoothest of any finishes I've personally seen from 3D printers under 30k period. Probably over 30k as well, but I haven't seen any prints from that price range. Now, while we may be new to the actual printing...I've been researching (anal engineer type here) 3d printers for about 2 year The Solus was the printer that finally caught my eye with the potential to do what we want. I liked the photos of the approach to how it is built...central screw, dual guides. made logical sense on the approach. It looked solid and it is. With this new resin (once I got over the price heartattack!) I think over the next couple of months we'll get to that next level of finish we're after. And again, we're total nubes and are getting far better results than I've seen elsewhere.
The machines themselves are so darned easy to use, if you've been on the fence...get the plastic out, hock the kids the car the wife, whatever...get one or two! They're that good, especially now with this new resin.
Anyways, here's some photos they're from Thing 1 at 25xyz. We probably did everything in the book wrong when printing them
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gnore the small debris on the prints, don't have time to blow them off before prints...gotta get back to it...hit the road on Wednesday and he (my son) is no where near finished!
, and yeah, somehow it is not that obvious to me. When I see the last picture, I was like 
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