My M7 Pro also had a not so flat buildplate. I mailed Anycubic with my findings, they sent me a new buildplate for free. That one was also not so flat. So I sanded the first buildplate on a very flat natural stone surface. It works like a charm now. I also use your builtplate leveling design piece. I really love it.
Incredible review and thanks for all your work. I own a M3 Max, but now I want a M7 max 😅 For that pre-order price i moght just add it beside the M3 Max 🤔😁
One thing to point out which I have NEVER seen mentioned. If you are printing something big and heavy do not turn off the power or the plate may drop down with the weight and damage your print bit more important that big $$ screen. Sometimes if it is late I put a ruler or something to jam the plate and close it up till morn. Jealous they did not send me one. I have had good success with some of their printers and this looks good. I did have issues but there support was great.
@@irishlightandmagic I've not seen where goes down when you drop the power I'll look into that. And as I stayed in my video, this wasn't sent to me to do a review one. They didn't ask me to do a review or anything. In fact they didn't even tell me they were sending it. It was just out of blue one day they're like. Oh yeah, we need you to look at it from a technical perspective before it goes live to find any bugs and give advice. But I saw it as a good opportunity to showcase a printer that I thought was really really well built and I was very happy with.
I loved your review! thank you. How would you compare it to the M7 Pro? I bought the M7 Pro but still haven't taken it out of the box yet. I heard issues with the splattering of the resin when the build plate lifts and I'm concerned about that. Also, concerned about the cleaning of the Vat. I was planning on selling it to get the Information GK2... but seeing this unit has he on a halt. Can you please address my concerns etc? Thank you. ... looking forward to your next video!
Im definitly buying one, my M3 Max is amazing but it´s very slow. I will still use my M3 but the M7 will definitly be my main printer! Great review btw!
that's a really nice printer, I wish the pixel size was around 30 microns because I print 30 micron layers and the idea of cube voxels makes me happy, but the quality still seems to be great despite 46 microns I'll keep the M7 Max in mind if my Saturn 3 dies, I like the lack of auto-leveling and the built-in hanger
@@Trident_Media7104 It absolutely will help. They are not they deep and starting with a higher grit and a plate of glass or granite will get it down pretty fast. But this is the one Area I would like Anycubic to look into on their line. I don't see why it is an issue in the first place.
@@J3DTech Thanks for the fast reply, the girlfriend and I want a large 3d resin printer as the FDM isn't cutting it for D&D terrain and minis anymore. We were debating to pre-order this. I think if we could lap the build plate that would be good, but for the price i'd rather it came with a perfectly level bed 🤦♂
@Trident_Media7104 I think it's kind of luck of the draw. I have one build plate for my M7 Pro that's flat and another that's not. It's not the worst thing to fix and if you use a MAG plate then it doesn't matter either. I would love to give every printer a shining review and not have any butts but every single printer has a butt. This one I think has two. One of them is by design. That's the lower um LCD. The other one is the build plate. Outside of that I would say it's damn near a perfect printer.
hey J3d, With my Uniformation gktwo meeting its end today, vat stuck to plate and kept lifting until the legs snaped, resin getting everywhere including electronics. I'm in the market for new printers. I'm looking for something similar or smaller than the GKtwo and want it to be as hands off experience as it could be. With my research being mostly 1 year old now, and so many printers releasing this month: heygears, m7max, mono 4, mono 4 ultra, mars 5 ultra, saturn 3/4 ultra etc . What do you recommend . Im in the south, hence temp control is not a requirement. Note I used to normally use Tough + abs like v2 from anycubic. But have moved to Waterwashable + from sunlu, but might go to Water washable ABS from ancubic soon ( also used INlan, but i bought all the stuck in my local microcenter)
@@KevinHernandez-e5u What are you printing? That's the biggest thing. The printer can only work as well as the resin and the water washable resin is terrible in my opinion. It is much more brittle warps a lot more on the shelf and if you didn't know this, it is just or even sometimes more toxic than the other resins. If your reason for using that is simply because it's hard for you to obtain the chemicals required for cleaning other resins that make sense but for any other reason I could not ever recommend using it. As for the printer, I would stay away from The Saturn IV or the Mars 5. This is because they come with the new auto leveling systems that has no auto leveling in it and no ability for you to manually level the build plate. This makes these printers unbelievably unreliable with no viable workaround. If you're looking for a solid printer that will just work that is smaller than your current one, I would really look at the mini 8ks or the Mono 4 Ultra . If you're okay with keeping with about the same size, I would look at the M7, not the m7 Pro but the normal M7. The Revo is also a good printer but kind of expensive but it is built very very solid.
@@J3DTech currently printing mostly Dnd figurines and War hammer proxies.. It's good you mention this as on the saturn as it was my current #1 runner up (saturn 4 ultra) as it went on sale today ($399) prior to this i was looking at the mono 4 ultra ( 259) , i see ne M5s pro is also on sale ( 299.99) and the m7 max is about to be released . They hey gears went out of the intro price, and now is out of budget
@KevinHernandez-e5u The ones I mentioned should work great for you on those types of prints. You're going to love the quality of what you get off of it and working with them is going to be a lot easier than some of these other ones. Especially if you've already been 3D printing for a while, you understand how to do it. I think the Saturn IV ultra's main selling point is that a lot of the settings have been removed so it's easier for new users. And I think that it would be a very good printer had they simply Left out all that auto leveling stuff that ended up making it a very frustrating. Very expensive printer to run due to the massive amount of wasted resin you get from trying to print using it out of level build plate.
Well, it seems to be an interesting machine but the 46um is what worries me a bit, especially when the GK Three Ultra exists (same size but somewhere around 24um if my memory serves me well). Yes, the GK3 Ultra is also much more expensive but as someone who is about to start up his 3D design/printing studio I am in the "twilight zone" and can't decide which printer to go for (for both large prints and minis).... But the M7 Max does look promising!
From what you've seen so far with the M7 max, would you suggest it for professional use (print medium to large prints - some of which have fine detail) or should I pick another printer?
@@n6e6k6o I had to do something to keep it under that $1,000 price point. It does make me wonder if they Will release an upgraded LCD at anytime in the future
3:41 "I don't want my printer to become ugly because of spills, so i'll make it ugly with tape and protective film" there is logic behind it, but it's still funny
@@SergeiSugaroverdoseShuykov 🤣 Yeah see but the spills never come off and remain sticky. This stuff I can remove if I want to take a picture and the printer is always in peak operating business.
@@J3DTech my S4U lid is already as dirty as hell while i didn't spill anything on it, and yeah it feels like that resin dissolves acrylic and eats it's way inside because it is possible to scrape majority of it off, but droplets are still there, i guess only sanding and clear coating will fix that
@SergeiSugaroverdoseShuykov Yep, it's crazy how it just bonds to it. It doesn't have to be cured. The second it touches it. It's chemically now part of the cover. Forever...
The Revo has the 14k LCD but yeah.. if this printer was a 30um LCD it would be the better option. The Revo is better for minis when you really need that detail. But outside of that I am enjoying this one.
OMG this review was so amazing.
@@knightning3521 Thank you!
My M7 Pro also had a not so flat buildplate. I mailed Anycubic with my findings, they sent me a new buildplate for free. That one was also not so flat. So I sanded the first buildplate on a very flat natural stone surface. It works like a charm now. I also use your builtplate leveling design piece. I really love it.
I had the same issue but luckily my replacement was very good.
Thanks so much for this review !
@@MayaTlab You're very welcome and thank you very much for taking the time to comment.
Incredible review and thanks for all your work. I own a M3 Max, but now I want a M7 max 😅
For that pre-order price i moght just add it beside the M3 Max 🤔😁
One thing to point out which I have NEVER seen mentioned.
If you are printing something big and heavy do not turn off the power or the plate may drop down with the weight and damage your print bit more important that big $$ screen.
Sometimes if it is late I put a ruler or something to jam the plate and close it up till morn.
Jealous they did not send me one. I have had good success with some of their printers and this looks good.
I did have issues but there support was great.
@@irishlightandmagic I've not seen where goes down when you drop the power I'll look into that.
And as I stayed in my video, this wasn't sent to me to do a review one. They didn't ask me to do a review or anything. In fact they didn't even tell me they were sending it.
It was just out of blue one day they're like. Oh yeah, we need you to look at it from a technical perspective before it goes live to find any bugs and give advice.
But I saw it as a good opportunity to showcase a printer that I thought was really really well built and I was very happy with.
I loved your review! thank you. How would you compare it to the M7 Pro? I bought the M7 Pro but still haven't taken it out of the box yet. I heard issues with the splattering of the resin when the build plate lifts and I'm concerned about that. Also, concerned about the cleaning of the Vat. I was planning on selling it to get the Information GK2... but seeing this unit has he on a halt. Can you please address my concerns etc? Thank you. ... looking forward to your next video!
Im definitly buying one, my M3 Max is amazing but it´s very slow.
I will still use my M3 but the M7 will definitly be my main printer!
Great review btw!
Thank you!
that's a really nice printer, I wish the pixel size was around 30 microns because I print 30 micron layers and the idea of cube voxels makes me happy, but the quality still seems to be great despite 46 microns
I'll keep the M7 Max in mind if my Saturn 3 dies, I like the lack of auto-leveling and the built-in hanger
Yeah it's the one drawback but it is why it's under $900. I do wonder if they will ever sell an LCD upgrade.
When can we expect the printer to be shipped? Still 2024?
I'm not 100% sure but I expect yes
Could you lap the build plate to flatten it out? How deep are the etching marks?
@@Trident_Media7104 It absolutely will help. They are not they deep and starting with a higher grit and a plate of glass or granite will get it down pretty fast.
But this is the one Area I would like Anycubic to look into on their line. I don't see why it is an issue in the first place.
@@J3DTech Thanks for the fast reply, the girlfriend and I want a large 3d resin printer as the FDM isn't cutting it for D&D terrain and minis anymore.
We were debating to pre-order this. I think if we could lap the build plate that would be good, but for the price i'd rather it came with a perfectly level bed 🤦♂
@Trident_Media7104 I think it's kind of luck of the draw. I have one build plate for my M7 Pro that's flat and another that's not.
It's not the worst thing to fix and if you use a MAG plate then it doesn't matter either.
I would love to give every printer a shining review and not have any butts but every single printer has a butt.
This one I think has two. One of them is by design. That's the lower um LCD. The other one is the build plate. Outside of that I would say it's damn near a perfect printer.
I'm quite new here and I want to ask just out of curiosity: at 6:14 POIWER is a typo or some kind of a meme at your channel?
Just a typo and that just means I need to punish my editor and that's me so...
hey J3d, With my Uniformation gktwo meeting its end today, vat stuck to plate and kept lifting until the legs snaped, resin getting everywhere including electronics. I'm in the market for new printers. I'm looking for something similar or smaller than the GKtwo and want it to be as hands off experience as it could be. With my research being mostly 1 year old now, and so many printers releasing this month:
heygears, m7max, mono 4, mono 4 ultra, mars 5 ultra, saturn 3/4 ultra etc .
What do you recommend .
Im in the south, hence temp control is not a requirement.
Note I used to normally use Tough + abs like v2 from anycubic. But have moved to Waterwashable + from sunlu, but might go to Water washable ABS from ancubic soon ( also used INlan, but i bought all the stuck in my local microcenter)
@@KevinHernandez-e5u What are you printing? That's the biggest thing.
The printer can only work as well as the resin and the water washable resin is terrible in my opinion. It is much more brittle warps a lot more on the shelf and if you didn't know this, it is just or even sometimes more toxic than the other resins. If your reason for using that is simply because it's hard for you to obtain the chemicals required for cleaning other resins that make sense but for any other reason I could not ever recommend using it.
As for the printer, I would stay away from The Saturn IV or the Mars 5. This is because they come with the new auto leveling systems that has no auto leveling in it and no ability for you to manually level the build plate. This makes these printers unbelievably unreliable with no viable workaround.
If you're looking for a solid printer that will just work that is smaller than your current one, I would really look at the mini 8ks or the Mono 4 Ultra .
If you're okay with keeping with about the same size, I would look at the M7, not the m7 Pro but the normal M7.
The Revo is also a good printer but kind of expensive but it is built very very solid.
@@J3DTech currently printing mostly Dnd figurines and War hammer proxies..
It's good you mention this as on the saturn as it was my current #1 runner up (saturn 4 ultra) as it went on sale today ($399) prior to this i was looking at the mono 4 ultra ( 259) , i see ne M5s pro is also on sale ( 299.99) and the m7 max is about to be released .
They hey gears went out of the intro price, and now is out of budget
@KevinHernandez-e5u The ones I mentioned should work great for you on those types of prints. You're going to love the quality of what you get off of it and working with them is going to be a lot easier than some of these other ones.
Especially if you've already been 3D printing for a while, you understand how to do it. I think the Saturn IV ultra's main selling point is that a lot of the settings have been removed so it's easier for new users.
And I think that it would be a very good printer had they simply Left out all that auto leveling stuff that ended up making it a very frustrating. Very expensive printer to run due to the massive amount of wasted resin you get from trying to print using it out of level build plate.
the Curvy non planar. Center of the Plate (13.20) will only affect the First Layers? thanks
Correct it's going to affect the raft. The printer will reach a level print at about 1mm.
Elegoo bottles for the pumps. I use them for my my pro.
Good to know, thank you!
Well, it seems to be an interesting machine but the 46um is what worries me a bit, especially when the GK Three Ultra exists (same size but somewhere around 24um if my memory serves me well). Yes, the GK3 Ultra is also much more expensive but as someone who is about to start up his 3D design/printing studio I am in the "twilight zone" and can't decide which printer to go for (for both large prints and minis).... But the M7 Max does look promising!
I have a GK3 ordered... I'll get it sometime... When I do I'll do a short with a AB comparison.
From what you've seen so far with the M7 max, would you suggest it for professional use (print medium to large prints - some of which have fine detail) or should I pick another printer?
@@evanskan6326 What are you printing?
For dental, engineering I think its perfect!
For minis, I would go for a smaller printer with a higher XY UM.
Oh man((( It's dissopoinment of the day! It's looks very cool but why 46um??? I expected 24um like at M7 pro(((
@@n6e6k6o I had to do something to keep it under that $1,000 price point.
It does make me wonder if they Will release an upgraded LCD at anytime in the future
7K nada en comparación a la Uniformation GK3 Ultra, 16 K mismo tamaño.
I have a Gk3 on the way, I will do it side by side. However the GK3 is also close to 50% more the price for a different target audience.
@@J3DTech si es cierto, el precio cambia, pero veo pocos avances con respecto a la M3 max, eso si el precio esta bien.
3:41 "I don't want my printer to become ugly because of spills, so i'll make it ugly with tape and protective film" there is logic behind it, but it's still funny
@@SergeiSugaroverdoseShuykov 🤣
Yeah see but the spills never come off and remain sticky. This stuff I can remove if I want to take a picture and the printer is always in peak operating business.
@@J3DTech my S4U lid is already as dirty as hell while i didn't spill anything on it, and yeah it feels like that resin dissolves acrylic and eats it's way inside because it is possible to scrape majority of it off, but droplets are still there, i guess only sanding and clear coating will fix that
@SergeiSugaroverdoseShuykov Yep, it's crazy how it just bonds to it. It doesn't have to be cured. The second it touches it. It's chemically now part of the cover. Forever...
Damn kinda regret that i went for the revo now
The Revo has the 14k LCD but yeah.. if this printer was a 30um LCD it would be the better option.
The Revo is better for minis when you really need that detail. But outside of that I am enjoying this one.