My Asiga Max UV – Ol’ Faithful – was one of my favourite dental 3D printers. Its vast open library and reliability has made it the Gold Standard amongst lab users. So when the opportunity came to try out the Max 2, I was eager to see what Asiga could bring to the table. Figure […]
Shining3D has always been a consistent, yet less well-known player in the West with regards to the dental 3D printer market. Then out of nowhere, they announced the Shining Aoralscan Elite, which blew their brand right out into the open. While this scanner is sure to make huge waves in the intraoral scanner market, this
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While most in the dental 3D printing industry have heard of the big players such as Sprintray, Formlabs and Asiga, fewer have heard of HeyGears – an up-and-coming China and US-based company that was started in 2015. Like many other companies, HeyGears is seeking to break into a bustling printing market and to differentiate itself
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The Ackuretta SOL is a household name in the medium-budget range of dental 3D printers. With a robust library of open materials and simple digital and physical workflow, it still remains one of the best bang-for-your-buck dental 3D printers out there. So what makes this unit the popular value proposition today? Figure 1: SOL, Cleani
Like it or not, Sprintray has shaken up the chairside 3D printing market like no other company. It has truly made dental 3D printing cool again and they are quite quickly becoming the Apple of the dental 3D printing industry. However, is it all shine and no substance, or does this popular unit come with
Bet you didn’t expect a review of this on a dental-specific page. When the Bambu Lab X1 was released to the world, it created shockwaves amongst the consumer-level FDM market. Here we had a relatively easy yet reliable and consistent FDM printer at a very reasonable price churning out results that came out faster and
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I have a nickname for my Asiga Max UV – Ol’ Faithful. The Asiga brand is held in high regard, particularly in the dental lab market and they quite possibly are the Gold Standard when it comes to open dental 3d printers. Despite its age, with the biggest library of open materials and new UltraGLOSS
While most in the dental 3D printing industry have heard of the big players such as Sprintray, Formlabs and Asiga, fewer have heard of HeyGears – an up-and-coming China and US-based company that was started in 2015. HeyGears made itself a household name in the lab printing market with its A2D and A3D units –
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The Ackuretta SOL is a household name in the medium-budget range of dental 3D printers. With a robust library of open materials and simple digital and physical workflow, it still remains one of the best bang-for-your-buck dental 3D printers out there. When the SOL Plus was announced, I was eager to see what they could improve on.
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While Phrozen remains a household name in the vast consumer 3D printing market, its dental specific (Sonic) line has created far less waves in the ocean of dental 3D printers. Their latest entry in this increasingly saturated field is the Lumii, which boasts a 2K DLP lightsource. A surprising move, when big players in the
