ANYCUBIC 10K Resin 3D Printer, Photon Mono 4 LCD 3D Printer with 7-inch Mono Screen, Upgraded LighTurbo Matrix and Printing Platform, Printing Size of 6.04''x3.42''x6.49''

Picked up the Anycubic Mono 4K recently, and honestly, it’s been a great experience. This little machine punches way above its weight for the price, it’s a total workhorse—prints come out clean, crisp, and surprisingly detailed for a budget-friendly setup. Setup was straightforward, and I was up and printing in no time. For anyone new to resin printing, this thing makes a great starting point without feeling like you're sacrificing quality. It’s got solid build quality, and the monochrome screen helps speed up print times while extending lifespan. Only real downside? It’s USB-only, so you’ll need to transfer files with a thumb drive. Not the end of the world, and am currently seeing if I can get octopi to work with this (Will update here when I get around to it.) If you're getting one, I highly recommend grabbing a wash and cure station too. It makes the whole process way smoother and cleaner, especially if you're printing regularly. Just makes the whole hobby more enjoyable and less messy. All in all, I’m really happy with the purchase. Great starter printer, does exactly what it’s supposed to, and just keeps going.

This any cubic mono M7 is an amazing resin 3-D printer. One thing I like about it is the wireless app works perfectly no hassles with connectivity so that’s a big plus you can print right from your PC or your phone app with ease. The machine has a very nice touchscreen with a clear display. The build quality is very nice and I always get super nice prints with very little issues from this M7. You can use the optional Anycubic heater. It’s kind of a tight fit, but it does fit inside if you’re using materials that need to be printed at 25° or higher but it’s a great printer. I always get great prints out of it works very well so if you’re looking for a resin printer, I would definitely say this is a great machine because the quality being able to use the PC or an app to transfer files is great and it’s just a hassle free nice printing printer at a good price. And typically once you level the build plate, I don’t ever have to level it for quite a long time.I love it so much. I bought one to have as a back up if anything ever happened lol

Printer is working great. Everything as expected leveling is easy to do, print quality is also excellent. Printer bed’s engraving gives a good adhesion

---Update--- Dropping to 1 star from 2 because customer service is terrible. They messaged me offering a full refund, then partial refund, then no partial refund unless I fight with their tech support. I'm not interested in wasting my time troubleshooting a brand new machine. It should just work. I even offered to fix some of the issues myself (the ones I can, anyway) if they sent me parts, but they won't do that either. Save yourself the headache and get a different brand. ---Original Review below--- This is an okay printer if you can get it at a sale price. But it has some questionable quality issues and design choices. If you're a beginner, this is probably not the printer for you because you won't know why the issues are happening or how to fix them. It would be a very frustrating way to learn. Pour spout is non-existent. It just runs across the vat side and underneath if you're not careful. Pour spouts is something most companies get totally wrong, so not really surprising here. All reviews and unboxing I've seen show that a carbon filter unit is included. That plugs into the USB port on the back right. I personally think those things are useless and recommend some kind of extraction system instead. That said, mine didn't even include one. Not sure if it is just missing or they stopped including them, but paying for something I didn't get isn't a good look. I personally prefer lift-off lids to tilting lids that newer printers use because lift-off lids can hold in heat which benefits printing in colder environments. However, this printer comes with a giant hole in the back for the pump system that it doesn't even come with (it comes with the M7 Pro). I guess it's nice that the lid is still compatible if you find a use for it (I personally hate resin pumps), but that's still a giant hole in the back. They do include a sticker of some kind to cover it. But it's weird. Like many others have said, my build plate was not flat. As a result, I had failures towards the center of the plate. Also, the handle is open towards the back where it connects to the printer arm. As a result, if you rest the plate at an angle while there's resin on it, it travels up the entire opening. You have to clean it out every time otherwise, you'll get resin all over the printer arm when re-mounted. It's a really annoying design. I believe the M7 Max knows the upper limit of the plate height and so you can't force it to past that. That's not a feature they felt was necessary in the M7, so if you manually move the plate, be careful when you're near max height. It will try to go past it if tell it to, breaking the machine. I like that the power brick is built into the unit, so there's only a power cord. But there's no power toggle on the back. Instead there's a momentary power button that works in a push-on push-off configuration. But button doesn't lock into place the way a toggle would. I personally like to have toggle/rocker switches always left in the ON position and turn my printers on and off using smart outlets. That doesn't work with this printer. That means that I always have to go to the printer (in a detached garage) to turn it on making the remote printing option kind of useless. Alternatively, you can just leave the printer on all the time. But considering how loud the fans are, you're probably not going to want to do that. This is the loudest resin printer I've ever used. You're not going to want to be within earshot of the room it's in while it's running. I like that it comes with a screen protector, but it really should be pre-applied from factory. Trying to get a screen protector on dust / bubble free is near impossible. The fake auto-leveling it uses is like everyone else's. It pushes against the screen and has springs of some kind that makes sure the plate is flat against the screen on the first layer. But as the print continues, that spring system doesn't continue to keep it level, so if the plate is out of level, it goes back to out of level mid-print and affects your print quality if it doesn't end up outright failing. Another negative about these types of fake auto-leveling is that you can't set z-offset because the plate always has to smash against the screen in order for the "auto-leveling" to work. That means you can't print flat against the plate because you can't calibrate the thickness it will end up. On older printers, you could move the plate up in 0.01mm increments and then hit a "z = 0" button to compensate. That doesn't exist on this (or any "auto-leveling" printer). I find it's at least 0.5mm-1.0mm off and can't be adjusted. The UI of the menus on the printer are just okay. I've seen worse, but I've also seen better. There are options you can change while it's printing, but I honestly am not sure if they actually work. I tried avoiding reslicing a calbration print by sending the one that was already on the printer and changing the exposure on the fly, but the print looked and failed in the exact same way. On a related note, I don't like that the homing button and leveling test button are on the same screen as the manual plate controls. This is a really bad place for that. Since you have to use those manual buttons frequently (like after every print), it's a high possibility you hit the wrong button and smash a model still on the plate into the screen. Also, check out a video of what it takes to change the LCD screen. It looks like a nightmare. Remember, this is a consumable part and you WILL need to change it at some point. Having to basically disassemble the entire printer to change a consumable part is very bad design. The ability to monitor progress in the app is a good addition. But everything else about the app is trash. There's a section where you can supposedly find models to send to the printer, but there's no clear way to filter out there FDM (filament) printer models from the resin models. There's a filter, but it still doesn't limit the results to be only resin print files. Even if they were, I'm not confident in sending a resin print over that I didn't slice myself to the profile I've calibrated to the resin I'm using. Other than that, you just get a lot of spam for their reward programs or their store. Last, Anycubic doesn't use a Chitu systems type motherboard. So while it CAN work with alternative slicers to Anycubic's slicer software (like LycheeSlicer and Chitubox), you lose all the sensor stuff (pressure sensing, residue sensing, etc) AND the network stuff (no remote printing or monitoring). Anycubic COULD make this info available, but choose not to. If you can look passed all of this, print quality (of the objects that didn't fail in the center), were fine. I know a lot of people hate ACF release film but I don't see significant detail difference from my older printers still on NFEP. Definitely not something the human eye sees instantly. Maybe if you do macro photography or just feel like using a magnifying glass on your prints... BUT... ACF does have this weird striping artifacting on flat surfaces. If that bothers you, swap out the ACF for PFA/NFEP. For me, this printer has too many cons that outweighs the pros. I'll most likely return it and look at another brand.

PROS: 1) Comes pretty much assembled. 2) Decent slicing software, decent machine file out of box 3) Good Quality Prints Out of Box 4) Lots of community support on social media. 5) Easy to maintain 6) Low learning curve to get started with 7) This is not an odorless resin and skin contact with it should be minimal. There are many warnings to operate machine in a properly ventilated area and to wear proper PPE while using machine. 8) The lid is built so that it is easy to install 8mm UV LED Strip Lights. 9) Lots of build volume for entry level machine. CONS 1) Manufacturer Documentation needs work. The setup isn't clear and neither is maintenance, you get an idea of what to do but not a clear understanding of what to do. 2) Please build a better usb Interface and integrate in to hardware and slicer so we can direct connect machines to USB. 3) Update boot files so it is easier to recover machine files if there is a catastrophic machine failure or USB stick failure. Maybe provide ISO images for machines on your website. Something to make machine recovery for operators. 4) Upgrade to 64 bit hardware and firmware kernel so we can use larger than 32 gb USB sticks. 5) if more than 100ml of resin is in vat it is difficult to pour excess resin in to a storage container. 6) Better product support from company other than parts. At least there is a vibrant Anycubic community to offset this issue. SUGGESTIONS 1) A LED light strip with some corner connectors LED corner connectors would be nice so we can build out curing chamber lights on cover. 2) The way the slicer reads some stuff files and corrects mesh errors is, unfamiliar, some ideas for absolute entry level users (whom you are targeting for sales) for resources and information on how to solve these problems would be great. 3) Hire a good Technical Writer to redo docs and product wiki. After a week of experimenting with organic model 3d prints I was able to get them to work. It took most of my first bottle of resin to get started really making good stuff. The clear resin can have India ink added and the surface is kind of soft so going to experiment with dusting metallic powder on then curing. See if it blocks the UV or if enough gets through to cure model. Really easy to figure out how to print platonic solids.

I won't put you to sleep with too much jargon, here are the main reasons I like it: [EASY SETUP] It's as easy to set up as any bare bones resin printer. Tram the buildplate to the screen (the same thing you do with any resin printer, which is incorrectly called "leveling") and you're ready to print. After testing, resin exposure settings are almost identical to the Anycubic M5s Pro, you may even be able to knock off 0.2s of normal exposure time. So if you own that printer you'll have less settings that need twerking. It prints Cones of Calibration v3 perfectly, there is no Z-axis squishing. [LIGHTWEIGHT] The printer body and resin vat are made of plastic so it's a lightweight machine. The cover is tinted dark and feels like a big thin tupperware container, not the same as the sturdy M5s Pro cover for example. It can be disconcerting if coming from an all metal machine, but I haven't noticed any issues with the build quality. The aluminum buildplate has a cool etched design to improve grip on baselayers, and has ACF film installed to improve the release of normal layers. It's also feather-light, despite being slightly bigger than the one in the Elegoo Mars 3 it replaced. [QUIET OPERATION] I'm surprised that despite all the plastic this printer is one of the quietest I've used. Everything is taught and moves smoothly, giving the impression that it's going to work and everything is going to be okay. It's a huge difference compared to the previous Elegoo and AC printers I've used that always have some bit that rattles or grinds. [INTELLIGENT RELEASE IS AWESOME!] Basically this automatically adjusts the Lift Height on the fly, making sure the model detaches from the release film and then immediately lowers it again for the next layer. Depending on the model, this can save you a ton of time. It's not a bulletproof feature, sometimes it fails to detect the release force with viscous resins for example, but with some heating for those kind of resins it works as expected. As far as I know, Anycubic is the only company who adds this feature to their affordable range of printers. Other companies start adding it at like the $1000 mark. The printer also has some other new useful features found in current resin printers, like debris detection, tank clean, wifi, etc., but I don't use those. They can be turned off. I have some nags about the printer, but none of them are dealbreakers at the discounted prices. [EXTRA VATS ARE EXPENSIVE] The printer uses plastic resin vats but Anycubic charges $40 for them. Other companies charge that much for similar all metal ones. If you switch colors often, you absolutely need a few extras though. Also remember not to wrench down hard on the vat screws so you don't crack something. [USB PORT IS ON THE SIDE] This can make it tough to reach/plug the USB stick if you're using an enclosure. Consider a USB extender to move it to the front. [SCREEN PROTECTOR INCLUDED, BUT...] You don't have to use the included screen protector, personally I don't like them because there's always some obnoxious bubble or dirt that gets under there. There's no reason Anycubic themselves can't do this at the factory to save us the trouble. I suspect they know what a pain it is to install them cleanly so they don't want to bother with it. See, I'm just nagging now lol Almost every Anycubic printer I've used over the last 5 years has been defective in some way. Customer service ranges from helpful to making up excuses that don't make sense for the defects. This time though, I'm relieved that the Photon Mono 4 is one of the best I've used, and sets the bar for all others in this size and price range. If you want tips or just want to chat, search for "Underground Junk Hole" and you'll find my resin 3D printing guides and settings.

First thing first people are gonna have different reviews about certain things. No one is going to be satisfied, this printer works really well easy to use and it's easy to set up to the Internet which makes it easy for cloud printing. I would recommend this printer for beginners it has the durability and it has great adhesion for prints.

Such a great starter 3d resin printer! I am brand new to printing and I am shook by the quality of the prints from this. It smell horrible that’s known I bought an enclosure and vented it outside to help. This resin does clean up so much easier than traditional resin. The cost for what you get is unbelievable! It prints super fast and I love that so long as it’s all the same height you can fill the plate and it won’t increase printing time. I can’t wait to make more!!!