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Reviews

Printer reviews from machines I have actually used.

Every resin printer below is one I have owned and printed miniatures on, often for years. These reviews are the long-form companion to the comparison table on the buying guide: the honest verdict on each machine, what it gets right, what it gets wrong, and what I would buy instead today.

For the side-by-side comparison of every current resin printer, the resin printer buying guide carries the full table.

  • Elegoo Mars 1 Pro

    • 47 µm XY
    • 129 x 80 x 160 mm
    • $100
    • Out of stock
    • Would buy: No

    The Pro version of the original Mars. Charming in a museum sense, the printer that put a built-in carbon filter and front-facing USB on the entry-level resin shelf. None of that matters in 2026, when an $149 Mars 4 prints in a different league.

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  • Elegoo Mars 2

    • 50 µm XY
    • 129 x 80 x 150 mm
    • $100
    • Out of stock
    • Would buy: No

    The printer that made mono LCDs the consumer default. Before the Mars 2, fast cheap printing was a premium feature. After it, every competitor scrambled to catch up. Today it is a historical artefact with a better successor at the same price.

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  • Elegoo Mars 3 Pro

    • 35 µm XY
    • 143 x 89 x 175 mm
    • $150
    • Out of stock
    • Would buy: No

    For a long stretch this was the printer I pointed beginners at without hesitation. 35 micron 4K pixels, tempered glass screen protection, and a carbon filter at a price that used to be the threshold for serious resin printing. The Mars 4 ended that run.

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  • Elegoo Mars 4

    • 18 µm XY
    • 153 x 77 x 175 mm
    • $149
    • Would buy: Yes

    An 18 micron pixel screen on a small tidy machine at the cheapest price the resolution has ever sold for. The Mars 4 is the printer I currently point first-time buyers at when they ask which resin printer to start with.

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  • Elegoo Mars 4 DLP

    • 0 µm XY
    • 132 x 74 x 150 mm
    • $190
    • Out of stock
    • Would buy: Maybe

    I genuinely like DLP printers. No screen to crack, no film to blame for every failure, and a projector rated to 20,000 hours. The catch is that Elegoo never followed this up, which means the Mars 4 DLP was a one-off bet on a technology that did not become a product line.

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  • Elegoo Mars 4 Ultra

    • 18 µm XY
    • 153 x 77 x 165 mm
    • $170
    • Would buy: Maybe

    The same 18 micron pixel screen as the base Mars 4, with tempered glass protection, WiFi, ACF film, and .cbt slicer format support added on top. I would buy either version. The Ultra is the one to pick if anti-aliasing matters to you or if you want the screen protected.

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  • Elegoo Saturn 2

    • 28.5 µm XY
    • 219 x 123 x 250 mm
    • $209
    • Out of stock
    • Would buy: No

    This was a beast of a machine when it came out in 2022. An 8K panel at 28.5 microns on a build plate large enough to print a giant in a single piece. I have been running mine for a long time. Today the Saturn 3 costs roughly the same and has finer pixels.

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  • Elegoo Saturn 3

    • 24 µm XY
    • 219 x 123 x 250 mm
    • $230
    • Would buy: Yes

    I am a sucker for a printer that is cheap and does the basics properly. The Saturn 3 is exactly that. No smart features, no speed gimmicks, just a 24 micron pixel screen on a big build plate at a price that is hard to argue against.

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