About Damn Time - Anycubic Mono M5S Pro Review

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[lykosgen]

So just found your video review. I absolutely love this printer. It’s simple, works, and does heck of fast prints. I have both the nfep and acf vats and I swap between the two. I started to 3d print a model rollercoaster that works. The track is printed with fast print resin and the train is printed with 8k resin. I ended up having a dead projector that I stole the rubber feet off and it is perfect for keeping the printer steady. Now for one update that you will like, I never print with usb. I print from my computer directly to the printer via the photon workshop slicer. All WiFi no usb or cords. The only reason I use my phone app was for set up or to check my prints. Actually I traveled from my home and finished a model on my trip, connected to WiFi at the hotel and printed my model. When I got home my print was finished and didn’t have any issues.

[ScytheNoire]

I can't believe one of their cost cutting measures was to not include rubber feet. That's so ridiculous it's funny.

[ivorybow]

I have been researching my first 3-D printer. Without having printed before the choices were confusing and overwhelming. Finally, last night I found your channel and went through many of your videos and settled on this printer. every printer within my budget seem to have inevitably strong points and weak points and one has to weigh them against each other. I know now I’ve made a good choice as a beginner. Thank you for your honest reviews. They are clear and easy to understand and I love the comparisons and that you do not pander to different manufacturers.

[glennsmith]

Hey Ross, loving the fact you are a miniatures orientated reviewer, have you thought about doing some terrain on the larger format printers? I haven't seen anyone really look at them for that. With SLA allowing hollow prints and less support material than FDM and the price of 1l of resin being near 1kg of good PLA+ the cost is almost comparable. Would love to see a video with different resins, drop tests etc.. like you did with the miniatures!

[AustinLindstrom]

I have a small side hustle where I help a local DnD Studio with their prints. We have an M5s. We call it the Fast Printer. Not the Best Printer, or the Good Printer, just the Fast Printer. Currently I'm printing 160 various models for a collab, and the minis get printed on the Mono X, Mono X 6k, and 2 DLP's. The bases get printed on the Fast Printer. Bigger pieces / terrain as well.

This printer looks like a nice middle of the road option between features and affordability. But it definitely needs rubber feet.

[rpicinic]

Hi Ross. Thanks for another great video. I'm new to your channel, but since I have been watching you, you have been the most informative reviewer on resin printers around. And may I say, the most fair reviewer of 3D printers I've heard. I'm currently a Bambu Labs X1C owner for a year now. I've been printing prototypes for my clients when it's needed. But not new to FDM printing, as I had a printer for many years (10yrs now). Your videos are helping me make a better informed decision for a resin printer (eventually).
Keep up the great work.

[APWPaint]

I bought an M5s. To get around the heater issue I just run the build plate under hot tap water until the plate is hot. Wipe the thing dry, reinstall and print. NO failed prints since I started doing this.

[mastafoo]

Ross, i send prints from my desktop to my M5s literally daily. You have to be connected to the AC cloud in the slicer. You dont even need the most recent version of their slicer, ive been on 3.14 for a while bc new versions dont launch for some reason

[jacksmith]

While some of this stuff goes over my head, that RERF feature sounds incredible! I usually print AmeraLabs Towns for calibration, and having to wait over an hour just to see that I have to run another print 0.2 seconds less or more can be aggravating when switching to a new resin. Having a range of calibrations done simultaneously sounds like a dream.

[TheKamikazePR]

where would this place in your best printers for miniatures considering you stated is better than prior M5 and M5s and the one you would personally buy in that price range?

[manuelgaertner]

So im still good with waiting for my uniformation gk2 to arrive?

[rumenmatanov]

Not sure what's the issues you're having with the wifi, but it works well on my M5s, and I can send prints from the Photon Workshop on my desktop directly to the printer, the app I use just for monitoring. Basically, both the printer and desktop are connectred to the same network, and the printer shows up in my slicer to send prints to no issues. Maybe I'm just misunderstanding your point, but it definitely works with my PC.

[Lord_Nytmare]

I just bought one of these after watching your video, it's like $130 is buck cheaper during it's pre release and comes with 2kg of resin. So let's hope I made a good decision. BTW Ross, I did use your link.

[MI_]

I actually want to thank you for your work and efforts. Last month i got the m5s and was very disappointed with its quality. It didnt work at all after 20 failed prints and half a bottle of resin. Before these fails, Out of the box it came with a screen fault error where the screen needed to be "calibrated " so leveled. I returned it and git the mini 8ks big difference.

[Sviestux]

I have to correct you about the wifi stuff, I have an M5 and you can send prints to it from your PC, but they HAVE TO be sent from their slicer, things like Lychee dont work that way. there is a storage limitation as well, as it sends to anycubic cloud and then from cloud to printer (which is a big question of "why? just send it to printer direct"

[zior]

Hello, could you make a video testing water washable resin vs ipa resin? What are the drawbacks of each etc

[Zeeflyboy]

I have an M3 premium, it's fantastic but I'm a bit gutted that it's been dropped... With consumable parts like screens becoming hard to source I'm not sure whether to just keep it until the screen dies and then change it or try to buy one or two spare screens ahead of time - I did find one source for the screens but not sure how long they'll be available. Don't think I'll be buying anycubic again just for the bad taste of how they handled the m3 premium. I don't really understand why they need to saturate the market with so many different printer models, they could cut their offerings in half and still have all bases (cheap, expensive, small and medium sizes) covered.

[XAD]

Isnt the RERF thing or something just like it also in UVTools?
Not sure why I'm watching this you convinced me to go with the GKTwo so I ordered that on Sunday 😁

[sergiosantos]

Hello At minute 8:10 you say you get 13 posts and 13 holes, but you only show 10. Which is correct?

[Emtbtoday]

Must say though it doesn't need a heater! Used the m5s all winter with no issues on the UV heating up the resin still hate the printer it does print nice now new Build plate is relised and being sent to people like the saturn 3 ultra so you have some manual levelling as the build plates were angled and 2mm to short! I printed a new spacer from printables for mine it worked great and anycubic then worked with me put the new update on the printer and has new Build plate! What build plate comes with it version 1 or version 2 with the 4 hex bolts?