The BEST 3D Printer you'll never buy - Hey Gears Reflex Review

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[Gigaloader]

I don't see anything special about this printer. Just looked at the specs. Its basically a formlabs with projector curing. Nice click bait this changes nothing in 3D printing. This closed system turns any professional away. All my old closed system "professional printers" (including formlabs) are paper weights now - because they could not keep up with resin development. As a professional you never want to limit yourself to resin brands. Especially looking at the last few years. All resin printers are essentially the same....curing resin in a vat against a glass screen. From an engineering point of view, they should concentrate on print profiles for a wide array of resin manufacturers out of the box. That would actually be "professional". If they open up to other resins, I may consider buying the printer.

[sumdumhick]

I got sucked in by the clickbait title but didn't have tbe patience for the punchline. Get to the point, man!

[GuitarsNAmmo]

Proprietary anything is bad juju. I'll stick with Elegoo as I'm just printing for myself

[MarinusMakesStuff]

Closed source printers will never appeal to a big part of the community, but I can see how the idea appeals to a lot of people at the same time because a lot of people just want to make things and they don't care about buying proprietary filament and resin. They care about making a print the way they see it on the photos online, or they care about their prototypes coming out exactly as they want them to be.

I have designed and built printers since 2012 and recently I also went to buy a printer that's not open source, just because I wanted a machine that does the things I want to do better than what most 'open source' and DIY printers offer. And the best part is that the filament still isn't proprietary. With a little tweaking, it just works. Oh the time I spent on fixing my DIY printers... Time I can never get back. And on the one hand, yes, I also learned so much from doing that, but I've not been able to apply this knowledge in my working life, it's all 'hobbyism' :D

[AnotherNewManGaming]

If HP start doing 3d printers we know it's the actual end of resin printing.. Great video! Agree with all your points. Does kinda feel like we're at the precipice of a shift for these companies to find alternative revenue streams..

[OnceinaSixSide]

Fantastic job, and I agree with your assessment of these products. They make a lot of sense when you compare them to Formlabs, but absolutely falls flat for us hobbyists.

Something else worth noting that gives me great concern for their ecosystem; is the reliance on a login and connection to a cloud server to slice prints for the Ultracraft Reflex. If Heygears don't add the "Pro" mode you mentioned, in addition to removing the login requirement on the slicer, then this printer may straight up be unusable one day if for whatever reason that server goes offline.

Happens all the time. Like how many video games have suffered this form of digital decay and are just straight up unplayable now?

Edit: one more point I'd like to add, is that even for most small businesses who are buying resin printers for a production line would be better off buying 3 budget printers vs this thing. If one goes down you still have two pumping out parts while you sort out maintenance.

[TheRealOzWookiee]

Thanks for checking this out mate. Been curious about this, but I think you've nailed who the market is for this printer, and it's not us.

[axelgreen]

As long as the print lines are still visible, the search still goes on

[gavitrond]

New subscriber here. Found you via Fauxhammer's video. Very tempted to get this. Love almost everything about it. I don't worry that I can't use other resins and settings. Only concern is the price of the resin. It's just at the edge for me.

By the way, I'd love a video going more in depth on the CYMK system and process.

[FauxHammer]

Incredibly well put Amazing video! You deserve 50k subs by summer!

[bastiancole]

With Elegoo introducing the Saturn 4 Ultra with it's tilting mechanism, every single resin printer now has to compete with elegoo for fastest print times, ease of use, and frequency of failures compared to the tilting vat mechanism.

[evanskan]

As someone who plans to start up his own 3D printing studio, this machine is more than ideal. It is perfect. I don't mind the closed ecosystem. The quality of life features it provides overshadow this limitation. I was unaware about this printer's existence until a friend from Germany bought it and he never looked back since.

At the moment, HeyGears ships to only a few countries and mine (Greece) isn't among them which means that if they don't expand their logistics and shiping list by the time I start up my studio then yeah.... I will have to go to my plan b (Saturn 4 Ultra, GKTwo or GKThree Ultra).

[tomyocom]

Could you SHOW some files the you printed on this machine that back up your opinion. You have not shown even one NICE print. The bird was far away and the tail had issues. The first print had layer issues. It would be nice if this expensive professional machine is able to make detailed, clean prints. Does it?

[daleharper]

My god the most sickly YouTube video I've seen, they must have paid you a lot to bull up this printer

[YoKins]

Definitely just a Formlabs competitor. May make Formlabs reduce their cost model and move more into the hobbyist segment.

[rudolfaeschlimann]

did't get why this printer is better, the build in sensors or the support? other than that I didn't get why this printer is so amazing

[Lancelotopus]

Do not buy this if you have to use proprietary resin. Not smart.

[JSGilbert]

I am pretty sure that if bespoke resin and proprietary systems become the norm, we will see plenty of companies pop up with a variety of workarounds. For example, I buy printer cartridges for my epson ink jet that are not OEM, and pay about 1/2. I think that 3D printing is still very much in its infancy and I am very excited to see the future of it.

[hanysonic]

Unless you don´t know there's the Saturn 4 ultra just 400 euros thats going to kick ass.

[MFATMF]

Great video and great points - I'd also really prefer if 3d printing doesn't turn into the hellscape nightmare that is trad 2d printers. I still hope the likes of Elegoo etc start taking some of the better design cues from these kinds of printers though, we've seen a bit of that with the Saturn 4 release recently so I'm hopeful the next few generations of printers will innovate without closing everything off