Anycubic Photon Mono M5 vs M5s - Spot the Difference

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This is a good printer, and I know I may have scared a few people with my recent shorts. but that wasn't on purpose or misleading, it shows that this printer does, out of the box - but it was marketed this way. You haven't been misled by Anycubic any more than your typical company promoting any new product. They show you what it does. My job, is to show you what it doesn't do...

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00:00 - Intro

[FauxHammer]

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[jmillerid]

Hey! Industrial designer here... definitely value speed over quality when doing certain kinds of prototyping that don't require extremely high detail, so you get more iterations done in a fixed amount of time. More iterations = more refinement, better solutions, etc. Great video, thank you! Just ordered the M5S

[papaplintus]

I think people like faster prints for prototyping. You are able to print something really fast to see if it works for your needs.

[stormycatmink]

In one of your videos about the M5/M5S you asked if anyone actually needs to do faster prints. Well, I think what we're getting to is the point where the resolution is simply good enough, and so getting a print out in 1 hour vs 3 hours is a big deal. And largely, I think the biggest issue is everyone is pushing 'what's the print resolution?' and trying to get better resolution, when we're at a point where you need macro lenses and magnifiers, finely tuned resins, and calibration models specifically designed to see small differences. But as long as reviewers are pushing specs and spending 90% of the video looking at calibration prints, then that's what customers will think is important.

If the real goal that Anycubic seems to be pushing for is 'Does it print a nice, smooth mini, reliably?' then I think content creators could help shape the perspective of people who're shopping by using tests that focus on what people want to DO with a printer: Print a nice miniature. I mean, sure, if you want to just invalidate a company's claims, then go ahead and try and push the specs, but for me (and I bet many others) it would be better if there were some way to do an objectively test a printer's ability to print a good clean mini, but would also just ignore resolution that's beyond what's needed. Maybe that's using a more durable resin (I love Siraya Tech Blu) that doesn't resolve past a certain level; just find something that ignores what people shouldn't worry about.

If someone could do a test that says 'If it passes this it's good enough' and see how well they can meet that and how quick and easy it is to print (things like autoleveling, fail detection, etc) would be far more beneficial to customers than trying to argue the nitpicky details of is it 2x or 2.3x better than I need?! The more content is focused on specs and resolution, the more people will keep thinking it's what they should worry about.

[Okami]

Any chance we can get a test of ACF film and high speed resin on a DLP machine? On the surface it seems to me the precision of the dlp light + the mechanical softening of the acf might be a perfect match.

[hageng.]

Buyed one M5 through your links. Hopefully it works, Anycubic opened everything I clicked on theire homepage in a new window/tab.
Thanks for all the information you gathered and compared, it helped me a lot. =)

[darwking]

Great video. Thanks for doing the work to compare these two. Will grab my future printers thru your affiliate link.

[Flashhawkk]

@fauxhammer can you confirm, that the two vats are identical? There is an option on the anycubic website to buy one for the M5S and for the M5, but the latter is 15€ cheaper. The same goes for the FEP film, 2 for 50€ vs 2 for 35€... I got the S, and would of course like to take the suggested course of having 2 vats with different films installed!

[tinkey]

I only want the M5s for the autobed leveling. 😅 I wonder if more printer will adopt that feature. I'm not to 3d printing and leveling the bed is something I struggle with.

[Elyias]

how do you increase the base exposure layers when using the clear film.