Photon M3 Max

I am impressed with this machine. Buying it is one of the best decision I made

Seems to be printing ok, although much slower than advertised. The autofill doesn’t work, nothing comes out

Quality prints once dialled in. I upgraded from an Elegoo mars p to this hefty beast and am so happy! I’m now able to make statues and dioramas for my son’s room! Huge build plate, no failures and brilliantly packaged! Only draw back is it’s a tad slow but you can’t question that when it’s the quality I’m after!

Unfortunately the technology just isn't there yet for affordable, large-scale printers. Paid advertising and sponsored reviews have hyped this printer up but the reality is very different. After repeated attempts by experienced operators this machine failed to deliver a single successful print. Avoid!!

Don’t be fooled into thinking the more expensive Max is a better machine than the Premium. It isn’t. I have two AnyCubic M3 Premiums, they are awesome machines and I’d totally recommend them to anyone. Being so pleased with the Premiums, I recently treated myself to the M3 Max thinking it would be equally as awesome but bigger, but they are worlds apart. The Max is PAINFULLY slow, 5-6x slower compared to the Premium for the prints I tested across both machines. It makes the additional build plate size a little redundant as you can print way more parts faster on a Premium, unless you want to print models with a bigger footprint. The plate size of the Max is also only marginally bigger than the premium, it hardly feels worth the extra, and the resin tray is too shallow for my liking too. The build quality of the hood/cover is also a bit rubbish compared to the nice solid moulded hoods of the Premium. The hood on the Max is essentially just sheets of Perspex glued together which you can’t make out in the photos. It also doesn’t come with any air purifiers, which I didn’t notice at first when ordering. Without the purifiers you can really smell the resin and it gets quite unpleasant. With the Premiums you barely notice any smell. Being part of the same M3 family, and being the most expensive model, you’d think the Max would be the best choice. But in my opinion it’s not, it feels like a much older machine compared to the Premium. If you’re looking for a fast, quality resin printer, get the M3 premium. If you’re looking for more print volume, get two M3 Premiums 😀👍.

Firstly this printer is brilliant but it has a very serious problem - the AutoFill. The first print was brilliant the quality was amazing it was fairly fast considering the size, the Autofill seemed to work fine the bottle ran out but there was not a lot of resin left in the bottle after I had filled the resin bath. For the second print I put a new bottle on and the print started. it was a 10 hour print so I left it to it. Went back in the room to check the print and there was resin everywhere, the autofill had overflowed the resin tank, there was resin over and under the monochrome screen, all over the carpet it was everywhere and the resin bath was full to the brim. Returned machine for refund after Anycubic failed to respond to my raised ticket. However I have placed an order for a new on as the print quality was so good, but i will not be using the autofill function again. Hopefully Anycubic can get this sorted out with a firmware upgrade. Lastly a huge moan it cost me £50 to return the damaged printer and Amazon have offered a £4.95 refund! what a joke.

Useless after 2 Years as Anycubic informed me they have discontinued the FEP release film for this machine.

I have owned three of these and everyone has broken so even though the build volume is great but they just are lacking quality. Also the firmware update bricks the machine