You should always wear a mask and eye protection while working with resin. What is slightly irrelevant is the information about FDM filaments and their printing temperatures and bed temperatures you should use with them.Īn important fact missing from the instruction manual is that you should not inhale the fumes produced by the resin or get the resin in your eyes. It even includes a short list of different types of resin and gives a lot of good information about each of them, such as tensile strength and the heat distortion temperature. It also includes a nice diagram of the mainboard and even shows where everything is plugged in, such as the cooling fan or the power supply. It is decent enough at showing you how to start printing and telling you what replacement parts to buy (in the case of the FEP film). The instruction manual included gives a general overview of the parts provided, like what the marks on the vat mean, how to use the software, how to use the machine, etc.

The USB drive also has a test print, a video, and a PDF of the instruction manual on it. This is apparently only the Windows version, though it seems that they are coming out with a Mac version in the future. The USB drive included has the Halot Box slicer pre-installed, which is Creality’s slicer for the printer. Everything included seemed to be high enough quality as to not pose any future issues. The paint scraper included was nice, it was sharp enough to be effective when removing objects from the build plate. Besides resin and the necessary safety equipment, this is practically all you’ll really need while printing. In the box, besides the printer, there was a paint scraper, an instruction manual, 6 sheets of FEP film for the vat of resin, a brush, some Allen wrenches, a 16Gb USB drive, a power cable, and some paper filters for draining the resin vat. There was plenty of foam padding around the printer, and the included parts in the box.

The packaging was really nice and has always been positive with Creality printers. Straight out of the box, the Halot-One is practically fully assembled, besides the need to screw on the build plate. The printer we’re reviewing today, the Creality Halot-One, is an MSLA printer that uses an LCD screen as a masked layer to only cure the specific pixels displayed. These printers use technologies such as SLA (Stereolithography), MSLA (Masked stereolithography), and DLP (Digital light processing). While those are some of the more popular 3D printers on the market, some printers use UV curing resin to build layers on top of one another. Up to this point, we have mainly talked about FDM 3D printers, FDM meaning fused deposition modeling (basically layering molten thermoplastics on top of one another).

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