Phrozen Shuffle: LCD Resin 3D Printer

I glad I found this printer, I have owned and returned both the Anycubic Photon and the Elegoo Mars. They both put out impressive prints but had reliability problems. You can find review for the Phrozen Shuffle that knock the user interface, It is somewhat different than the others but this thing was really designed to use the WiFi interface. Once you get that going its really nice to use. I followed the instructions to connect to WiFi, the only thing I had to do that was not listed in the instruction was to reboot the machine with the USB WiFi adapter attached for it to recognize that it was connected. Once you connect through WiFi you can make custom Resin Profiles, it was fairly easy, just copied one that was supplied and made a few mods. The "wait before print" and "wait after print" are important dont make them shorter that .5 sec or you will get some failed prints. The Shuffle is built well and Im getting consistant nice prints. If you cant spend the extra money on the Prusa SL1 or the Zortrax Inkspire this is a great choice. The extra $300 over one of the other low cost printers is money well spent.

I preordered my Shuffle 2018 from the US distributor back in late summer of 2018 and it has been the most solid, capable printer in my stable. Its only weakness is Phrozen itself— they no longer sell the original LCD screens for this printer. I’ve only changed the screen one time in 3 years of use, and now that my screen has developed some cloudy spots, the original replacements are no longer available. Here’s the deal with MSLA printers— they work exactly like burning screens for old-timey screen printing, so the methods used in that old tech translates to MSLA printing. Two factors are huge: parallel light rays and distance between mask and medium. The Shuffle outclassed every other printer in 2018-2019 in these respects, and outclasses many of the printers made in 2021. The Shuffle is a Beast!

You have to be careful with these types of printers. The concept is that an LED array of lights flashes through the digitizer to produce the image. This is fine but for the printer in my case the light source literally popped off of the heatsink and burned itself up. The chinese epoxy used there was as weak as their level of creativity. So be wary of these cheap SLA printers on the market now. Real ones cost $40k - $300k. Anything this inexpensive is bound to have problems. Just be ready to do a little engineering when it stops printing.

I got my Phrozen Shuffle before Amazon started carrying them. I also had a Photon that I sent back for a myriad of issues. I'm an experienced printer, with 7 FDMs and a Form 2. The Phrozen worked beautifully out of the box only following the included set-up instructions. No failures in 15 prints so far. While not quite up two a Form 2's ease of layout and printing, for $800 the Phrozen can't be beat. The PARALED set-up also get's rid of those annoying issues when printing close to the edge, and the reinforced Z-rod set-up ensures no Z-banding. Don't waste your time on a Photon.