Standard resin 3D printing service
Resin printing cures liquid photopolymer layer by layer and produces parts with far finer detail and a smoother surface than any filament process. It is the right process when the part is small, intricate, or has to look moulded rather than printed. Resin parts are more brittle than filament parts and degrade in sunlight, so they suit models, masters and detail work rather than working mechanical components.
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What Standard resin is good for
- Miniatures and highly detailed models
- Jewellery masters and castable patterns
- Dental and medical models
- Small parts with fine surface texture
What Standard resin is the wrong choice for
- Large parts, which the build volume limits
- Load-bearing or impact parts
- Anything left in daylight
The long-form guide, with design rules and the alternatives side by side: Standard resin 3D printing, explained.
Designing for Standard resin
- The build volume is the constraint. If the part is larger than the resin machines take, it is either split or printed in filament.
- Resin captures detail a 0.42 mm filament nozzle physically cannot lay down, so a part that looks soft in FDM is usually a resin part.
Standard resin against the other materials
| Material | Heat | Stiffness | Impact | Outdoors |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PLA | Low | High | Low | Not suitable |
| PETG | Medium | Medium | Medium | Short term only |
| ABS | High | Medium | High | Not suitable |
| ASA | High | Medium | High | Suitable |
| TPU flexible | Medium | Flexible by design | High | Short term only |
| Nylon PA12 | High | Medium | High | Short term only |
| Polycarbonate | Very high | High | Very high | Short term only |
| PC-ABS | High | High | Very high | Not suitable |
| Carbon fibre filled | High | Very high | Low | Short term only |
| PETG CF | Medium | High | Low | Short term only |
| ABS CF | High | Very high | Medium | Not suitable |
| Wood filled PLA | Low | High | Low | Not suitable |
| Standard resin | Low | High | Low | Not suitable |
Printing Standard resin at 3Descu
| Scale | One of the largest 3D printing factories in Eastern Europe, 200+ printers |
|---|---|
| Process | Resin, masked stereolithography |
| Maximum part size | 300 x 250 x 250 mm |
| Layer height | 0.02mm layer height |
| Minimum order | €20 |
| File formats accepted | STL, OBJ, 3MF, STEP, STP, up to 50 MB per file |
| Where it ships | Across the European Union, the United Kingdom, Switzerland and Norway, by courier from Romania |
| Uploaded files | Deleted 90 days after upload |
| Quality system | ISO 9001:2015 certified |
| Who prints it | TREIDESCUPRINT SRL, J18/753/2022, on its own machines |
Delivery
| Destination | Standard | Express |
|---|---|---|
| Romania | 1-2 business days | 1 business day |
| Bulgaria, Hungary | 2-3 business days | 1-2 business days |
| Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Greece, Austria, Croatia, Slovenia | 3-4 business days | 2 business days |
| Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia | 4-5 business days | 2 business days |
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What this page does not claim
There is no tolerance figure and no strength figure for Standard resin on this page. A printed part does not have the properties of the spool it came from, and this shop has not measured its own, so publishing a number lifted from a filament data sheet would be publishing somebody else's result as ours. What is missing and why is set out under design rules, and where a part needs one of those figures it is measured on a real printed sample rather than quoted from a table.
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Also known as SLA, MSLA, resin printing, stereolithography. Material data sheets and a dimensional report can be supplied on request.