Wash and Cure 3 Plus

***Please watch the video for the full review of the Anycubic Wash and Cure Machine*** I live in the Netherlands so my accent is quite raw.... Sorry for that people :P. Short Review: Pros: + It's a great machine of a very well known brand. + It combines Washing and Curing in 1 beautiful machine. + It is great value for money as it saves allot of time.... and time is: £ / € / $ + Comes with all the needed items and a container with a lid on it which is awesome! + Machine lid safety feature. Lid off > Machine pause = great! + There are allot of great printables appearing on Thingiverse that makes it possible to use it with other Brand build plates or make use of space / holders on the machine for other purposes! Cons: - Personal: There is Chinese writing next to the English (yes yes, I know.... dear diary....) - LED Array is a little to high so prints might no cure well at the bottom and a run on the side might be needed. This can be fixed with an adapter that is on Thingiverse. Full review on paper: The machine arrived very well packed with a box in a box (gotta love them boxes) and also the machine was coated in foam and the machine, it is.... Breathtaking! Great color scheme as always with Anycubic. Having set up the machine it comes with every accessory you need. No extras that are unneeded, just the basics which is great. In the Video I already printed 2 parts that were ready to be cleaned and cured. I popped them of the build plate and into the basket. I have an Elegoo Mars Printer and the build plate adapter does not fit. Thus 1 of these 2 prints is actually the Elegoo Mars to Anycubic Wash & Cure build plate adapter. You can find link to it and the Turntable riser at the bottom of this review. I put the container for the cleaning fluid on the machine and filled it up with 3.5L of IPA (Damn that allot). Having put the prints in the basket I lowered the basket in the container with IPA. Put the lid on and set the option to Wash and the timer to 4 minutes. START! After 2 minutes the blade stops and starts to turn the other way. Great feature to get rid of all the resin in those nooks and crannies. When the wash cycle was done I dried the prints that were now ready to be cured. They were nice and clean! Of goes the container, on goes the turntable! The mechanism is quite ingenious :D. After putting the prints on I put on the lid, set the program to cure and the timer to 6 minutes. START! After 6 minutes my prints were done. Taking them of the plate I noticed the bottom was still a little tacky. This might be because the LED array does not reach to the bottom of the turntable. Not an issue, just put it back on, on the side, and run a 2 minute cycle :). Now fully cured I took the supports of and everything is spotless, dry and no tacky feeling. This machine is amazing! It does not matter what brand of Resin printer you have.... You need this machine in your life! It is so convenient that managed to down my clean and curing time by 50% and I wasn't even trying... It is the perfect addition for every resin printer enthusiast! My verdict is that in reality there are no cons to this machine. It great value for money as it saves you allot of time and the cleanup afterwards. Buy it and you will love it! :D

Having been an Anycubic Photon owner for 2 years, I have always loved the ease and quality of the printing, but not always loved the post-print processing that is required for all resin prints. Being both messy and time consuming, this has definitely limited the number of prints I have done as well as how complicated the prints have been. The beauty of the Wash & Cure station from Anycubic is it's ease of use and simplicity. Getting the prints off the printer and into the plastic wash tub is quick and easy, taking a matter of seconds. I, personally, prefer to remove the prints from the print plate and wash them in the wire container, but that is personal preference and probably down to most of my prints being smaller, complex miniatures. I also tend to use a third-party resin that requires washing in both a chemical cleaner and water. Using the wire container makes swapping between the two quick and easy, even though I currently only have a single wash tub. However, most pleasing of all is the quality of the clean. Since purchasing the Wash & Cure last month, I have printed c. 30 individual models, some with very complex support structures. Where previously I would have had to remove these to clean properly, I can now fully clean the model without removing the supports and be confident that all the excess resin will be flushed out, even in the most complex of tiny nooks and crannies. Similarly, switching from washing to curing takes seconds and I have found that the combination of the UV LED strip array and turntable produces a nice even post-cure. In fact, it is so efficient, that I've been able to reduce the cure times by c. 75% relative to my old, home-made UV light box. In summary, I would recommend it as being a must buy for all Photon owners. The post-print process is undoubtedly the most painful part of resin printing and this makes it several orders of magnitude easier.

Even though this piece of kit is expensive (when compared to, say, an actual resin printer), it does a lot to "lift" the printing experience. Cleaning and curing resin prints can easily seem like a chore and for me it probably stopped me from using my resin printer as much as I would have liked. DIY solutions are absolutely functional, but you do end up with a desk full of small jars, cables, curing apparatus etc. This unit combines almost everything into one, so you can keep your printing station nice and tidy. On top of the QoL improvements, the unit does a better job of cleaning and curing than my previous DIY setup (ultrasonic bath and a UV-Led chamber) and it does it _a lot_ faster. At first I was sceptical, but the 2-4-6 minute wash and cure times are more than enough. I would highly recommend this unit to either serious resin printers or just people who might not be getting as much out of their resin printer, because of all the fuzz surrounding the cleaning and post-processing stage. 5 stars would come with just a slight decrease in price and maybe some small improvements like the ability to turn off the beeps and a cleaning basket with a finer mesh.

Construction feels nice and sturdy, the build plate rack is large enough to accomodate my Phrozen Sonic Mighty 4k build plate which is great and the bucket is deep enough to take a full z height print for cleaning.

El compañero perfecto de mi impresora. Funciona perfecto.

Prodotto perfetto, funziona bene come promesso.

J’ai récemment investi dans l’Anycubic Wash & Cure 3 Plus, et c’est tout simplement un game-changer pour mes impressions en résine ! Cette machine offre une capacité et une efficacité de nettoyage et de durcissement exceptionnelles, tout en étant facile à utiliser. ✅ Les points forts : Grande capacité de lavage et de durcissement : Avec ses 7,6 litres de volume de lavage et une zone de photopolymérisation plus grande de 42%, elle permet de traiter plusieurs modèles ou des pièces plus grandes en une seule fois. Un vrai gain de temps ! Un durcissement ultra-performant : La lampe Flexicure améliore les détails les plus fins, ce qui optimise la solidité et la finition des impressions. On voit clairement la différence par rapport aux anciens modèles ! Économie de l’IPA : Grâce au système à double hauteur, on peut ajuster la quantité de liquide nécessaire en fonction de la taille de l’objet, ce qui réduit considérablement la consommation d’alcool isopropylique. Silencieuse et intuitive : Le mode nettoyage/durcissement simplifié est un vrai plus. Il suffit d’un bouton pour choisir l’option et de régler le temps (1 à 30 minutes), le tout sans bruit excessif. Fonctionne parfaitement avec mon Photon Mono m7 PRO. ⚡ Pourquoi je recommande ? Si vous cherchez une solution performante, efficace et optimisée pour nettoyer et durcir vos impressions en résine, cette machine est incontournable. Anycubic a encore une fois frappé fort avec un produit de grande qualité, alliant simplicité d’utilisation, gain de temps et finitions impeccables. Un must-have pour tous les passionnés d’impression 3D en résine !

The product is not the same as in the pictures, the UV lights are extremely small and not really powerful. I do like that it’s really big so it still fits my big prints so I don’t have a need to return it but the pictures must be changed on the listing, it’s not the same machine!