JashNC Modular Resin 3D Printer Seems to Offer It All… So What’s the Catch?

An intriguing new printer landed on Kickstarter recently. The JashNC Pegasus 8K is a mono LCD-based resin 3D printer, claiming high modularity with a raft of optional extras that reads like a resin 3D printing wishlist.

At the time of writing, 108 backers have helped the project blow past its ~$38,000 funding goal with 24 days still to go.

The Pegasus will be compatible with the Vlare slicer, which leads us to believe it uses the promising new Vlare Core controller (the campaign page doesn’t explicitly state this, mind). An unusual degree of configuration is available, too. Backers can top up their pledge to expand the printer’s abilities with features including a resin and air temperature controller, an automatic resin-feed pump, and an “intelligent air pumping exhaust”.

Other vital stats include 219 x 123 x 250 mm standard build volume (you can configure it for 219 x 123 x 350 mm) and an X/Y pitch of 28.5 microns. Support for adjusting light intensity through power-width modulation (PWM) should give the Pegasus additional flexibility in the resins it can print.

There is also the curious option of paying a little more to configure the printer to ship with a ChiTu mainboard, which sounds like the exact opposite reason why you might be interested in it in the first place.

If the project takes off and the folks behind are legit, the Pegasus 8K could be just the thing to add a little spice to the melange of consumer desktop resin 3D printers available today. Super-early birds bagged the possibility of a Pegasus 8K for ~$489. The next available backer tier offers the machine for ~$509.

So the catch, as with anything that comes to Kickstarter, is that there’s no guarantee of anything. Of on-time delivery, nor delivery at all. This project doesn’t hold much water when held against our things to consider before backing a crowdfunding campaign. But even then, there can be exceptions. Our advice, as ever, is don’t pay out what you can’t afford to lose.