…Since it would be residing in my bedroom cum office. I’m thinking with a liquid plastic there’s a solvent involved. There’s a window nearby so it would be possible to rig up a fan and hose blowing anything outside but it would be a PITA.
I have an Elegoo Mars and have been using this water-washable resin. The fumes are not really bad at all. I can smell it when it’s printing if I’m in the same room and close to the printer, but it’s not very strong. I would describe it as somewhere between noticeable and barely noticeable. I usually don’t even have a window open when I’m printing. I think the smell of the alcohol-washable resin is stronger but I haven’t used that yet.
I also have an Elegoo Mars and so far I’ve only used the alcohol-washable resin. I’d say it’s not great, and definitely wouldn’t want it in my bedroom. I use it in my garage without any extra ventilation there, and it’s fine, but it’s a large volume and I’m not hanging out down there. Maybe I should pick up some water-washable stuff to compare. The alcohol wash itself obviously adds to the smell.
Isn’t “resin” a very broad category, that covers a multitude of polymers? It might be more useful to find out which specific polymer or polymers your printer can use, and ask about those.
“Resin” has a specific meaning here. There are only two basic types of consumer-oriented 3D printers, “filament” and “resin”. The resin type uses a kind of liquid plastic that is cured by blue/UV light. The resin printers all pretty much use the same stuff, but as noted there are two variants, alcohol-washable and water-washable.
Filament printers use a solid plastic filament (similar to the stuff that weed-whackers use) as the feedstock, and there are lots of varieties there. But despite them also being resins, that’s not what’s meant by a resin 3D printer.