If you’ve ever finished a resin print and thought the hard part was over, you haven’t done many resin prints. The printing is the easy part. The work starts when the build plate comes out: dripping in uncured resin, gloves on, a tub of IPA in one hand and a UV curing station on the other, trying not to get photopolymer on anything you own. Resin printers got fast and sharp years ago; the post-processing gauntlet barely changed at all.

That’s finally shifting. This Thursday, October 22, UniFormation launches the S10 on Kickstarter — billed as the first fully automated desktop resin printer — and its headline feature isn’t resolution or speed. It’s that the machine washes and dries your prints for you.

Print, wash, dry — in one box

The S10’s trick is a build platform that rotates and tilts to drain excess resin back into the vat, then carries the print into an integrated 9-liter wash tank for two cleaning cycles, tilts to drain again, and finishes with controlled warm-air drying at 35–45°C. A cover slides over the resin vat while all this happens. You come back to washed, dried parts; you handle support removal and the final UV cure. Automatic resin feeding and heating, an enclosed chamber, and internal air purification round out the “stop babysitting it” pitch.

The specs aren’t an afterthought, either: a 16K monochrome LCD (15,360 × 6,540 pixels at 14.52 × 19.25 μm), a 223 × 126 × 200 mm build volume, and a stated Z repeatability of ±0.005 mm on a C5 ball screw. For studios, there’s an optional S10 Fluid Hub that serves up to three printers and cascades solvent from fine rinse back into rough wash so IPA lasts longer — the kind of consumable-cost thinking print farms actually care about.

The money details: pledges start at $999, the expected retail price is $1,299, and there’s a refundable $20 VIP reservation that knocks $100 off if you back it. Deliveries are estimated for March 2027. Standard Kickstarter caveats apply — it’s a promise, not a product, and resin workflows have a lot of chemistry to get right. But the direction is the story.

The solvent problem is getting attention too

Washing eats IPA by the liter, and IPA is flammable, volatile, and a shipping headache. Back in February, Prusa started selling Prusament Resin Cleaner DPM — a dipropylene glycol methyl ether solvent it claims is safer than IPA “in every way,” with low flammability and low toxicity, at $18 a liter. It’s pricier than IPA, but you can buy it globally without hazardous-goods paperwork, and Prusa says two liters stayed effective until it had absorbed about 100 ml of liquid resin. Whether DPM or something else wins, the industry is finally treating wash solvent as a product category instead of an afterthought.

Meanwhile, on the FDM side: workflow over specs

It’s not just resin. Creality opened pre-orders on the K3 at $849, and the interesting bits aren’t the 500 mm/s speed claims — it’s the CMYK physical color blending with calibrated translucent filaments and mixed-nozzle printing that assigns 0.2 mm nozzles to detail surfaces and 0.8 mm to infill in the same job. They also launched the Ender-3 V3 Mega Combo at $669 for large-format batch work. The pattern across all of these: the spec sheet arms race is maturing into workflow design. Less “look how fast,” more “look how little you have to think about it.”

The resin workflow, done right

If the S10’s premise appeals to you, you already know the manual version of the drill. For everyone else, here’s the checklist that keeps resin printing from being miserable:

• Ventilate. Resin fumes and IPA vapor both deserve airflow. A printer in a closed room is a bad plan.
• Gloves always. Uncured resin is a skin sensitizer — exposure builds up over time. Nitrile, not latex.
• Two-stage wash. A dirty first wash, then a clean second wash. This is exactly what the S10 automates, and it’s why prints come out tacky when you skip it.
• Dry before you cure. Curing a wet print locks in surface defects. Warm air or just patience.
• Cure completely. Under-cured resin stays chemically active. Give it the full cycle.

The S10 won’t cure for you, and it won’t pull supports — but automating the three steps in between is the biggest single reduction in resin-printing friction anyone has shipped in years. If UniFormation delivers, the “resin is too much hassle” objection gets a lot weaker. And given how fast this corner of the hobby is moving lately, I wouldn’t bet on them being the only ones trying.