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I work at Creator Warehouse and when we heard about the Youthy Make printer,

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we knew we had to take a look at it. And even though it's a Kickstarter,

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let's take a look at what this could do.

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Whoa, it's chunky. And what looks like the print bed that comes with it.

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And a nice little quick start guide. And a bed.

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Unlike FDM printers, UV printers will spray down an ink

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and then cure it almost instantly with a UV light. This one included.

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This particular model can do a bunch of different colors

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and print some depth and texture as well, which is part of why we're excited about it.

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Youthy has been talking about a wide variety of different materials

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that they're looking to unveil at one point or another. And I've seen some of the prints in person,

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but I'm definitely looking forward to playing around with it myself.

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Great. Ah, there's another nice little surprise for us inside.

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Well packed, if nothing else. Looks like.

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We got a bunch of cables. Some UV glasses, power cable,

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a couple of ceramic test print pieces,

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and a charcoal filter, which as it is UV ink is pretty important

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because the BOCs can be a little bit nasty. Youthy make claims that with this charcoal filter

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and the setup that they have, this should be safe for indoors.

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We'll take a little bit of a dive into whether or not I can smell any of the UV inks,

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but as far as I've been able to see in the past,

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seems like they do a pretty good job, at least when things are closed up.

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So we have our quick start guide, which appears to be attached to a print surface.

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And this I believe is a tack mat for sticking your parts down to

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to put them into the printer. So we also have a smaller tack mat

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for the integrated smaller bed where you can run it fully closed up.

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And then this would be for printing some of your, printing on some of your bigger pieces

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that you'd have to run with the doors open. So it ships with the smaller bed in place,

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just a little lever, take it off for when you can do really small things.

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There are several other attachments as well, some for doing direct to a film,

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as well as a rotary attachment for printing onto bottles

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or other round objects. This is the ink that you're actually using,

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as well as a cleaning cartridge kit that fits into it

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to make sure that things don't get clogged up when you aren't using it or just through general use.

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These are individual cartridges that'll slide into the unit here.

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And these are replaceable. I believe they're looking at having larger tanks

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for at least some of them, just to make swapping out less frequent.

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But that's still in the works. There's three white cartridges, a gloss cartridge.

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The white is for doing backgrounds, if you need to make sure that something pops,

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if you're printing on something transparent or with a different colored backer.

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And the gloss gives a more shiny reflection on the final printed part.

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I've seen mixed feedback on the gloss itself as far as I've seen the ink is fairly reflective,

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but depending on what you're trying to do, could work out pretty well. And this is your cleaning kit,

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which also stores used resin. We have another box to open up.

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Guess this is gonna be your CMYKs.

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Ah, there we go. Ah, it's more like the colors I was expecting.

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There's your CMYK with a cleaning, a white, and a gloss.

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I'm guessing this is a replacement kit then. Now these are our other main boxes.

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Take a look through the quick start guide. There's a nice little foam piece to take off here.

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Alrighty, that holds the printhead in place.

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All right, now that the packing foam for shipping is taken out, oh, there's a nice little sticker too.

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Oh, I left a shmoo.

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All right, next step is plug it in. From what I've seen online,

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the power up for this does take a bit, which isn't super surprising.

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And also the power down takes quite a while, just to make sure that everything's clean

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and running properly. Power ports on my side.

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Is that you?

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That was the noise I was actually waiting for. All right, so now it appears to be on.

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All right, now that it sounds like all the configuration and startup is done,

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let's get the print in-commodules installed.

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They do have convenient markings on all of them, so putting them in the right place

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should be pretty straightforward. I do enjoy the smell of UV ink in the morning.

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Next up is the cleaning solution. So that should be under this cartridge here.

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There are three protective caps. Take those out.

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Now that I'm installing this section, it does say to wear gloves for all of it.

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As I said before, most of the inks and stuff in here are not terribly good for you.

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So this has three little protective covers on it,

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and we just insert it in.

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Nice.

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It has informed me that I have done the thing.

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And then we have the filter to install.

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Yes, there we go.

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All right, it's a pretty tight fit, as I'd hope. Otherwise, it's not gonna do a ton of filtering.

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Get this front cover back on, close this up, and then we are moving over to the app.

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Reminds you every time something's installed. We got the app downloaded.

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This does require a phone app to be set up. I was planning on trying to just do it on a desktop app,

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but that apparently isn't possible. The initial setup was a little bit of a hassle.

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Whether that's our network issues or an issue with the device is hard to say,

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but we did have a bit of headaches with having to take out and reconnect

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some of the cartridges, but after we got it set up and connected to Ethernet here,

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it wasn't too bad to get the rest of it set up. And now we're into the initialization.

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25 minute total time for initialization, let's go. This will take 20 minutes, so we'll see you in a bit.

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Roughly 20 minutes later, the ink is now injected, and it's taking us through the rest of the installation steps.

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So we have to make sure that the flatbed and upper white film are installed.

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That would be this piece here. Pop this open.

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Take this off. Take off the protective film.

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Ooh, satisfying. And slap that down. Nice little press, and let's install this back in.

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Check status, takes about 60 seconds.

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Setting up any printer like this is generally not a quick endeavor, so this isn't anything that I wouldn't necessarily expect.

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Now it's doing a test print. It says it'll take about two minutes and two not interrupt this process.

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As far as I can tell, I believe it's just doing a test layout to make sure none of the nozzles are clogged

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and everything's functioning as expected. We'll take it out, take a look at it,

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and then we can actually get to the real prints. Print looks done.

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Let's open it up and take a little look. On the screen, it gives you examples

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of what good successful prints are and what cleaning required results are.

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Based off what I can see here, it looks like all of the nozzles look good.

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It is now calibrating the camera, which will take a further 10 minutes.

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So I'll see you in about 10 minutes.

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Initialization's ready to go. After a little bit of a mistake on my part,

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let's get this paper off and we can start printing.

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There's the calibration for the printer for the camera.

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Pop this off and see where I accidentally took the paper off the first time.

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Pro tip, leave it on until it tells you to take it off.

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Learning from my mistakes. Taking a look through the app, it takes you through your first textured 3D print.

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So I have chosen a nice little dragon. Plop the mag down,

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give it a little jidge, close it up. Snapshot takes about one to three minutes.

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Please do not move the print bed or the material. Also do not close this page or the lock screen.

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They really like to remind you to not let your phone go to sleep. It's like it's scanning the object that's placed down.

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I saw some laser lines on it.

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And now I think it's doing the optical camera alignment.

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So that's nice and aligned and I'll just hit start.

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And it's going. Looks like we're about 50% of the way done now.

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And I'm starting to see the colorations come through. It's looking pretty awesome.

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It's a bit difficult to capture because of the super reflective covers on it.

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And since it is a UV light, we do want to keep it closed up at least for now,

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but I'm looking forward to seeing this done. Print just finished up, 13 minutes on the timer.

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That sounds about right. Let's take a little look.

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Oh, that's really on there. Oh, that is a gorgeous fricking print.

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And there's a fair bit of texture to it too.

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One thing that I noticed pretty quickly, I did not align it perfectly.

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You can see some of the bleed off on the edge on the print bed.

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So with that misalignment, there was some that printed onto the bed.

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This is a consumable piece, this cover.

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So this can come off. We don't know what the pricing of this is,

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but as far as I've heard, it's supposed to be relatively cost effective.

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And if I had aligned this a little bit better on this particular piece, it wouldn't have been an issue.

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That said, this print turned out ridiculously good.

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For 13 minutes, this is super cool.

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And it is dry to the touch, completely fine. It's a little bit tacky,

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but I think that's just the nature of the finished material

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and nothing that I wouldn't expect. You can see some of the layer lines on it too.

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Now that I've gotten this first print done, I'm gonna take this back to CW,

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run through a bunch more test prints, and then we'll have some more stuff to show you right now.

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Back at it, now we have a bunch of prints to look at. I did a wide variety of different materials,

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different shapes, different sizes, even busted out the rotary axis,

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which I was quite impressed with. It worked really well and the setup was simple.

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We'll do a quick little look at that. Also, even printed a screwdriver on a screwdriver

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because, you know, that's fun. Print sizes and print times very wildly

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depending on what you're gonna do. Anything from something like this,

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which takes about an hour and a half, down to a flat small piece that takes three minutes.

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And the cost and amount of ink consumed will also vary wildly depending on if you're doing

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large areas, small areas, and texture.

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Texture definitely consumes quite a bit, but the biggest print that we did in the most consumption

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was this, which is a flat piece, but it's just a very large area.

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So your mileage will vary quite a bit depending on exactly what you're trying to do.

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But as far as I've seen, it's extremely capable in essentially every area that I've tried to use it.

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Definitely looking forward to showing these prints and parts to the other Creative Warehouse team members

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to start ideating what we can use it for our workflows.

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Looking a little more closely at some of the prints, the phone case with our trust me bro guarantee sticker

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came out really well. When I set this to high detail, the granularity was definitely a lot better.

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I noticed on some of the other prints there was a bit of graininess on some of them,

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but this one came out super well. If you want to add textures to your parts,

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you can either import your own or you can use their built-in machine learning or AI tool

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to generate a texture map, which uses some of their tokens

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that you get a certain amount of every month.

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I used their AI generator for this Linus face

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and I was impressed with how well and how much detail it was able to get on his face,

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both within like his mouth being sunk in and his hair texturing really coming out.

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One instance of the texture not working quite as well as you might hope is with transparent objects

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and for some metallics. So this transparent screwdriver that I did,

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it definitely didn't capture the depths correctly, which I don't blame it.

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Capturing transparent and metallic objects in general is quite difficult for systems like this

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and this would be a good application for me able to import your own texture map

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would work quite well, but it still made it look really nice.

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So I printed these on the sticker paper. Let's see how well it peels off.

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Also, I may not have done this perfectly correctly, to be fair.

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It actually came off, came off pretty well, a little bit of extra material,

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but I imagine that's fairly easy to get off. I'm sure that this could be done better than I did it.

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All right, that was pretty easy. Overall, I'm very impressed with the usability,

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how simple and how just plug and play this printer is.

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It is still a Kickstarter slash pre-order, so be careful.

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If you do decide to pre-order, the printer itself is about $2,500 US,

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and you can get multiple add-ons that could bring it up to 3,800.

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Each ink cartridge is 43 US per,

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and if you get the bundle pack with all of the ink cartridges and the cleaning pack, it's about 300 USD.

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I'm really excited to see what we can make use of this in our workflows.

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And I look forward to seeing how well Yuffie supports it.

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And I look forward to you like commenting and subscribing to ShortCircuit.

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If you like this video, check out one of the other 3D printers that I unboxed.

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And have a great day.