Elegoo Jupiter 2

The Elegoo Jupiter 2 is a large-format resin printer built around a 14-inch 16K monochrome LCD in an enclosed, twin-door cabinet. It's the flagship of the Jupiter line: helmets, busts and cosplay props come off the plate in one piece, and a single run can hold a full batch of miniatures. It's a machine for experienced printers and small studios, not a first resin printer.

Build volume is 302.4 × 162 × 300 mm, roughly 14.6 liters. Pixels are rectangular at 20 × 26 μm, Z accuracy is 20 μm, layer height runs 0.01–0.2 mm and top speed is 90 mm/h, with a normal layer exposure around 2.5 seconds. The light engine is a COB source with a Fresnel collimating lens — at this diagonal, even exposure matters more than pixel count. You also get a heated vat, automatic resin feeding and reclaim from a 2 kg bottle, a chamber camera, Wi-Fi and USB.

Pros

• Print quality is the strong suit: Tom's Hardware scored it 4.5/5, and FauxHammer calls the output some of the sharpest on a printer this size
• A flat plate over a fixed screen, no tilting vat and no spring-loaded tricks — reviewers saw no layer shifts or tears in testing
• Quick-swap PFA film takes seconds to replace, and the LCD is about a ten-minute job: tape, screws, ribbon cable
• Heated vat with resin preheating keeps exposure consistent in a cold workshop
• Automatic feeding from the bottle plus reclaim — the vat tops itself up, and draining it back takes about five minutes instead of a messy manual pour
• The build plate has carry handles, a drip lip and a laser-etched surface; the camera uses white, non-UV lighting for time-lapses and remote checks

Cons

• The two swing-out doors span close to a meter on a 465 mm wide machine, and need even more clearance mid-swing
• Power switch, socket and the pump bottle all live at the back, so power-cycling a 28.9 kg printer means reaching around it
• The advertised 300 mm of Z height is hard to use: there isn't enough extra travel to lift a full-height print clear of the vat
• At launch, Elegoo SatelLite (based on VoxelDance Tango) was the only compatible slicer: crashes, clumsy model handling, a 2 GB file limit. Tom's Hardware prepped models in Chitubox and only sliced in SatelLite

It makes sense if you need big models without glue seams and batches of miniatures at full detail: props, busts, statues, small production runs. It's heavy and space-hungry for a living room, and an air purifier such as the Elegoo Mars Mate is a separate purchase.

As a printing engine it's one of the strongest large-format machines around, but the surrounding design — ergonomics, UI, slicer — still feels unfinished. If you can live with that for the output, the $949 price holds up.

Reviews

• Tom's Hardware — Elegoo Jupiter 2 Resin 3D Printer review: The giant returns for round two (4.5/5)
• FauxHammer — Elegoo Jupiter 2 Review: A Brilliant Large Resin Printer Buried Under Too Many Bad Decisions
• VogMan — Elegoo Jupiter 2 Review: Great Printer… Terrible Decisions