The Top Resins of 2026: Every Category, Every Use Case, One Definitive Guide

The resin market in 2026 is extraordinary and overwhelming in equal measure.

Walk into the photopolymer aisle — figuratively speaking — and you'll find hundreds of options across dozens of brands, each with a specification sheet full of tensile strength ratings, elongation-at-break percentages, Shore hardness values, and cure time claims that are simultaneously precise and difficult to compare. Every brand says their resin is the best. None of them tell you what best means for your specific application.

That's what this guide is for.

We've...

Water Washable Resin: The 3D Printing Revolution That Comes With a Hidden Cost

The pitch is irresistible.

No isopropyl alcohol. No dedicated wash station. No chemical smell drifting through the house while your print soaks in a Tupperware tub. Just print, rinse under the tap, cure, and you're done. Water washable resin promises to take the most annoying, most chemical-intensive part of resin 3D printing and replace it with something you do every time you wash the dishes.

For a technology that has long been gatekept by its workflow complexity — the gloves, the ventilation, the IPA, the...