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ELEGOO Mars 5, 4K mono LCD review

A 4K mono-LCD resin printer with one-click auto-levelling, a sensor that detects residue before it damages the screen, and an overheat cut-out, whose listing does not publish the pixel pitch.

The bottom line The listing is built around protecting the printer from its most expensive failures — a crushed screen, an overheated light source — and it describes those protections precisely. It is thin on the figures a resin buyer compares: pixel pitch, vat, film and ventilation.

The Mars 5 listing, bullet by bullet

Five bullets: one-click automatic levelling for users of every level; smarter printing, with a mechanical sensor that detects residue to prevent LCD damage and alarms for low resin and levelling failure; a one-click self-check of components before each print; a 4K mono LCD with an advanced COB light source; and overheat protection that stops the print and sounds an alarm when the LED temperature exceeds 80 °C, supported by a cooling system.

Protections before specifications

Three of five bullets describe what stops a failure. Residue detection guards the screen, the self-check guards against a faulty component, and the 80 °C cut-out guards the light source. For a resin printer these are real concerns, because a single cured fragment under the plate can crack a screen.

4K without its pitch

The resolution figure describes the screen’s pixel count; the pixel pitch, which sets the smallest feature in the plane of a layer, is not published. This page does not derive it.

What resin printing still needs

The listing does not mention the vat, the release film, gloves or ventilation. Uncured resin is an irritant, and the resin maker’s safety data sheet decides how it is handled; the printer’s cooling fan is not a fume extractor.

Availability

At the last look-up, the German, French, Italian and Spanish Amazon stores were asking 209 € to 230 €.

It is sold in the British Amazon store as well, in its own currency, which the euro figures above leave out on purpose.

The American Amazon catalogue lists the product, yet no seller was offering it.

Every figure here is Keepa’s reading on the date this page was last updated. Stock and prices can change at any time.

Prices quoted in this text were read on 15 September 2026. The live price is at the top of the page.

Where it earns its place, and where it falls short

Strengths

  • A mechanical sensor that detects residue in the vat before the plate presses it into the screen, as the second bullet describes
  • Alarms for low resin level and levelling failure, and a one-click self-check before each print
  • An overheat protection that stops the print when the LED temperature exceeds 80 °C

Compromises

  • No pixel pitch published, so the 4K figure cannot be compared with printers that have a different screen size
  • No information on the vat, the release film or ventilation for resin
  • The smallest build volume of the two resin printers in this family

Specifications

Screen resolution4K mono LCD, title and fourth bullet; no pixel count across and down is given
Pixel pitchAbsent from the listing
Build volume143.43 × 89.6 × 150 mm, written in the title as mm³
Light sourceCOB light source, fourth bullet
VatAbsent from the listing
FilmAbsent from the listing
Published ventilation provisionAbsent from the listing — the fifth bullet describes a cooling system for the printer, not ventilation for resin fumes
Kit contentsAbsent from the listing
Amazon referenceB0D2R45QGD (same reference on 6 Amazon marketplaces)
EAN6976021762095

Questions makers ask before buying

Does 4K make the prints accurate?

It describes the screen, not the part. Without a published pixel pitch the figure cannot even be compared across screen sizes, and the accuracy of a finished print depends on the resin, exposure and calibration.

What does the residue detection protect?

The LCD screen. The second bullet says a mechanical sensor detects residue so that a cured fragment is not pressed into the screen by the platform.