Welcome to the Form 4 Series Training

Congratulations on your new Form 4, Form 4B, Form 4L, or Form 4BL printer! Learn everything you need to get up and running quickly and successfully with your printer through our training videos and support articles.

To get started, create a Dashboard account to prepare to register your printer after it is unboxed and set up. Dashboard allows you to remotely monitor your prints and printers, track material usage, and explore past and future Formlabs purchases. For detailed instructions, refer to our support article.

1. Preparing Your Space

Before receiving your Form 4 Series printer, make sure you’re ready to install and operate it by reviewing the support articles below. These articles detail how much space is required for your printer and accessories, and how to house the necessary accessories and consumables.

Preparing your workspace for your Form 4/B printerPreparing your workspace for your Form 4L/4BL printer

2. Receiving and Unboxing Your Printer

Know what to expect when your Form 4 Series printer arrives. Package contents, unboxing, and how to locate your printer’s serial name are all detailed in our unboxing videos.

Alternatively, read about the details of the unboxing experience for your printer below.

Receiving and unboxing your Form 4/B printerReceiving and unboxing your Form 4L/4BL printer

3. Setting Up and Starting With Your Printer

Once your printer is unboxed and placed, let’s turn it on and get it ready to print! Check out the video to learn how to turn the printer on and insert the resin tank, mixer, build platform, and resin cartridge. Additional guidance can be found in the support articles below.

Setting up your Form 4/B printerSetting up your Form 4L/4BL printer

4. How Form 4 Series Printers Work

Learn more about the Low Force Display (LFD) technology that powers the Form 4 and Form 4L in this video, including the detailed overview of the print process.

5. Starting a Print With PreForm

If you haven’t already, download PreForm, Formlabs' print preparation software. Check out our support article and the video to learn the basics of how to orient and support your model and send your print job from PreForm to your printer.

If you want to take the pressure off your first print, start with our provided part. We’ve tested this part to make sure it prints well, giving you a chance to familiarize yourself with how your printer works before jumping into more complex prints.

Your print will start automatically if you have installed and confirmed all the consumables before uploading the print. See our support article for detailed instructions.

6. Consumables for Form 4 Series Printers

Learn more about the consumables used by your Form 4 or Form 4L printer, and how they are utilized during the print process.

7. Post-Processing Your Print

Once your print is complete, it needs to go through a few post-processing steps to look and perform its best. Check out our support article and the video to learn how to remove parts from the printer, wash your parts, clean your build platform, remove supports, and post-cure your parts.

8. Maintaining Your Form 4 Series Printer

Form 4 Series printers are very low-maintenance machines. While there is some preventative maintenance, such as keeping software and firmware up to date, most maintenance steps will be performed when dictated by certain print events. Listen to an expert from our Services team explain the most important maintenance steps in the video.

Below you can also find the support documentation for the most common maintenance steps:

Updating softwareUpdating firmwareAdjusting Build Platform ParallelismCleaning the Release Texture (Form 4/B)Preventing and Cleaning Resin Spills (Form 4/B)Cleaning the Release Texture (Form 4L/4BL)Preventing and Cleaning Resin Spills (Form 4L/4BL)

9. Advancing Your PreForm Skills

Watch the video to hear an expert walk through the different types of PreForm warnings, tools for support editing, and best practices for setting up a print.

Additionally, check out our blog post to learn more about PreForm warnings/how to adjust, optimizing support generation/placement, and raft printing vs printing directly on the Build Platform.