youre incorrect in the fact that they can print faster without sacrificing detail because youre stuck on their .1mm layer height thing. they all advertise print speeds with a .1mm layer height because us printing at .02mm probably makes up a very small part of their market. i can print faster with my 6k by modifying the lift speeds to match my 6ks factory settings. imagine that, anycubic advertised faster print speeds with the 6ks BECAUSE of changing the lift speeds. make sense?
I never claimed "...they can print faster without sacrificing detail..." Just the opposite in fact.
I'm not "stuck" on anything. I've seen results of prints done with a 0.10mm layer height and the results are crap for details. Not only do I think so, the reviewers also think so, since it's pretty obvious that the details are gone...at that layer height.
Reviewers who print miniatures (and there are a lot of them) regularly print at 0.020mm if the machines they're reviewing will do it...and if they're interested in a thorough review.
I'm sure that increasing lift speed will cut the print time too, but totally discounting a thick layer height as a major contributor to printing speed is ignoring why the manufacturers (all of them) print at that layer height when bragging about their machine's print speed...it makes for faster prints...period.
It also makes for crappy details...period...no matter what is being printed.
From my own experience, I've never printed anything at a layer height of over 0.050 mm, and when I decrease my layer height, my prints take longer. I minimize the thickness of my supports because I'm much more interested in print success than print speed since with the small size of my parts, I can get over 1,000 parts off of one 35 minute session in some instances. However, since my support attachment points are as small as I feel I can go, I don't rev up my lift speed just to print faster, since basically print speed is the last thing I'm concerned about.
Lots of things contribute to a faster print speed...and layer height is certainly one of them.
Cheerio!
Bob Gilmore