Where to get Print Screens and what is the timelife of it ?

Hello Community!

I got a brand new Halot one Plus last Christmas, and I started printing with it not too long ago. And my printer runs half the day most of the time during the week.
I haven’t had any issues so far but since this isn’t my first printer, I know that print screens are consumables and since I hate looking for these parts at the last minute, I started looking for some today because I don’t even know what the average life of the screen is. I read somewhere that the average can be at least 400 hours and maybe 2000 hours. That’s a big difference, right?
For me, 400 hours is at best around 40 days. And then what am I going to do? Throw away my printer like some of your customers are already doing? (many advertise on second-hand sites because they can’t find print screens)
I couldn’t believe it until now, when I went to the official Creality online stores (all of them). I couldn’t find a 7.9" 8k mono LCD print screen for my Halot 1+. So I looked elsewhere, and finally found one on a store on a merchant site, sold by a seller at an incredibly high price, almost double if I can compare to other 3D printer suppliers for print screens of the same size and quality (8k).

So I’m a little confused. If Creality doesn’t provide their own consumables:
Where can I get these screens at a normal price?
And what is their average life span?

Please let me know soon
Looking forward to hearing from you

Kind regards

Are we talking LCD screen protectors or FEP screens? I would look on Aliexpress.

Hi Bonfireman,

neither one nor the other.
I was talking about the print screen itself : 7.9" 4k mono LCD print screen.
the printer is more than two years old, its rating is therefore decreasing even if it is still sold between 400 and 500 € new on a marketplace (cdiscount in France for example), I am aware that its value is around 200 € maximum.
An LCD has 107 €, it is therefore half the current value of the printer.
Due to my confusion. How is it possible that Creality does not provide these screens in their stores especially since we all know that LCD Print screens are consumables and that they are not guaranteed by the brand and therefore not under the two-year warranty.

Thank you for your concern

A quick hunt round on Aliexpress for LCD model 079-L001-4 has that screen for about £63, keep hunting and good luck. Glad that Anycubic stock screens for if/when mine goes south.

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Thanx I found the one you were talking about: 87€ due to exchange.
Which is already more affordable.

Slightly cheaper