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Best 3D Printers 2026: Buyer’s Guide

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Prague Firefighters 3D Print Their Own Gear on a Prusa CORE One L

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Prague Firefighters 3D Print Their Own Gear on a Prusa CORE One L

Prague's central fire station prints its own mounts, door wedges and spare parts on a Prusa CORE One…

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  • Best ABS and ASA filament
  • Engineering filaments
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Resin

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  • Types of 3D printing
  • Metal 3D printing

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  • Food-safe 3D printing
  • Setting up a school program
  • Free 3D printable models
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Latest

  • Prague Firefighters 3D Print Their Own Gear on a Prusa CORE One L
  • Aurora Labs Raises A$6 Million to Scale Up 3D Printed Turbojet Production
  • Transgulf Readymix Invests in UAE Construction 3D Printing Firm AC3D
  • Navy Engineers Design 3D Printable Safety Clip for Bomb Disposal Teams
  • GKN Aerospace Earns First Nadcap Accreditation for Laser Wire DED
All news

Use cases

  • Prague Firefighters 3D Print Their Own Gear on a Prusa CORE One L
  • OECHSLER Scales Carbon Lattice Production to 40 Printers Running Around the Clock
  • Reverse Engineering Without CAD Data: How the MetroY Ultra Turns Physical Parts into Digital Designs
  • Michigan State Engineers 3D Printed Helmet Inserts to Help Quarterbacks Tackle Crowd Noise
  • 3D Printed Quiet Pickleball Unveiled
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ASTM Publishes Two New Additive Manufacturing Standards for Metals and Aerospace

ASTM International, has recently published two new standards for additive manufacturing (AM) in collaboration with its AM committee (F42). The first standard (F3571)... read more »

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NASA Validates 3D Printed RDRE Aerospike Engine

NASA has recently validated the data from hot fire tests on their 3D printed aerospike engine at their test facility in Marshall Space... read more »

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Agnikul Test Fires Printed Rocket Engine

Space startup Agnikul Cosmos has announced the successful test firing of their 3D printed rocket engine at an ISRO test facility in Thiruvananthapuram,... read more »

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Relativity Space Reveals New Stargate Metal Printer

California-based rocket company Relativity Space has announced their new super-sized rocket printing robotic 3D printer system, dubbed the Stargate 4th generation. The new... read more »

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Huge Metal Aerospace 3D Printed Part Manufactured

A consortium from Hamburg University of Technology (TUHH), TU Dresden (TUD) and Autodesk have collaborated with GE AAT Munich to produce one of... read more »

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Boeing Celebrates Belated Opening of AM Center

This week aircraft manufacturer Boeing has officially celebrated the opening of its Center of Additive Manufacturing Excellence in Auburn, Washington. The facility employs... read more »

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Purdue’s 3D Printed Fuel Injectors Undergo Hypersonic Testing

Purdue has recently partnered with VELO3D to 3D print a fuel injector that can replicate hypersonic conditions in their lab. This is a... read more »

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Patents Granted for Printed Rocket Fuel Technology

Florida-based rocket company Vaya Space has been awarded patents for their Vortex-Hybrid engine technology. Unlike most rocket companies we look at on this... read more »

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German Researchers to Laser Print Moondust

Researchers from German institutes are planning to send a robotic mobile selective laser melting (SLM) printer to the Moon, to demonstrate in-situ additive... read more »

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New Titanium AM Parts Coming to Airbus A350

The Airbus A350 already has more 3D printed parts than any other civil airliner. And that list of AM components will grow further... read more »

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Printing Single Crystal Nickel with Lasers

A team of researchers at the National Institute for Materials Science and Osaka University Graduate School of Engineering in Japan, has successfully demonstrated... read more »

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India’s AM Rocket Factory Opens its Doors

Indian aerospace engineering company Agnikul Cosmos has opened their first rocket printing factory at IIT Madras Research Park, Chennai. “Rocket Factory-1” is intended... read more »

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New Regolith Composite Lunar Base Concept Unveiled

Space architecture firm AI SpaceFactory has unveiled their plan for a lunar habitat, which has been designed for additive manufacturing on the Moon's... read more »

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Printed Swiss Robot Aiming for Space

We’ve said it before and we’ll say it again. 3D printed space stuff is cool. It’s just as well because this year is... read more »

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NASA Selects Continuous Composites for Space Isogrid Printing

Space hardware needs a lot of panels. Be it for rocket bodies, satellite structures, and even space stations. In particular, space hardware needs... read more »

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Load-bearing Metal Parts Certified by EASA

It is always exciting to see a new first in certified aerospace metal components, and this one is particularly significant as it is... read more »

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New 3D Printed Rocket Engine (Available for Order)

Colorado-based rocket engine company Ursa Major has used 3D printing to build a reusable, liquid oxygen/methane rocket engine capable of delivering 200,000 lbs... read more »

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World’s Largest Printed Aerospike Engine Unveiled

Traditional rockets are incredibly inefficient for a number of reasons, not least due to the fact that they are mostly disposable. But reusability... read more »

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Drone Demos Printed Antenna Nose

Additive manufacturing offers a number of benefits to those wishing to develop antennas in various non-traditional geometries, and a team of researchers in... read more »

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CNT-infused Polymeric Inks Yield Promising Results

A team of researchers from Michigan Technological University have demonstrated printing of carbon nanotube (CNT) infused epoxy inks, and have published a paper... read more »

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Overture Easy Nylon

  • Co-polyamide blend specifically formulated for printability with reduced warping and mo…
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Creality Ender-3 V3 SE

$179
  • This page keeps the Creality Ender-3 address and now covers the Ender-3 V3 SE, the mach…
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3DMakerpro Moose Lite

~$399
  • Entry-level NIR medium crossover scanner with AI visual tracking at 0.05mm accuracy and…
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Creality Ender 3 V3 KE

~$299-$349
  • The latest evolution of the iconic Ender 3 platform featuring Klipper firmware, 500 mm/…
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SUNLU High Speed Matte PETG

~$20 to 25/kg
  • Most-cited non-Bambu alternative for high-flow PETG printing, engineered for higher flo…
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Bambu Lab PAHT-CF

  • PPA-based (polyphthalamide) high-temperature nylon with carbon fibre offering substanti…
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Anycubic Kobra X

~$299
  • A fast bedslinger with the ACE Gen 2 color system built into the toolhead offering 4 co…
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Bambu Lab P1S

~$399
  • The enclosed CoreXY predecessor to the P2S, now discounted significantly, with a large…
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