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Best 3D Printers 2026: Buyer’s Guide

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Best 3D Printers 2026: Buyer’s Guide

Twenty printers tested and ranked, from $169 to the H2D.

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Filament

  • Best PETG filament
  • Best PLA filament
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  • Best ABS and ASA filament
  • Engineering filaments
  • Composite filaments
  • Flexible filaments
  • Bio filaments
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Resin

  • For miniatures
  • Tough and ABS-like
  • Castable resin
  • Water-washable
  • Flexible resin
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Best Filament Dryers (2026 Guide)

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Best Filament Dryers (2026 Guide)

Wet filament causes most failed prints; the fix costs less than a spool.

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3D Scanners 2026: The Complete Buying Guide

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3D Scanners 2026: The Complete Buying Guide

Nineteen scanners from $400 to $40,000, sorted by object size.

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Best AI 3D Model Generators for 3D Printing (2026)

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Best AI 3D Model Generators for 3D Printing (2026)

Type a prompt, get a printable model: the tools we tested, free tiers first.

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What is 3D Printing?

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ABS and Radian Forge to Evaluate Digital Qualification of Wire Arc 3D Printed Metal Parts

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ABS and Radian Forge to Evaluate Digital Qualification of Wire Arc 3D Printed Metal Parts

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All printer guides

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  • Best PLA filament
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  • Best ABS and ASA filament
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Resin

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  • Tough and ABS-like
  • Castable resin
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How-tos and glossary

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  • ABS and Radian Forge to Evaluate Digital Qualification of Wire Arc 3D Printed Metal Parts
  • ICON Begins 3D Printing Its Largest Commercial Building for ASCO Equipment in San Antonio
  • VulcanForms Secures $500 Million to Build Three New Factories Around Its Metal 3D Printing
  • University of Freiburg Researchers Win €10 Million ERC Grant for Volumetric 3D Printing of Commercial Plastics
  • Dutch Machine Builder Swaps a Welded Part for One Metal 3D Printed by K3D
All news

Use cases

  • Dutch Machine Builder Swaps a Welded Part for One Metal 3D Printed by K3D
  • 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
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GE Plans to Make Wind Turbines Taller with 3D Printed Bases

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3D Printing and Formula 1

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Tutorial: 3D Printing Reusable TPU Molds for Epoxy Resin

In our review of BigRep’s flexible TPU filament, we discovered that the material works remarkably well for making epoxy resin molds and we... read more »

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Hands-On Review: Ultimaker S5

For all of our BigRep filament reviews we used the Ultimaker S5 with mostly default print profiles in Cura in order to generate... read more »

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Addm.io Kickstarting an Online 3D Printing Entrepreneurship Course

There are more and more courses on 3D printing, most of them centered around how the technology works, the way it’s disrupting markets,... read more »

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Evonik Releases World’s First PEEK Filament for Medical Implants

Medical and surgical applications make up a growing share of the professional 3D printing market and some companies are leaning into that fact.... read more »

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Stratasys Releases Office-Friendly Full-Color 3D Printer

There’s been a surge of office-friendly 3D printers hitting the market recently, mostly driven by a shift in the economics of outsourcing prototyping.... read more »

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Hands-on Review: HI-TEMP Filament

If a poll was taken of makers around the world asking what one characteristic of 3D printing filament they’d like to be improved,... read more »

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Military-spec Filament Produces Stronger 3D Printed Objects

The US military is no stranger to 3D printing, having supported and developed a plethora of AM breakthroughs. Though they certainly work with... read more »

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Hands-on Review: PLA Filament

Exotic 3D printing materials are great and I’ve had a lot of fun reviewing BigRep’s flexible, high-temp, fast-printing, and transparent materials. Today, though,... read more »

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3D Printing Amorphous Metals

Heraeus and Trumpf have partnered to develop amorphous metal 3D printing technology. Also known as glassy metal and metallic glass, these materials exhibit... read more »

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Hands-on Review: PETG Filament

When it comes to 3D printing filament, PETG is probably the third most popular material behind PLA and ABS. It’s generally easier to... read more »

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Hands-on Review: TPU Filament

Of all the materials from BigRep that we’re reviewing, I was probably the most anxious about TPU, a highly flexible material. I’ve used... read more »

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Modix Releases BIG-120Z Large-format DIY 3D Printer Kit

Modix has made a name for themselves in the world of XL 3D printing with their large-format self-assembly 3D printers and they’re going... read more »

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Bolstering the Stability of Supply Chains with 3D Printing

It’s easy to think that modern supply chains are as efficient as they’ve ever been considering how the resources of so many countries... read more »

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Hands-on Review: PLX Filament

As previously mentioned, we’re working our way through reviewing most of BigRep’s filament offerings. Today, we’ll be looking at PLX, a PLA-derived material... read more »

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Increase Metal AM Productivity with Velo3D’s ‘SupportFree’ System

As we’ve previously outlined, there are significant time and monetary costs associated with post processing of metal 3D prints. Much of those costs... read more »

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Hands-on Review: PRO HT Filament

BigRep has customers in dozens of countries across the world. To provide the most consistent results for that massive network, they also make... read more »

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Prusa CORE One+

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Elegoo Centauri Carbon 2

~$329 solo, ~$379 to $449 with Canvas 4-color combo
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Anycubic Kobra S1 Max Combo

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Phrozen Sonic Mighty Revo

~$720
  • The premium reliability pick with an aerospace-grade aluminum frame, dual linear rails,…
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Bambu Lab P1S

~$399
  • The printer the community spent two years calling 'the one that just works': enclosed C…
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Anycubic Kobra 3 V2 Combo

~$329-$355
  • An updated open bedslinger with ACE Pro 4-color drying-while-printing, LeviQ 3.0 zoned…
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Creality Ender-5 Max

$749
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