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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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  • Tough and ABS-like
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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

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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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What is 3D Printing?

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  • Blue Origin Northstar Booster Engine Is Over 65 Percent Printed
  • Printed Tungsten Tiles Survive Plasma Tests at DIII-D
  • LLNL Prints Tiny NIF Target Cone Ten Times Faster
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  • 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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Robo Nine Starts Printing First Fifty Robot Leader Arms

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Robo Nine Starts Printing First Fifty Robot Leader Arms

Robo Nine is 3D printing its first batch of 50 SO-ARM102 leader arms in China for the open-source…

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All printer guides

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  • Large scale and industrial

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  • FLSun T1 Pro
  • QIDI Tech Q1 Pro
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  • Best PETG filament
  • Best PLA filament
  • Best TPU filament
  • Best ABS and ASA filament
  • Engineering filaments
  • Composite filaments
  • Flexible filaments
  • Bio filaments
All filament guides

Resin

  • For miniatures
  • Tough and ABS-like
  • Castable resin
  • Water-washable
  • Flexible resin
All resin guides

Accessories

  • Filament dryers
  • Printer enclosures
  • Wash and cure stations

Buyer guides

  • Small objects
  • Medium objects
  • Large objects
  • Professional scanners
  • Scan with your phone
All scanner guides

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  • Scanning service vs buying

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  • Revopoint MetroY Pro
  • Revopoint Inspire 2
  • Revopoint Trackit
All scanner reviews

Design and AI

  • AI 3D model generators
  • 3D modeling and CAD software

Print prep and control

  • Slicers
  • STL repair tools
  • Printer host and remote control

Reviews

  • Tripo H3.1
  • Meshy 7
All software reviews

Start here

  • What is 3D printing?
  • How much does it cost?
  • FDM vs resin
  • Best printers for beginners

How it works

  • What is a 3D printer?
  • How does 3D printing work?
  • Types of 3D printing
  • Metal 3D printing

How-tos and glossary

  • 3D printing glossary
  • Food-safe 3D printing
  • Setting up a school program
  • Free 3D printable models
Black FridayNEW

Latest

  • Robo Nine Starts Printing First Fifty Robot Leader Arms
  • Callaway Plans $15M Titanium 3D Printing Facility in Fort Worth
  • Blue Origin Northstar Booster Engine Is Over 65 Percent Printed
  • Printed Tungsten Tiles Survive Plasma Tests at DIII-D
  • LLNL Prints Tiny NIF Target Cone Ten Times Faster
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
All use cases

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Jelmer Luimstra is a Dutch journalist. He covers 3D printing news and writes about innovation.

World’s First Braille Phone is 3D Printed

Smartphones are a relief to many of its users, but when you're blind they can however be very difficult to use. London-based company... read more »

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Doctors Replace Patient’s Hip Using 3D Printing

3D printing techniques have been helping many fields to improve, such as the medical one. Whether it comes to a 3D printed pelvis... read more »

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Use the Mink 3D Printer to 3D Print your own Make-Up

During this week's TechCrunch Disrupt in New York, a 3D printer to print out make-up in any desired color made a huge impression on... read more »

Fashion
3D Printing

Personalized 3D Printed Mouthpiece to Fight Sleep Apnoea

There is a 5 percent chance that you suffer from apnoea, as 5 percent of the world population has this disease. When one... read more »

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3D Printing

Chinese 3D Print Replica of 800-Year-Old Buddhist Statue

In China a replica of an 800-year-old Buddhist statue was made using a 3D printer. Restoration workers managed to print a 3:1 replica... read more »

News
3D Printing

3D Printed Protective Face Masks for Football Players

If you're a football player and you've got your face injured during a match, then it could take up to three weeks before... read more »

Medical
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WinSun Uses Waste to 3D Print Houses for Only 4800 Dollars

As a journalist, you sometimes need to be a little skeptical on certain news facts. A news bulletin from earlier this month about... read more »

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3D Printing

We Interviewed a Manufacturer of 3D Printed Ukuleles

A week ago we found out about Realize, Inc., a company which produces 3D printed ukuleles - in conjunction with Outdoor Ukulele. And... read more »

News
3D Printing

EU Works on Food Printer to Create Personalized Meals for the Elderly

Recently Natural Machines made the news with more detailed specifications about their long-expected healthy food printer, which will be released later on this year. The... read more »

Food
3D Printing

This is What a 3D Printed Ukulele Sounds Like

Being a musician myself, I personally don't expect that 3D printed instruments will ever fully replace their traditional, handmade counterparts. A video by... read more »

News
3D Printing

Criminals Use 3D Printers to Mass-Produce Skimming Devices

Financially it's probably everyone's worst nightmare: getting skimmed. Criminals create self-made devices, which they fit around, onto or into an ATM's card slot.... read more »

News
3D Printing

So This is What a 3D Printed Kayak Looks Like

Ok, that's also a possibility: creating a 3D printed kayak. Jim Smith of Grass Roots Engineering did it and the results are, say,... read more »

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Taiwanese Bicycle Turns Garbage Into Art

Researchers from Taiwan recently came up with something highly interesting: a bicycle that can turn garbage into art. They 'invaded' the streets of... read more »

News
3D Printing

TOPOGRAFICS: 3D Printed Versions of 2D Photographs

Here's a new 3D photo project: TOPOGRAFICS. It enables you to convert 2D photographs into 3D images. Dave White is the owner of... read more »

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New: A 3D Printed Guitar

Check out this guitar: have you ever seen an instrument like this? It's kind of a combination of a machine and an electric... read more »

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