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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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Best Filament Dryers (2026 Guide)

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3D Scanners 2026: The Complete Buying Guide

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

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  • 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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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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  • For kids and schools
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  • Large format
All printer guides

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  • Large scale and industrial

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  • Best PLA filament
  • Best TPU filament
  • Best ABS and ASA filament
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  • Composite filaments
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  • Tough and ABS-like
  • Castable resin
  • Water-washable
  • Flexible resin
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  • Meshy 7
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  • FDM vs resin
  • Best printers for beginners

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  • 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
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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
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Johns Hopkins Team Prints Ultra-high Temperature Carbide Ceramics

Using commercially available systems, a group of researchers from The Johns Hopkins University have managed to fabricate Ultra-high-temperature ceramics (UHTCs). The materials have... read more »

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3D Systems Partners with WeMatter for Small Footprint SLS

SLS machines are typically fairly hefty things and are often a wee too big for your average small workshop or office space. But... read more »

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Engineers Develop Contactless Powder Spreading

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Maxfilament Teams with Flashforge Poland Bringing Industrial Filaments to Creator 4

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Printed Nanocluster-based Composite Could Protect Delicate Aerospace Components

A team of Stanford University researchers have published details of a new nanoscale 3D printing material. The paper, published in the journal Science,... read more »

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Experimental Printhead Demonstrates Combined FFF + Melt-blowing Process

A group of researchers from Budapest, Hungary have developed a novel means of 3D printing objects made from a combination of nano-/microfibers and... read more »

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Researchers Print Flexible Circuit Tracks on Curved Surfaces

Researchers from North Carolina State University (NC State) have published their findings in a new paper demonstrating a method for printing flexible circuits... read more »

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Spanish Company to 3D Print Plant-based Car

Santa Pola based automobile manufacturer Liux has recently unveiled their new electric vehicle, dubbed the Animal. The Animal is an electric vehicle capable... read more »

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UMaine Prints Bio-based Wood Fiber House

The University of Maine, known for printing large boats with their mammoth polymer extrusion printer, has revealed a house printed entirely out of... read more »

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MIT Researchers Strengthen Metal Prints with Induction Heating

Researchers from MIT have figured out a means of heat treating 3D printed metals so that they can be used in high temperature,... read more »

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Carima to Exhibit New C-CAT Tech at Formnext 2022

Seoul-based 3D printer company Carima has been advancing printer technology in South Korea since the year 2000, and in that time they have... read more »

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Quantica Introduces New Open Desktop System for Multi-Material Printing Development at Formnext

Berlin-based 3D printer manufacturer Quantica has announced the release of their latest machine aimed at users in the R&D domain. Their latest printer... read more »

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Mizar M Printer Features Dual Hotends for More Multi-color Modes

Traditional monochrome printing has been difficult to meet the creative needs of 3D printing enthusiasts, and mixed-color printing has become the future trend.... read more »

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Modix Announces their Next Generation of BIG 3D Printers

Modix are known for their cost-effective, sturdy, large format filament extruding 3D printers. They range in size from the BIG-60 (60cm x 60... read more »

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See UnionTech’s New Printers at Formnext

UnionTech, manufacturer of industrial printers, will be unveiling some new additions to their growing range of resin printer systems at the upcoming Formnext... read more »

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TRUMPF Prints Copper Radio Frequency Quadrupole for CERN

German machine manufacturing company TRUMPF has revealed a fairly huge copper printed part designed for use in particle accelerators. The component, measuring almost... read more »

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Creality HALOT-ONE PLUS Helps WorldSkills 2022 Competitors to Victory

This year’s WorldSkills Competition was held at Soest, Germany, and featured a significant appearance from the Creality HALOT-ONE Plus at the additive manufacturing... 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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Creality at Formnext 2022

Creality is coming to Formnext to show off their latest wares including the all new Ender-5 S1, the Sermoon D3, and the CR-M4.... read more »

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Size Dependent Mechanical Properties Observed in Micro SLA

Researchers from City University of Hong Kong have discovered some size dependent mechanical properties in specimens printed with a micro SLA printing method.... read more »

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Spectrum PCTG

~$25 to 32/kg
  • Price-competitive European PCTG using the same Eastman Tritan copolyester as Fiberlogy,…
Spectrum PCTG
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Bambu Lab H2C

~$2,199
  • Uses the Vortek system to physically swap entire hotends instead of flushing, enabling…
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Creality K3

~$849 (pre-order)
  • Creality's first toolchanger using the KliTek system to dock and swap complete nozzle a…
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Siraya Tech Cast

~$62 to $80/kg
  • A wax-based castable resin with low-ash burnout designed for direct investment casting,…
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Creality Ender-3 V3 Mega

$569
  • The V3 Mega is not a 300 mm machine.
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EinScan SP V2

~$2,399
  • Pro desktop turntable scanner with 0.05mm single-shot accuracy and 360-degree auto-scan…
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3DMakerpro Seal Lite

~$359
  • Budget precision scanner keeping the Seal's blue-structured-light DNA at half the price…
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Anycubic Standard Resin

~$22 to $30/kg
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