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

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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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  • Large format
All printer guides

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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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  • Best printers for beginners

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  • Types of 3D printing
  • Metal 3D printing

How-tos and glossary

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  • 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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ORNL Accelerates Part Inspection with Deep Learning and X-Ray CT Scanning

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Print-to-Rent Homes on Offer in California

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Pineapple Leaf Fibers Show Promise in Bioplastic Production

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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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Bambu Lab H2S

~$1,249
  • Removes the dual-nozzle system from the H-series while keeping the 65°C heated chamber…
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Bambu Lab P2S

~$549
  • A next-generation enclosed CoreXY with DynaSense servo extruder, AMS 2 Pro with active…
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Anycubic ABS-Like Resin Pro 2

~$29 to $39/kg
  • The direct successor to ABS-Like Resin Plus with 35-40% elongation at break (114% impro…
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Qidi Q2C

~$379 to $399 solo, ~$529 with Qidi Box combo
  • Enclosed CoreXY FDM printer with a 370°C nozzle and 120°C bed enabling ABS, ASA, and…
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EinScan SE V2

~$1,199
  • Fully bench-mounted desktop turntable scanner from Shining3D that rotates the object on…
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Prusament PETG

~$35 to 45/kg
  • Tightest diameter tolerance in the consumer PETG category at +/-0.02mm with per-batch Q…
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Bambu Lab P2S Combo

~$699-$749
  • Pairs the P2S with the AMS 2 Pro for active filament drying during multicolor prints, s…
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