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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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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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  • LLNL Prints Tiny NIF Target Cone Ten Times Faster
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  • 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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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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  • For kids and schools
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All printer guides

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  • Large scale and industrial

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  • 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

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  • STL repair tools
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Reviews

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  • Meshy 7
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  • 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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Phillip is an aerospace engineer from UK. He is a graduate of Coventry University (UK), International Space University (France) and Nanyang Technological University (Singapore), where he studied Advanced Manufacturing at the Singapore Centre for 3D Printing.

NTU Singapore and Caltech Prints Stiffness-shifting Chain Mail

Nanyang Technological University (Singapore) and California Institute of Technology (US) have recently published a paper in Nature, detailing research into a new chain... read more »

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Researchers Print Tunable Fluorescent Materials

A team of researchers from the Thayer School of Engineering, Dartmouth College, has published a paper detailing their experiments into 3D printable fluorescent... read more »

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A Closer Look at AI Build

AI Build is a London-based software company with a line of products available to make additive manufacturing more efficient by automation. The company... read more »

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Anycubic Photon Ultra DLP Launches on Kickstarter

Following on the success of their Photon resin printer series, Shenzhen-based printer manufacturer Anycubic has announced that they are launching the next iteration,... read more »

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Converting your 3D Printer into a Laser Engraver

By replacing your printer hotend (or CNC toolhead) with a laser, you can make use of the XY motion to control the path... read more »

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Clinical Reliability of FFF Printed PEEK Implants Quantified

Machined PEEK plastic has been used in custom cranial implants for some time, as it is strong, light, and biocompatible. Recent efforts have... read more »

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Clinical Reliability of FFF Printed PEEK Implants Quantified

Indian Partnership Yields Country’s First AM Aero Engine Part

Indian state-owned aerospace company Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) has partnered with Intech Additive Solutions to produce the country’s first metal AM component for... read more »

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Indian Partnership Yields Country’s First AM Aero Engine Part

Baseball Glove Gets the AM Treatment

The Olympics is almost over, having brought many stories of 3D printed sporting goods to the public eye. But the world of sports... read more »

News
Baseball Glove Gets the AM Treatment

3D Printed Handlebar Fails During Olympic Race

This years’ Olympics in Tokyo have seen a boom in 3D printed sporting goods employed over a range of competitions. Cyclists in particular... read more »

News
3D Printed Handlebar Fails During Olympic Race

ORNL Prints Molybdenum Alloy

Oak Ridge National Laboratory has successfully demonstrated the printing of an alloy consisting of titanium and molybdenum, the unpronounceable 42nd element on the... read more »

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Adidas Unveils 20 gram Lattice Sunglasses

How many new ways are there to mount eyewear to your face? Probably not many more...after several centuries of eyewear manufacturing, it’s definitely... read more »

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Adidas Unveils 20 gram Lattice Sunglasses

Largest Plastic Aircraft Part Printed

Aerospace is gradually looking at new ways to replace metals with plastics, and existing plastics with even better, modern plastics, composites, and manufacturing... read more »

Aerospace
Largest Plastic Aircraft Part Printed

Webinar: Advancing Productivity with Figure 4 High Density Stacking

How do you get the best value from additive manufacturing, while scaling from prototyping up to larger production runs? One way to do... read more »

3D Systems
Webinar: Advancing Productivity with Figure 4 High Density Stacking

Printed Titanium Bike Handlebars Debut at Olympics

It’s Olympics time in Japan, and that means it’s time for sports equipment manufacturers to show off their wares to the sports-spectating public... read more »

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Thermally Conductive Plastic Molds Reduce Mold Cycle Times

Molding composites in autoclaves can be very time consuming. Finding the right balance of heat and temperature to apply while maintaining a reasonable... read more »

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Polish Race Team Gets Lightweight AM Upgrades

A kart racing team in Poland has made use of additive manufacturing to further reduce the weight of their already lean PMT-03 racing... read more »

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Satellite Benefits From Metal AM Weight Reduction

The European Space Agency’s 15-year Advanced Research in Telecommunications Systems (ARTES) Program is aimed at stimulating R&D and creating innovative products for the... read more »

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Satellite Benefits From Metal AM Weight Reduction

Rotterdam Port Installs 3D Printed Bollards

Bollard is a strange word and is not widely used outside of the UK and America. So just to clarify, a bollard is... read more »

3D Printing Metal
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Webinar: How to Reduce Metal 3D Printing Costs with a Reduced Support Strategy

Post-processing of metal AM parts can account for a significant portion of the total cost of making the part, with figures ranging from... read more »

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Two New 3D Printed Bridges Unveiled to the Public

3D printed bridges are apparently like buses in the sense that you wait a lifetime for one to materialize, and then two show... read more »

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Two New 3D Printed Bridges Unveiled to the Public

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Bambu Lab ASA

  • Developed specifically for enclosed Bambu P1S and X1 Carbon machines with pre-configure…
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Creality HALOT-MAGE PRO 8K

$359
  • The store describes 170 mm/h printing, a 10.3 inch 8K LCD, a smart resin pump, and an a…
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Polymaker PolyMide CoPA

  • Placed at the top of the consumer nylon category by multiple independent roundups, blen…
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Creality CR-Scan Ferret SE

~$199
  • Cheapest serious scanner on the page with anti-shake one-shot 3D imaging and the abilit…
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Bambu Lab PC

  • Lowest-friction entry to polycarbonate printing for Bambu X1 Carbon and P1S users, with…
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Phrozen Sonic Mega 8K V2

~$2,800
  • A print-farm entry pick with a 24.4-liter build volume, all-metal frame, dual linear ra…
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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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Revopoint POP 3 Plus

~$619
  • Versatile all-rounder handheld scanner with dual-camera infrared structured light and o…
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