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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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  • 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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  • Best 3D printers
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  • Multicolor
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  • For kids and schools
  • For miniatures
  • Large format
All printer guides

Brands and compare

  • Bambu Lab lineup compared
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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

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  • Wash and cure stations

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  • Scan with your phone
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  • Revopoint Trackit
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  • STL repair tools
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  • Meshy 7
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  • How much does it cost?
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  • Best printers for beginners

How it works

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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
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
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Phillip Keane

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.

20ft Rocket Stage 3D Printed and Ready for Test

California-based space company Relativity Space has shared a bunch of new pictures on their social media showing the progress of their metal AM... read more »

Aerospace
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Saab Tests AM for Battle Damage Repairs on Gripen Fighter

Most of our aviation-related 3D printed stories focus on internal components hidden deep inside aircraft machinery, and most of those stories focus on... read more »

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saab gripen

3D Printing Fixtures and Masking Just Got Easier

Approximately 10% of all plastic AM goes into the manufacture of plastic fixtures ranging from brackets to jigs. And apparently, only 1% of... read more »

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3D Printing Fixtures and Masking Just Got Easier

Polaroid’s Candy Printing Pen

Hey, remember Polaroid? Polaroid used to make cameras until Industry 4.0 came along and replaced film with memory cards. In the last decade... read more »

Food
CandyPlay-featured

3D Print Ceramic And Use Your Home Microwave As A Kiln

Chinese ceramic printer company Cerambot has just announced the release of their new ceramic printer, dubbed the Cerambot Eazao, following on the success... read more »

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Ford and HP Recycle 3D Printing Waste Into Molded Car Parts

End of life waste management of automotive materials is a huge task, with the auto vehicle recycling industry is the 16th largest sector... read more »

Automotive
ford hp recycle

Metaplas Foldable Multimaterials

A team of researchers from the Bartlett School of Architecture at University College London (UCL) has recently shared their 3D printed multi-polymer design... read more »

Environmental
Metaplas Foldable Multimaterials

Plasma-based AM Powder Manufacture may Reduce Powder Costs

PyroGenesis, a Montreal-based company with experience in advanced plasma processes and products has figured a way out to reduce the manufacturing costs of... read more »

3D Printing Metal
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Signmakers Rake in Benefits of 3D Printing

Styles Werbertechnik believes that 3D printed channel letters are the future, and it’s hard to argue with that statement given the benefits compared... read more »

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Self Assembling Mini Factory Makes Sandwiches

If you have ever wondered if your 3D printer can make you a sandwich and fold your shirts then you’ll be pleased to... read more »

News
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Plybot Successfully Completes Crowdfunding for SCARA-type Arm Printer

For anyone bored of the current array of cartesian, H-Bot or CoreXY printers available on the market, you may be please to know... read more »

3D Printers
plybot

Building to get Freeform 3D Printed Composite Facade

A building facade has been printed in Chattanooga, USA, and will be mounted onto the front of a local branch of the Tennessee... read more »

Construction
Building to get Freeform 3D Printed Composite Facade

Warner Bros Partners up to 3D Print Licenced Toys

Warner Bros are teaming up with toy printing 3D printer manufacturer Toybox to allow users to print licenced toys from the WB roster... read more »

3D Printers
toybox

3D Printed Face Fools Facial Recognition Software

Olaf Diegel is a familiar name in the world of additive manufacturing, largely thanks to his collection of self-designed/manufactured 3D printed guitars. When... read more »

News
3D Printed Face Fools Facial Recognition Software

ICON AM Houses Hit the Market in US

The city of Austin, Texas will be about to get its first opportunity to buy 3D printed homes, when real estate developer 3DStrands... read more »

Construction
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Drug-infused AM Stent Treats Oesophagus Cancer

Researchers at the University of South Australia (UniSA) in Adelaide, Australia, have manufactured an esophageal stent which can help treat cancer patients. Stents... read more »

Medical
am stent

On-site Replacement Part Manufacturing Proven at Sea

These printed metal tanker components would make an interesting article anyway (they have nice pics also), but the fact that they were printed... read more »

3D Printing Metal
On-site Replacement Part Manufacturing Proven at Sea

3D Printed Sneakers in 2021

Remember when 3D printed shoes were exclusively the domain of engineering websites and CAD/topology optimization sites, all vying for your attention to tell... read more »

Use Cases
adidas strung

BOA Steps Up Their Prototyping Game

Colorado-based company BOA have recently upped their prototyping game thanks to their use of a 3D Systems Figure 4 standalone 3D printer.

3D Systems
boa

EBAM used for Large Satellite Structures

Lockheed Martin has been experimenting with 3D printed components for large satellite structures for a while now. Even back in 2018 they were... read more »

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EBAM used for Large Satellite Structures

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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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Anycubic Kobra 4 Combo

~$499
  • A budget combo that includes the external ACE 2 Pro feeder with 65°C filament drying w…
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eSUN ePA12

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Polymaker ASA

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QIDI Plus4

~$699-$799
  • Built around a 65°C heated chamber with a 370°C nozzle and 305 × 305 × 280 mm build…
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Flashforge Adventurer 5X

~$349 list, street deals ~$249 to $289
  • Four-color open-frame FDM printer based on the proven Adventurer 5-series platform with…
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Polymaker Fiberon PA6-CF20

  • With 20% carbon fibre loading in a PA6 base, delivers the highest stiffness of mainstre…
Polymaker Fiberon PA6-CF20
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Creality SparkX i7

~$239-$299
  • A CES 2026 award-winning beginner multicolor bedslinger with CFS Lite 4-color printing,…
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