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

Brands and compare

  • Bambu Lab lineup compared
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  • Full color 3D printers
  • Large scale and industrial

Reviews

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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

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  • Wash and cure stations

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  • Small objects
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  • Professional scanners
  • Scan with your phone
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Reviews

  • Tripo H3.1
  • Meshy 7
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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
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Researchers Print Nanoscale Brain Electrodes

Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have revealed a printed device that could one day help sufferers of various neurological problems such as epilepsy... read more »

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Researchers Print Tiny Optical Device onto Tip of Optical Fiber

Researchers have demonstrated the printing of a multi-component part onto the tip of an optical fiber, as revealed in the latest Optics Letters... read more »

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Researchers Develop 3D Printed MEMS Sensors

A new method for 3D printing MEMS sensors has been developed by researchers at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology. The research has... read more »

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Researchers 3D Print Thermochromic Optical Fibers for Temperature Sensing

A team of researchers from Khalifa University in Abu Dhabi has developed a means of 3D printing rugged optical fibers that can be... read more »

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AM Device to Help People with Lupus

Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is an autoimmune disease that causes the body to attack healthy tissue. According to WebMD, lupus affects women way... read more »

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Texas A&M Researchers Create Conductive Bioinks for Medical Tattoos

Researchers from Texas A&M University have created a new class of 3D printable inks that are not only conductive, but are also extremely... read more »

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Sakuu Opens Up AM Battery Gigafactory

3D printed solid-state battery manufacturer Sakuu has opened up an innovation hub in Silicon Valley aimed at accelerating their battery printing initiatives. The... read more »

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Safer Lithium Battery to be 3D Printed

California and Arizona based battery company Ampcera Inc. has been awarded funds to develop 3D printed lithium-ion batteries. Ampcera, along with partners at... read more »

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Researchers Print Organic Electronics with Multiphoton Printer

Researchers at the University of Houston have released a paper highlighting research into micro-scale printing of organic electronics, which has applications in flexible... read more »

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UCLA Reveals Printed Piezoelectric Meta-bots

Engineers at UCLA have unveiled a new method of printing functional miniature robots that can be manufactured with a single printing process. The... read more »

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Sennheiser Releases Space-grade AM Headphones

3D printed products that you can put inside your ear are not a new thing. The majority of hearing aid devices have been... read more »

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CNT-infused Polymeric Inks Yield Promising Results

A team of researchers from Michigan Technological University have demonstrated printing of carbon nanotube (CNT) infused epoxy inks, and have published a paper... read more »

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3D Printed Supercapacitor for Space Exploration

Storing energy on space missions can be tricky. Batteries do not like the cold of space and so have to be heated in... read more »

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3D Printed Supercapacitor for Space Exploration

ASUS Releases AM Files for ROG Motherboards

We like it when companies publish 3D printable mods for their products. We like it even more when they are well designed and... read more »

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ASUS Releases AM Files for ROG Motherboards

3D Printing Finds a Home with Audiophiles

With the aid of a 3D Systems SLS printer and some simulation software, UK-based industrial designer company Node has created their HYLIXA speaker... read more »

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3D Printing Finds a Home with Audiophiles

Researchers 3D Print Liquid-Filled Defect-Detecting Objects

The market for microfluidic chambers is still small, mostly because the technology to create them effectively hasn’t been around that long. 3D printing... read more »

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Researchers 3D Print Liquid-Filled Defect-Detecting Objects

Inkjet Technology Guides Electrons in Graphene Prints

Graphene is a carbon allotrope which is touted as the wonder material with applications ranging from high capacity batteries to transparent electronics to... read more »

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3D Printed Lenses for Smart Glasses

Remember Google Glass? It was a nose-mounted smart product that offered the moon and delivered ridicule and paranoia. And do you remember the... read more »

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3D Printed Aerogels for Miniature Thermal Insulation

Heat transfer occurs via three mechanisms, being conduction (via a solid), convection (via fluids) and radiation (via space). Electronic components are generally in... read more »

Electronics
3D Printed Aerogels for Miniature Thermal Insulation

Additive Drives Gets 1.5 Million Dollars Seed Funding for AM Motor Components

Manufacturing coil windings for motors (and other components) is fantastically labour intensive, requiring many steps for converting the raw material into the end-use... read more »

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Elegoo Saturn 4 Ultra (12K)

~$379-$399
  • Delivers 19-24 micron resolution with the same tilt-release mechanism and reliable vat…
Elegoo Saturn 4 Ultra (12K)
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Creality Ender-5 Max

$749
  • Creality describes a rigid all-metal CoreXY frame, 64-point automatic bed leveling, 700…
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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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Bambu Lab A1

~$320
  • The cleanest first-printer story in 2026 with a 15-minute setup wizard, full auto-calib…
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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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Prusament PA11

  • The only bio-based nylon in the guide, derived from castor oil, manufactured under Prus…
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Elegoo Mars 5 Ultra

~$269
  • An MSLA resin printer with 18 × 18 micron XY resolution on a compact build plate, the…
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Flashforge CJ270

$3,999
  • The first desktop material jetting (MJP) full-color 3D printer priced under $5,000, cap…
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