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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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  • Tough and ABS-like
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Best Filament Dryers (2026 Guide)

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Best Filament Dryers (2026 Guide)

Wet filament causes most failed prints; the fix costs less than a spool.

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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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What is 3D Printing?

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  • LLNL Prints Tiny NIF Target Cone Ten Times Faster
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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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  • Multicolor
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  • Budget (under $400)
  • For kids and schools
  • For miniatures
  • Large format
All printer guides

Brands and compare

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

Reviews

  • Elegoo Mars 5 Ultra
  • FLSun T1 Pro
  • QIDI Tech Q1 Pro
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Filament

  • 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

  • Filament dryers
  • Printer enclosures
  • Wash and cure stations

Buyer guides

  • Small objects
  • Medium objects
  • Large objects
  • Professional scanners
  • Scan with your phone
All scanner guides

Software and service

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  • Scanning service vs buying

Reviews

  • Revopoint MetroY Pro
  • Revopoint Inspire 2
  • Revopoint Trackit
All scanner reviews

Design and AI

  • AI 3D model generators
  • 3D modeling and CAD software

Print prep and control

  • Slicers
  • STL repair tools
  • Printer host and remote control

Reviews

  • Tripo H3.1
  • Meshy 7
All software reviews

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
All use cases

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AM Lattice Software Company Gen3D Acquired by Altair

UK-based lattice design software Gen3D has been acquired by simulation giant Altair. This is interesting to fans of topology optimization and other geometric... read more »

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Researchers Shape Matter with Sound

Researchers have figured out a way of fusing polymers using "sonochemical reactions". Unless you're a researcher in that field, or adjacent fields, it's... read more »

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New 3D Printed Rocket Engine (Available for Order)

Colorado-based rocket engine company Ursa Major has used 3D printing to build a reusable, liquid oxygen/methane rocket engine capable of delivering 200,000 lbs... read more »

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3D Printed Living Ear Successfully Implanted on Patient

New York-based company 3DBio Therapeutics has announced the successful implant of a 3D printed ear onto a patient suffering from microtia, a condition... read more »

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A Look at the Halot One’s Integral Light Source

The Halot-One series of resin printers from Creality offers high quality resin printing at a price friendly to most makers and 3D printing... read more »

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Insights Gained into Keyhole Pore Formation

Researchers at Heriot-Watt University working alongside collaborators from Carnegie-Mellon University and Argonne National Laboratory have published an article in Nature Communication detailing new... read more »

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Daewoo Testing Waters with 3D Printed Ship Models

The shipbuilding process, like aerospace development, often requires the construction of scale models of the vehicle in question in order to validate certain... read more »

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Daewoo Testing Waters with 3D Printed Ship Models

Bambu Lab Launches LiDAR-guided, AI-powered CoreXY Printer (for $700!)

Bambu Lab has announced the release of the Bambu X1 Series, which is a CoreXY printer that is promising to bring 3D printing... read more »

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Bambu Lab's 3D Printer Glitch Results in Unwanted Nocturnal Creations

Vibration Compensation Software Hits Market: Doubles Print Speed

Vibrations in a 3D printer can cause all kinds of headaches with the final quality of a print. In order to reduce the... read more »

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Researchers Print with Opaque Resin

We have looked at volumetric printing before on this website. You may recall that volumetric printing differs from traditional 3D printing as volumetric... read more »

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3D Printed Ground Models Assist with Earthquake Modeling

Researchers at University of Chicago have found a novel way to physically model Earthquakes which have been shown to have a fairly high... read more »

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Printable Foam Wants to Replace Printable Lattices

Wisconsin-based company PrintFoam wants you to stop designing plastic lattices with your fancy generative design and topology optimization software and start designing for... read more »

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Printable Foam Wants to Replace Printable Lattices

Desktop Pellet 3D Printer Brings Industrial Printing to the Masses

Granule / pellet printing is the way forward, as most of you will probably agree. Also known as Fused Granular Fabrication (FGF), it... read more »

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Recycled Catamaran Printed in The Netherlands

3D printed boats are the future, we are pretty sure of that. Boats are really the perfect shape and complexity to benefit from... read more »

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Recycled Catamaran Printed in The Netherlands

World’s Largest Printed Aerospike Engine Unveiled

Traditional rockets are incredibly inefficient for a number of reasons, not least due to the fact that they are mostly disposable. But reusability... read more »

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Nexa3D Launches XiP Superfast Desktop SLA Printer

Last week California-based printer company Nexa3D launched their XiP printer, which is generating quite a bit of interest in various circles. Let’s take... read more »

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Nexa3D Launches XiP Superfast Desktop SLA Printer

AM Car Wins Innovation Award at Shell Eco-marathon

Oh, how times change! If you had tried to make a small plastic electric vehicle 35 years ago, you would have been pilloried... read more »

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Drone Demos Printed Antenna Nose

Additive manufacturing offers a number of benefits to those wishing to develop antennas in various non-traditional geometries, and a team of researchers in... read more »

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How To Set Up A School’s 3D Print Program

Learn how to set up a school's 3D print program successfully and enjoy one of the most rewarding experiences in education. Watch students... read more »

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US Army to get HUGE AM Barracks

Construction additive manufacturing is still seeking new ways to demonstrate its value, and as we saw a few weeks ago with the printed... read more »

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Creality K2 Plus

~$1,299
  • An enclosed CoreXY with 350 × 350 × 350 mm build volume, 600 mm/s speed, 4-color CFS…
Creality K2 Plus
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Revopoint POP 4

~$755 pre-order
  • Newest Revopoint hybrid combining blue laser and near-infrared in five scan modes, capa…
Revopoint POP 4
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Creality Ender-3 V4 Combo

$399
  • Creality advertises 500 mm/s printing.
Creality Ender-3 V4 Combo
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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…
Anycubic Kobra 4 Combo
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Creality Ender-3 V3 Mega

$569
  • The V3 Mega is not a 300 mm machine.
Creality Ender-3 V3 Mega
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Creality Ender-5 Max

$749
  • Creality describes a rigid all-metal CoreXY frame, 64-point automatic bed leveling, 700…
Creality Ender-5 Max
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Bambu Lab H3C Combo

$2,499
  • The base H3C bundle includes the printer, AMS 3H, and nine print tools each with a 0.4…
Bambu Lab H3C Combo
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SUNLU High Speed Matte PETG

~$20 to 25/kg
  • Most-cited non-Bambu alternative for high-flow PETG printing, engineered for higher flo…
SUNLU High Speed Matte PETG
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