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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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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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  • Tripo H3.1 Review: From Image to 3D Print
  • University of South Florida Students Test 3D Printed Oyster Bricks on Tampa Bay Seawalls
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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
  • 3D Printed Quiet Pickleball Unveiled
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University of Tokyo Team 3D Prints Robot Legs With TPU Muscles and Ligaments

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University of Tokyo Team 3D Prints Robot Legs With TPU Muscles and Ligaments

A University of Tokyo team tunes printed lattices in one TPU to give a life-sized robot soft muscles,…

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All printer guides

Brands and compare

  • Bambu Lab lineup compared
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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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  • Meshy 7
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Start here

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How it works

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  • 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

  • University of Tokyo Team 3D Prints Robot Legs With TPU Muscles and Ligaments
  • Maurice Ribble’s EEW Maker Kit Turns 3D Printed Parts Into an Electric Spinning Wheel
  • Student Designs Backpack-Sized Folding 3D Printer With the Filament Spool Inside
  • Tripo H3.1 Review: From Image to 3D Print
  • University of South Florida Students Test 3D Printed Oyster Bricks on Tampa Bay Seawalls
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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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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GE, Voxeljet and Fraunhofer Institute to Build World’s Largest 3D Printer

GE Renewable Energy is joining forces with researchers at Fraunhofer IGCV and printer company Voxeljet AG to manufacture the world’s largest 3D printer.... read more »

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GE, Voxeljet and Fraunhofer Institute to Build World’s Largest 3D Printer

ASICS 3D Printed Generatively Designed Sandals Coming Soon

Sandals, slippers, thongs, flip-flops...call them what you will. They are extremely utilitarian in their design, and generally speaking they are pretty easy to... read more »

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ASICS 3D Printed Generatively Designed Sandals Coming Soon

Anycubic Photon Ultra DLP Printer now on Kickstarter

Anycubic has just launched their long awaited cost-effective DLP resin printer on Kickstarter, which you can see at this link. What is so... read more »

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New Strong Red Wax Material Enables Complex Jewelry Casting

Wax casting is perhaps the most ancient of manufacturing methods to have been augmented by 3D printing, and the innovations don’t seem to... read more »

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New Strong Red Wax Material Enables Complex Jewelry Casting

3D Printed Motors Coming Soon

Electric motors are becoming very popular in the automotive world, with companies all around the globe vying for a slice of the EV... read more »

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3D Printed Bee Homes to Spur Public Interest in Bees

Bee numbers are dwindling, especially in the UK, and that’s bad news for pretty much everyone who eats food. A team of researchers... read more »

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3D Printed Bee Homes to Spur Public Interest in Bees

Audi 3D Prints their Packaging Trash into New Parts

German automaker Audi has revealed their new in-house upcycling program that takes their own packaging materials and 3D prints them into assembly aids... read more »

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US Marines Print Metal Rocket Cap for Mine Clearance

“War! What is it good for?” asked Edwin Starr. “Absolutely nothing!” was his oversimplified reply. He was partly correct. As it turns out,... read more »

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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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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

3D Printing a Drill-Powered eScooter

When you need to commute a short distance, there’s hardly a better choice today than an electric scooter; they’re fun, practical, and affordable.... read more »

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3D Printing a Drill-Powered eScooter

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 »

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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 »

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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

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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 A2L

~$469 (combo with AMS lite ~$569)
  • An open-frame bedslinger with a 300 × 320 × 325 mm build volume at $469, taking AMS l…
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Anycubic Kobra X

~$299
  • A fast bedslinger with the ACE Gen 2 color system built into the toolhead offering 4 co…
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Bambu Lab PAHT-CF

  • PPA-based (polyphthalamide) high-temperature nylon with carbon fibre offering substanti…
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Bambu Lab A1 Mini

~$220 (Combo with AMS lite ~$359)
  • The most beginner-friendly printer on the market with full auto-calibration, whisper-qu…
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Creality HALOT-X1

$469
  • This page keeps the HALOT-ONE address and now covers the HALOT-X1, the current Creality…
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MatterHackers PRO Series PCTG

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Creality Hi

~$369
  • CoreXY motion with 500 mm/s speeds and a 300°C all-metal hotend in an open-frame desig…
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