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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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  • Old Dominion University Wins NSF Award to Make 3D Printed Composites Stronger
  • Dresden Researchers 3D Print Brain Implant That Records Activity and Cools Seizures
  • CSEM and Almatech Print Shape Memory Alloy Shock Absorber for Reusable Landing Gear
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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
  • APG Reduces Chuck Jaw Weight with 3D Printing
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Stratasys to Unveil Serial Production 3D Printer at Formnext 2026

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Stratasys to Unveil Serial Production 3D Printer at Formnext 2026

Stratasys will reveal a high-volume polymer production printer at Formnext 2026, plus the European debut of the F870…

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  • Best 3D printers
  • For beginners
  • Multicolor
  • Resin printers
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  • 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
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  • Scanning service vs buying

Reviews

  • Revopoint MetroY Pro
  • Revopoint Inspire 2
  • Revopoint Trackit
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  • AI 3D model generators
  • 3D modeling and CAD software

Print prep and control

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

Reviews

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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
Deals

Latest

  • Stratasys to Unveil Serial Production 3D Printer at Formnext 2026
  • HP and Hyperion Partner to Scale Tungsten Carbide Binder Jet Printing
  • Old Dominion University Wins NSF Award to Make 3D Printed Composites Stronger
  • Dresden Researchers 3D Print Brain Implant That Records Activity and Cools Seizures
  • CSEM and Almatech Print Shape Memory Alloy Shock Absorber for Reusable Landing Gear
All news

Use cases

  • 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
  • APG Reduces Chuck Jaw Weight with 3D Printing
All use cases

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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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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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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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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

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 »

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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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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 »

Construction

Super Quiet Drone Propeller Design Wins Contest

Canada-based aerospace company Delson Aeronautics has won engineering support to assist with the development of their new super quiet drone propellers, which are... read more »

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3D Printed Brace Helps Dutch Hockey Team Win European Championship

The Dutch national hockey team very nearly found themselves without a captain recently, when triple Olympic medallist Eva de Goede fractured her wrist... read more »

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3D Printed Magnetic Microfilter Can Be Controlled Remotely

Microfluidic devices are already small, which is why they’re so often 3D printed, but the particles suspended in the fluids that go in... read more »

News
3D Printed Magnetic Microfilter

Aussie Subs to Get Cold Spray Repairs In-Situ

Over the last year we have seen wider adoption of AM processes for use in repairing items, particularly in the marine and aerospace... read more »

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Two Teams Win NASA’s Vascular Tissue Challenge Using 3D Printing

NASA started a competition in 2016 challenging entrants to “create thick, vascularized human organ tissue in an in-vitro environment to advance research and... read more »

Bioprinting
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Next Gen Flying Suit Coming Soon thanks to AM

UK-based jetsuit company Gravity Industries has announced their plans to develop a new flying suit, this time with an electrical propulsion system rather... read more »

News
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Benchtop Bioprinters: More Materials in Smaller Package

Last month, 3D Systems announced the acquisition of bioprinter manufacturer Allevi. It is the latest in a series of moves by the company... read more »

3D Systems

The New Massivit 5000 Is… Massive

The Israeli 3D printer manufacturer Massivit 3D certainly lives up to its namesake with the recent release of the Massivit 5000, capable of... read more »

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Creality Ender-3 V3 Mega

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Creality SparkX i7

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Prusa CORE One+

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Bambu Lab A2L

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MatterHackers PRO Series PCTG

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eSUN ePA-CF

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