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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
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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • Printer enclosures
  • Wash and cure stations

Buyer guides

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

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  • Revopoint MetroY Pro
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  • Revopoint Trackit
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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
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  • Best printers for beginners

How it works

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  • 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
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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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Modix Rolls out New Reliability and UX Enhancements

There is good news for fans of Modix this week, as the company has announced a line of upgrades all designed to improve... read more »

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Flashforge Creator 4 Out Now

Flashforge has announced the release of their new dual extruding printer with a heated chamber, named the “Creator 4”. The Creator 4 comes... read more »

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German Company Designs AM Moon Bike

Dresden-based motorbike company Hookie has recently revealed a concept for a Moon bike, which features 3D printed polymer wheels. The bike is named... read more »

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German Company Designs AM Moon Bike

Spiked Running Shoe Structure Printed in One Piece

The Olympics are well and truly over, and regardless of if you like sports or not, it has been a great year for... read more »

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Hidden Picasso Recreated with 3D Printing

Pablo Picasso, like many geniuses of the art world, went through some hard times in his early days. Being broke and fairly destitute... read more »

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Hidden Picasso Recreated with 3D Printing

AM Squid Game Masks Coming to a Halloween Near You

Whatever your thoughts on Netflix’ super-popular new Korean Drama, Squid Game, (currently number 1 show in 90 countries), one thing is for sure…... read more »

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Researchers Print Biomimicking Gas Sensors

A team of researchers from Trinity College and AMBER (SFI Research Centre for Advanced Materials and BioEngineering Research), both in Dublin, Ireland have... read more »

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Researchers Print Biomimicking Gas Sensors

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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Bambu Lab H2C

~$2,199
  • Uses the Vortek system to physically swap entire hotends instead of flushing, enabling…
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Anycubic Photon P1

~$699
  • A mid-range 14K MSLA resin printer with a ball-screw Z axis, heated vat, Wave Release f…
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Anycubic Photon P1 Max

~$849 to $999
  • The largest desktop resin printer under $1,000 with an 18.3-liter build volume, 12K 14-…
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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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Prusament ASA

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Polymaker ASA

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Polymaker Fiberon PA6-CF20

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