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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)

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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  • Tripo H3.1 Review: From Image to 3D Print
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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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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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  • Best 3D printers
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  • For kids and schools
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All printer guides

Brands and compare

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

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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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  • Meshy 7
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Start here

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  • FDM vs resin
  • Best printers for beginners

How it works

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  • 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

  • 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
All use cases

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A Closer Look at Construction Printing in Dubai

Dubai is embracing 3D printing from a whole bunch of different angles as you may have seen recently. In 2019 they received a... read more »

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Compact SLS Printer Aims to Disrupt Supply Chains

If you’ve been considering investing in a polymer SLS printer, but were concerned about things like financial cost, physical space, and ventilation requirements,... read more »

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3D Printed Ball Wheels Are On A Roll

When someone is accused of ‘reinventing the wheel,’ it’s meant to signify that they wasted time developing something that already exists. And yet... read more »

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Industry Collaboration Highlights Path to 3D Printed Lungs

Earlier this year 3D Systems announced that they would be stepping up their efforts in the realm of bioprinting, in particular they intend... read more »

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3D Printed Lungs

India Unveils First AM House

It’s been a good year for 3D printed houses, at least in terms of AM construction companies getting a little airtime. And the... read more »

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India Unveils First AM House

3D Printed Compression Masks Treating Burns in Gaza

In 2020, a gas leak at a bakery in the Gaza Strip, Palestine, caused an inferno resulting in 25 fatalities and dozens of... read more »

Medical
burn mask

Concrete Additive Manufacturing Gets Intricate

Most of the concrete printing stories we look at on this website are focused on large scale concrete printing systems with fairly large... read more »

Construction
Concrete Additive Manufacturing Gets Intricate

Automated Vapor Smoothing for Post-Processing MJF Parts

When it comes to chemically resistant plastics commonly used in industrial 3D printers, stronger chemicals are often required for vapor smoothing. Many of... read more »

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postpro_3d

Metal AM Medical Implants Taking off in China

China is embracing metal additive manufacturing for the large scale manufacture of medical implants. Beijing-based AK Medical have been in the implant game... read more »

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medical implants china

YouTuber Makes Metal Terminator Skull with Lost PLA Casting

YouTube recommendations can lead down some strange rabbit holes sometimes. My own recommendations mainly consist of videos of people eating 50-year old MRE... read more »

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lost pla cast skull

Mosaic Launches Array, An Automated 3D Printing Platform

Mosaic has made a name for themselves in the multi-color 3D printing world with their popular Palette system, a sophisticated device that turns... read more »

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Mosaic Launches Array, An Automated 3D Printing Platform

AM Prototypes and Generative Design Builds a better Bow

When we hear the term generative design, our minds often turn immediately to 3D printing. This is totally understandable, the two technologies do... read more »

News
Nishikawa bows

Baubot Construction Robot Can 3D Print And More

At this point, construction-scale 3D printers that can print houses aren’t exactly new. Most of those house printers are essentially just very large... read more »

Construction
baubot

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 »

Electronics
3D Printed Supercapacitor for Space Exploration

20ft Rocket Stage 3D Printed and Ready for Test

California-based space company Relativity Space has shared a bunch of new pictures on their social media showing the progress of their metal AM... read more »

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aeon

Saab Tests AM for Battle Damage Repairs on Gripen Fighter

Most of our aviation-related 3D printed stories focus on internal components hidden deep inside aircraft machinery, and most of those stories focus on... read more »

Aerospace
saab gripen

3D Printing Fixtures and Masking Just Got Easier

Approximately 10% of all plastic AM goes into the manufacture of plastic fixtures ranging from brackets to jigs. And apparently, only 1% of... read more »

News
3D Printing Fixtures and Masking Just Got Easier

Polaroid’s Candy Printing Pen

Hey, remember Polaroid? Polaroid used to make cameras until Industry 4.0 came along and replaced film with memory cards. In the last decade... read more »

Food
CandyPlay-featured

Researchers Grow Brain in 3D Printed Microfluidic Bioreactor

Microfluidic systems may be small, but they’re likely to be among the fastest growing applications for 3D printing in the coming years due... read more »

Medical
3D printed Microfluidic channels

3D Print Ceramic And Use Your Home Microwave As A Kiln

Chinese ceramic printer company Cerambot has just announced the release of their new ceramic printer, dubbed the Cerambot Eazao, following on the success... read more »

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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…
Anycubic Photon P1
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Formlabs Form 4

~$3,499
  • The professional standard for desktop resin printing with Low Force Display technology,…
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Polymaker PETG

~$21 to 25/kg
  • Uses Pantone Matching System for precise, consistent colour formulation and is certifie…
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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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Revopoint MINI 2

~$829
  • Purpose-built precision scanner for objects from 10mm to 500mm with dual cameras, blue…
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Prusa CORE One+

~$1,199
  • Prusa's first CoreXY with a 55°C actively heated chamber, open-source firmware, full o…
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MatterHackers PRO Series PCTG

  • Strongest homebrand PCTG for US buyers with diameter continuously measured using a 3-ax…
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Creality SparkX i7

~$239-$299
  • A CES 2026 award-winning beginner multicolor bedslinger with CFS Lite 4-color printing,…
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