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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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  • HP and Hyperion Partner to Scale Tungsten Carbide Binder Jet Printing
  • Old Dominion University Wins NSF Award to Make 3D Printed Composites Stronger
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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
  • 3D Printed Quiet Pickleball Unveiled
  • APG Reduces Chuck Jaw Weight with 3D Printing
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Navy Engineers Design 3D Printable Safety Clip for Bomb Disposal Teams

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Navy Engineers Design 3D Printable Safety Clip for Bomb Disposal Teams

Engineers at NSWC Corona Division designed a 3D printable clip that locks submunition arming parts so disposal teams…

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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

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

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  • Wash and cure stations

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  • Small objects
  • Medium 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
All scanner reviews

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  • Printer host and remote control

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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
Deals

Latest

  • Navy Engineers Design 3D Printable Safety Clip for Bomb Disposal Teams
  • GKN Aerospace Earns First Nadcap Accreditation for Laser Wire DED
  • 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
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
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SHINING 3D Launches ShiningSpace, a Browser Platform for Real-World 3D Scans

SHINING 3D has launched ShiningSpace, a browser-based platform for storing, viewing, editing and sharing 3D scan data. The company says it accepts models... read more »

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LLNL 3D-Prints a Bioreactor That Turns Waste Methane Into a Useful Chemical

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory 3D-printed a bioreactor that uses bacteria in thin lattice walls to turn waste methane into succinate.

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Snapmaker and Phaetus Launch Liber High Flow Hotend for the U1

Snapmaker and hotend specialist Phaetus have launched the Liber High Flow Hotend for the Snapmaker U1 toolchanger. According to Snapmaker, it delivers up... read more »

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City University of Hong Kong and Cambridge Open a 3D Printing Centre

City University of Hong Kong and the University of Cambridge have opened a joint centre that will use 3D printing for data-centre cooling... read more »

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TCT Shenzhen 2026: Seven Highlights to Watch This October

TCT Shenzhen 2026 takes place at Shenzhen World from October 14 to 16 with, according to organizer TCT, more than 250 exhibitors, 80-plus... read more »

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ORNL and Boeing 3D-Print a Nearly Two-Ton Mold for Aircraft Parts

Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Boeing 3D-printed a nearly two-ton steel mold for stamping thermoplastic composite aircraft parts.

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Meshy 7 Review: From a Designer’s Drawings to Four-Color Board Game Pawns, With No Modelling Skills

Game designer Sonja Uittenboogaard (swurls.nl) draws her own characters. I took three of them, a dragon, an owl and a wizard, and tried... read more »

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Creality Pika: The Pocket AI 3D Scanner That Wants Scanning to Feel Like Taking a Photo

Creality has shrunk a dual-mode 3D scanner to the size of a compact camera, given it a touchscreen and two swappable batteries, and... read more »

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LLNL Researchers Inspect Direct-Ink Prints Layer by Layer With Cameras

Lawrence Livermore mounted cameras on a direct-ink printer so software can measure filament diameter and flag broken strands before a part leaves the... read more »

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LLNL Researchers Inspect Direct-Ink Prints Layer by Layer With Cameras

CMU Researchers Turn a Single Photo Into Snap-Fit 3D Printed Parts

Carnegie Mellon software takes a photo, splits the object into 3D parts, and adds peg-and-socket joints so the pieces print and snap together... read more »

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CMU Researchers Turn a Single Photo Into Snap-Fit 3D Printed Parts

Artec Neo: Artec 3D Launches a Tolerance-Driven Handheld Metrology Scanner

Artec 3D says its new handheld blue-light scanner delivers 0.025 mm accuracy at target-anchored features only, while capturing the whole part in color... read more »

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MIT Spinout 3D Prints Building Trusses From Recycled Plastic

Atlas Building Composites, a spinout of MIT mechanical engineering research, 3D prints structural trusses from shredded single-use plastic fused with fiberglass, including a... read more »

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MIT Spinout 3D Prints Building Trusses From Recycled Plastic

MIT Researchers Let Users Repair AI-Generated 3D Models Before Printing

MIT CSAIL, with Google and Northeastern, built software that generates 3D models from prompts and lets users fix printability defects with language and... read more »

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MIT Researchers Let Users Repair AI-Generated 3D Models Before Printing

Elegoo Day Sale 2026: The Four Best Prices, And How The Rest Compare

Elegoo Day runs to September 29 with up to 54% off. Four prices are the lowest we have on record, the material tiers... read more »

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FibreSeek Opens Pre-Sale of FibreSeeker 3 Continuous Carbon Fibre Printer

FibreSeek has opened a limited global pre-sale of 500 FibreSeeker 3 printers, a desktop machine that lays continuous carbon fibre into plastic parts.

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FibreSeek Opens Pre-Sale of FibreSeeker 3 Continuous Carbon Fibre Printer

Reverse Engineering Without CAD Data: How the MetroY Ultra Turns Physical Parts into Digital Designs

A custom seat tray for a 1984 Honda CB400, a hard-to-find grille for a VW Golf Mk1 Convertible, and a black throttle body... read more »

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University of Amsterdam 3D Prints Ice Structures Without Supports

University of Amsterdam physicists have developed a way to 3D print structures out of ice that need no extra supports and melt back... read more »

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University of Amsterdam 3D Prints Ice Structures Without Supports

RMIT 3D Prints Titanium That Floats

RMIT engineers have created a 3D-printed titanium material that floats in water even after severe damage, a candidate for jetties, buoys and marine... read more »

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RMIT 3D Prints Titanium That Floats

University of Waterloo 3D Prints Diamond-Shaped Electrodes for Flow Batteries

University of Waterloo researchers 3D printed a diamond-geometry electrode that improved redox flow battery performance by 52 percent in lab tests.

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University of Maine Launches 30-Foot 3D-Printed Offshore Boat

The University of Maine launched a 30-foot 3D-printed boat designed for offshore speeds near 40 knots, skipping a new mold for every hull.

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University of Maine Launches 30-Foot 3D-Printed Offshore Boat

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Creality Ender-3 V3 Mega

$569
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Creality Ender-5 Max

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Polymaker ASA

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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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Formlabs Form Studio 1

~$699
  • Formlabs' first printer under $1,000 bringing the Form 4's Low Force Display engine to…
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Bambu Lab P1S

~$399
  • The enclosed CoreXY predecessor to the P2S, now discounted significantly, with a large…
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3DMakerpro Moose Lite

~$399
  • Entry-level NIR medium crossover scanner with AI visual tracking at 0.05mm accuracy and…
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Bambu Lab PA6-CF

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