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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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  • LLNL Prints Tiny NIF Target Cone Ten Times Faster
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  • 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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Robo Nine Starts Printing First Fifty Robot Leader Arms

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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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  • Best 3D printers
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  • For kids and schools
  • For miniatures
  • Large format
All printer guides

Brands and compare

  • Bambu Lab lineup compared
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  • Large scale and industrial

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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

  • Filament dryers
  • Printer enclosures
  • Wash and cure stations

Buyer guides

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

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  • Scanning service vs buying

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  • 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

  • Tripo H3.1
  • Meshy 7
All software reviews

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
Black FridayNEW

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
All use cases

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Modix Announces their Next Generation of BIG 3D Printers

Modix are known for their cost-effective, sturdy, large format filament extruding 3D printers. They range in size from the BIG-60 (60cm x 60... read more »

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See UnionTech’s New Printers at Formnext

UnionTech, manufacturer of industrial printers, will be unveiling some new additions to their growing range of resin printer systems at the upcoming Formnext... read more »

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TRUMPF Prints Copper Radio Frequency Quadrupole for CERN

German machine manufacturing company TRUMPF has revealed a fairly huge copper printed part designed for use in particle accelerators. The component, measuring almost... read more »

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Creality HALOT-ONE PLUS Helps WorldSkills 2022 Competitors to Victory

This year’s WorldSkills Competition was held at Soest, Germany, and featured a significant appearance from the Creality HALOT-ONE Plus at the additive manufacturing... read more »

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Agnikul Test Fires Printed Rocket Engine

Space startup Agnikul Cosmos has announced the successful test firing of their 3D printed rocket engine at an ISRO test facility in Thiruvananthapuram,... read more »

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Agnikul Test Fires Printed Rocket Engine

Creality at Formnext 2022

Creality is coming to Formnext to show off their latest wares including the all new Ender-5 S1, the Sermoon D3, and the CR-M4.... read more »

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Size Dependent Mechanical Properties Observed in Micro SLA

Researchers from City University of Hong Kong have discovered some size dependent mechanical properties in specimens printed with a micro SLA printing method.... read more »

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US Navy Installs Hybrid Additive System on USS Bataan

We have seen a growing interest in military applications of 3D printing over the last couple of years, and this is particularly true... read more »

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Researchers Print Porous Polymers with Salt

Reliance of fossil fuel based plastics is of growing concern for a number of reasons, not least because oil reserves are finite, and... read more »

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Creality Launches Ender-5 S1

Creality has announced the launch of the Ender-5 S1, the latest (and greatest) of the best-selling Ender series.

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3D Printed Breast Cancer Tumor Model Demonstrates Tumor Reduction

A team of researchers from Penn State University have recently published a paper in the Advanced Functional Materials and Biofabrication journals, detailing their... read more »

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CONFIB-VAT – What is it?

Many of our readers have most likely heard of continuous carbon fiber printing systems making use of thermoplastics as a matrix. There are... read more »

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Rock Island Arsenal to House Largest Metal 3D Printer in the World

Rock Island Arsenal, Illinois, will soon have the largest metal 3D printer in the world installed at the military base. The media were... read more »

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Rock Island Arsenal to House Largest Metal 3D Printer in the World

Durian Skin Biocomposites

Last week we took a look at some promising research that utilized processed pineapple leaf fibers for the production of biocomposites. Bioplastics and... read more »

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Limbitless Solutions Expands Halo Prosthetics Range

Prosthetic limbs have come a long way in the last decade, largely thanks to additive manufacturing. Prosthetic arms in particular have benefited from... read more »

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Relativity Space Reveals New Stargate Metal Printer

California-based rocket company Relativity Space has announced their new super-sized rocket printing robotic 3D printer system, dubbed the Stargate 4th generation. The new... read more »

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Engineers Print Achromatic Meta-lens for Optical Fiber

A team of researchers has developed a means of 3D printing tiny lenses for use on optical fibers. The printed lens fits onto... read more »

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Huge Metal Aerospace 3D Printed Part Manufactured

A consortium from Hamburg University of Technology (TUHH), TU Dresden (TUD) and Autodesk have collaborated with GE AAT Munich to produce one of... read more »

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Huge Metal Aerospace 3D Printed Part Manufactured

Lightsheet Printing – What is it?

Accuracy and speed are often the big trade off especially when it comes to resin printers with their increasingly fine micron-level resolutions. Researchers... read more »

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Researchers Develop 3D Printed Mosquito Repellent

Mosquitos suck. That's not an insult, it's just what they do. And they do it all over the world except for Antarctica and... read more »

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QIDI Plus4

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Polymaker PolyLite ABS

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Phrozen Sonic XL 4K Plus

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3D-Fuel Pro PCTG

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Creality Ender-3 V3 Mega

$569
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Bambu Lab X2D

~$649
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MatterHackers PRO Series PCTG

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