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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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  • Tough and ABS-like
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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

Nineteen scanners from $400 to $40,000, sorted by object size.

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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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What is 3D Printing?

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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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Callaway Plans $15M Titanium 3D Printing Facility in Fort Worth

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Callaway Plans $15M Titanium 3D Printing Facility in Fort Worth

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Buyer guides

  • Best 3D printers
  • For beginners
  • Multicolor
  • Resin printers
  • Budget (under $400)
  • 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
All scanner guides

Software and service

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  • Scanning service vs buying

Reviews

  • Revopoint MetroY Pro
  • Revopoint Inspire 2
  • Revopoint Trackit
All scanner reviews

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
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

  • 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
  • Tripo AI Launches Agentic Canvas, a Node-Based Workflow Builder for AI 3D
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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Researchers Improve Tribological Properties of PACF with Plasma Torch

Researchers have figured out a means of reducing the friction and improving the wear resistance of 3D printed nylon-carbon fiber plastic parts, as... read more »

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Print-to-Rent Homes on Offer in California

Early adopters who have dreamed of living in a printed home, but don’t want to drop a big pile of cash on the... read more »

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Print-to-Rent Homes on Offer in California

Pineapple Leaf Fibers Show Promise in Bioplastic Production

Researchers from Universiti Teknologi Malaysia and Newcastle University in Singapore have been experimenting with the addition of pineapple leaf fibers to PLA, to... read more »

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Pineapple Leaf Fibers

Using AI and AM for Organoid Production

Living organs for medical experimentation are pretty hard to come by, on account of human beings actually using them on a day to... read more »

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Architect Prints Eco-Friendly Chicken Coops with Loam

A Hungarian architect by the name of Krisztian Gora has been experimenting with ecologically friendly materials, and has turned his skills to building... read more »

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Halloween Bargains on HALOT-ONE Series from Creality

It’s approaching that spooooky time of year again, and Creality is slashing the prices of their HALOT-ONE series of resin printers like a... read more »

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Cerambot Launches Huge Multi-material Printer on Kickstarter

Back in April 2021 we took a look at Chinese printer company Cerambot’s ceramic printer the Eazao, which enabled the printing of ceramics... read more »

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MIT Team Develops Tool Steel for Printed Giga Press Dies

Die-casting has been used for the mass production of toy cars such as Hot-Wheels and Matchbox for decades. It’s a great way of... read more »

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Hybrid Stereolithography Promises Fast Sub-Micron Printing

A new hybrid printing process developed by researchers at the University of Amsterdam (UvA) is promising to speed up printing of resins at... read more »

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Researchers Print Heavy Metal Ion Remover Tablets

Researchers at Clarkson University, New York, have conceived of an eco-friendly method of removing heavy metal ion contaminants from polluted environments, and they’ve... read more »

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Researchers Print Heavy Metal Ion Remover Tablets

Researchers Print Nanoscale Brain Electrodes

Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have revealed a printed device that could one day help sufferers of various neurological problems such as epilepsy... read more »

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3D Printed Component Fitted at Swedish Nuclear Power Plant

The nuclear industry is raising the quality-bar in terms of additive manufacturing again, this time by installing a 3D printed steel component in... read more »

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Swedish nuclear power plant

Ye Unveils 3D Printed Boots

Kanye West, a.k.a “Ye” is making headlines this week for numerous reasons associated with his recent YZYSZN 9 presentation at Paris Fashion Week.... read more »

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Ye boots

New Printed Bike was Inspired by Humpback Whales

An Italian bike manufacturer has 3D printed a bike which will be used in an upcoming race, and as the title says, it... read more »

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Researchers Print Tiny Optical Device onto Tip of Optical Fiber

Researchers have demonstrated the printing of a multi-component part onto the tip of an optical fiber, as revealed in the latest Optics Letters... read more »

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Thermoset 3D Printer for Seals and Grommets Hits Shelves

Chromatic 3D Materials has developed a system for printing ultra-smooth elastomers for use as gaskets and seals. Their Chromatic RX-AM materials and technology... read more »

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3D Printing Saves Horse from Certain Death

We have seen a few examples of additive manufacturing being used to manufacture prosthetic devices for smaller animals such as cats and dogs,... read more »

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Researchers Develop 3D Printed MEMS Sensors

A new method for 3D printing MEMS sensors has been developed by researchers at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology. The research has... read more »

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Boeing Celebrates Belated Opening of AM Center

This week aircraft manufacturer Boeing has officially celebrated the opening of its Center of Additive Manufacturing Excellence in Auburn, Washington. The facility employs... read more »

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Boeing Celebrates Belated Opening of AM Center

X-Ray Research Yields Method for Printing Strongest Steel

Researchers at NIST, the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Argonne National Laboratory have discovered a means of printing 17-4 precipitation hardening (PH) stainless steel... read more »

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Taulman 910 Nylon

  • Community benchmark for maximum-strength FDM nylon for over a decade, with a co-polyami…
Taulman 910 Nylon
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3D-Fuel Pro PCTG

  • Primary North American PCTG manufacturer using Eastman Tritan copolyester with PrusaSli…
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Flashforge Creator 5 Pro

~$949
  • A toolchanger with four independent toolheads offering near-zero purge waste, plus a 65…
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Anycubic Kobra 4 Combo

~$499
  • A budget combo that includes the external ACE 2 Pro feeder with 65°C filament drying w…
Anycubic Kobra 4 Combo
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Polymaker PolyMide CoPA

  • Placed at the top of the consumer nylon category by multiple independent roundups, blen…
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Anycubic ABS-Like Resin Pro 2

~$29 to $39/kg
  • The direct successor to ABS-Like Resin Plus with 35-40% elongation at break (114% impro…
Anycubic ABS-Like Resin Pro 2
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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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Creality Ender-5 Max

$749
  • Creality describes a rigid all-metal CoreXY frame, 64-point automatic bed leveling, 700…
Creality Ender-5 Max
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