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Guides
Flow Calibration Explained: Getting Your Extrusion Multiplier Right
Why flow rate governs dimensional accuracy, layer bonding, and surface finish, how Orca Slicer's wizard differs from Bambu Studio's own calibration flow, and how to organize per-filament flow profiles across a library and multiple printers.
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Software
Klipper vs Marlin: 3D Printer Firmware Explained
Marlin runs entirely on your printer's own board; Klipper splits the job with a host computer. Both now do input shaping and pressure control. Here is how the two actually compare — and who ships which one stock.
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Printers
Prusa MK4S vs AnkerMake M5C: Which Printer Fits You in 2026?
The MK4S and M5C both promise 500 mm/s, but they sit in different price classes and different realities: one is Prusa's flagship workhorse, the other a $399 speed bargain whose maker has left the FDM market. Here is how the two compare on specs, ecosystem, and long-term ownership.
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Business
What a 3D Print Actually Costs: Calculating Cost Per Part
Filament price is only part of the bill. A step-by-step breakdown of material, electricity, machine depreciation, failure rate, and labor costs, with a full worked example calculating the true cost of one printed part.
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Printers
Apium P220: The Industrial PEEK Printer, Explained
Apium's P220 prints PEEK, PEKK, and ULTEM with a patent-pending adaptive heating system instead of a conventional heated chamber, claiming 29-32% crystallinity without post-print annealing. Here's how the German machine works, what it costs, and how it stacks up against Intamsys, miniFactory, and Stratasys.
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Printers
The 7 Types of 3D Printing: ASTM's Official Process Categories, Explained
ASTM's F42 committee sorts every 3D printing process into seven official categories, from desktop FDM to industrial metal powder bed fusion. How each one works, its materials, tradeoffs, and where hobbyists vs. industry actually use it.
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Printers
Dash-CAE Shows Off a Carbon Monocoque Built From CAD to Chassis in Days Using 3D-Printed Tooling
UK composites firm Dash-CAE debuted a carbon monocoque at Goodwood built via 3D-printed LFAM tooling, cutting CAD-to-chassis time to as few as six days.
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Materials
RAFT Chemistry Fixes the Overheating Problem That's Held Back Volumetric 3D Printing
Nottingham and UC Berkeley researchers show a RAFT polymerization additive slashes runaway heat buildup in volumetric 3D printing resin, cutting temperature rise from 59°C to as low as 3.5°C and preventing parts with 150-micron gaps from fusing.
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Industry
A 22-Year-Old Self-Taught Engineer Built a Same-Day, 3D-Printed Denture Lab on Wheels
Remote Area Medical's Mobile Digital Denture Lab uses 3D printing to turn a three-month denture wait into a 2-3 hour, same-day fitting — built in large part by a 22-year-old self-taught dental technology manager.
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Guides
How Engineers 3D Scanned and Printed a Playable Replica of a 1,700-Year-Old Roman Board Game
Newcastle University engineers used an Artec 3D Spider scanner and PLA printing to resurrect a 1,700-year-old Roman board game from Vindolanda, now played daily by museum visitors.
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Materials
D-Shape's 3D-Printed Reef Habitats, Built From a Coral-Mimicking Mineral Mix, Go Live Off Italy's Coast
D-Shape has installed five 3D-printed reef structures in Italy's Monte Argentario Underwater Park, printed in a patented mineral mix engineered to chemically mimic coral skeletons and designed by a team of artists.
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Printers
Beam Control, Not Just Melting: How JEOL, Freemelt, and Colibrium Are Redefining Electron Beam 3D Printing
A July 10 industry analysis argues EB-PBF's next act is smarter beam control — point-based melting, real-time defect imaging, and tailored grain structure — not just bigger, hotter beams.
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