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Printers
Thomas Sanladerer Finds the Prusa CORE One INDX Struggles With Non-Prusa Filament
Thomas Sanladerer's review, as summarized by Hackaday, finds that the Prusa CORE One INDX's mandatory calibration is built around Prusament, that manual calibration results are not saved and that the hardware blocks the camera, while a Prusa XL just worked.
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Printers
Bambu Lab's P2S Wins a NAPPA Parenting Award as the Family Pitch for 3D Printers Grows
Bambu Lab's enclosed P2S is a 2026 NAPPA winner and the company took four Parents' Picks categories, with parent evaluators praising its app, quiet speed, enclosure and five-color multicolor printing — a sign the $799 P2S Combo is being sold as a household machine.
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Bambu Lab Teases the S1, Its First 3D Scanner, for November 2026
Bambu Lab's first 3D scanner, the S1, is due in November 2026. So far the company has shown only a pistol-grip teaser, and there is no price or spec sheet. An FCC filing lists 60 W input and 5 GHz Wi-Fi, and two outlets name different scanner makers as Bambu's partner.
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Printers
Snapmaker and Phaetus Launch the Liber High-Flow Hotend for the U1
Snapmaker and Phaetus's new Liber High Flow Hotend splits melt flow across multiple channels to push the U1's volumetric output up to 87% higher on ABS, targeting batch production and large prints.
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Printers
Bambu Lab Launches R1, Its First Non-Printer Product: A Self-Aligning 55W CO2 Laser
Bambu Lab's first product outside 3D printing is a $2,499 CO2 laser that auto-aligns its optical path in about a minute instead of the usual thermal-paper mirror ritual.
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Printers
Bambu Lab Patent Filings Point to an Automatic Printhead-Swapping System With Built-In Nozzle Monitoring
Newly surfaced Bambu Lab patents describe a rack-based system for swapping printheads mid-print, paired with nozzle-integrated lighting for camera monitoring and magnetic alignment hardware to keep swapped heads precisely positioned.
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Printers
AxiLoop's Eight-Nozzle MC8 Makes Its Public Debut at Formnext Asia Shenzhen
A precision-machinery company with no prior 3D printing history showed off an eight-toolhead printer promising a 10x cut in multicolor purge waste at Formnext Asia Shenzhen.
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Printers
Bambu Lab 3D Printers Bring a 166-Million-Year-Old Dinosaur Back to Life
Fourteen Bambu Lab desktop printers spent seven weeks in glass-fiber ABS to build five 9-meter Megalosaurus sculptures for Blenheim Palace's 'Dinosaurs Are Forever' exhibition, running through November 1, 2026.
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Printers
ATLANT 3D's NANOFABRICATOR PRO Prints Materials One Atomic Layer at a Time
Denmark's ATLANT 3D has launched NANOFABRICATOR PRO, a US-built atomic-layer 3D printer it calls the first physical platform to pair AI-driven materials discovery with atom-by-atom fabrication.
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Printers
Bambu Lab Teases the R1, Its First Standalone Laser Cutter and Engraver
Bambu Lab has begun teasing the R1, a standalone laser cutter/engraver separate from the H2D's module, with a "Coming September" tagline and no specs yet — a potential shot across xTool's bow.
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Printers
QIDI Plus5: The Plus4 Successor Grows the Build Volume 18% Without Raising the Price Floor
QIDI's new enclosed CoreXY Plus5 bumps build volume to 320x320x300mm, adds 65C active chamber heating and a 370C hotend, and still starts at $749 — the same floor as its Plus4 predecessor.
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Hands-On With the Bambu Lab X2D: Is the X1 Carbon Successor Worth $649?
Reviewers now have the Bambu Lab X2D in hand, and its dual-nozzle system, 65C heated chamber and $649 base price make the X1 Carbon's successor the most aggressively positioned X-series machine yet.
