New printer launches, hands-on reviews, and hardware comparisons — from a first machine to a wall of them.
Five months after its debut, Peopoly's 800 mm-cube Giga 800 pellet printer goes on general sale from $15,000 with laser-assisted bed leveling, a 3 kg/h screw extruder, open Klipper firmware and US stock shipping in 7-10 days.
Read the story →Prusa's 400C HT Hotend is shipping now, and it comes with HighTemp sheets for CORE One+/L+, new PPS and PPA-CF filaments, and Prusa's own measurements of up to 23% better layer adhesion on standard Prusaments. The 60C chamber still limits PEEK and PEI.
UC Berkeley's OpenCAL is now public: a roughly $1,600 build-it-yourself volumetric printer that forms whole parts in a spinning resin vial in about 90 seconds. It ships with open software, OCL 1.1-licensed hardware and a Formlabs-made resin that Prusa sells for $119.99 a liter.
California service bureau VoxTech3D will exclusively distribute Nano-XS3DTech's four micro-DLP printers in the US, Canada and Mexico. The printers range from 2 to 35 microns of optical resolution, and the maker claims builds up to 10x faster than micro-SLA at lower prices.
Tom's Hardware's review finds Creality's 260 g, $699 Pika scanner cheap, light and capable on small, shiny and black parts, with mature Creality Scan software. Its near-infrared tracking mode is the weak spot.
An unnamed defense company with operations in Sweden has ordered prototype refractory-metal parts from E-PBF specialist Freemelt for a feasibility study. It is Freemelt's second high-temperature metal order in two months, after a September tungsten volume order for fusion research.
Creality's new Ender-3 V3 Mega stretches the bed slinger to a 420 mm cube with dual Y motors and 85A TPU support, while the Neo Combo opens at an early-bird $329 for beginners.
Creality's K3 is now on US pre-order from $849, pairing a four-nozzle KliTek tool-swap system that changes nozzles in about 5 seconds with a 260 mm cube build volume and bold, still-unverified claims of 80% faster multi-color prints and 85% less waste.
Formlabs' $699 Form Studio 1 is its cheapest resin printer and claims a resin-printer first in UL GREENGUARD Gold certification, but only when paired with Alpha Resins and the VOC Extractor, and its success-rate figures don't quite agree.
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.
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.
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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