New printer launches, hands-on reviews, and hardware comparisons — from a first machine to a wall of them.
Sinterit will resell DyeMansion's VX1 vapour smoothing system alongside its new €47,000 BIANCO2 SLS printer, putting the industrial finishing chain and a 137-parameter open-profile powder bed machine in the same quote for the first time.
Read the story →HeyGears' G1 Series went live on Kickstarter July 23 with the flagship G1X Full-3D at $3,599 — an Epson i3200, 8-channel, 45 kg machine that also does texture relief and 2D UV on 400+ substrates — but campaign pricing has already drifted $300 above the deposit quote and the specs disagree with each other.
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.
Swedish EB-PBF printer maker Freemelt has signed an MoU to join Proxima Fusion's Alpha Alliance, applying its tungsten-printing expertise to build plasma-facing components for a stellarator aiming to be the first to hit net energy gain.
Ugee's new Funbox ships fully assembled with HEPA/carbon filtration and an AI tool that turns a kid's voice, sketch, or photo into a printable model — priced at $269 for launch.
EOS brings its six-laser M4 Onyx to North America at IMTS 2026 in September, but the real story is the M4 Onyx FLX due Q3 2026 — four kilowatt-class beam-shaping lasers betting that a smarter, bigger spot beats adding more spots. Plus a live spec discrepancy between EOS and the trade press.
Insta360 becomes MakerWorld's first official camera brand, releasing free CAD files for its Luna Ultra 8K gimbal camera as Bambu Lab runs a $11,160 mount-design and content contest through August 9.
Sovol's M1D fuses independent dual extrusion with a six-toolhead changer for up to seven purge-free colors, launching on Kickstarter from $1,199.
FARO CREAFORM has added four new HandySCAN 3D scanners — MAX EVO, MAX EVO Elite, EVO, and EVO Plus — pushing wireless metrology-grade 3D scanning from tabletop parts to 15-meter assemblies with accuracy as tight as 0.075mm + 0.010mm/m.
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.
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.
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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