Printers
New printer launches, hands-on reviews, and hardware comparisons — from a first machine to a wall of them.
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Scrap Labs Pitches a Desktop Metal Printer Built From FDM-Printed Parts
Boulder startup Scrap Labs is building the Scrap 1, a desktop laser powder bed fusion printer made mostly from FDM-printed parts, with a June 2027 production target. Its homepage lists $9,600 Founder kits, while 3Dnatives reports $14,200 for a DIY kit and $17,990 assembled.
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ELEGOO Takes an Emoji-Themed Centauri Carbon 2 to New York Comic Con and Teases a New Resin Printer
At New York Comic Con, ELEGOO is showing an emoji-themed Centauri Carbon 2 Combo and a first look at two unnamed machines, a new resin printer and a "secret product in a new category." Neither comes with specs or a price yet.
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UniFormation S10: A Desktop Resin Printer That Also Washes and Dries Your Prints
UniFormation's S10 aims to keep resin off your hands by draining, washing and drying parts inside one enclosed 16K printer, with a late-October Kickstarter at $899 to $999 for early backers and a $1,299 MSRP.
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A 1-Meter-Cube FDM Printer Just Made a Class A Acoustic Panel, Slowly
Kentstrapper's Mille printed a perforated PETG acoustic panel for the University of Florence's REVERSING retrofit project that reached a weighted absorption of 0.90 (Class A, ISO 11654), though the researchers say the print is too slow for mass production.
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Prusa's $199.99 HT Hotend Turns the CORE One Into a 400 C Machine
Prusa Research is selling a tool-free 400 C HT Hotend upgrade for the CORE One and CORE One L families, plus a CORE One L+ that ships with the hotend and filtration already fitted.
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Addireen Opens a 50-Systems-a-Month Factory for Green-Laser Copper Printers and Ships the Third-Generation XH-M350G-2HR
Addireen, the green-laser metal AM arm of Shenzhen Gongda Laser, has opened a Ganzhou plant rated for up to 50 systems a month and released the XH-M350G-2HR, a dual-laser pure-copper machine aimed at series production.
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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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Phrozen Closes the Gap Between Its Sharpest and Its Biggest Resin Printer With the Sonic Mighty Revo 16K MAX
Phrozen's $1,600 Sonic Mighty Revo 16K MAX pairs a 14.7 L build volume with a 14-inch 16K mono LCD, splitting the difference between its sharpest small-format printer and its biggest, coarser one.
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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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Creality's SPARKX i8 Promises Multicolor Printing Without the Purge Waste
Creality's $289 Indiegogo launch, the SPARKX i8, claims sub-1-second color changes and zero purge waste by routing color transitions into a model's infill instead of a prime tower.
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Fives AddUp Brings FormUp 750 Large-Format Metal Printer Production to Ohio
Fives AddUp will start U.S. production of its 750 x 750 x 1,000 mm, 12-laser FormUp 750 metal printer at a Hebron, Ohio facility in 2027, adding domestic capacity for aerospace and defense parts alongside its existing French manufacturing.
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Prusa's CORE One L+ Reviewed: A $25 Nozzle-Wiper and Belt Upgrade That Earns an Editor's Choice
Tom's Hardware calls the Prusa CORE One L+ update "small, but important" and awards Editor's Choice for a factory nozzle wiper and GT1.5 belts, available as a $25 retrofit, though the review's own pricing is inconsistent.
