Printers
New printer launches, hands-on reviews, and hardware comparisons — from a first machine to a wall of them.
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Printers
Tesseract Technologies Wants to Replace 3D Printer Belts With Linear Motors
Dutch startup Tesseract Technologies is pitching ironless, closed-loop linear motors as a direct-drive replacement for belts, piloting on a large-format FELIX Pro XXL IDEX printer, with commercial launch planned for Q1 2027.
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Inside a Singapore Cleanroom Where UltiMaker Printers Mass-Produce Synthetic Skin
Singapore startup Bioactivx runs a fleet of UltiMaker printers in an ISO 13485 cleanroom to mass-produce an animal-free synthetic skin substitute for burn wounds, with HSA approval secured and US/EU/AU/ASEAN filings underway.
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HeyGears Reflex RS Turbo Pushes Resin Printing Speed 33% Faster for Miniature Makers
HeyGears' new UltraCraft Reflex RS Turbo pairs a 10.3-inch 8K Amber Screen and a C5-grade ballscrew Z-axis with a "Dynamic Motion Algorithm 3.0" that the company says cuts print time up to 33% without losing detail on miniatures.
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Mosaic Manufacturing Launches Orion, a 3D Printer Built Just for Custom Orthotics
Mosaic's new belt-based Orion system bundles hardware, Stryde software, and materials to help orthotics labs print up to 300 patient-specific pairs a month at roughly $6 each.
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Hyundai Installs Twin ExOne VX1000 HSS Printers to Sinter Full Door Panels at Namyang
Hyundai has installed two ExOne VX1000 High Speed Sintering printers at its new Namyang AM center, each able to sinter a complete PA12 door panel in one run via an 8,000-nozzle infrared printhead.
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Axtra3D Hires an AM-Flow Veteran to Push Its Hi-Speed SLA Printers Deeper Into Europe
Axtra3D has appointed Marion Timmermans, formerly of AM-Flow, as VP of Revenue and Growth for EMEA and the rest of world, as the Hi-Speed SLA printer maker expands its reseller network around the Lumia X1.
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Flashforge's CJ270 Brings Full-Color Material Jetting to the Desktop for Under $4,000
Flashforge's CJ270 undercuts years of rumored pricing to bring 10-million-color, transparency-capable material jetting to a $3,999 desktop machine shipping this October.
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Axtra3D Brings the Lumia X1 and Its Closed-Loop Axtra Workflow to IMTS 2026
Axtra3D is showing its hybrid-SLA Lumia X1 and a full print-to-finish "Axtra Workflow" at IMTS 2026, backed by a new EMEA revenue hire as the company pushes into aerospace and medical manufacturing.
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FibreSeek Opens Global Pre-Sale for the FibreSeeker 3, a Desktop Continuous-Fiber Printer at $3,199
Fresh off a $4.7M Kickstarter, FibreSeek is pre-selling 500 units of the FibreSeeker 3, a $3,199 desktop printer that co-extrudes continuous carbon fiber for a claimed 900 MPa tensile strength.
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Creality Debuts HALOT-X1 Resin Line, Pika 3D Scanner and Ender-3 V3 Mega at IFA 2026
At IFA Berlin, Creality quietly rolled out a second wave of hardware beyond its K3/SPARKX i8 headliners: a flagship and entry resin printer, a 420mm-cubed FDM machine, and a 260g handheld AI 3D scanner.
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Creality Debuts K3, SPARKX i8 and M1 Filament Maker at IFA 2026
At IFA 2026 in Berlin, Creality launched a flagship K3 with 4.8-second tool swaps, a four-color SPARKX i8, and an M1 Filament Maker that turns failed prints back into usable filament.
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A Maker Built a Micron-Scale Resin Printer From a Fiber Tip, a DIY Micromanipulator, and Turmeric
Diffraction Limited paired its open-source 50 nm micromanipulator with a home-built fiber-coupled 405 nm laser to trace slicer toolpaths in resin, then fixed UV bleed-through with curcumin pulled from turmeric to print 150 µm Benchies and a bunny smaller than a hair.
