Printers
New printer launches, hands-on reviews, and hardware comparisons — from a first machine to a wall of them.
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Printers
3devo's Filament Maker X10 Targets Print Farms and Labs With ±30µm Filament at 36kg/Day
3devo's new Filament Maker X10 pushes in-house extrusion into industrial territory, promising ±30µm filament, 36kg/day throughput, and support for abrasive engineering and recycled materials.
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Japan Fast-Tracks a 3D-Printed Interceptor Drone to Mass Production in Three Months
Terra Drone's 3D-printed Terra B1 interceptor was the only system to pass Japan's ATLA demonstration test, and the agency is pushing it to mass production in roughly three months instead of the usual one to two years.
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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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ATLIX Retires the TruPrint Name, Rebrands Metal Printer Lineup as xBUILD
ATLIX, the company formerly known as TRUMPF Additive Manufacturing, has renamed its entire metal 3D printer lineup from TruPrint to xBUILD, with specs unchanged but a new corporate identity now shipping on every machine.
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LightMake's L4 Swaps Belts for Linear Motors in a Four-Head Multicolor Printer
Shenzhen startup LightMake, founded by an ex-Anker/Huawei exec, has launched a Kickstarter for the L4, a beltless desktop FFF printer that drives four independent print heads on linear motors instead of belts.
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A Saddle That Bends: Ergon Equine 3D Prints SLS Ball Joints for Its BioTree Design
British saddle maker Ergon Equine and igus UK 3D print six SLS ball-joint housings from tribo-polymer iglidur i230 to let the BioTree saddle tree flex across three axes instead of staying rigid like a traditional wood-and-metal tree.
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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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From a Rose-Hulman Apartment to RAPID 2026: Unlayered 3D's Bet on Five-Axis Desktop Printing
Two Rose-Hulman grads built a patent-pending five-axis desktop FDM printer in their college apartment, showed a fifth-generation pilot unit at RAPID 2026, and are now signing up pilot users ahead of a San Francisco launch.
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Vertico's Biggest Robot-on-Track Rig Yet Lands at a Portuguese Concrete Research Institute
Dutch construction-printing firm Vertico installed its largest 3D concrete printing rig yet — a 10-meter Robot on Track system — at Portugal's ITeCons, which marked the occasion by printing a record 3-meter concrete column.
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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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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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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.
