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Industry
3D Printing in Fine Art: Sculpture, Installation, and the Original vs Print Debate
Fine artists are using 3D printing for large-scale sculpture, edition production, and forms impossible to hand-fabricate. What does this mean for the art market's ideas about original work?
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Business
How to Price 3D Printing Services: A Framework That Actually Works
Most makers underprice their printing services by failing to account for machine time, post-processing, failures, and overhead. Here's how to build a pricing model that's profitable from the start.
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Business
3D Printing and Intellectual Property: What Makers Need to Know About Copyright and Patents
Printing a copyrighted character for personal use, selling prints of patented designs, and sharing STL files all have different legal implications. Here's what the current law actually says.
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Materials
Matte Filament: Why Dull Finishes Are Sometimes the Better Choice
Matte PLA and PETG reduce layer-line visibility, photograph better under broad lighting, and hide fingerprints. Here's how the finish is produced and where it makes sense.
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Materials
High-Flow Filaments: What They Are and Why Your Speed Printer Needs Them
At 300+ mm/s, standard PLA becomes the bottleneck — not the motion system. High-flow filaments are formulated to melt faster, enabling speed printers to reach their actual potential.
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Materials
PVDF (Kynar) Filament: The Extreme Engineering Material Few Makers Know About
Polyvinylidene fluoride withstands aggressive chemicals, operates at up to 150°C, and resists UV indefinitely. Printing it is genuinely difficult — but for the right applications, nothing else compares.
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Materials
Bio-Based and Sustainable 3D Printing Materials: Beyond Petroleum-Derived PLA
PLA is bio-derived but not biodegradable in typical conditions. The next generation of sustainable filaments — PHA, hemp composites, and bio-PETG — offers different trade-offs worth understanding.
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Printers
Elegoo Saturn 4 Ultra Review: High-Resolution Large-Format Resin at a Consumer Price
The Saturn 4 Ultra combines a 12K mono LCD with a 218×122×260mm build volume and a tilt-release mechanism. It's currently the best large-resin value proposition on the market.
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Printers
Bambu Lab P1P vs P1S: Is the Enclosed Chamber Worth the Price Premium?
The P1P and P1S share the same CoreXY motion system and print quality. The difference is the enclosure, chamber heater, and camera. Here's when each choice makes sense.
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Printers
AnkerMake M5C Review: Speed-Focused CoreXY That Trades Features for Simplicity
The M5C drops the camera, AI detection, and touchscreen of the M5 to hit a lower price point. What remains is a capable speed-oriented FDM printer with a learning-curve slicer.
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Printers
Prusa MINI+: The Case for a Smaller, Smarter Second Printer
At 180×180×180mm build volume, the MINI+ won't replace a full-size machine. But its compact footprint, consistent quality, and open-source firmware make it one of the most practical second printers available.
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Printers
Creality Ender 3 V3: The Budget Staple Gets a CoreXY Upgrade
The Ender 3 V3 replaces the classic bed-slinger architecture with CoreXY, adds input shaping, and targets 600 mm/s — all while maintaining the price point that made Ender 3 synonymous with budget FDM.
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