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Business
MakerWorld's Creator Economy: Designers Are Now Getting Paid to Share Models
Bambu's MakerWorld has turned free model-sharing into real income: a new commission program pays designers 3–15% cash on the filament and parts their models sell, on top of contests and filament-credit boosts. Some creators are clearing four figures a month.
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Software
Type It, Print It: AI Text-to-3D Lands in Bambu's MakerWorld via Meshy
MakerWorld now bakes Meshy's AI engine into its browser-based MakerLab — describe an object or upload a photo and get a print-ready, multicolor 3D model in under a minute, sent straight to a Bambu printer. Here's how good it actually is.
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Printers
Anycubic Goes All-In on Color: The Kobra S1 Line Scales to 16 Hues
Anycubic's 2026 Kobra lineup pushes budget multicolor to an extreme — up to 16 colors via stackable ACE 2 Pro units, a $459 early-bird ACE 2 Pro Combo, a 350mm Max, and a $299 four-color Kobra X. Here's the lineup and what it signals.
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Printers
Creality's KliTek Toolchanger Wants to Make Multicolor and Mixed Nozzles Routine
Creality's upcoming K3 flagship uses a new lightweight nozzle-changing system called KliTek that enables print-in-place multicolor, stable 80A TPU, and mixing nozzle sizes mid-print — claiming TPU flow rates seven times those of typical consumer machines.
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Printers
Prusa's Core One L Scales Up the CoreXY Without Scaling Up the Footprint
Prusa's new Core One L doubles the print volume of the Core One while growing its footprint by just 10%. With an actively heated chamber, a cast-aluminum convection bed, and a roughly $1,819 price, it's aimed squarely at serious makers and pros.
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Business
Tariffs Are Reshaping US 3D Printing — and the Cheap-Printer Era Is Stalling
New US tariffs on Chinese goods have pushed desktop 3D-printer prices up sharply: Bambu Lab's H2D jumped from $1,899 to $2,699, and entry-level machines are getting scarce. With Chinese brands making 95% of budget printers, American makers are feeling it.
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Printers
The Race to Cheap Multicolor: How Sub-$600 Printers Are Closing in on the AMS
Multicolor printing used to mean a premium AMS or a tool changer. Now a wave of affordable CoreXY machines — Elegoo's Centauri Carbon line, Bambu's A2L, and low-purge newcomers — is bringing it within reach. Here's where the budget multicolor race stands.
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Software
OrcaSlicer 2.4.0 Lands Orca Cloud, Z Anti-Aliasing, and Smarter Multi-Material
The most popular open-source slicer just shipped a big update: its own cloud profile-sync platform, Z anti-aliasing for smoother top surfaces, machine input shaping, and a stack of print-quality upgrades. Here's what's actually worth knowing.
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Printers
The Best 3D Printers Under $500 in 2026
The sub-$500 class has never been better: auto-calibrating, fast, and even multicolor. Here are the five FDM printers we steer makers toward right now, with the specs and trade-offs that actually matter.
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Materials
The Best PLA Filament Brands Worth Buying
PLA is where most makers live, and the brand on the spool really does change your results. These are the PLA filaments we keep coming back to — for consistency, color, and the fewest failed prints.
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Printers
Bambu Lab's A2L Brings 500 mm/s Multicolor Printing to a $489 Bed Slinger
Bambu Lab's new A2L, launched June 1, pairs a 330 mm bed slinger with 500 mm/s speeds, up to five AMS units for multicolor printing, and even plotting and cutting modes — starting at $489. Here's what makers actually get, and where it lands in a crowded lineup.
