New printer launches, hands-on reviews, and hardware comparisons — from a first machine to a wall of them.
QIDI's new enclosed CoreXY Plus5 bumps build volume to 320x320x300mm, adds 65C active chamber heating and a 370C hotend, and still starts at $749 — the same floor as its Plus4 predecessor.
Read the story →Italian manufacturer Kentstrapper's new Mille packs a full one-cubic-meter build volume, a 60°C chamber, and a 30-second hot-end swap into a €40,000 machine aimed at automotive, marine, aerospace, and defense shops that need single-piece parts too big to print in sections.
HP's additive manufacturing leaders mark a decade of Multi Jet Fusion with 25%-a-year growth and the sub-$60,000, 12-liter MJF 1200, aimed at bringing production-grade powder-bed fusion into smaller shops.
UK printhead maker Xaar's Nitrox heads are going into a new Chinese wax-jetting 3D printer built by ZCZH, aiming to turn investment-casting pattern production from a days-long process into an hours-long one.
DAIHEN, the 1919-founded Japanese welding-equipment giant, has launched its first additive manufacturing machine — a $450K-$500K wire-arc metal printer that claims to cut spatter over 98% using a proprietary synchronized wire-feed process.
ELEGOO's first filament dryer, the $70 H1 HT, heats to 85°C with automatic spool rotation, dual active-dehumidification vents, and a separate bypass outlet for TPU and fiber-filled filaments.
Los Angeles startup R3 Printing, bootstrapped through crowdfunding and an Air Force grant rather than venture capital, is shipping a domestically-sourced dual-nozzle FFF printer now and a 150°C heated-chamber PEEK/PEKK/ULTEM machine at the end of August 2026.
R3 Printing, an LA startup, is shipping domestically built industrial FFF machines — including a PEEK-capable Ultra in August — that hit ultra-high-temp polymers on a standard 120V/20A outlet, with open materials and no VC backing.
Sinterit will resell DyeMansion's VX1 vapour smoothing system alongside its new €47,000 BIANCO2 SLS printer, putting the industrial finishing chain and a 137-parameter open-profile powder bed machine in the same quote for the first time.
HeyGears' G1 Series went live on Kickstarter July 23 with the flagship G1X Full-3D at $3,599 — an Epson i3200, 8-channel, 45 kg machine that also does texture relief and 2D UV on 400+ substrates — but campaign pricing has already drifted $300 above the deposit quote and the specs disagree with each other.
Reviewers now have the Bambu Lab X2D in hand, and its dual-nozzle system, 65C heated chamber and $649 base price make the X1 Carbon's successor the most aggressively positioned X-series machine yet.
Swedish EB-PBF printer maker Freemelt has signed an MoU to join Proxima Fusion's Alpha Alliance, applying its tungsten-printing expertise to build plasma-facing components for a stellarator aiming to be the first to hit net energy gain.
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