Printers
New printer launches, hands-on reviews, and hardware comparisons — from a first machine to a wall of them.
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Printers
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.
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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.
