Prusa Research

Private

Prague maker of the Original Prusa desktop FDM printers, plus filament and resin printers, founded by Josef Průša. It has moved away from fully open-source designs since 2023.

Status: Private
Headquarters: Prague, Czech Republic
Founded: 2012
Technologies: Desktop FDM, SLA

Timeline

6 entries, oldest first

2012
2012
Founded by Josef Průša
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2020
2020
Revenue of 2.18 billion koruna
Net income was 270.5 million koruna.
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2022
May 2022
Buys US reseller Print Solid
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2023
2023
Starts pulling back from fully open-source designs
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2024
Nov 2024
Announces the CORE One at Formnext
An enclosed CoreXY printer with active chamber temperature control, from 1,199 dollars before VAT, shipping from January 2025.
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2025
Aug 2025
Josef Průša declares open-hardware desktop printing dead
He blamed Chinese state support for the sector and a wave of Chinese patents on small variations of community designs.
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Informational only, not investment advice. Timeline entries are compiled by hand from public sources and can lag real events. Figures come from company reports and news, not from us. Private companies rarely publish financials; where a figure is not disclosed we say so instead of estimating it.