New printers and scanners as they launch, what they cost, and what independent testers measured once they had one on the bench.
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Formlabs' cheapest Form 4 Basic Package runs $2,625, about 6.6x Creality's $399 HALOT-MAGE; its Form 4L Basic Package at $7,125 is 18x the same Halot-Mage. Formlabs has quoted the Form 4L at four different prices, $9,999, $8,904, $19,769 and $19,999, and we could only confirm the bundle contents behind two of them.
RepRapMicron's open-source PIKA UV head cures resin through a single-mode optical fiber, printing a 0.5 mm Benchy at a claimed 9 micron resolution.
HORKOS and Meltio built the NX70 DUO, a non-bed machining center that alternates between Meltio's wire-DED deposition and precision cutting in one setup, debuting at JIMTOF 2026.
Bambu Lab's H3C tool changer launches Nov 3 with nine tools on a drop-down Vortex rack, two more slots than the H2C.
Admatec's Admaflex Discovery brings ceramic DLP printing to a lab bench at $92,500, with an upgrade path to a larger standalone machine.
Peopoly opened general sales of its Giga 800 pellet printer on October 22, 2026, at $15,000 EXW, adding laser-assisted bed leveling after Early Adopter complaints about setup time.
ValCUN's Remus printhead adds a plasma source ahead of the nozzle to preheat and deoxidize surfaces, letting the Belgian firm's aluminum MMD process scale past its 125mm Minerva build plate.
Polymaker's CymphoniK mixes custom colors from six base pellets, cyan, magenta, yellow, black, white and neutral, with over 100 shades validated on PETG-1213 R50.
UC Berkeley released OpenCAL, an open-source volumetric printer with a Formlabs-made resin sold by Prusa for $119.99 a liter, forming parts in one to two minutes.
Prusa Research now sells the raw pellets behind Prusament filament in 3.5-14 kg packs, from $44.99, aimed at FGF printing and materials labs.
Two stainless steel DMLS propellers built by Steel Developments and Caleb Jelf ran free practice at the UIM F2 World Championship, logging over 60 laps and a lap time within five tenths of the fastest propeller that session.
Greenland Arctic Development Corp has bought Caracol's Heron 400 robotic 3D printer, testing it in Chicago before shipping it north to build local spare-parts production.
UC Berkeley's open-source OpenCAL printer cures a whole object at once in a spinning resin vial, with Formlabs making the resin and Prusa selling it for $119.99 a liter.
Solukon's new SFM-AT850 handles metal AM parts up to 1,000 kg in a 650 x 650 x 800 mm chamber, replacing two older models and shipping by Q3 2027.
Freemelt will print several test geometries in refractory metal under a feasibility agreement with an unnamed Swedish defense firm, its second refractory metal win since September.
Formlabs' $699 Form Studio 1 is the first resin printer with UL GREENGUARD Gold certification, keeping VOC emissions under 220 µg/m³ when paired with its VOC Extractor and Alpha Resins.
Thomas Sanladerer's testing found the Core One+ INDX's mandatory per-print calibration, built around 0.013 g of purge waste per swap, breaks with Voxel PLA and other non-Prusament filament.
Creality's K3 pre-orders open at $849, using a four-nozzle KliTek system that swaps nozzles in about 5 seconds and claims 80% shorter multi-color print times.
Bambu Lab has officially teased its first 3D scanner, the S1, for a November 2026 launch, with no specs or price released yet.
Shenzhen Tuozhu Technology, Bambu Lab's parent company, published a U.S. patent application on September 10, 2026 for a heatbed meant to cut peeling on large prints.
UniFormation's S10 automates printing, washing and drying behind one door, launching on Kickstarter in late October 2026 at a $999 pledge price, MSRP $1,299.
CNC Kitchen tested micro-non-planar "Z anti-aliasing" slicing on a Voron 2.4, measuring Ra drop from ~80 µm to ~25 µm on a 5° wedge with a Mitutoyo Surftest SJ-220.
Fabbrix's Elemento TC5 ships now with five independent toolheads, a 1,100 x 600 x 640mm build volume, and 350°C hotends, priced on quote only.
My Tech Fun ran the UGEE FunBox, a €299 kids' printer with a 120x120x120mm build volume and an unheated "room temperature" platform, through its app workflow and spool swaps.
ESA's metal 3D printer on the ISS has produced two satellite thrusters designed by DLR, part of a fifth printed sample retrieved from the Columbus module in July.
Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a law requiring 3D printer makers to add firearm-blocking technology, but the mandate only triggers once ASTM International publishes a standard, and the DOJ's quarterly check expires July 1, 2029.
Uni3DLab, Bambu Lab's authorized Philippine distributor, opened the brand's first authorized retail store at SM Megamall's Cyberzone, with printers on live demo.
Creality's new handheld scanner claims 0.02mm accuracy and runs standalone on a 3.36GHz 8-core Qualcomm chip, with four scan modes and a 807g body.
Prusa's new HT Hotend Upgrade reaches 400°C and swaps tool-free in under a minute; the pre-assembled CORE One L+ bundles it with active chamber heating and filtration for $2,169.
Faiborida 3D's new SLM M500 packs four 500W IPG fiber lasers into a 500x500x500mm build chamber, aiming at higher throughput per job than single- or dual-laser mid-frame metal printers.
SnowX, based in Suzhou, has posted a Kickstarter pre-launch page for the SnowPod, an 80 x 80 x 100 mm LPBF metal printer with a 40 μm laser spot, ahead of a Q4 2026 campaign.
Addireen's third-generation green-laser copper printer filled a 350mm plate with about 400 optical transceiver heat sinks in roughly 140 hours, claiming Cpk above 1.33.
Flashforge's CJ270 puts CMYK, white and clear material jetting on a desktop at $3,999, with the first 100 units shipping by air on October 15, 2026.
Phrozen's new Sonic Mighty Revo 16K MAX pairs a 14.7 L build volume with a 16K mono LCD, listing at $1,600, with a $1,300 early-bird price to match rivals like Uniformation's GK3 Ultra.
My Tech Fun tore printed samples of IPCON's glass-fiber and carbon-fiber PPA filaments on a scale rig, logging four separate breaks at 164.2 kg, 197.3 kg, 245.8 kg and 407.6 kg without labeling which pull belonged to which grade on screen.
Stratasys unveiled the F870 at IMTS 2026, a 1000 x 610 x 610 mm heated-chamber FDM platform starting at $149,000, already running at Rivian and Toyota plants.
UK startup XYZO has launched a modular platform that combines DLP, FDM, pellet extrusion, drop-on-demand deposition and CNC micro-milling with inspection and post-processing in one connected system.
Creality's SPARKX i8 packs four filament channels into one toolhead and starts at $309 on Indiegogo, claiming zero external purge waste and sub-second color switching.