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3D Printers - Page 7: Buying Advice, Tips, and News

Latest 3D Printer Stories

4.0

The XYZprinting Nobel 1.0 provides the exquisite quality of stereolithographic 3D printing at a moderate price, although its cost per printed object is considerably higher than objects 3D-printed with plastic filament.

By Tony Hoffman

MakerBot kept to its Brooklyn roots in choosing a location for its new factory. PCMag goes inside.

By Tony Hoffman

3D-printed organs, skin, and bones are more science than sci-fi.

By Chandra Steele

3D printers make more than plastic busts of Yoda. They could reinvent the entire auto industry.

By Eric Griffith

A 3D-printed aluminum joint known as a Node connects pieces of carbon fiber tubing to create the chassis.

By Stephanie Mlot

In 2017, the 740-year-old city will become home to the world's first 3D-printed pedestrian bridge.

By Stephanie Mlot
2.5

The CEL Robox 3D printer is capable of printing beautiful, high-resolution objects, but also produced more than its share of misprints and flawed output in our tests.

By Tony Hoffman

The $300 3D Capture Stage, a small motorized turntable, also automates some of the scanning process.

By Brian Westover

Ready to bring your three-dimensional creations to life? Here's everything you need to know to choose the right 3D printer.

By Tony Hoffman

Mosaic Manufacturing's Kickstarter campaign aims to bring multi-color, multi-material 3D printing to the masses.

By Stephanie Mlot

The design show adds a new dimension to the event (no pun intended).

By Tony Hoffman

Researchers at Caltech developed a 3D scanning device that is small enough to fit into a smartphone.

By Angela Moscaritolo

Carbon3D's CLIP technology brings to mind Robert Patrick emerging from a puddle of liquid metal as the T-1000.

By Stephanie Mlot

Just draw any image on your PC; the PancakeBot-compatible software creates the file, and the printer does the rest.

By Stephanie Mlot
2.5

The Press, Solidoodle's first attempt at a purely consumer 3D printer, has some nice features for its moderate price, but in testing, we encountered operational issues, mediocre print quality, and plenty of misprints.

By Tony Hoffman

A Norwegian hobbyist creates a dead-on copy of an ornate 6th century blade.

By Damon Poeter
4.0
Editors' Choice

The LulzBot Mini 3D Printer is amazingly easy to set up and use, can print with a wide variety of filament types, and made it through our tests without a single misprint.

By Tony Hoffman

Students at Nanyang Technological University built the first 3D-printed "urban solar electric car" prototype.

By Angela Moscaritolo

XYZprinting also has a stereolithography 3D printer that will sell at a cut-rate price for that technology.

By Tony Hoffman
4.0

The compact and quiet Formlabs Form 1+ 3D printer creates magnificent, high-resolution objects from liquid resin, but the printing process is more onerous than with 3D printers that use plastic filament.

By Tony Hoffman