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Bambu Lab Announces the R1 Laser Engraver and Cutter for September
The R1 is Bambu Lab's first laser engraver and cutter, due in September with no specifications, price or exact date published yet. Until it arrives, a Bambu laser means an H2D, from $2,149.
Aug 13, 2026 · 3 min read
Printers · Aug 13, 2026
Prusa XL+, CORE One+ (Gen 2) and CORE One L+: Same Prices, Upgrade Kits for Owners
The XL+, CORE One+ (Gen 2) and CORE One L+ all pick up a nozzle wiper and new GT1.5 belts. The XL+ adds 360-degree cooling and a permanent toolhead sensor Prusa claims aligns each toolhead about 20 times faster than the pin it replaces. Prices stay where they were, and existing machines get upgrade kits.
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Printers · Jul 28, 2026
LightMake L4: Four Independent Toolheads on Linear Motors, From $1,099
LightMake wants to retire two things at once: the drive belt and the toolchange. The L4 keeps four heads loaded and hands the print between them in a second, rides them on linear motors instead of belts, and asks $1,099 against a $2,399 MSRP. The campaign lands in Q3, and nothing on the market tries the same combination.
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Printers · Jul 24, 2026
InfiMech MX and MX Pro: Six- and Eight-Toolhead Toolchangers From $249
The MX Series undercuts every toolchanger on the market: $249 for the six-toolhead MX and $499 for the eight-toolhead, chamber-heated MX Pro, both reached with the $50 credit a $5 deposit buys. InfiMech has now spelled out what that deposit does and doesn't do, after its community spent two weeks asking.
27 min read
Printers · Jul 22, 2026
Sovol M1D: the First IDEX Tool-Changing 3D Printer, From $1,199
Sovol's first toolchanger puts seven toolheads on two carriages and says it prints seven colors with almost no purge waste. Two models are headed to Kickstarter: the open-frame Essential at $1,299 and the heated-chamber Advanced at $1,599, with a $20 deposit taking another $100 off. The campaign opens July 28 at 10 a.m. EST.
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Printers · Jul 18, 2026
Bondtech Admits INDX 'Hardened' Nozzles Aren't Really Hardened
Bondtech sold its INDX nozzles as hardened for eight months, right down to the print on the box. Now its own staff say they're about half as hard as that usually means, the word is quietly disappearing from the product pages, and both Bondtech and Prusa have promised answers early next week.
11 min read
Printers · Jul 13, 2026
eufyMake Cuts E1 Ink Prices by 30%, With a High-Capacity Ink System to Follow
The E1's ink got about 30% cheaper on July 13, 2026, across every cartridge, kit, and subscription, in the US and EU alike. eufyMake paired the cut with a longer shelf life, a promise of twice the print speed in Q3, and a first look at the high-capacity ink system due later this year.
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Printers · Jul 8, 2026
My Biggest Problem With the eufyMake E1 (and How to Fix It)
The E1's snapshot camera is accurate in the center of the bed and increasingly wrong toward the edges. For one centered phone case that's fine. For a bed full of parts, at $430 a liter of ink, it's the problem worth fixing properly.
12 min read
Printers · Jul 4, 2026
The Best Desktop UV Printer in 2026: Every Machine Compared
Desktop UV printers now share the same desk, from $1,599 to $9,299. The field moved again this month: eufyMake cut its ink prices about 30%, and four challengers are heading for launch. Here is the whole sub-$10,000 field as of July 2026: what each machine prints, what the ink costs per liter, and which one fits which kind of work.
27 min read
Printers · Jul 2, 2026
Morpho UV Printer: Prices, Both Models, and Specs
DJI's former camera chief just announced a desktop UV printer with an enclosed moving-gantry design, stereo vision alignment, an open ink system, and up to 60 mm of stacked texture, starting at $1,599. Here's every spec, what separates the two models, and how the deposit and cashback work ahead of the Kickstarter.
24 min read
Printers · Jun 29, 2026
xTool O1 Omni Printer: Prices, Editions, and Ink Costs
xTool says 'from $1,699' for a 4-in-1 that prints on wood, tumblers, and T-shirts. That number is a deposit-locked early bird on the single-head model, and the only edition that does all four jobs is $2,799. Here's every price, the published ink costs, and what it can't do.
19 min read
Printers · Jun 12, 2026
HeyGears G1 and G1X: Full-Color 3D Printing Gets a Desktop Price
Full-color 3D printing used to mean a $50,000 machine. HeyGears put it on a desk for $3,299. The three tiers print very different things, and HeyGears has now published the ink, resin and printhead numbers that decide the real cost of ownership. Here's every price, what each pack buys, and what it costs to run.
18 min read
Data · Jun 11, 2026
PLA & PETG Filament Price per Gram and per Kg (Updated Monthly)
Most guides quote a price per kilogram from whenever they were written. This page is checked monthly against the manufacturers' own stores, and it converts to the number you actually need: cents per gram, after waste.
8 min read
Pricing · Jun 10, 2026
How to Price 3D Prints: The Complete Guide (2026)
The most repeated pricing rule in this hobby quotes below cost. Here's the formula that doesn't: margin math, the fee gross-up, and one part priced three ways to a final number.
9 min read
Pricing · Jun 8, 2026
The 3D Printing Cost Formula: Calculate the Cost of Any Print
Your slicer tells you grams and hours, never money. This is the five-line formula that turns them into a real cost, with sourced June 2026 prices and a worked total.
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