Medical professionals and device manufacturers can now create patient-specific anatomically realistic models that behave like real tissue under CT or X-ray.
Of the three big multi-material contenders from Formnext – the Snapmaker U1, Bambu Lab H2C, and Prusa Core One – the Bondtech-powered INDX system won handily, securing more votes than the other two combined.
What is it about the INDX that gets your printing juices flowing?
We got a glimpse of Creality’s future for the Ender series at Formnext, and it’s customizable and colorful.
While the company’s big news at the show was a new recipe for its ObXiDian nozzles – the new ObXiDian 500, which offers superior non-stick, abrasives-resistance at higher temperatures – what caught my eye was a mesmerizing shiny green spinning thing. I’m easily distracted like that.
Representative of the company’s in-development Fuge technology, it’s a new internal geometry for nozzles that flattens the filament, rather than splitting it like Bondtech’s CHT does.
On display at Formnext last week, Elegoo’s new multicolor-centric 3D printer does not replace the original Centauri Carbon, the company has told us.
Amid the bustle of a busy Formnext week, we sat with Bambu Lab CEO Ye Tao for a casual chat about company's just-launched nozzle-swapping 3D printer. Surprisingly, the printer's real value to Tao isn't necessarily in saving material at color changes.
Big ticket printer deals often grab the headlines, but Black Friday is actually a solid time to stock up on consumables. We've found significant bulk discounts from Sunlu, Bambu Lab, and Creality – just watch out for the shipping minimums.
Always "on it's way", delayed or "soon", but never here and ready to go. Not this year, though. Bambu Lab, Prusa, et al may be grabbing the attention, but Phrozen's quiet monster of a printer is now available to buy and made its proper debut at Formnext this year.
What sets it apart? The Arco uses Klipper (properly, with attribution) uses a fast, flying gantry CoreXY design, and features a novel heat pipe-based hot end cooling system that helps shorten the filament drive path. Ours just arrived, so we'll be going hands on soon.
The FibreSeeker 3, a rebrand of industrial maker Anisoprint, challenges the desktop composite monopoly with an open-source focus and a new co-extrusion process that promises 900-MPa tensile strength.
It’s taken a month, but the Bambu Lab P2S and P2S Combo are now available to buy on Bambu Lab’s webstore, with the H2C pricing confirmed and expected to follow in the next couple of weeks.
It’s Black Friday time again. Here's a round up of the major deals in the desktop 3D printing space, including hardware, materials, accessories and more.
but we'll be talking about the immediate future of desktop printing for a while. It looks like multiple printheads and high-tech nozzles, seamlessly swapping in and out as needed. Three such printers made their Formnext debuts this week – which would you buy?
At Biqu’s booth, Czech-based independent printer manufacturer Stōn-Wolf (pronounced stone wolf) debuted its eponymous printer. It's a gorgeous slab of thick, mirror-finish metal surrounding an unusual flying-gantry motion system over a 300 x 300 mm build area. Built-to-order in Czechia, kits start at €1,395.
Biqu will release the Panda Cyborg kit for the Bambu Lab P1S and P1P soon, transforming the printers into a Klipper-powered playground. That, and an unexpected sweet treat were the highlights of a colorful year at Formnext for the company.
Flashforge brought a noticeably quieter presence to Formnext than previous years, foregoing the flashy hardware reveals typical of the Frankfurt event.
But even there it can come from unexpected places. A nondescript table appeared today at Bambu Lab's booth, showing off a bunch of heavy, highly polished metallic looking pieces. Like the CyberBrick was once a stealthy, interactive exhibit at the company's stand, perhaps we'll see a high metal-content filament from them soon, too.
At least so says Recreus, flexible filament specialists whose Formnext highlight solves the difficulties of high-speed printing soft flexibles: a new filament size. Soon, the company will offer a 2.20 mm flexible filament alongside the standard 1,75 mm. The logic goes that 2.85 mm filament takes too long to melt properly, and 1.75mm buckles too easily.
This new goldilocks size melts juuust right for higher-flow printing of flexibles at PLA-like print speeds, they say. Recreus-made Bambu Lab and Prusa Nextruder compatible nozzles, required for this optimal new size, will also launch soon.
The major hardware announcements mark expansions into engineering-competent large-volume desktop printing, plus an upped game in resin performance for Anycubic. Co-founder and CTO James Ouyang tells us all.
This year’s Formnext doesn’t just belong to Bambu Lab and the H2C, with the Prusa Core One and One L to get next-gen “passive” toolchanging powered by the Bondtech INDX.
Unveiled at Formnext 2025 in Frankfurt, TPM3D says its space-saving setup aims to bring pro-grade SLS performance to studios, labs, and small production teams.