9 articles
3D Printers · Aug 31, 2026
The new toolchangers made their public debut at Formnext Asia Shenzhen. Both use eight parked hotends, while the Pro adds a glass door and active chamber heating.
4 min read
3D Printers · Aug 19, 2026
The SPARKX i8 runs four filament channels into a single toolhead and merges them 1.7 mm from the nozzle, which Creality says cuts a color change to under a second. It also says the machine saves 438 kg of filament over 3,000 color changes, and values that at about $1,500.
9 min read
3D Printers · Aug 15, 2026
Bambu Lab's patent drops a hotend into the rack and releases it from the toolhead in the same movement. The drawings show nine bays, and only the hotend comes away. The extruder stays behind.
6 min read
3D Printers · Aug 13, 2026
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.
5 min read
3D Printers · Jul 28, 2026
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.
16 min read
3D Printers · Jul 24, 2026
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
3D Printers · Jul 22, 2026
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.
20 min read
3D Printers · Jul 18, 2026
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
3D Printers · Jun 12, 2026
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