Lasers · Aug 25, 2026
xTool will unveil its new X1 laser system on August 27 alongside what the company describes as its first embroidery machine. According to an initial teaser, the X1 is designed to combine a large working area with the processing speeds normally associated with galvo lasers.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Lasers · Aug 13, 2026
Bambu Lab's latest teaser confirms both the R1's CO₂ laser technology and its September 22 launch date. Power, work area and other specifications have yet to be announced.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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UV Printers · Jul 13, 2026
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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UV Printers · Jul 8, 2026
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.
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UV Printers · Jul 4, 2026
From enclosed machines aimed at first-time users to open-ink flatbeds and full-color 3D systems, these are the desktop UV printers worth considering in 2026.
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