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3D Printers

    • Flashforge Finder 3D Printer Review
      3.5 Good

      The Flashforge Finder 3D Printer is moderately priced and offers good print quality, but it proved tricky to get up and running in our tests.

      10 years, 1 month By Tony Hoffman
      Flashforge Finder 3D Printer Review (Review Flashforge Finder 3D Printer)
    • Formlabs Form 2 Review
      4.0 Excellent Editors' Choice

      The Form 2 offers magnificent print quality, a good selection of resins, and an improved user experience over the previous generation of Formlabs 3D printers.

      10 years, 1 month By Tony Hoffman
      Formlabs Form 2 Review (Review Formlabs Form 2)
    • MakerBot Replicator Desktop 3D Printer Review
      4.0 Excellent Editors' Choice

      The MakerBot Replicator Desktop 3D Printer stands out for its ease of setup, smooth operation, above-average print quality, user-friendly software, and multiple connectivity choices. It's the best high-end 3D printer we've tested.

      10 years, 8 months By Tony Hoffman
      MakerBot Replicator Desktop 3D Printer  Review (Review MakerBot Replicator Desktop 3D Printer)
    • XYZprinting da Vinci Jr. 1.0 Review
      3.5 Good

      The XYZprinting Da Vinci Jr. 1.0 is a consumer-oriented 3D printer that sells at a breakthrough price and is easy to set up and operate, but it suffers from erratic print quality and balky software.

      10 years, 8 months By Tony Hoffman
      XYZprinting da Vinci Jr. 1.0 Review (Review XYZprinting Da Vinci Jr. 1.0)
    • CEL Robox Review
      2.5 Fair

      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.

      10 years, 11 months By Tony Hoffman
      CEL Robox Review (Review CEL Robox)
    • Solidoodle Press Review
      2.5 Fair

      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.

      11 years, 3 months By Tony Hoffman
      Solidoodle Press Review (Review Solidoodle Press)
    • How 3D Printers Work

      Although 3D printers use a variety of technologies and can print from materials ranging from titanium to chocolate to living cells, they have one thing in common: the ability to produce a physical object from the instructions contained in a 3D object file. We show you how 3D printers work.

      12 years, 7 months By Tony Hoffman
      How 3D Printers Work (News 3D Printers)