More affordable than ever, 3D printers are booming for personal, professional, and educational use. We've been testing them for over a decade and are here to help you find the right option.

Printers have made significant progress since the first dot matrix printer was introduced by the Digital Equipment Corporation in 1970. It printed a mere 30 characters per second, made incredibly loud ...

A good 3D printer no longer needs to cost a fortune to support multicolor printing. Here, we've picked five affordable ...

The P2S is probably the best 3D printer you can buy right now. The P1S was outstanding, winning our best overall in 2023, and the P2S fixed all the tiny issues I had with its predecessor. While it isn ...

The printer often has a bad reputation — something that rarely works, or is always out of ink — often because of the complexity of commercial and office printers. But these at-home models should be ...

I’ve found that most people have a paradoxical relationship with printers. On the one hand, the vast majority of people I know mock the idea of owning one, declaring it a relic of the days when we had ...

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It may be convenient to leave your 3D printer on all the time, but that's usually a bad idea. Here's how often you should ...