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Bambu Lab Says 2025 Was a Breakout Year: 10 Million Monthly Users and Real Business Growth
Chinese 3D printer maker Bambu Lab reported strong results for 2025, showing that the company’s push into community and small-business 3D printing is working. The numbers suggest consumer 3D printing…
Hardware is Dead. Here’s What Actually Wins in Additive Manufacturing.
Hardware is rapidly commoditizing across additive manufacturing. Specifications have converged. Price competition has intensified. Margins have compressed. For companies attempting to scale additive manufacturing beyond prototyping, this shift has profound…
Will Desktop Firms Push Shoe 3D Printing Forward?
Recently, Bambu Lab announced that it was working with FORMISM by SCRY on releasing shoes. These six designs will be shared and printable through its Makerworld platform. Using the platform,…
2026: The Year of the Low Cost Print Farm
The rise of high-speed, reliable desktop Material Extrusion and Vat Polymerization systems by Creality, Bambu, Elegoo, and Prusa Research, the onward march of Formlabs in Pro LPBF and VP, as…
DEFEND3D Founder Barrett Veldsman Explains Why AM is On the Brink of Its Cybersecurity Moment
Cybersecurity has been something of a blind spot for the additive manufacturing (AM) industry. In the second half of this year, this started to change: in September, leading prosumer brand…
A New 3D Printing Megaverse Is Forming — Who Will Lead?
The desktop 3D printer market may soon look less like a hobby and more like a serious, high-stakes race. Between rumors of mega-investments, changing alliances, and a boom in consumer…
Bambu Lab Starts Lets Make it Fund
Bambu Lab is starting up the Let’s Make It Fund. The company will donate up to a total of $300,000 to makers who do “bold, world-changing projects that are exceptional,…
3D Printing News Briefs, November 22, 2025: Rebranding, Integration, Electronic Eyes, & More
We’ll start with a new software tool from AON3D in today’s 3D Printing News Briefs, and then we’ve got a lot of business, from Conflux Technology and Prima Additive to…
Bambu Releases H2C With Vortek System Upgrade
See the addendum to this article for an update from 11/25/2025. Bambu Lab releases its H2C with the new Vortek system on board, debuting the machine at Formnext 2025. Vortek…
Bambu Lab Launches P2S: Expanding the P1 Legacy with Smarter, Faster Printing
See the addendum to this article for an update from 11/25/2025. Just two years after shaking up desktop 3D printing with the P1 Series, Bambu Lab is back with the…
Trust Bambu
Bambu Lab‘s relentless rise has galvanized the industry into a furious response, making desktop 3D printers much faster and more reliable. Other competitors are in denial and, like deer in…
Creality K2 and K2 Pro: Print Farm Ready?!
Disclosure: The K2 and K2 Pro were provided to me by Creality free of charge for the purpose of this review. I have not received any other compensation. All opinions…
3D Printing News Briefs, October 1, 2025: Bambu Lab Store, Shape-Morphing Materials, & More
In today’s 3D Printing News Briefs, Bambu Lab has opened its first retail store, and Meltio is inaugurating its first international additive manufacturing reference site. A consortium has launched a…
When Sneakers Go Open-Source: Bambu Lab and Presq Take 3D Printing into Streetwear
Sneakers aren’t just shoes. To many people worldwide, they’re culture, identity, and community; the kind of everyday object that has meaning far beyond its function. From limited-edition drops to streetwear…
Bambu Lab Announces Integration with Polar Cloud for Classroom 3D Printing
This week, Bambu Lab announced a new integration with Polar3D, the Cincinnati, Ohio-based creator of the Polar Cloud platform. This educational fleet management system enables schools and districts to more…
Bambu Lab Launches H2S at $1,249 — Exploring the Strategy Behind Its Price and Positioning
Bambu Lab has launched the H2S, a single-nozzle 340×320×340 mm printer that starts at $1249. The printer has twice the build volume of the X1C and is 30% faster. Billed…
Bambu Lab Targets the Enterprise Market with New H2D Pro Printer
As we learned from our interview with Cedric Mallet, Bambu Lab had not considered the enterprise and manufacturing market when it launched its first 3D printer. Nonetheless, thousands of businesses…
Daring AM: Changing Landscape for 3D Printed Guns
3D printed guns continue to draw attention from lawmakers, tech platforms, and law enforcement. Difficult to trace, these ghost guns can be made at home with a 3D printer and…
Xioneer 3D Prints PEEK Part on Bambu Lab H2D
Xioneer Systems has successfully 3D printed a PEEK part on the Bambu Lab H2D. The company successfully got the Victrex AM 200 material to print. Using Xioneer’s own VXL 111…
3D Printing News Briefs, July 16, 2025: Patents, Pure Copper, K-12 Education, & More
We’re starting with patent news in today’s 3D Printing News Briefs, as PostProcess Technologies has reached an exciting milestone of 50 patents granted! Moving on to 3D printers, Fraunhofer IFAM…
Bambu Lab Launches Software to Manage 3D Printer Fleets—No Cloud Needed
Bambu Lab has introduced a new software tool, Bambu Farm Manager, designed to help users manage large fleets of 3D printers over a local network, without relying on the cloud….
3D Printing News Briefs, July 2, 2025: Copper Alloys, Defense Manufacturing, & More
We’re starting off with metals in today’s 3D Printing News Briefs, as Farsoon has unveiled a large-scale AM solution for copper alloys, and Meltio used its wire-laser metal solution to…
Siraya Tech Introduces New Elastomer 3D Printing Materials, Including Foaming TPU
California company Siraya Tech, founded in 2019 with a focus on material science, customer focus, and agility, develops high-quality 3D printing materials that meet the needs of creators, hobbyists, and…
3D Printing News Briefs, April 12, 2025: RAPID Roundup
The news from last week’s RAPID+TCT in Detroit just keeps on coming! That’s why today’s 3D Printing News Briefs is another RAPID Roundup of more exciting announcements from the trade…
