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This series of articles delves into a thought experiment. What if we let go of using a few machines very optimally, but instead use lots of different machines to meet many needs? And what if we changed ourselves from a service bureau into a manufacturing company that optimized many processes very specifically? What if we

Welcome to Printing Money Episode 42. Troy Jensen (Managing Director, Cantor) returns, joining Danny Piper (Managing Partner, NewCap) to review Q2 2026 publicly traded 3DP/AM company earnings reports. Troy’s quarterly appearances on Printing Money provide listeners with a consistent touchpoint to take the pulse of Wall Street’s outlook for 3D printing / additive manufacturing. The

Innovation For All (IFA) is best known for televisions, appliances, and consumer electronics. But this year’s show in Berlin also gave 3D printing companies plenty of room to show where desktop manufacturing is headed. It’s a market we follow closely at 3DPrint.com, as cheaper, more capable machines become available. After all, Additive Manufacturing Research estimates

The fastest 3D printing supplier in your shortlist may no longer be the one closest to your office. That sounds unlikely to many engineers. For years, overseas 3D printing carried one clear reputation: useful for saving money, risky for urgent work. If a prototype needed to move quickly from CAD file to test bench, most

A couple of years ago, in the title of an interview I did with the CEO of SPEE3D, Byron Kennedy, I referred to SPEE3D as “the most American 3D printing company.” I partially did this to be provocative to companies that are actually based in America — SPEE3D was founded in Australia — but I

Stefan Joens of Elnik Systems sells ovens. Their debind and sintering equipment powers a lot of high-volume binder jet and MIM production. We learn about Elnik and its origins. But we also get a deep dive into sintering, debinding, shrinkage, and binder-jet part production. We talk about different parts, part sizes, where binder jet shines,

While most of the 3D printed construction hype has been around houses, we’re more bullish on infrastructure. By 3D printing in hard-to-reach areas, remote structures can bring infrastructure to new places cost-effectively. In remote areas, 3D printing is even more cost-effective, and implementation can save time and money. We initially thought of examples such as

The Guide Dogs for the Blind Association, more commonly known as Guide Dogs, is the UK’s top sight loss charity, working to help people with vision loss “live the life they choose.” The nonprofit organization recently launched a pilot program called First Hello, which gives visually impaired expectant parents the chance to experience something that

We’ve got a lot of business news from ATLIX to start off this weekend’s 3D Printing News Briefs, with a new identify for its additive manufacturing (AM) portfolio and some new executives. Then we’ll move on to quality management for industrial metal AM, and Bambu Lab cybersecurity. We’ll finish with the winner of another America

Generative AI modeling has come a long way from three-fingered Shrimp Jesus in an incredibly short time. Meshy 7 launched in mid-August, promising to solve the biggest hurdle in AI design: geometry alignment and structural fidelity. It’s definitely better, but it’s not quite as good as human art. Yet. Previous versions of Meshy produced 3D