Yes—you can still make money 3D printing in 2026. But the easy wins are mostly gone. The marketplace matured, competition got louder, and customers got pickier. So the math shifted: success is less about owning a printer and more about owning a repeatable profit system—pricing, process, positioning, and a product/service that solves a real problem. […]
After more than 1,000 hours of real client jobs at 3D Printing by Kevin, the 3D printer that has proven it can actually last is the Bambu Lab X1C. It has run long batches, multi-day jobs, and demanding functional parts with only routine maintenance and a few predictable wear parts replaced along the way. In
If you’re running a small business or side hustle, your 3D printer is not a toy—it’s a piece of production equipment. The right machine will quietly earn money in the background. The wrong one will flood your schedule with failed prints, support tickets, and late nights. This guide is written specifically for small-business owners, makers
Disclosure: This post may contain affiliate links. If you purchase through these links, I may earn a commission at no additional cost to you. The Breakdown: The gap between industrial manufacturing and home 3D printing has collapsed. The convergence of CoreXY high-speed printing and accessible metrology-grade scanning now allows hobbyists to reverse engineer parts and
Is Prusament Worth It? For 90% of hobbyist prints, no. Modern budget filaments from brands like Sunlu or Elegoo offer excellent performance for roughly $15 per kg. However, Prusament is worth the investment if you need strictly guaranteed dimensional accuracy (+/- 0.02mm), perfect winding to prevent print failures during long jobs, or exact color consistency
If you feel like your 3D printer is fighting you more than helping you, you are not alone. Most 3D printing hobbyists quietly give up within the first six months, usually after a string of failed prints, confusing settings, and a machine that seems impossible to trust. The good news is that people do not
The 3D printer everyone is talking about right now is the Creality HI Combo, because it combines high-speed, multi-color-ready printing with smart automation at a price that used to be unimaginable for home and small-shop makers. If you hang out in any 3D printing space—Discord servers, Facebook groups, Reddit threads, or local makerspaces—you’ve probably noticed
3D printing is moving from a clever niche to a core technology that will quietly rewrite how we design, manufacture, and repair almost everything around us. Scientists and engineers are sounding the alarm in a good way: as printers become smarter, faster, and more accessible, they will transform products, supply chains, and even what we
Color 3D printing used to be frustrating because it relied on manual filament swaps, fragile multi-extruder setups, and slicer hacks. Today’s new generation of multicolor systems combines automatic filament switching, smarter slicers, and tuned hardware so you can print multi-colored parts with far less tinkering, less waste, and a lot more reliability. For years, color
