With the cancellation of countless in-person 3D print events, companies have leveraged technology to keep in contact with clients and prospects in unique ways.
The fate of major 3D printing conferences in 2020 is unclear with the ongoing virus outbreak. We have thoughts on what it could mean.
Josef Prusa dropped some big hints about their upcoming 3D printer farm software and we speculate on what’s to come next.
This week’s selection is the Prusa Protective Face Shield by Prusa Research.
Several 3D print companies have stepped up with initiatives to help aid the COVID-19 crisis, and Ultimaker has developed a unique service to do so.
Autodesk surprised everyone by suddenly adding a way to slice 3D print jobs directly within their popular Fusion 360. But is it something you will use?
Prusa Research is going above and beyond in their preparations to deal with COVID-19, and other companies should follow their example.
The fate of major 3D printing conferences in 2020 is unclear with the ongoing virus outbreak. We have thoughts on what it could mean.
There are several ways to perform multi-material 3D printing using filaments. What are the advantages and disadvantages of each?
In response to recent controversy over the notion of “consumer 3D printing”, I propose some alternate ways to look at the situation.
We caught up with a professional 3D printer maintenance manager to understand his thoughts on repairing several types of 3D printers in a busy fabrication lab.
We tested the Prusa Research MMU2S multi-material 3D printer upgrade kit and learned a great deal about 3D printing. Part 3 deals with troubleshooting and eventual success.
We tested the Prusa Research MMU2S multi-material 3D printer upgrade kit and learned a great deal about 3D printing. Part 2 deals with assembly and initial testing.
We tested the Prusa Research MMU2S multi-material 3D printer upgrade kit and learned a great deal about 3D printing. Part 1 deals with concepts and assembly.
We were able to view video footage of the 3D printing hair-caught incident from last week and have determined exactly how it occurred, and how to prevent it from happening again.
General predictions of the future are easy, mere extensions of existing trends. Here we provide some very specific — and unlikely — predictions for 2020.
Prusa Research issued some news about their new Original Prusa MINI desktop 3D printer, and it leads to some interesting speculation.
Prusa Research seems to be taking aim at capturing the crown of 3D model repositories from Thingiverse with the help of a one-touch import tool.
What should a 3D printer company do if they have a hardware problem? Tell us about it! That’s what Prusa Research did for a crazy heat bed noise issue.
Prusa Research announced a brand new desktop 3D printer, the Original Prusa MINI. Its surprisingly low price will enable almost anyone to obtain a quality 3D printer.
How many 3D printers can you run at the same time? Prusa’s answer to that question is in the thousands, as they set a world record.
Thingiverse is the largest printable 3D model repository on the planet, but it doesn’t seem to be progressing. We know why.
Have you ever used ASA 3D printer filament? A new offering from Prusa Research may provide a trigger for many 3D printer operators to begin using this powerful material.
A video tour inside the operations of Prusa Research gives a close look at what it takes to make high-quality 3D printers and 3D printing filament.
Having trouble separating a 3D model into pieces for color 3D printing? Now a new tool, SimplyColor3D, allows easy segmentation for Prusa MMU2S or Palette2 .
Prusa Research has now officially sold more than 100,000 desktop 3D printers.
Prusa Research introduced PrusaSlicer to replace their previous management software.
Fabbaloo friend and maker Eric Au reports on his use of a Prusa clone 3D printer.
There’s an exciting upgrade for the most popular 3D printer around: the Prusa Bear Upgrade.
I’m thinking a lot about Prusa’s new 3D model repository, and wondering what it might mean.
A new and potentially game-changing 3D model repository has appeared: PrusaPrinters.
We’re nearing the release of Prusa’s first resin-based 3D printer, and it’s time to think about what this might mean.
We received an interesting question about resin 3D printers.
After thinking more about Prusa Printers’ astonishing production figures, I’m now wondering whether consumer 3D printing is back.
At formnext we learned much about Prusa Printer’s manufacturing capabilities.
Prusa Research has done something few, if any, 3D printer manufacturers have done: develop their own in-house produced filament.
Prusa Research announced a new resin-based 3D printer. What will this mean?
Long time non-resin 3D printer manufacturer Prusa Research announced a resin 3D printer.
Prusa Printers finally released their long-awaited second version of their multmaterial upgrade.
After watching a video of Prusa Research headquarters, it’s increasingly obvious that time is up for new 3D printer startups.
Josef Prusa provided an update on his company’s progress on building, improving and shipping their new MK3 3D printers, but also announced a big change.
In a rather long blog post, Josef Prusa explained some of the backstory regarding ongoing changes to the company’s flagship desktop 3D printer, the MK3.
There was a bit of controversy earlier this month when Prusa Research announced the fabulous new Prusa i3 MK3 desktop 3D printer.
Unexpectedly, Prusa announced a significantly improved desktop 3D printer, the MK3.
Prusa Research took an expected, but nevertheless interesting step forward this month by announcing a feature usually found on professional machines.
I’m reading an interesting story from Prusa Printers that reveals a rather shocking fact about 3D printer filament.
We got our hands on with a pair of assembled Original Prusa i3’s and ran them through some basic tests.
Open source desktop 3D printer manufacture Prusa Labs introduced a fascinating new feature in their slicing software that attempts to resolve the eternal trade off between quality of print and print speed in 3D printing.
After the “consumer crash” of desktop 3D printing there remains the surviving companies. One that’s far beyond mere “surviving” is Prusa Research.
The Prusa crew have developed a rather sophisticated automated calibration system for their most recent desktop 3D printer, the Prusa i3 MK2.
One of the most popular desktop 3D printers is the Prusa i3, but now it may become even more popular with its latest iteration.
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Welcome to Fabbaloo, one of the world’s oldest online news sources for 3D printing news. We’ve been in operation since 2007, where we first started examining the state of 3D printers. These devices are now relatively common among some circles in today’s world, but years ago it was extremely rare to see a 3D printer or even a 3D printed object.
At that time it was challenging to find any 3D printing news, so we decided to make our own site that covered 3D printer news, and even associated technologies like 3D scanning and 3D modeling. Today it is common to find 3D printers in schools, workshops and makerspaces, and you probably have been using 3D printed objects without even knowing they were 3D printed.
Today’s industry has finally taken up the challenge by installing thousands of industrial 3D printers, each producing previously impossible 3D printed parts that make today’s society far more efficient. The aerospace industry in particular has been producing many 3D printed parts, some even for flight critical purposes.
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