(Mar. 11, 2025) UltiMaker’s new S8 offers four-times the speed, five-times the processing power, and improved part quality compared to the S7, which launched in 2023.

Although UltiMaker has never wanted to talk speed, preferring instead to talk about productivity, now they’re putting their money where their mouth is with a clear print speed of up to 500 mm/s and accelerations up to 50,000 mm/s2. This is equal to the Bambu Lab X1 Carbon in speed and betters it by 30,000 mm/s2 in acceleration.

Clearly, the core driver for UltiMaker was to make a faster printing machine without compromising its reputation for quality.  A new motion planner called Cheetah eliminated jumps in acceleration that can lead to bulging or blobs at sharp corners among other defects, the company says.

With better control of the printhead’s motion, UltiMaker says it has boosted the machine’s precision to 0.15 mm ± 0.15%. This is the highest accuracy of any UltiMaker 3D printer and it’s attributable to several other new components on the machine.

Check out our more detailed coverage in the article linked below:

Off to the Races

UltiMaker’s Just-Launched S8 Is Its Fastest Ever

UltiMaker S8 Tech Specs

• Technology: Fused Deposition Modeling (FDM)
• Architecture: Dual Extruder
• Print volume: 330 x 240 x 300 mm
• Extruders: 2, with swappable print cores
• Nozzle diameters: 0.4. (compatible print cores AA+ 0.4, CC+ 0.4, and BB 0.4 and DD 0.4 sold separately). Also backwards compatible with all S7 nozzles.
• Nozzle temperature: up to 340 °C
• Heated build plate: up to 120 °C
• Max. chamber temp: 50 °C
• Min. layer height: 60 microns
• Print speed: 500 mm/s
• Screen: 4.7-inch full-color touchscreen
• Supported files: STL, OBJ, X3D, 3MF, BMP, GIF, JPG, PNG
• Operating Sound: < 50 dB
• Price: $9,000

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(Feb. 20, 2025) 3D Systems, one of the largest global 3D printer manufacturers, launched its newest machine, the NextDent 300, today at the dental industry’s largest products expo, LMT Lab Day in Chicago.

The new 3D printer is uses material jetting technology to produce multi-color, multi-material parts. Its target application is the rapid production of patient-specific monolithic dentures at dental laboratories with plans, the company says, to include solutions for nightguards and direct-printed aligners in 2026.

Full Smile

Multicolor, Multi-Material Denture 3D Printer New From 3D Systems

3D Systems is going head-to-head now with Stratasys, which launched its multicolor, multi-material full denture solution in 2023. The company used to offer several vibrant, full-color 3D printers for prototyping called ColorJet Printing (CJP), but they’ve been quietly removed from the 3D Systems website, seemingly so that the company can focus on the industry that uses full-color the most, dental.

3D Systems is light on technical specification so far and there’s no price announced yet, but it promises that the speed of its jetting technology combined with monolithic denture printing “accelerates total production rates — enabling a full build of 15 arches in as little as nine hours — significantly reducing time to completion resulting in expedited delivery to the prosthodontist and patient.”

NextDent 300 is expected to be available early in the third quarter of 2025.

NextDent 300 Tech Specs

• Technology: Material Jetting
• Build volume: 294 x 211 x 50 mm
• Resolution: 800 x 900 x 800 DPI
• Layer height: 32 microns
• Price: not available

(Feb 17, 2025) EasyMfg, the metal binder jetting 3D printer maker, has its sights set on expansion beyond China (tariffs and politics notwithstanding) with two new metal binder jetting 3D printers set to launch this year.

The M200Eco could be called a starter unit, while the M400Plus features more robust components than the company’s previous metal binder jet machines and focuses on production.

The M200Eco targets fast 3D printing of small parts as “an essential partner for the MIM industry,” the company says. It has a 200 x 140 x 100 mm build volume, which is roughly the same as the Markforged PX100, and prints at 8 to 14 seconds per layer. The adjustable layer thickness ranges from 30 to 100 microns, which is on par with the Desktop Metal X25 Pro.

EasyMfg’s M400Plus ($130,000) is designed for batch production and represents a “significant upgrade” from the the company’s Pro and Max series, EasyMfg says, pointing out that the motion components are upgraded for extra stability.

EasyMfg M400Plus Tech Specs

• Technology: Metal Binder Jetting
• Build volume: 400 x 250 x 200 mm (20 l)
• Max build rate: 1,440 cc/h
• Min layer Height: 40 microns
• Price: $130,000