I've spent almost a decade and countless hours testing 3D printers in as many ways as possible to bring you the best 3D printers in every class. Right now, the Bambu Lab A1 Combo is our frontrunner: It's fast, can produce excellent detail and it's well priced at $489. It also comes with an excellent color system, allowing you to print in four different colors.
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I rarely find a product that impresses me, but the A1 Combo left me genuinely amazed with its performance and value. This 3D printer is excellent, with fast, quality printing at a great price. Adding the AMS lite elevates it to the best printer you can buy right now. Plus, its four-color printing for less than $600 is such a good deal; I'm still baffled by how the company pulls off that pricing.
The A1 creates a lot of waste when printing in color, but that is not a good reason not to buy this machine. Whether it's your first printer or another one for your collection, the A1 Combo is the number one printer to buy right now.
Read more: A1 Combo review
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No \"best 3D printer list\" is complete without the Prusa MK4. Prusa has dominated the market for nearly a decade, and the MK4 continues the trend of excellent quality and customer care while maintaining high standards in open source.
It is fast, although not the fastest, and always creates quality prints. I can count the number of print fails from MK4 on one finger, and I have been using it for months now. If you have the money, the MK4 is well worth the investment.
Read more: Prusa MK4 Review
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Update: Prusa has released a new version of the Mk4, the Mk4S. It's an incremental upgrade but adds a lot of great features. It's faster -- it gets closer to that 500mm/s stated time in real life -- and the addition of an app and proper WiFi connections makes it a solid purchase for anyone.
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Read more: Prusa MK4 Review
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Read more: Prusa MK4 Review
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The P1S is an updated version of our previous best 3D printer winner, the P1P. Each of the updates to the machine -- plastic side panels, glass top and door, camera, part fan and LED light -- helped land the P1S as our previous No. 1 pick. It's now been supplanted by another Bambu machine, but it still holds up as the best-enclosed printer you can buy.
The quality of the models and their speed are amazing and very few printers offer both of these aspects anywhere near the same price. The P1S beats out its predecessor, even though it is the same machine in every mechanical way, because the case and door make it a more well-rounded product.
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