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Recent First Layer Guide coverage of 3D printing news: new printer launches, firmware and slicer updates, materials, and notable industry developments.
Flashforge CJ270: A Desktop 3D Printer That Prints Color Instead of Painting It On
Flashforge’s CJ270 launched September 14 at $3,999, a desktop 3D printer that jets CMYK, white and transparent materials to build full-color parts without a…
Creality K3: A Nozzle-Swapping Printer That Skips Most of the Purge Waste
Creality’s K3 swaps entire nozzle-and-hotend assemblies instead of purging filament through a shared nozzle. Unveiled at IFA 2026 with a 4.8-second swap time, but…
PrusaSlicer 3.0 Preview: A Rewritten Interface and Real Multi-Printer Projects
PrusaSlicer 3.0’s first public preview shipped on September 1, exactly 15 years after Slic3r’s first commit. The interface was rewritten from scratch, projects can…
A Security Researcher Found a Way to Take Over Any Lychee Slicer Account
A researcher found that Lychee Slicer’s account email change can be faked with nothing more than a screenshot, exposing any customer account. Mango3D has…
E3D Is Building an Abrasive-Resistant Nozzle for Prusa’s INDX
E3D confirmed it’s developing an abrasive-resistant nozzle for Bondtech’s INDX toolchanger, after Bondtech admitted the nozzles it shipped weren’t hardened as advertised. Here’s what…
Prusa’s INDX Toolchanger Now Ships as a Complete Printer, CORE One L+ Included
Prusa now sells its INDX toolchanger pre-installed in a complete, factory-assembled printer, and the larger CORE One L+ just got the same option. Here’s…
Creality SPARKX i7 Nano: What You Give Up for $299 Multicolor Printing
Creality’s new $299 SPARKX i7 Nano Combo brings four-color printing to a smaller footprint by trimming two features from the CFS nano hub: TPU…
Bambu Studio 2.8.2: What Actually Changes for Your Prints
Bambu Studio 2.8.2 left beta on August 14. The assembly guide tool got the headlines, but the changes that show up in ordinary prints…
Prusa XL+, CORE One+ (Gen 2) and CORE One L+: What Actually Changed
Prusa refreshed all three of its current printers on August 13, adding GT1.5 belts and a nozzle wiper across the board, a far faster…
OrcaSlicer Adds a Python Plugin System: What It Does, and What It Does Not Protect
OrcaSlicer now has a Python plugin system in nightly builds, with a cloud plugin browser and hooks into slicing. Here is what plugins can…
