2025 Edition Professional 3D Printer Buyers Guide

Choosing the right 3D printer doesn't have to be difficult. Find the perfect printer for your application. This in-depth guide covers pricing, materials, dimensional accuracy, and more.
Download nowThe UltiMaker Factor 4 boasts new features including direct drive dual extrusion, automated material handling, onboard print process reporting and open support for engineering materials.
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Founded in 1997, we bring next-generation technology to customers, with an emphasis on expertise and white-glove service. Showrooms in Chicago, Detroit, Tokyo, and Seoul.
The leading national supplier of Desktop 3D printers. Expertise in both Industrial and Desktop 3D printing. Supplier of next-generation Metal, SLS, ultrafast Industrial printers.
UltiMaker Factor 4 is an end-to-end industrial application solution. It's tailored for the development, production, and full-confidence deployment of process-critical tools and machine components. UltiMaker Factor 4 keeps operations running, simplifying processes in factories, and reducing human-triggered variabilities. It streamlines factory floor operations with support for engineering materials, direct dual material extrusion, and onboard print process reporting to achieve unrivaled predictability and minimal variance.
A spacious build chamber and homogenous bed heating allows users to take advantage of every millimeter of the 330 x 240 x 300 build plate. This is dual extrusion with almost unlimited design freedom, maximizing what's possible for each print job.
A new, integrated, automatic material handling system reliably manages your spools so users don't have to. The internal chamber is kept at less than 15% relative humidity, keeping up to 6 kilograms of filament in perfect condition for back-to-back print jobs.
The UltiMaker Factor 4 is most at home in an industrial environment. Built from a robust steel, aluminum, and glass construction, it can be placed anywhere thanks to its triple-insulated and temperature-controlled build volume and integrated HEPA filter.
The UltiMaker Factor 4 7-inch capacitive touchscreen shows real-time process data. Its door pauses a print when opened and its large, red "stop" button makes operation safer if emergency print cancellation is needed.
UltiMaker Factor 4 features in-depth, onboard reporting to ensure easy validation and quality control, making it the perfect choice for engineers seeking reliable and repeatable 3D printing. Tested to achieve over 95% print completion success* and dimensional accuracy within ± 0.2 mm ± 0.2 % of the feature nominal length, UltiMaker Factor 4 delivers consistent results across multiple machines – ideal for producing validated parts for distributed manufacturing.
*95% print success rate tested using UltiMaker PLA, Tough PLA, PETG, PET CF, and PPS CF.
The UltiMaker Factor 4 has been thoroughly tested to ensure it achieves a print completion success rate of over 95%. This is made possible by its PEI-coated flexible built plate and its automatic inductive bed leveling to ensure a perfect first layer for every print.
Achieve the highest print accuracy of any UltiMaker printer – even at high resolution on small design features. These will achieve a dimensional accuracy of ± 0.2 mm or ± 0.2% of feature nominal length over the full build plate and across multiple printers.*
*Dimensional accuracy of ± 0.2 mm or ± 0.2% print success rate tested using UltiMaker PLA, Tough PLA, PETG, PET CF, and PPS CF.
UltiMaker Factor 4 makes it possible to actively produce & deploy structural integrity verified parts across different locations. The H-bridge gantry, closed loop feed control, and unformly controlled build plate temperatures provide low variance (less than 10%) parts production repeatability.
After every print job, receive an in-depth report on extrusion parameters deviations from nominal values, their locations, and their severity in the 3D model. Using a suite of sensors in the print head, build chamber, and material loading system, this print process reporting helps to verify and validate part quality before use in the field.
The UltiMaker Factor 4 excels at quickly switching from printing highly flexible materials all the way to strong composites, like UltiMaker PPS-CF. Its H-bridge gantry and direct drive head enable rapid dual material printing. The high-temperature range up to 340°C and heated bed maintain quality even with challenging materials
The new UltiMaker PPS-CF allows users to use a high-temperature composite to replace less-demanding complex steel parts and manufacturing aids with an excellent surface finish. Plus, flexible materials down to Shore 70A means users can reliably create gaskets, seals, and shock absorbers.
The combination of the all-new H-bridge gantry, direct drive extrusion print head, and built-in accelerometer allows high-speed movement and position accuracy ± 0.2 mm or ± 0.2% of a certain feature nominal length with UltiMaker Verified Materials. This results in best-in-class dual material printing speeds so that you can quickly create the flexible or strong parts you need.
UltiMaker Factor 4 raises the temperature up to 340 °C using the HT print core. The temperature within the fully enclosed build volume is also controlled up to 70 °C, with a heated bed up to 120 °C, ensuring optimal material-specific processing conditions and consistent part quality wherever the 3D printer is located.
All UltiMaker materials and print cores are automatically recognized within UltiMaker Cura. It's incredibly easy to import CAD files and projects from leading software partners, like AutoDesk 360 and Trinckle.
Factor 4's modular build allows UltiMaker's global support network to quickly replace parts, minimizing downtime.
Thanks to its material diversity, users can create an extremely wide range of high-value 3D printing applications.
With dual onboard processors, there is plenty of computing headroom for planned and even unplanned future updates.
UltiMaker Factor 4 was designed to be modular. This means less production downtime in the event that a part of the printer needs servicing. Under the UltiMaker Factor 4 service plan, an expert technician will be able to quickly swap the faulty part out for another so users can get up and running again as quickly as possible.
Despite being an industrial-grade 3D printing platform, UltiMaker Factor 4 is an open system, allowing users to print with the ideal materials to suit their needs.
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Founded in 1997, we bring next-generation technology to customers, with an emphasis on expertise and white-glove service. Showrooms in Chicago, Detroit, Tokyo, and Seoul.
The leading national supplier of Desktop 3D printers. Expertise in both Industrial and Desktop 3D printing. Supplier of next-generation Metal, SLS, ultrafast Industrial printers.
2025 Edition Professional 3D Printer Buyers Guide
Choosing the right 3D printer doesn't have to be difficult. Find the perfect printer for your application. This in-depth guide covers pricing, materials, dimensional accuracy, and more.
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