Here’s what stood out in 3D printing this week, heading into the week of November 16, 2026. Tool changers kept arriving at every price point, Creality started shipping its new four-nozzle flagship in the United States, and Formnext opens in Frankfurt on Tuesday.
Bambu Lab launches the H3C nine-tool changer
Bambu Lab’s first third-generation printer, the H3C, swaps entire toolheads instead of flushing one nozzle between colors. Its Swaptek system holds nine independent tools, each with its own filament path and heater, and Bambu says material changes can happen in under six seconds with very little priming. The H3C with the built-in nine-slot AMS 3H is priced at $2,499 before tax in the United States. A sealed AMS sits inside the printer, and Bambu also previewed mixed nozzle-size printing for the H2D, H2C and X2D later this year and into early 2027.
Creality’s K3 is now for sale in the U.S. at $849
Creality moved the K3 from pre-order to official U.S. availability, with first shipments starting November 2. The four-nozzle KliTek system keeps filaments loaded in separate channels and switches nozzles in about five seconds, which Creality says can cut print time and purge waste versus a typical single-nozzle color-change workflow. The printer starts at $849. Buyers who order through November 30 get four rolls of Hyper PLA, official-store orders in that window also get free shipping, and European availability is expected in December.
Source: Creality via PR Newswire
Creality debuts the $329 mBox for kids
Creality also introduced mBox, a fully enclosed, kid-focused printer with a 153 × 153 × 153 mm build volume, an unheated build plate, carbon filtration and a door-open alert that can pause the job and notify a parent. A 3.97-inch touchscreen lets kids start a print without a phone, and a built-in camera uses AI to watch for warping, foreign objects and spaghetti failures. It is priced at $329 and, from November 9 through December 10, is sold exclusively on TikTok Shop in the United States.
Source: Creality via PR Newswire
Prusa firmware 8.0.0 adds OpenPrintTag NFC spool reading
Prusa Research released stable firmware 8.0.0 across most of its current lineup on November 3. The headline feature is OpenPrintTag, an open NFC standard for filament spools: on the CORE One and CORE One L, the printer can read spool data and write usage back to the tag if you add Prusa’s separate reader upgrade. That NFC support is not available yet on INDX models or while an MMU is enabled. The same update also adds a filament acceleration limit and a long list of fixes for CORE One, XL, MK4 and MINI family machines.
Raise3D introduces the T450 and T700 large-format printers
Raise3D launched its T Series for large functional parts, with the T450 offering a 450 × 350 × 400 mm build volume at $4,999 and the T700 stretching to 700 × 500 × 1,000 mm at $15,999. Both use a TwinFlow system that feeds two filament paths into one nozzle, an actively heated chamber, and a fiber-ready hot end for materials such as PET-CF and nylon-CF. The machines make their show debut at Formnext 2026, November 17 to 20 in Frankfurt. Raise3D also said it closed a $15 million funding round in November.
Source: Raise3D via PR Newswire
Snapmaker takes the U1 ecosystem to Formnext
Snapmaker will show the U1 toolchanger and the latest pieces of its ecosystem at Formnext booth 12.1-F31, including accessories, filaments and software. The company is highlighting the U1 Top Cover, the Full Spectrum filament bundle for color mixing, and Snapmaker Space, a model library that it says now holds more than 8,000 designs. Full Spectrum creator Radu will be at the booth for interviews, and Snapmaker is also raising funds there for the Sanjay Mortimer Foundation.
Source: Snapmaker via EIN Presswire
InfiMech opens a Kickstarter for the MX and MX Pro
Hong Kong-based InfiMech launched a Kickstarter on November 10 for two tool-changing printers aimed at multi-color and multi-material work with less purge waste. The MX uses up to six toolheads and a 220 × 220 × 220 mm volume; the enclosed MX Pro goes to eight toolheads, a 300 mm cube, and a chamber heated up to about 65°C. Notebookcheck reports starting campaign prices around $299 for the MX and $549 for the MX Pro. As with any crowdfunding campaign, shipping, final pricing and delivery dates can change, and backing carries risk.
Formnext 2026 opens Tuesday in Frankfurt
Formnext runs November 17 to 20 at Messe Frankfurt, and several major launches are already on the calendar for Tuesday. Nikon SLM Solutions is set to unveil its MACHX metal series at 10:00, EOS a new polymer production platform at 11:00, and Stratasys a new serial-production system at 13:00. Other debuts include Solukon’s SFM-AT850 automatic depowdering system and the European debut of Raise3D’s T450 and T700. The show is the week’s main stage for industrial additive manufacturing, with plenty of desktop and prosumer hardware on the floor as well.